Chapter 11: The prologue to the great war
Narrator's POV
The galaxy's politicians gathered around the council meeting as they discussed about the planets that went dark after the appearance of something called the terran gestalt. Everyone bickered as how they want to handle the situation. Chancellor palpatine began to rub his forehead the chaos happening in front of him. His plan foiled by some unknown power. It had made his plan go south so Suddenly that it would foil his plan or probably accelerate it. It made him think what will I do to this or that. Suddenly a messenger barged into the room.
Thousands of eyes looked at the messenger. The man sweated as thousands of diplomats looked at him with a threatening glare like he was about to be executed if he did something wrong.
"Chancellor! You've got to hear this! Some obscene music began playing in the public channels! Here." The messenger began playing the music with the subtitles.
"Ruler of everything.
By tally hall
Juno was mad,
He knew he had been had,
So he shot at the sun with a gun,
He shot at the sun,
He shot at his willy, one and only friend.
To the gallows, or the ghettos,
In the town or the meadow,
In the billows or beyond the sun.
Every end of the time there is another begun.
Do you understand mechanical hands,
Are the ruler of everything? (ah)
Ruler of everything? (ah)
I'm the ruler of everything in the end?"
"What the hell is happening?!" Said the other diplomats as they are discussing what the hell is going on and why is there some weird music in the public COMS channels.
"Have you tried to stop it?" Asked one of the diplomats. The messenger nodded. "Yes we tried but we can't get into the system because someone locked us out. For now we can only wait until it stops." The messenger said with a monotone voice.
The music continued playing as the diplomats listened to the music thinking it might have clues on what has been happening.
"Do you like how I dance? I've got zirconium pants!
Consequential enough to slip you into a trance.
Do you like how I walk? Do you like how I talk?
Do you like how my face disintegrates into chalk?
I have a wonderful wife, I have a powerful job!
She criticizes me for being egocentric.
(Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!)
You practice your mannerisms into the wall!
If this mirror were clearer, I'd be standing so tall.
I saw you slobber over clovers on the side of the hill.
I was observing the birds. (circle in for the kill!)
I've been you, I know you, your facade is a scam!
You know you're making me cry, this is the way that I am?!
I've been living a lie, a metamorphical scheme.
Detective undercover, brotherhood, objective, obscene.
Oh, no, no, oh yeah
Do you hear the flibbity jibbity jibber jabber
With an, "Oh my God, I've got to get out of here or I'll have another
Word to sell, another story to tell
Another time piece ringing the bell"
Do you hear the clock stop when you reach the end?
No, you know it must be never ending, comprehend if you can
But when you try to pretend to understand
You resemble a fool, although you're only a man
So give it up and smile!
Do you hear the flibbity jibbity jibber jabber
With an, "Oh my God, I've got to get out of here or I'll have another
Word to sell, another story to tell
Another time piece ringing the bell"
Do you hear the clock stop when you reach the end?
No, you know it must be never ending, comprehend if you can
But when you try to pretend to understand
You resemble a fool although you're only a man
So give it up and smile.
You understand mechanical hands
Are the ruler of everything! (ah)
Ruler of everything! (ah)
I'm the ruler of everything
In the end!
Without looking down, gliding around
Like a bumbling dragon, I fly
Scraping my face on the sky
Oh, no, no, oh, yeah."
The diplomats tried to solve the question in front of them. This song. It was a riddle.
Meanwhile.....
"Yo! I've gotten the attention of the council!" Said a gestalt entered the COMS of the republic. Beings of pure data began trolling republic politicians, and military commanders putting music in every corner of the COMS system of the republic. "Oh. Did you play the song?" "Yeah. I played it." "Good. The ruler of everything song is gonna distract their high command wondering what is the meaning of the song. But in reality it's just a song about the futility of trying to understand everything. They are over estimating. Plus from what I heard from the frontlines there was some void spawn/void fauna seen, and killed 50,000 biologicals, and 20,000 gestalts troops."
Back at the council diplomatic center....
"What did this song mean?" Asked one of the diplomats trying to make sense of the confusing song. "Why did it sang about our mannerisms? Oh god! Do they have agents inside our territories before they even attacked!" Said one of the diplomats. "Calm yourselves. If they had we would've known about them long before they attacked." The chiss diplomats drank from their flask thinking about the man who just threatened the council last month.
Then they realized what if the man was a part of a greater cell, and what if the man was a part of the forgotten remnants of the terran consortium in earth. Maybe they survived, and built up their fleets readying to attack the republic. But how could they survive that hellhole they made. Specially when the planets crust was cracked, and blow parts of the crust into the sky making a new moon. Causing ecosystems to crumble, and destroying the known natural resources.
But how the hell did they survived that hell hole for all that time?
"You understand mechanical hands are the ruler of everything?" "It must be a part of the riddle." Said one of the diplomats, and a few republic military officers discussing about this probable hint.
An hour of bureaucratic discussion later.....
"So we all agree that the song is about time. And the song must be a hint on what is attacking the silenced planets. Time is catching up to the mistakes of the past. We are being made fun of. It's basically saying we are fools trying to understand about the enemies objectives." One of the diplomats said.
Suddenly a hologram appeared. A man with a burn mark in his right eye, and glowing crimson red robotic eye replaced the missing biological eyes. "Bravo! Bravo! You're all fools! Trying to understand everything! Do you remember me?" Said the hologram. Everyone paled in the face when they realized who it was.
The man looked like the man who just killed thousands just months before. "Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha! Your dummies for over calculating everything. You're hubris will be the republic's downfall. My people was enslaved, beaten for stuff that was out of their control. Nyet! Nien! What you did was worse. You slaughtered children, you allowed children to be taken away forcefully by the Jedi because of some space magic, you put billions in slavery as serfs, and destroyed families because of your greed. You don't even understand basic psychology. Heck you don't even know basic efficient information gathering. This is simply payback for past transgressions.*
The holograms the showed planets being assaulted by asteroids killing millions, and a video of something coming out of the crust of one of their industrial hubs. "I suggest you ready your fleet's because the leviathan is coming your way. The only reason why I would say this to you is for you to evacuate civies out of the designated planets."
Then the hologram gave maps on what the thing they say is some mega fauna bigger than the worms living in asteroids will attack one of the planets. "You better warn the other planets so civies could be evac'ed. Also it's very funny to see all of you bicker for something so unimportant that it was a surprise on how long your able to agree on something so unimportant as that. Well done incompetent fools. You shot at us first. you failed to kill us, and we are here to finish the war. After all I know what this republic is. If I attacked one of you. You all will go aggro on me. Your a coalition and a governing body of this galaxy in chaos. So why not decapitate your industry before you notice what happened. Now I'll explain why I'm gonna attack you because of past transgressions."
"Millions of my compatriots died because of the chiss's and the hutt's past transgressions. Something's cannot be forgotten nor forgiven. It's been a long time since those days yet you still practice slavery, and enslaved my fellow countrymen/people to this day. You allow countless atrocities yet you want me to stand down? How could I forgive you and your ancestors when your as primitive as them. I know you were going to say that so I'm just gonna explain it to you you fools."
"Your worst regime is even worse than Stalin or even mao Zedong. Your constitution is rotten. You say you're the moral high but in reality your rotten to the core. I've seen people have PTSD because of your filthy rich industrials. You allow them to hurt their own workers, and not compensate them? How disgusting. How hypocritical. You call yourselves as the justice bringers but where is the justice on what is happening in the factories, stables, or even casino's. I cannot forgive you filthy bureaucrats with big hubris. Your like your ancestors." The man finally ended his speech.
The man laughed at the incompetent fools that faced him. He knew that the republic is filled with bureaucrats that's only life goals are to gain power. "So anyone of you wanna stand down? I'll forgive you as long as raise your hands, and reform your constitution. First of my demands remove slavery of every sentient being. Every sentient being has the right of self determination yet you restrict them to rich families or rich industrials. Secondly compensate them for the trauma, and labor."
Suddenly the chamber echoed "ARE YOU MAD! YOU'RE GONNA PLUNGE OUR ECONOMIES IN A DEPRESSION! AND START A CASCADE OF CIVIL WARS." "HOW PREPOSTEROUS! YOU THINK YOU HAVE THE ARMY AND INDUSTRY TO BEAT ALL OF US?" The man on the hologram laughed. "You still focus on your economics? Well. Fine war it is then."
Suddenly in the distance the chiss, and hutt planets embassies were bombed. Then a few seconds later a few chiss industrial plants in the capital exploded in flames.
"Yes. I could easily out wit you or even attack your industry, and military installations with computer attacks so it would cause a cascade of leaks, and explosions. You code is so easy to bypass that even a teenager could easily get through it. We are at total war. Compared to partial wars it's gonna have all bets are off. Considering what you all did to my people, and what you did to enemy combatant's from the friendly interrogations you all aren't protected by the Geneva accords well except for the civies. From your practices your Geneva accords protections are now invalid."
Suddenly some of the chiss diplomats pulled out plasma pistols, and shot themselves in the head. It seems they don't wanna see what will happen to them if they even get captured or even kidnapped if they can easily blow up some industrial plants within a few seconds.
The man chuckled and ended the holographic call. "So we are all at war now huh with another power. A war on two fronts? It's gonna be harder now we have to fronts to worry about." Said a diplomat in the council chamber.
The other diplomats began to nervously chuckle if they should accept the proposed demands.
To be continued...