Darth Sidious rose from his throne and walked to a holographic projector on the other side of the room. He pressed a button, and the surroundings were immediately filled by a massive holographic projection.
A holographic star map of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Yet this star map was completely different from those in modern navigation systems, and even from the secret star maps in the Jedi Archives. Only a handful of hyperspace routes and a few planetary coordinates were marked upon it. Everything else was shrouded in mist.
"A hundred thousand years ago..." Darth Sidious repeated. "At last, I have found the gods who existed a hundred thousand years ago... Hehehehe..."
He let out a sinister laugh, his voice making everyone who heard it feel deeply uncomfortable.
Blackhole said with utmost respect, "Lord Ravager Coleman Rau—we could only find records of his existence in those forgotten corners, but there is no concrete evidence. According to legend, he wielded miraculous Dark Alchemy. The alchemical monsters he created were incredibly powerful, even capable of rivaling star fleets. His followers were known as the Kanzal Exiles. They were vast in number, and every one of them had undergone Dark Alchemy modification, granting them tremendous power. Under the worship of countless followers, Coleman Rau ultimately became a god."
"But he vanished a hundred thousand years ago," Darth Sidious said slowly. "A hundred thousand years ago, something major happened. And it concerned the survival of countless gods. A hundred thousand years ago, the once-mighty Kilik Swarm suddenly began to regress, eventually becoming the most primitive of insects. A hundred thousand years ago, the Saru people also regressed after leaving behind the Plastic Pyramid..."
One by one, he lit up the few planets marked on that primitive star map. This was the Milky Way Galaxy as