A Tiny Dark Seed

A Tiny Dark Seed

Master Windu personally led three Acclamator-class assault ships in a landing operation against Tull Planet, and they arrived so quickly that Count Dooku was caught completely off guard.

Count Dooku could not understand it no matter how he thought about it. He had only used the Dark Reaper once on the Alaris satellite, and it had not caused much damage—fewer than a hundred thousand people had died. How had the Galactic Republic found out? Not only that, it had immediately dispatched troops.

Having completely fallen to the Dark Side, Count Dooku now thought exactly like a Sith Lord. Even if a hundred thousand lives vanished before his eyes, they were nothing more than a number to him.

In the City of Kasyyak, the capital of Tull Planet, stood an altar left behind by the ancient Sith Empire. Deploying the Dark Reaper there would allow it to operate at maximum effectiveness.

The Dark Reaper itself was actually quite flexible. Once the main body was installed, one only needed to carry the Force Harvester around and harvest the Force from people. After enough power had been collected, the Force Harvester could be brought back and reinstalled to fire the weapon.

But everything had happened too quickly. He had no time at all to assemble reinforcements, and even if he had, there were none he could dispatch. Nearly all fleets of the Confederacy of Independent Systems were fighting the Galactic Republic elsewhere and could not withdraw anytime soon.

At this time, Master Windu led Depa Billaba, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and a group of Jedi Masters in aerial strikes. Before the Delta-7 fighters piloted by these Jedi Masters, the Confederacy's Vulture droid fighters were like paper, utterly unable to resist.

Under the powerful aerial bombardment, the Force Harvester, which had not