Amid the countless twinkling stars and the dreamlike, brilliant nebulae scattered across the pitch-black universe, a flat, streamlined silver-white ship with a chrome finish emerged from hyperspace and began to slow down as it continued on its way.
This was the ship carrying Naboo's Queen Padmé Amidala and her party. They had once set out from Naboo, risking their lives to break through the Trade Federation's blockade and reach the Republic's capital, Coruscant, full of hope. But today, they had no choice but to return in disappointment to their homeworld, still blockaded and controlled by the Trade Federation's armies.
However, their journey this time wasn't all that lonely...
Besides the people who had come with the queen, such as her guards and handmaidens, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan, the clumsy Gungan Jar Jar Binks, and a certain little brat who dreamed of roaming the stars as a Jedi Knight—Anakin Skywalker—they had gained one more passenger: a little girl...
And that little girl was none other than a certain young head of state who had been so bored on Coruscant that she kept getting into trouble and picking fights, and was just one step away from throwing a "skyrocket" and blowing up the planet. A certain unscrupulous subordinate had talked her into boarding this ship, and now she was headed to the planet Naboo for a vacation—and to save the world!
Actually, for a certain little girl, as long as she could leave boring old Coruscant, that steel planet, and go wander around somewhere else, that was great. There was no such thing as being "talked into it." She'd simply found an excuse to roam around. As for fighting the Trade Federation, that was just a side benefit—or perhaps something she'd decide on when the time came, depending on her mood.
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