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The New Sad King
Baby Great Grey Owl, the new sad king, sat on the perch of his robotic legs. The white puffy feathers of his adolescences shed. He now knew the horror of combat and the loss of friends made even for a short time with the Twin Owls.
Before him stood the palace guard along with high-ranking authorities of Hoot. He now had power over a united solar system that contained three inhabitable worlds with many moon outposts.
“Remember, on Hoot we all live at night!” Baby Great Grey Owl’s voice echoed through the kingdom as he stood inside a mind amplification plasma bubble at the center of power. The words of kings through the generations strengthening their resolve that what had just gone down happened to be right.
“Owls of Hoot, I’ve traveled back here from Coruscant, a planet thousands of light-years away. It’s where the Royal Family found peace in the cosmos. The descendants of the direct line reside there. I’m merely the youngest of the heirs picked for this dangerous mission to return to our home planet.”
A feeling of awe-inspiring shock took root in most of Hoot’s population. For most they learned these facts for the first time in this first address to the public since the death of the evil Owl Emperor.
“As proof of my story, a treasure trove of artifacts taken in the moment as the King, my Great Grandfather, fled the wrath of the evil Owl Emperor who has ruled this entire time through magic of his own. Yet a Jedi Master has traveled with me as well to verify what I’m saying to you and as the palace guards witnessed, he made prey of the evil Owl Emperor.”
“Greeting Owls of Hoot,” the Jedi Master said from inside the plasma bubble. This act would be remembered forever in the fables of this land. Never had anyone except the ruler spoken from inside the bubble. Not to mention a humanoid, a species they’d enslaved as soon as they set eyes on them.
“We have traveled here from Coruscant. It’s a leading city in the Republic for whom I’m merely an ambassador. We would like to reach out to you in peace with the return of a member from your Royal Family. His parents having made the decision for events to play out this way. They remain safe back there on Coruscant.
“In order to safely incorporate our species to work together under the guidance of galactic laws, I must map this unknown region. For this reason, I’m leaving the planet of Hoot. Please give your allegiance to Great Grey Owl.”
And from that moment to eternity, they would.
Sometime later, the Jedi Master sat in his spaceship looking at the planet Hoot, and the moon where they had first landed, now on its way in an extreme elliptical orbit taking it almost out of reach of the planet’s gravitation pull. The new star map taken from the evil Owl Emperor he’d killed in the royal palace, now uploading on his computer.
Many Jedi had experienced this moment in their line of duty when they knew at that moment they were the greatest warrior in the region; with a thirst for power he could take control of this quadrant for some time, maybe even for the rest of his mortal life. Yet that was the way of the Dark Side.
The Jedi Master knew he would continue on his journey to map the Unknown Region of the Milky Way Galaxy in service to the Republic, and the Jedi Order. He would once again walk on Coruscant with friends to recount his moments on these distant worlds.
Meanwhile, the Great Grey Owl now took control of the solar system as he met with high-ranking officials on Hoot to become friends, and learn more about what projects were underway in order to prioritize what needed be done first, because he now had a goal in mind.
The Great Grey Owl would dedicate everything toward finding planet Earth, and making its humanoids servants of Hoot’s planetary order.
The End
Cyrus
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