Chapter 1 – The New Senate
Lord Vader looked out across the skyline of Coruscant. Eyes the color of hellfire watched the construction of a great dark structure. Even half complete, it menaced the other buildings that had long made up the heart of the center of the Galactic Republic. Admiral Tarkin had all but begged him to lead the project, but Vader instead assigned the construction to Admiral Yularen, someone he knew he could trust, rather than one of Palpatine’s snakes.
The structure rising near the Senate building and Padme’s apartment would serve him and his new Empire well. For now, it was a symbol of change, change coming to Coruscant, and to the greater galaxy as well. Additionally, his announcement of the citadel was one of the steps to alert the galaxy that Emperor Vader and not Emperor Palpatine, was the new undisputed leader of all the planets in the former Republic.
Rumors flew out of the capitol like missiles after he returned. Once people realized that the former war hero, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, had scoured the rogue Jedi, killed the Separatist leaders, and revealed Palpatine’s manufacturing of the Clone Wars themselves, the new Emperor saw the great need for symbols and a firm grasp to cut through the confusion.