It was red, everything was red. The barren land beneath his feet was engulfed by sand, and as usual, it got everywhere and anywhere.
Luke looked up to the sky. The new singular sun of Tatooin shined brightly and burned just as such. The skin on Luke's face now peeled before the sun that was soon to explode.
One might ask why he was on this planet that was doomed to be engulfed in fiery death. The answer was as simple as it was for all the others who hadn't died of suicide, murder, or other means. Tatooin was all that was left.
Luke, throughout his long life, had dealt with many threats that threatened to crush him and his new order of Jedi. But he and the rest of the Galaxy could expect what had come from the dark beyond the Galaxy. They had known. The most powerful of the force users had either known or could feel its presence. Markos Ragnos, Darth Vitiate, Darth Traya, Darth Revan, Darth Bane, Darth Plagueis, and lastly, Darth Sidious, widely known as Emperor Palpatine, were of the Sith that knew of this entity and could feel its presence, hid their fear out of the realization of its power and secretly sought ways to destroy it while achieving other nefarious goals. They felt its intent to allow the galaxy to fatten before its harvest.
Other entities such as the Yuuzhan Vong, at least their leaders, and Abeloth knew of it. The Yuuzhan Vong's leaders hid the truth from the survivors of their galaxy, the true cause of its destruction. While Abeloth glanced at its true form and size immediately after becoming the force creature she was. Her a creature of untold power feared a creature that none knew existed or at least pretended it did not exist. It became her drive to reshape the Galaxy. It became her own twisted reason to attempt to protect the galaxy and rid the Galaxy of what she saw which inevitably ended in her defeat by Luke and Darth Krayt.
Of course, there were a few Jedi that sensed this entity, but through their own efforts, they had dulled their own senses in the light side of the force by cleansing areas riddled with the dark side. It greatly worsened things when the Jedi decided to build their main temple above a dark side altar that they had failed to cleanse over thousands of years.
This entity was massive in size and dwarfed stars as if they were a child's ball. It devoured stars and planets like they were mere children's snacks without care for the life they held. It was fast and powerful, yet the most terrifying aspect of it was not its power but its intelligence.
It had manipulated history through the force. An entity that had long before the first Force users could lift a pebble had shackled the force to its being. Forcing it to sway to its desire, a galaxy of vast life and power for harvest. It had subtly caused rifts between unions by small changes in one's mind that seemed to be of their own doing or simply influencing small actions that had caused the smallest minute waves in history to influence other waves to become colossal tidal waves, constructing history as it saw fit.
Luke looked towards the sun as he could see the massive creature behind it. Its eyes, 79 to be exact, looked small and beady for the size of its head, but actually three times the size of the Death Star. Its head looked crustacean with its mouth, which looked like a giant, open smile, taking up much of its head.
It stopped before the sun, and Luke could tell it was looking at him. Taunting him in silence as if it wants Luke to know that he had failed and it reveled in it. Luke didn't have to guess its intent in stalling the devouring of the fused sun it fused to trap and kill Luke on Tatooin. It had no intent on destroying Luke so fast. It whispered the truth of everything to Luke through the force. How it tricked Luke, who had unwillingly awoken it through carefully orchestrated scheme after scheme and brought "The Great Darkening" upon the Galaxy.
It had tricked old and wisened Luke into awakening it through a Sith name, Darth Barbatos, a Sith who defected from Darth Krayt in his early reign of the One Sith in search of an ancient Sith super weapon, which had many parts dating back to the ancient Sith species themselves. Luke had slain Barbatos and destroyed what he had believed to be a vital mechanism needed to operate the giant megastructure hidden deep in uncharted space on a planet that orbited a blackhole. Unfortunately, what Luke had destroyed was a resistance cylinder that redirected energy from a hidden soul cell. A cell that had been taking small pieces of force essence from those who died throughout the millennium. With the death of Darth Barbatos so close before the last flicker of life left him, his entirety, soul, and force were consumed by the ancient weapon. With it reaching its maximum energy capacity the ancient Sith weapon fired.
This frightened Luke who believed it would hit a planet, only if it had he wouldn't have witnessed the death of his galaxy. The weapon, for 3 minutes in three quick intervals, fired off world-destroying soundwaves into the darkness, towards the edge of the galaxy towards the unknown regions. The weapon was so strong that it had a recoil that cracked its planet's tectonic plates and raised oceans into giant tsunami waves. As it stopped, Luke had received news that the weapon had missed every planet near its trajectory.
This concerned Luke, during his investigation, Luke had discovered that throughout history, Darth Barbatos had not been the only Sith obsessed with the device. What ancient text he found revealed they had all of a sudden begun worship of an extremely vague space god known as Leviathan, the Great Devourer. In the end they all disappeared without a trace until Luke found the supposed weapon. They had all killed themselves after adding their piece, whether it was a sheet of metal or a screw. Once they delivered their piece, they turned the weapon on themselves and took their own lives. Letting the next Sith who brought their piece attach the piece they died holding, and then the Sith would end their own lives holding their piece. Rinse and repeat.
After the weapons' sonic attacks went into the void of the edge of the galaxy, missing planet after planet heading towards the regions of unknown space, it happened, like an extremely sharp feedback loop. The force screamed and shrieked as it cried in pain. It had been nearly instant that both force-sensitive and non-force-sensitive felt it. It wasn't a feedback from an ancient Sith weapon. No, that was essentially what could be called a Force Roar.
It didn't take long before Luke made it back to his ship before the tidal waves of the unnamed planet washed him away. Luke remembered to make it out of the uncharted space. It was pandemonium as reports of the dead from the Force Roar. The amount of dead was heartbreaking. Planets closer to the Roar went dark immediately. Sectors dark in a matter of seconds from the roar, a couple of million, if not a couple of billion, lost in a moment, and soon everyone else. Everything happened too fast. Planets were disappearing along with stars and people looked for someone to blame when the culprit was revealed.
The Creature was gargantuan in the holovideo. The video showed its size compared to a large A-class sun, and it was nightmarish. It showed that the species of the Galactic Alliance were mere microbes compared to this monster. It consumed the flames and plasma of stars before being within one hundred thousand miles from it before swallowing it whole. It was a horrible sight, but what made it worse was its pacing towards its first Victim, Csilla. The Chiss Ascendency had no warning of what was happening. When it was about to consume the world, less than 40 minutes after it consumed their star, it was already on their planet with its mouth slightly ajar to swallow their cold, icy planet.
Not long after, it began on what many thought was a feeding frenzy. Many had panicked, many fled to planets they thought were the furthest from this cosmic horror. Alliances broken, pacts severed. What remained was the Resistance.
The Resistance reformed with Leia at the helm again, knowing that no ordinary weapon was going to work on this monstrosity. It broke her heart when she had to agree to build a superweapon the size of, if not bigger than, the Death Star. With the haste the space beast was going, they knew that they, at best, had one shot at it, and the weapon would be bare bones in an exoskeleton state with no armor and no safety precautions. It was suicidal, yet thought bought time. The sacrifices of many in an attempt to stop this creature bought at most a couple of months, four to be accurate, and that came from when our ship's crew members managed to come up with the idea of combining Diamond-Boron missiles with Drills that would drill into Leviathan's miles-thick Carapace. The missiles took nice crater-sized chunks out of Leviathan, but sadly at the cost of the crews who it chased even through hyperspace to no end, only to go back to its intended target, even if near another planet.
It shocked everyone the moment it stopped what it was doing. It had eaten solar system after solar system without rest. The monstrous glutton paused and looked straight toward the weapon that the resistance was still building. How it knew, only the force could tell. I made a straight line towards the weapon, A weapon that was intended to use 8 giant kyber crystals that Emperor Palpatine had intended to use for future death stars, but never got around to it thanks to Luke and the resistance. Luke, who had been banished to Tatooine for releasing the creature, felt it through the Force. The connection through the force he had with children and grandchildren who fought valiantly till they too were devoured and killed as the superweapon was being primed. The feeling of knowing that your children and grandchildren still thought about him and each other through the force as they perished destroyed Luke. He had felt it and had been feeling it for the past few days as the creat,ure seemed to ignore Tatooine. He guessed that not even big scary space monsters liked sand.
Although Leviathan spared Tatooine, it, through the force, had made the orbit of both of its stars unstable after passing by. Through the force Luke felt Leviathan force both suns to combine using the force and other means, trapping him and others who remained on the planet to face a fiery death by supernova if it did not reappear, which it sadly did as it now, instead of devouring Luke was, just staring with a mocking pressence after clueing in Luke of how this Galaxy had came to an end it began to swallow the sun. In less than 2 minutes, it was upon Tatooine, about to snuff out the last pieces of life in the galaxy, but it paused.
The sand around Luke no longer rose towards the sky. No longer did he feel fear. He was calm and collected as if the despair and desire to finally die had all never existed. Luke looked up at the split jaw of Leviathan to see the many rows of teeth and the entrance of its mouth, which had a bright red light that shone brightly. Luke turned around to see large chunks of earth and some buildings from miles away already lifted toward the sky.
"Most horrible of times this must be." Says a man behind Luke, who also had his back turned to Luke, causing Luke to turn around in a hurry at the man who was currently looking up into Leviathan's mouth with weary old eyes. He was most noticeably round wearing a black suit coat and pants with an odd round hat. He held a cane which he leaned upon, although from his posture, it was more a formality than an aid. The man turned his body slightly and turned his head even further to look at Luke while using his cane to point at Leviathan.
"He always brings the most unfortunate of times when he reappears." The man says as he puts his cane back down and proceeds to turn fully and walk towards a confused and stunned Luke.
"No need to be on guard, Luke. While I am here, he can't move, and neither does time. This is...more of a brief pause. Mainly so that we can all have a conversation without Leviathan interrupting." The man says as he notices Luke thinking to back away and draw his lightsaber. He proceeds to tap his cane upon the ground, and two more figures appear. One was Abeloth, The Mother, and the other was a woman who was slightly translucent yet black as if she were black colored glass, with only one large ball of light present within her chest. They both fell to their knees in the sand.
Luke looked from one to the other of the two women who fell before them and back to the man who had somehow brought them. Lazily pointing his left hand at the man and then towards the women, he said calmly and wearily, " Who are you and what is this?"
"I go by many names, Luke. Some call me father, some call me god, some also call me The Presence, most who truly know me simply just call me Yahweh, which I prefer you do as well." The man now known as either The Presence or Yahweh, as he prefers, states as he moves his hand in front of him, creating a fine wooden table out of the sand in front of them with tea in tea cups on small porcelain plates. He continues as he then proceeds to make everyone sit in chairs and slide to the table with their assigned tea and states, "And this is the beginning of an offer between me, you, and them."
Luke stared silently with his wide, weary eyes as he had been taken away by the sheer power, to now only stop freeze time including Leviathan, but also to create one material from another along with simply waving his hand to bring an unknown entity here along with a woman he believed he had slain with the aid of Darth Krayt, Abeloth. He was truly at a loss of words until he saw Yahweh wave his hand towards the cup of tea that sat in front of him. Hesitantly, Luke proceeded to drink his tea, taking note of the sweetness and smoothness it had. He noticed it also had another effect, as it calmed him greatly.
Abeloth, who watched Luke take a sip, proceeded to take a sip along with the translucent woman. She, too, held her opinion on the tea before asking, "What is this?"
"Tea, my fair lady," Yahweh says after taking a sip of tea.
"No, I mean, what is the meaning of all of this. I last remember being defeated by Skywalker, then it was all... Nothing. Now I'm here having tea with him, along with what I can assume is the living embodiment of the force, and through the force you, which through the force I sense you are not of this galaxy nor this plane of existence, not because I can, but because you are allowing it. Am I correct?" Abeloth asks as he looks between her tea and the table, Luke, the unknown woman, Yahweh, and finally up at Leviathan in fear.
Grabbing a few sugar cubes, Yahweh was about to speak when the translucent woman spoke up and said, "If I may?"
Yahweh nods and grabs a few more sugar cubes as the woman says, " I am Solarii, I am the creator of the force," She pauses to let this revelation settle as she had expected both of them to be less forthcoming to accept such but thanks to each of their life experiences they currently neither care or expect much as she continues " Thanks to my uncle, Yahweh, I finally have some sort of form to speak directly. I... do have so much to apologize for to the both of you. I was unable to warn anyone properly due to," Solarii stops as she looks up at Leviathan and continues to say, " It is something that attempts to latch onto different universes through the omniverse. As I was young and inexperienced in the beginning I was unable to implement my uncle full advise of creating a ,Lucifer, as he calls it. A being of untold light and darkness. A being so powerful they would have the potential of replacing us. A being that Levithan fears throughout every universe or multiverse. Imagine Leviathan being an insect that is afraid of the bug zapper and instead of flying toward the cage it goes else where."
Solarii, while speaking, showed a being, a human, with wings shining so brightly Luke had to cover his eyes slightly in order to block most of the light while still seeing a vague figure. Just as Luke was about to get a glimpse of the figures true face he the light disappeared and collapsed into sand which spread across the round table. Luke and Abeloth both looked at Solarii.
"Leviathan attacked me when I was on the cusp of finishing the essence of my Lucifer, my first child, and in doing so, it caused my child to perish, but its power not so. No, the power spread through the galaxy imbuing everything with power. The planets the suns, even the life. The power connect even the future and past and because of Leviathan even my will." Solarri spoke as she moved the sand in a way that showed a 3D replica of what happened in the beginning.
She then formed many replicas of species from across the galaxy and then said, "In the beginning everyone and everything had a piece of the power my child once had. But it, Leviathan, did not like that at all, and as it forcibly binded me and through my will it limited those capable of using the force. It shackled me and through me it shackled you."
"So this entire time it played with us let us slowly gain power while hiding and waiting to awaken. Based on what you've said so far it wanted weak. But anytime in the past there were many moments why wait till now." Luke who had slowly came out of stun locked state had asked. It was a question it had been wondering for awhile in his exile.
"A combination of many things.In the past there were either too many superweapons and too many powerful force users, but mostly it was time. It needed time to let the galaxy fatten as it not only fed on the material aspects of the galaxy. It fed on the history. The experiences of those that lived throughout the eons. It fed on both the past and future simultaneously. But it couldn't do that as long as its physically body slept. So its immaterial form manipulated history to sneakily build what you assumed was a planetary superweapon, when in turn turned out to be a enormous alarm clock built over several millenniums." The Presence decided to answer this time placing his never ending cup of tea down as he had been drinking it continously for the past 3 minutes.
The Presence now with a face of seriousness looks between Luke and Abeloth and says, "Now with that said, I believe its time why we're here."
"Upon the request of my niece I have finally arrived to assist in the creation of a new Lucifer after handling things in my own creation. I have brought you two together to assist us in changing your pasts, your current present," The Presence says while pointing with his thumb behind him at Leviathan, "and your non-existent future."
Luke didn't know how to feel about this he had lost everyone he cared for and couldn't do anything about it. Exiled to Tatooine, where the infamous Skywalker legacy began, and as punishment, where it was judged for his crime of awakening Leviathan, shall end. After feeling through the force his children and grandchildren having their life-or-death drained and crushed upon the rebels superweapon. He lost all hope. But now he was being offered the chance to help fix his mistake. His Mistake that took everything from him.
While on the opposite side of the table Abeloth thought. She thought of her and the galaxies predicament. She had thought about changing the future before, after all it was a force users who through the manipulation of time through the force users what allowed her to gain her freedom, albeit for a limited time.
She had thought she could be Solarii before she had ever revealed herself. She though she could rewrite the existence and rid the Galaxy of Leviathan only to end up banished to the realm Beyond Shadows. Ahe knew she failed and failed to have the family she wished for. All through her delirium she never asked for help or assistance. She now understood it was never her role to rid the galaxy of Leviathan.
Looking up Luke at both The Presence and Solarii and said sternly with a voice of determination laced with sorrow, "Where I begin."
Almost immediately after Luke spoke Abeloth spoke up in the same manner looking from Luke to the two deities, "No Luke, where do we begin."
The Presence looked from Solarii and back toward both Luke and Abeloth and said, "Simple, we begin here and now. But I must must warn you there is a price to pay for every step we take. For Solarii she knows she must die and by dying here she dies in the past as well. Although she is not the only one."
Luke looked towards The Presence concerned, not for himself, he's been ready to die. No, it was for the fact he believed the force would also disappear along with the galaxy as she was the one to create. If she died would that not have caused an issue with the time line.
As if reading his mind The Presence smiled and said, "Not quite, Luke. Before Solarii could bind this universe and before Leviathan fasted on the other galaxies within she never had a chance to inscribed her name upon the every corner of existence, which is how beings of our magnitude stabilize and stake claim upon our realms along with the realms within our realms. In short if Solarii dies the Universe remains whole as she never got to stake her claim but in her stead the force has more or less been a pseudo pillar she has been holding still while restrained by Leviathan. This is part of the bigger plan."
The Presence giggles while Solarii picks up where he left off by saying, "If I die the force which I have been more or less holding up through my will will simply cave in creating a supermassive blackhole. But if we inscribe the name of Lucifer and his surname upon every essence of creation along with every corner of this Universe, the Universe will hold strong, and he will be the new quote-on-quote owner of this universe, and Yahweh will no longer interfere from hence onward."
Solarri ceasing to do air quotes for the word "creator" then continues to say, "But don't worry about me I have long looked forward to this, our first creation should be our most cherished bu Leviathan has long twisted it. Yes free will amongst the stars would have been law but the amount of destruction and death from his machinations have broken my heart far too many I have grown weary and far too willing to pass the torch to another. Sadly they too must come to understand the universe from a not so grandiose position in life. Although frightened, Luke and Abeloth, my death comes with the greatest benefit other than cutting him off from accessing the force through me. Because he's already within my bugzapping cage, or for better words universe, he cannot leave unless he kills Lucifer and even if he does he will be trapped within a supermassive black that is infinitely expanding just as my universe meant to before he came along. Not only this an added benefit is that because the Force will now bend to Lucificer's will due to his divine nature and being the ruler of all including the force and powers beyond it, Leviathan will be blinded and only able to see out of his followers eyes. Just like the rule of two there can only be two one who crafts and delivers and one who learns which is a slow process.
"The other who must die is you, Luke." The Presence states to Luke who was unaffected by the statement. The Presence through his long existence has come to understand that nothing much can affect a mortal that has nothing else to live for.
"If it is of any help you will still exist as a force spirit up until you conception, but until then you will act as a guide. Not to Lucifer though he will have to pave his own path. The one who you will come to guide is someone you are familiar with to an extent. Your life force will be used a rope, a strong connection to a relative you have never met but are strongly related to. This person will be his mother. Now on the other hand..." The Presence stops as he looks toward Abeloth. She, with a look of expectation and worry, looks towards the Presence, wondering. Wondering will she also only exist in this rewritten world as a spirit. Even if that is the case she had ways of coming back but if it affected the possibility of defeating Leviathan deaper than the deapest crevest beneath the ocean world of Kamino. All she wanted was a world that didn't restrain her and a world with a family. Was that really too much.
"Abeloth dear your goal was never truly out of reach. It just wasn't the right time." Solarii said gently smiling. Abeleloth looked away from The Presence and toward Solarii. Her words registered with Abeloth like a warm surprise. It was confirmation that she would not end here nor would she meet her demise soon in the new timeline either.
The Presense coughed although it had no reason to do so other than grabbing the attention back towards him. It wave a hand showing a past form of Abeloth in her most frightening stage and said, "In the past you were... for better lack of words, a monster that only wanted to be a peaceful mother who was capable of making the forest surrounding her nest a peaceful as possible. I want to let you know that there is a possibility of that, but first you must be a guide and gaurdian when the time is right as well."
"Now with that all said and done let's begin." The Presence says as he raises his cane and taps it upon the sand, which make the very distinguishable sound of glass breaking. From which the cane hit the sand white circle appeared that began to expand and eclipsed everything as it spread. Quickly, everything was turned white before being sucked into a a singular point centered on Luke.
In land similar to that of any desert world, a woman slept shifting with unease upon her her matted makeshift bed. Not too far from her soon who slept soundlessly, yet peacefully. She had not been able to sleep for several nights and tonight had been the same. It wasn't due to fear or depression, it was a feeling of something happening soon. What? she did not know.
But unbeknownst to her she had been calmed not from her years as a former bounty hunter but from a force she could name or see until it revealed itself as a ball of light. It so shined brightly that it left beems of light so thick that the hut which Shmi Skywalker slept in seemed like a awkwardly shaped lightsaber.
Afterward Shmi Skywalker slept soundly and comfortably for the fist time in several nights.