(A/N Hello All, just gonna say now so no-one starts complaining later, yes MC is OP, no he is not THAT OP, he is smart, calculative and plans ahead. This is taking into account what I personally would do of I was reborn into Star Wars, however I did tweak the knowledge that the MC has to limit it, otherwise I would essentially be able to become a being that is unbeatable and unkillable before the events of the Clone Wars even starts. I could very easily gain access to the Cosmic Force and be stronger than The Ones, Abeloth, The Whills and Bedlam Spirits. Obviously I don't want mc to be that OP so I tweaked his Meta knowledge slightly to prevent that. Also B - there is Time Travel, I can Abuse the ever living shit out of that with how I planned a scenario where I Reincarnated into Star Wars, which is also a reason why the MC has a high Midichlorian Count and is born into such circumstances as you'll soon read. This story also takes place in a Slight AU plot of Star Wars but honestly, you'll all think this is Cannon. All it is, is that the MC will cause a butterfly effect that'll affect the plot midway into the Clone Wars, primarily during The Mortis Gods Arc, that is where the story will start to diverge in interesting ways but still remain Cannon. That's what I mean by AU since it obviously isn't in the main Cannon universe since the World Between Worlds connects to all possible Timelines including the mainstream Cannon verse, even Legends and the dreaded Rey Palpatine sequel trilogy...*shudders*...now if u bitches from last time actually complain now after I explained this much, then please fuck off. As for you readers that actually don't mind any of this and had the decency to understand that I very clearly explained the Mc is OP and in what way he will be, without further delay, please enjoy. And I must apologise as this very first chapter will be massive filler like a summary of MC being born and preparing himself for the Clone Wars, the next chapter will be the Clone Wars itself. This is all purely Filler so all of you good readers, and the crybaby whiners 'Mc too OP, Trash fic', here you go. Read this filler and understand how the story will begin off as and you can decide from this first filler chapter if you would want to read this fic or not going forward or just want to leave right now.)
************************************************
"Finally, it begins..."
The voice of a 16 year old teenage boy voiced out as he opened his eyes, awakening from a deep meditation. His legs crossed as he levitated abive the ground as a extremely powerful and one-of-a-kind Crystal was in his tightly grasped hands.
This was Dante Argenti, a person who had Reincarnated from Real World Earth into the Star Wars Universe. Without any warning he had found himself reborn as a Mandalorian, realising what had happened after thoroughly verifying that his new Reality wasn't a dream, he took measures to ensure his survival in this new universe.
Dante had spent 16 years in preparation for the events of the Clone Wars.
In terms of age, Dante was 2 years older than Ahsoka Tano and 3 years younger than Anakin Skywalker.
However, thanks to the Crystal Dante was holding, he had been able to learn greater mastery over the Force compared to the Chosen One.
Dante had abandoned his family on Mandalore when he was 6, before his upcoming 7th birthday.
He had ran away from home so that he could explore the Galaxy and avoid all the chaos the Civil War and upcoming conflict that would happen on Mandalore.
While he had enjoyed his nearly 7 years of being with his new Mandalorian Family, a kind mother and father and a dear little sister and brother pair. He just couldn't remain there and waste time enjoying his temporary happiness until everyone was potentially slaughtered before his eyes. He wants to grow strong so that he could save himself, and his family, before disaster strikes. For that to happen, he needed to leave.
Dante had discovered early on in his life that he was Force Sensitive after putting in a great deal of effort to exert some of the Force's many abilities.
Namely the easiest being Telekinesis, no suprise there...what? Did you really think the first ability he would learnt disciver he was Force Sensitive was by shooting Lighting out of his fingers like a certain *cough* *cough* trashy written female character *cough* *cough* that may or may not have Palpatine as her last name *cough* *cough*.
Learning he was Force Sensitive by practicing to move things with Telekinesis, he had used his hope in the fact that the force would guide him and it did, the feeling of the FORCE guiding and watching over him was unlike anything he could have imagined.
It was like the FORCE was a a massive hand or pair of hands that held everything together, the very universe was being held by its "hands" forever and at all times, and when it guided someone, it simply nudged or shifted its "hands" to guide the person in need of help.
Once he had practiced in secret for years in honing his powers of the Force, Dante has ran away from home by stealling a small Mandalorian cargo ship, roughly the same size as The Ghost from the Star Wars Rebels show.
It was an easy feat for him to achieve given that he wasn't brainless. He was smart, cunning, calculative and a manipulative person.
Dante was willing to do what it takes to achieve his goals as he placed his life and the ones he holds dear above others, to be honest, even Dante himself realised this and accepted that him and Anakin Skywalker were more alike than he had originally believed.
That's not to say he was a heartless killer, he simply knew that life is all about survival, the dead stay dead and the living keep on living, this was his perspective on things. He had died once and was reborn, he would not waste his second chance.
After having stolen the small cargo light cruiser, he had went to Mandalore's moon Concordia where he sneaked into the mining facilities there which belonged to Deathwatch and the other warrior clans.
Having stolen a good number of unrefined, refined and regular diluted Beskar, along with a number of weapons and Mandalorian Armour, he had swiftly made his departure and escaped from the Mandalore System.
Having kept a track of the events happening in the Galaxy, Dante had learned that the events of the Phantom Menace was happening right this moment thanks to the news on the Holo.Net about the Naboo Blockade and that Padmé in her disguise with the "Queen" of Naboo (Sabé --> Padmé's Bodyguard) were returning to Naboo, which entered the last act of the first movie.
Dante had wasted no time in travelling to the Naboo Sector and waited for Anakin to destroy the Naboo Blockade with his Chosen One Prophecy plot armour.
Anakin literally cannot die until the Prophecy is fulfilled and The FORCE itself has deemed that those that abuse its power have been punished, this being the Sith and Jedi Order alike.
The Jedi misuse the Force to only use the Light side, while the Sith do the opposite and use only the Dark side. Only the Je'daii and the Grey Jedi were true adherents of the Force since they used both but primarily for worship in the Force.
Using the Force to guide him, Dante had been able to find Darth Maul's Stealth ship, the Scimitar.
The Scimitar was originally modified by Palpatine's master, Darth Plagueis, before it was given to him who he then gave it to Darth Maul.
The current value of the ship with all of it's modifications is at a value of 55,000,000 Credits while being the size of Millennium Falcon.
In addition it had a number of Sith artifacts inside, including a Sith Holocron.
He had made sure to locate and deactivate the bomb, which he guessed Palpatine may have placed on Maul's ship as a contingency plan which turned out to be correct and real.
Once the bomb was deactivated, he took anything and everything of value from the Mandalorian light cruiser ship he had previously been using, which also included the ship's Hyperdrive Engine, since they were invaluable especially as backup Hyperdrive Engines for emergencies, afterwards Dante had promptly left the System and headed for a certain planet.
Dante had reached his destination and found all the shattered pieces of the legendary KYBUR Crystal which could amplify one's connection to the Force a thousand fold!
Unfortunately, it could onpy be used while on the planet and the closer the KYBUR Crystal was to the Temple of worship where it was found, the stronger it's effects multiplied for the user.
6 years went by as he spent that time on the planet using the KYBUR Crystal to practice and meditate on the FORCE, using the KYBUR Crystal to more easily learn abilities in both the Light and Dark sides of the Force.
He mostly focused on learning how to master certain powerful abilities such as the Art Of The Small which focuses on Molecule Manipulation, by compressing atoms and molecules to even smaller sizes of which they can they be enlarged again and repositioned thereby manipulating molecular bonds, of which he can use to alter his biological body and create anything he has a understanding of.
Many abilities had been learnt over time but the ones that were nor scientifically understood by him such as the legendary ability of the Spear of Midnight Black, Force Light, Force Wave and Sever Force where abilities he had great difficulty in learning.
He hadn't just been learning Force Abilities over the years but had also used a HoloPad he had, while connecting to the Holo.net via his new ship's communications and radio array, to study and learn a variety of subjects and topics from top level educationional institutions online.
It was around this time that he had 4 years left before Clone Wars starts, at this moment in time these were the following abilities he had learned using the KYBUR Crystal and through intense practice.
1. Telekinesis
2. Force Push/Pull
3. Force Jump/Leap
4. Force Throw
5. Force Wave
6. Force Choke
7. Force Grip
8. Force Crush
9. Force Sphere
10. Force Orb
11. Force Lighting
12. Electric Judgement
13. Pyrokinesis
14. Cryokinesis
15. Force Sense
16. Precognition
17. Battle Precognition
18. Telepathy
19. Mind Trick
20. Mind Control
21. Drain Knowledge
22. Force Persuasion
23. Force Empathy
24. Animal Friendship
25. Animal Bond
26. Force Comprehension
27. Comprehend Speech
28. Farsight
29. Force Sight
30. Force Vision
31. Levitation
32. Force Speed
33. Force Jump
34. Force Listening
35. Force Smell
36. Force Body
37. Enhance Attribute
38. Enhanced Athleticism
39. Controlled Descent
40. Control Pain
41. Breath Control
42. Phase
43. Art Of The Small (Molecular Manipulation) - Only when using the KYBUR Crystal.
44. Biokinesis
45. Alter Environment
In addition to learning new abilities in the Force, Dante had also used the KYBUR Crystal to help him to use the Art Of The Small to make use of its Molecular Manipulation and create high-end materials such as Beskar and Ultrachrome used for certain components in spaceships.
Dante had not just simply created such rare and durable materials for his gear, equipment and ship, but had also used his knowledge of the Human Body and other species he had researched in detail to self modify his own biology.
However, he didn't alter his brain or eyes since the Human eye has millions of millions nerves and complexities layed ontop of each other, and not to mention his brain. Altering such things and accidentally going wrong will and might possibly be irreversible.
Until he is confident in his own ability to alter his biological structure to such a degree, he won't take such a gamble when it's not necessary...yet.
[ ] Race adjustments/DNA
• Diathiam
1. Wings - 656 km/h (407.62 mph)
• Togruta
1. Echolocation Lekku - In every single strand of normal hair
• Snake DNA
1. Venomous Fangs - Tips made so thin it cuts Atoms piercing anything
2. Venom Gland - Healing, Venom
3. Serpent Physiology - Body Flexibility to unrealistic levels
4. Scales - Beskar metal skin
• Augmented Human DNA via Biokinesis
1. Photosynthesis - Absorb Light = Oxygen, Food, Sleep
2. Claws (Natural Weapons) - Tips made so thin that it can cut Atoms
3. Tail (Natural Weapons) - Tip made so thin it can cut Atoms
4. Blood - Infect other with own Cells
5. Bones - Beskar metal density bones
6. Muscles - Fast Twitch (Many) & large Density, Super Physique
7. Stem Cells - Slow Minor Adaptability and Immortal Regeneration
8. Memory Cells - Works in tandem with Stem Cells to adapt and evolve
9. White Blood Cells - Works in tandem with Memory & Stem Cells
10. Hive Mind Cells - All Cells identical, Slime-like physiology Immortality
11. Stomach Acid - Dissolve Anything into Energy
That was just the augmentations he had done to his own body.
As for his weapons he was able to create things such as the Gjallahorn, Outbreak Prime and the Whisper of the Worm from the video game Destiny as well as Ebony & Ivory from Devil May Cry.
Obviously they aren't the literal weapons, Dante had simply done his best to create imitations of them while copying their appearances and names.
Ebony & Ivory are a pair of Demonic pistols made specifically for Dante. The reason they have infinite ammunition and can kill Demons is because it uses Dante's Demonic energy from his soul to create powerful and an infinite number of Bullets.
As for the Gjallahorn, Dante had used the schematics and blueprints for the Whistling Birds feature of the Mandalorian Vambraces to create the projectiles used in the Gjallahorn.
Outbreak Prime uses Nanobots called Siva in the Destiny verse but Dante just kept its appearance and tried ro make the shots as powerful as he could using existing blueprints for weapons such as disintegration weapons.
Needless to say, Dante had not wasted a single second, unless its to goof off and relax occasionally due to his self isolation, and spent all his years preparing as much as he could.
Either honing his abilities or learning on the Holo.Net about various subjects to further his own knowledge and improve anything that he thinks needs improvements.
[ ] Mêlée weapons
[ ] Short Bladed
• Vibroknife
[ ] Long Bladed
• Sword (Vibroblade)
[ ] Pole arms
• Combistick: A retractable spear
[ ] Flexible bladed
• Noose: When used in the dark, the wire-thin Noose is almost impossible to see. The material is slim but strong, able to hold the weight of an adult human as it yanks them up.
[ ] Ranged weapons
[ ] Thrown
• Electroshock Bolas: Electroshock bolas carry a powerful electrical current, which instantly kills victims on impact.
• Yautjia Shuriken - a Fan Shaped throwing Shuriken
[ ] Guns
• Whisper of the Worm
• Gjallahorn
• Ebony & Ivory
• Outbreak Prime
[ ] Projectile
• Netgun: A handheld device capable of firing a wire net with enough force to pin a target to a wall. The net also features an automatic tightening mechanism designed to cause grievous wounds to the enclosed target.
• Electroshock Missile Battery: Used by the military Hydra, this is a back mounted missile device that fires up to three powerful armor penetrating electroshock plasma missiles capable of targeting up to nine different targets.
[ ] Directed energy weapons
• Plasma Pistol: A hand-held version of the Plasmacaster
[ ] Explosives
Placed
• Plasma Mines
• Prisim Stone
• Storm Front
[ ] Thrown
• Fire bombs: The fire bomb is a highly explosive Yautja grenade type device.
• Plasma Grenade: The Plasma Grenade is a Yautja hand grenade that creates a large explosion when detonated and is powerful enough to destroy an M113 armored personnel carrier.
• Remote Bomb: The Remote Bomb is somewhat similar in function to Predator Mines, but is remotely detonated from a wrist gauntlet by the Yautja instead of proximity activated.
• Gravity Pulse Grenade - Massively increases the gravity of the effected area, thereby rendering the target mostly incapable of moving. Targets only Organic Being's and not the surroundings.
Mobile sentry guns
• Pred-Gun: It has a huge inbuilt Plasmacaster and moves using anti-gravity plates underneath it and can only fire when deployed.
• Fireliner: The Mobile Shrine is equipped with a fireliner, a multibeam heat weapon related to the Blazer.
[ ] Armour
[ ] Bio-helmet
• facilitates vocal mimicry
• breathing apparatus
• diagnostics
• audio/visual recording systems
• Vision Modes:
• thermal vision
• Vision modes in electromagnetic spectra
• night vision
• Ultraviolet
• vibration scanning
• adjustable binocular vision.
• Language Translator
• Vocal Mimicry
[ ] Wrist gauntlet
• Wristblades
• Crush Gaunt
• Shockwave Emitter
• Cloaking Device
• Whistling Birds
• Grappling Hook
• Mandalorian Shurikans
• Darts - Poison, Sleeping, Stun, Shock, Explosive
Sat-Com: The Sat-Com is a Yautja holographic map projector which shows a complete 3D scan of an area and is part of a Yautja's wrist gauntlet
• Kujhad: A small device that can detach from the rest of the bracer and acts somewhat like a portable mini-computer & remote ship control
[ ] Chest (Upper Torso):
• Besker Mandalorian Armour
• Back Net Function - Fires an Electrical net from the back
• Flight Boosters (Anthem Javlin flight Boosters on the back)
[ ] Arms
• Reinforced to use for blocking or fighting in Unarmed Combat
• Energy Shield
• Has an Variety of minor functions
[ ] Waist
• Carries many bombs and items
• Has an Variety of minor functions
[ ] Legs
• Reinforced to use for blocking or fighting in Unarmed Combat
• Has an attachment that opens up on the side of the Thigh and Calf that can release stored items.
• Has an Variety of minor functions
[ ] Boots
• Hover Boot Boosters (Ratchet & Clank varient)
• Has a Vibroknife in the boots
• Has minor Bombs at the base of the Soles of the Boots, can be placed by pressing harder or through thought, will detach from Bottom of Boots and onto the ground.
• Magnetic
[ ] Medical/bioanalysis
• Medicomp:
• field medical equipment
• solvents
• various serums
• medical devices
• Cleaner Case:
• Tracking Syringe
• Dissolving Liquid
• Self-Destruct Device
[ ] Tracking/navigation
• Falcon: The Falcon was a bird-like spying device
• Tag: The tag is a small circular tracking device that is used on prey
• Beacon: Beacons are Yautja technology that helps a Hunter navigate in a large and confusing hunting ground.
[ ] Power source
• Kyber Crystal
[ ] Shields
• Sham Shield
[ ] Spaceship:
[ ] Sparrow (Modified "Bloodfin" Speeder)
[ ] Made of:
• Ultrachrome
• Kyber Crystal Power Core (Power Source Required)
• Besker Metal
• Beskar Ram
[ ] Functions and others:
• Cloaking Device
• Stealth Boosters
• Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainers
• Tracking Systems
• Magnetic Tether
[ ] Weapons:
• Plasmacaster (2)
• Weapon Targeting System
[v] • Scimitar (Former Maul Ship)
[ ] • Icarus (Modified Scimitar ship)
Made of:
• Durasteel
• Ultrachrome
• Besker Metal
• Neuranium - Anti-Radiation and artistic material
[ ] Value:
• 55,000,000
• 98,576,800 Credits (After Dante's Modifications without Beskar)
• 18,512,648,576,800 - For 200 Ton ship of Beskar (the value is calculated to this, the Death Star costs about 2 Trillion Credits in comparison. I know it seems ridiculously high but the base cost of Pure Beskar per ounce is already calculatedin the Mandalorian roughly which is how i git this value of a ship of Pure Beskar which is the first of its kind)
[ ] Size:
• Length - 28.5 Meters
• Width - 37 Meters
• Height - 9.5 Meters
[ ] Minimum Crew:
• 1
[ ] Passengers:
• 6
[ ] Cargo Capacity:
• 60 Metric Tons
[ ] Consumables:
• 4 Months
[ ] Maximum Acceleration:
• 3,730 G
[ ] Maximum Speed (Atmosphere):
• 1,280 km/h
[ ] Engine Unit(s):
• Sienar X-C 2 Ion Drive Array (1)
• (Modified) Girodyne SRB42 Sublight Engine (2)
• Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainers
[ ] Hyperdrive Rating:
• Class 1.5
• Class 2.0 (Backup)
[ ] Hyperdrive System:
• Sienar SSDS 11-A
• ISu-Sim SSP05 Hyperdrive (Backup)
[ ] Power Plant:
• Heavy Power Generators (4)
• Quadex Power Core
• Koensayr TLB Power Converter
• CEC Emergency Power Converter
• Kyber Crystal (1)
[ ] Shielding:
• Modified Custom Made Kybur Crystal Shield Generator (Power source required)
[ ] Sensor Systems:
• Several Tracking Sensors & Tracking Devices
• Sienar Fleet Systems Pulse Generator
• Modified Fabritech AN2-51 Sensor Array Computer
• Modified Fabritech ANy-20 Active Sensor Transceiver
• Modified Siep-Irol Passive Sensor Antenna
[ ] Navigation Systems:
• Microaxial Rubicon Navicomputer
[ ] Main Computer Systems:
• Hanx-wargel SuperFlow IV Computer
[ ] Other Systems:
• Hypercom & Medical Equipment
• Tracking Systems
• Sat-Com
[ ] Functions and others:
• Tractor-Beam Projector
• Foundry + Transposing Kiln Wellspring (Power Source Required)
• Docking Rings
[ ] Counter Measures:
• Stygium Cloaking Device
• Phantom Drive
• Stealth Drive
• Thrust Trace Dampers
• Other Advanced Countermeasures
[ ] Inside:
• Drop Pod/Scout Ship hybrid (Yautjia)
• Cockpit
• Trophy Room
• Bedrooms/Crew Quarters
• Master/Captain Bedroom
• Kitchen
• Main Hold/Common Room
• Laboratory
• Pool table + Game room (Arcade)
• Gun Range
• Launching Bay + Garage
• Spa + Gym
• Trophy Room
• Armory
• Storage/Cargo Room
• Engineering + Circuitry Room
[ ] Armament/Weapons:
• Concealed Solar Ionisation Cannons (6)
• Plasma Lasers (2)
• Seismic Charge Launchers (2)
• "Seeker Swarm" Proton Torpedo Launcher (1)
• Concealed "BNK3R BFG" (Modified Fusion Acceleration Cannon)
• Magnetic Signature Flares
[ ] Complement:
• Falcons - (Modified DRK-1 Dark Eye Probe Droids) (3)
• Sparrow (Modified "Bloodfin" Speeder)
[ ] Artificial Intelligence
• Orpheleon A.I. (Under Construction)
[ ] Droids:
• Interrorgation Droids
• Medical Droids
• Utility Droids
• Mouse Droids
• R2-7S (aka. Rits) - Astromech Droid
• Protocol Droids
• HK-47
• Eridian Guardians (Under Construction)
• Siva Bots (Has Yet to be Started on Project)
• PredaKing (Under Construction)
• Predacon (Under Construction)
Needless to say, Dante had been incredibly busy over the years.
Not only had he learnt new Force Abilities, some of which he had learned from a Sith Holocron on Maul's Scimitar, which had allowed him to learn Force Lighting.
Interestingly he discovered Force Lighting was generated from drawing upon the concept of Negativity to generate the energy needed to create Force Lighting which can also explain why there are many different types.
Electric Judgement is the Light Side equivalent of Force Lighting and in turn is the opposite.
The last thing to note was that he had found nearly 10 million Credits on the ship before he began his modifications to it.
Once Dante had concluded everything he needed to do, he departed to complete a variety of tasks on his aptly named 'Bucket List'.
First off the list was to go to Typhon, and loot the remains of the abandoned Jedi Temple there.
He searched through the rubble and even the Vault of the Jedi Temple with very little gains.
He had onpy been able to find a few Lightsabers with small and weak Kyber Crystals.
He could use them for his suit or weapons but not for his Speeder or his ship as they could implode on themselves by an overload of energy since the Kyber Crystal wasn't stable and strong enough as modern Kyber Crystals.
Furthermore, be had found 2 Jedi Holocrons, one described Meditation which was utterly useless but he still took in the lessons and knowledge it held. The second was of more use as it helped with one's connection to the Light Side of the Force.
Second off his Bucket List was to travel to the grave of father of Ziro the Hutt. Ziro had buried a Holo-Diary that has every crime of the Hutt Council recorded onto it.
Ziro would naturally not keep such a valuable object he could use to blackmail the Hutt Council into doing what he wanted.
During the Clone Wars Ziro was arrested in the movie that started the TV Series that followed but eventually the Hutt Council had to hire Cad Bane to free Ziro or they feared what could happen as a result of their crimes and deeds being exposed by the contents of the Holo-Diary.
As a result, Dante was absolutely certain the Holo-Diary was currently located at the grave of Ziro's father, and that hunch proved correct as Dante looted it and obtained the single most valuable item within all of Hutt Space and quite possibly below or on par with future Republic and/or Separatist battle plans.
As of now he doesn't plan on using the Holo-Diary to blackmail the Hutts, not until Ziro helps Ventress to kidnap Jabba's son so the plot can follow it's Cannon timeline...at least for now.
As for Ziro the Hutt, he was currently still stationed on Coruscant.
Third on his Bucket List was to travel to Coruscant, more specifically the industrial sector where he proceeded to use his connection to the Force to locate the specific tower where Palpatine had stored many Sith artifacts within.
It wasn't that hard and dealing with 2 Sith Royal Guards was simple, and then he was beholden to such magnificence, such rare priceless relics all his for the taking, once he deactivated the various Tracking Devices and security measures that was.
1. Moraband Giant Sith Holocron
2. Ritual Altar from Ziost
3. Collection of Sith Scrolls and Books
4. Collection of Sith Weapons
5. Numerous Sith Holocrons
6. Great Crystal of Antanai
Needless to say half of the things on this list, Dante hasn't a clue what they actually are as he only knew Palpatine had them in his Sith Collection of Artifacts, as for the more obvious items on this list of things he had stolen from Palpatine, they would be of immense use to his developing his connection to the Dark Side.
While he was still on Coruscant he had purchased various systems and parts that he could remember from the wiki page of the Millennium Falcon in his past life.
After refueling the ship and restocking on supplies, he traveled to the returned back to the planet where he could use the KYBUR Crystal and simply trained himself for the next 2 years whilst beginning his career as a Bounty Hunter under the name of 'Spectre'.
It was around this time that Count Dooku breaks away from the Republic and established the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
2 years after that Dante had had used the KYBUR Crystal so he can further use use Biokinesis to alter his own body's cells to become even more powerful.
The last thing Dante had done before the Clone Wars finally arrived was to infiltrate the Banking Clans and Mind Controlled one of the Banking Clan leaders so he could have a Puppet pawn for him to use for funds when he needs it without raising suspicion.
And with all that said and done, he was 16 years old and the fated day finally arrived...
The Blockade over Christophsis had been established, Senator Amidala had bypassed the Blockade to send Relief supplies, and the Republic Forces spearheaded by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi had just arrived to attempt in destroying the Blockade commanded by Admiral Trench.
Last but not least, Jabba the Hutt had sent out a open contract to anyone, especially him as a well known Bounty Hunter, that is willing and able to bring back his kidnapped son safely.
The real start of the Clone Wars had just begun...