Star Wars fic: "Queen's Gambit" (23: The Food of the Dead)

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Queen's Gambit (239202 words) by bedlamsbard
Chapters: 24/?
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Dooku (Star Wars), Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Mace Windu, Yoda, Bail Organa, Ahsoka Tano, Quinlan Vos, Barriss Offee, Plo Koon
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Parallel Universes
Series: Part 2 of Ouroboros
Summary:

Civil war threatens the galaxy. Hundreds of star systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic and form a Confederacy of Independent Systems.

In the hopes of securing a quick peace, the Jedi Council has dispatched two Jedi to capture or kill the leaders of the separatist movement, Queen Amidala of Naboo and her lover, the former Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Into this period of conflict have come four refugees from another universe, fleeing a devastating massacre triggered by the death of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith lord Darth Sidious, at the hands of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker…

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“The Knights of the Old Republic were not exactly without fault,” Captain Kenobi said dryly. “There’s a reason the Order changed.”

“For better or for worse?” Ahsoka asked.

There was a moment of silence as the two Knights contemplated that, then Captain Kenobi grimaced and said, “I need you to make a stop, Quinlan.”

“Obi-Wan –”

“Quinlan, I just found out that the High Council thinks I’m so dangerous that they’d rather psychically lobotomize me than let me live and that the Jedi Order is on the brink of falling apart; you can do me the common courtesy of making just one stop before we get wherever we’re going.”

There was a sharp note in Captain Kenobi’s voice that made Ahsoka look up, frowning, but all she could sense in the Force was the same distress he had been radiating since the encounter with Master Ti and Master Drallig in the Temple.

Master Vos sighed. “None of your people on Coruscant are going to know anything, Obi-Wan. The HoloNet’s been down for weeks. I don’t even know what Dooku and the Senate are planning and I was in the bloody Temple the entire time.”

Captain Kenobi raised an eyebrow, and Master Vos shook his head. “Fine. Where do you want to go?”

“Dex’s.”

Ahsoka felt the speeder jerk as Master Vos started to hit the brakes, then remember they were two miles up from ground level in the middle of a fast-moving sky lane. “You were running Dex?”