Star Wars 
The Heart of the Force 
Anakina Kyp-Jade 


Millions years before Episode 1 when humans don't exist yet, the people 
of Ilog have just discovered the force, the darkside. With no one to tell 
them about fear, anger, and aggression, these people are learning the 
hard way. 


It was a very strange day, the day evolution stirred again. It was 
the same day they made it to the stars. Twins were born to a Walker 
family, it had never happened before. Until that day every Walker family, 
every Ilogian family for that matter, had two children but never at the 
same time. Walker children had blondish fur that covered their limbs and 
heads. They all had dull blue eyes. The new Walker twins were every 
different. Anakina, the girl, had dirty strawberry blonde fur and swampy 
green eyes. Tiran, the boy, had dark brown fur and ice blue eyes. Woolies 
had ginger brown fur that covered all of their bodies and they had gold 
eyes. Swimmers had red-brown skin and fishy features, but they still had 
limbs. Crawlers had green scaly skin and blue eyes. 
The new twins were quite a shock but everyone loved them. Their 
family 
was one of the first chosen to travel to the new planet 15 years 
from their 
birth. There were 7 families from each sub-species chosen. 
Each given a 
new name, Star or Sky was added at the beginning, and that 
was the 
beginning of the Skywalkers. A title given to the 7 walker 
families 
that journeyed it Ilop. 


The first thing the 28 families did after setting up their new homes, was 
start mining. Not for precious metals or fuel, but for information. They 
had done so on their world some time ago, and discovered that at the 
heart of their world two lights emanated, a black one and a white one. 
The people were frightened and never did anything with the stones at the 
bottom of the shaft they drilled, but here they did. 

"Hurry up, Anakina!" Tiran called, "They are going to bring up the 
stones!" 
"Hold on, I'm coming. I have to feed the livestock you know." I 
called 
back. My brother was so impatient and always curious. "Curiosity 
killed 
the walker you know." I shouted. 
"Naw, that's just a saying to frighten children into believing 
everything 
their parents say. Were not kids anymore, we're 15 orbits 
old." 
"Yes dear." I sighed running up to him, "Now lets go see if our 
father 
has brought it up yet." 
We ran into town and pushed our way through the crowd. 
"...And 
now we will know, what are the lights. We will bring a 
sample 
of each, one at a time." Our father said, He was the head 
scientist. 
They started winding up the ropes and up came the white light. A 
clawed 
machine gripped it and set it down on a wooden table. Tiran ran up 
to it, father lunged to stop him but he missed touching the stone 
himself. An explosion of light and sound tossed the people away. I fell 
against a bolder. She quickly got up to see what happened to her brother 
and father. As the dust settled she saw them. They were unharmed...at 
least on the outside. 
Both my father and brother now had black fur and a black cold fire burned 
inside their eyes. Tiran picked up the stone and began walking toward a 
Crawler named Mariana; frightened she did nothing. He touched the stone 
to her and a smaller explosion of dust erupted. Her scales were black as 
well. My brother walked around touching them one by one and we just sat 
there, transfixed. Suddenly my mind returned and I screamed. Tiran looked 
at me. 
"Run!" I cried, out of our 112 colonists, 34 had already been touched. 
"Run before it touches you! Hide!" I yelled. Four more were touched 
before my words sank in then a panic started and everyone ran this way 
and that. I ran. I just kept going. My brother and father, what had they 
become? I was so busy thinking I forgot to look where I was going. I ran 
straight into a tree and fell down. A Walker boy grabbed my arm and 
pulled me up. He did it in one fluid motion hardly slowing in his flight. 
I knew him, not well, but there was a growing tension between sub-species 
so Walker families stuck together. His name was Tyme. Once we were half a 
day from the settlement he stopped. 
"Thank you." I panted. We were Walkers, not runners. Woolies were 
the best runners; they were also the strongest. I hoped the Swimmers and 
Crawlers got away. Not many swimmers dared to come out of the water even 
for the showing of the stones. 
"No problem." He replied. "What do we do now?" 
"I do not know. I do not know what the stone truly does to one and 
I do not know what to do." I paused. "I also have now idea where we are." 
He smiled. "Me neither." The only thing to do is to go back quietly 
and observe what is going on without getting touched." I nodded. 
"Uh, what's your name by the way?" Strange he did not know. 
"Anakina. The first born of my family, although Tiran was born only 
seconds later." Surely he must have known who I was, Tiran and I were 
known to everyone because of our birth. 
"Nice to meet you, I'm Tyme." He said and we started walking back. 
He also had not been as transfixed by the stone, but he didn't know what 
to do. If Tiran had come near him he would have run but he wasn't sure 
why. 
We hid and watched. After everyone fled they started building something. 
They drilled more holes heated metals with no fire and shaped them. 
They made object float in the air. My brother didn't even need to 
make the metals red or orange; he could bend them while they floated in 
front of him. We watched their construction for days, hiding in the 
trees. On day Tyme and I went deep into the forest so we could talk. 
"What should we do?" He asked. 
"What can we do? What can anyone do against them? When Kia tried to 
go home, they touched the stone to her. All we can do is wait until 
they're done building that thing. Maybe then we'll no what to do." 
"I think it's a ship." Tyme said. 
"A ship?" 
"Yes. I'm fairly sure that's what it is...but I don't see how they 
can get it off the ground, the propulsion systems will rotate around and 
it will most likely explode." 
"Well that's certainly interesting. How do you know anyway?" I asked. 
"It's a design flaw. I study architecture and ship building falls 
in that category until there's enough known to have it own category." 
"Ah hmmm." 
" and what does that mean?" 
" It means you know more than I do...about this anyway." I said but 
he had disappeared while I had been walking in a small circle. 
"Tyme?" I called. 
He slipped his hand over my mouth and pulled me behind a tree. I heard 
footsteps and he released me. I peeked out to see who it was. It was 
Tiran. 
I gasped and Tyme clasped my mouth again. I struggled and he let go. I 
whispered, "He's my brother." 
"Don't!" But I had already stepped out and Tiran saw me. He just 
looked at 
me. I stepped forward and slowly we came face to face. "Tiran." 
I 
breathed. He was so different, but the same. He hugged me. I heard Tyme 
step out. Tiran pulled back shot a glance at Tyme and said, "Father'll be 
here soon, better hide. I miss you Anakina. I'm sorry. I can't help-" 
"I know. Go. I'll be fine." Tyme stepped up next to me. 
"Watch the propulsion systems...I can't it show here but there is a 
design flaw." 
"Find it in your mind and I will see." Tiran said. Tyme blinked, 
then 
closed his eyes, envisioning the craft and its flaw. Tiran also 
closed 
his eyes and grabbed at the air with his hand. Tyme fell to his 
knees in 
pain. I knelt beside him in alarm. "Tyme! What's wrong?" I 
looked back 
to my brother but he was gone. He had warned me that father 
was 
coming. I pulled Tyme to his feet; he was dazed and stumbled along 
side me. Where could I go that would be safe? Tyme could not climb in his 
condition. 
"Ulino, there is a problem. The dark voices say the propulsion 
systems 
will rotate to far and explode." Tiran informed the man in charge 
of construction. 
"What do you know, boy? The voices say this is right." Ulino 
answer 
very annoyed at the young man. Because his father was leader and 
because 
Tiran had touched the stone first, everyone made a fuss of him. 
The voices 
fuelled his anger and jealousy. 
"There are many voices, and many times they contradict each 
other. 
The right one says that we must change it." Tiran said as if he 
were a 
man gently explaining complicated matters to a child. 
"How do you know which one to listen too? And we risk loosing 
maneuverability 
if we adjust it." Ulino grumbled. He had looked over the 
plans and 
saw the flaw but he wasn't going admit Tiran was right just 
yet. Ulino 
was a very sore loser. 
"I'm first touched, I know. Anyway, which is better a slightly 
less 
maneuverable ship or a blown up ship? Make the modifications!" 
Tiran's patience had run out. Ulino grumbled some more and went to tell 
the others. The voices said that Tiran was a traitor, he was unworthy of 
being first touched. He was just a boy and had been given to much power. 
Tyme and I inched our way along until he lost consciousness all together. 
I didn't know what to do. He'd only been trying to help, why had my 
brother done whatever he did? I supposed it was my fault, I had to talk 
to Tiran. Tyme had warned me but I hadn't listen and now I didn't know 
what was wrong with him. 
"Tyme, wake up. Tyme talk to me!" It was no use. He was alive but 
he wouldn't wake up. I couldn't just wait for him to wake up, my father 
might come this way. I toyed with tying vines to him and lifting him up 
into the tree but I knew I couldn't do it. Besides, the tree probably 
weren't safe from my father. We had to get out of the forest. Then it hit 
me, I was running from my father. My own father. My own brother had 
warned me away and done...something to my friend. I'd been running from 
those facts for some time, trying to fool myself. Now the full effect of 
my situation sunk in, I was alone. I was lost in the woods on a strange 
planet with an unconscious companion. My father and brother had turned 
evil and were hunting me. Who knew what else was out there, what else was 
hunting me. I was a 15 orbits old Walker girl, all alone, running from 
her own father and countless other dangers with an unconscious boy to 
drag about. It was hopeless. 
I picked up Tyme by his arms and tried to drag him as gently as possible. 
I had to at least try to evade my father. Perhaps he wouldn't come this 
far; perhaps he'd already gone back to the settlement. Tyme stirred. I 
put him down and started talking to him, hoping he'd wake up. He opened 
his eyes and stared at me for a moment then he smiled. 
"At least there's a beautiful face to wake to." 
"Are you alright? What did he do?" 
"I'm not sure...I can't remember certain parts. What was it I knew that 
he wanted? What happened to it...It's gone." He closed his eyes and 
strained to remember it. 
"The design flaw, he _took_ your memory of it?" I asked in alarm. 
"Apparently." He replied squinting at our sun, Forcia. He tried to hide 
his confusion. He was going through something, just like I was. 
"Well, we know what happened to my family...so what became of yours?" I 
asked trying to get his mind off his memory. 
"They died in the flood." I winced, wrong question. We settled next to a 
river and just after we'd begun building our homes, the river rose and 
killed 3 people. I never knew their names or who they'd left behind. 
"Besides," He continued, "You don't know what became of your mother." 
"No, but I'm sure she's alright. I just can't believe what has happened 
to my brother and father. My brother was always too impatient, too 
curious. I told him, right before we left to see the stones, I told him 
that curiosity killed the Walker. He brushed it off. He would never take 
your memory, never rip it from your mind. Now I don't him know anymore. I 
had hoped the stone hadn't changed him, that he was still good. But now I 
know." I looked down. "I don't even want to see my father now." 
"What are we going to do?" He looked back at me. 
"Why are you always asking me?" 
"I don't know, I'm used to be told what to do." 
"Ah hmmm. Well, are choices are: surrender and be touched-" He stiffened 
and said, "No. I'll never surrender." 
I continued, "- hide and watch them some more, explore the planet 
for signs of others, or find some place to settle." 
"Settle? We're just kids." 
"It's funny, Tiran said we weren't kids anymore when I teased he 
about his 
curiosity." I said fading into the last moments my brother had 
been h
imself. "I'm just trying to think of all our options." I said, 
snapping 
back to the present. 
"Searching the planet sounds too dangerous." 
"That leaves watching, unless you've thought of something else." 
He shook 
his head saying, "Alright, then let's go." We got up and headed 
back, 
the same way I had fled dragging him in fear earlier. 
When we arrived back the ship they'd built was gone. "You know, I 
always wondered why they didn't take the ship we already had here. But I 
think they built a better one." Tyme said as we walked into the clearing. 

The settlement had begun to come alive again. People ran to their homes 
looking for loved ones that had fled when I screamed. Tyme came with me 
to my house. Everything was as we left it. The animals were hungry so I 
fed them. My mother was no where to be found. I began to worry. I had 
convinced myself she was all right but now I wasn't so sure. 


It was a small isolated tribe of Walkers, mostly female. They were 
outcasts, violent and warrior like. Peace was a law on the rest of the 
planet. They lived in the tropics and had no contact with others, perfect 
targets. 
It was tradition to take a girl on her first hunt as initiation into 
womanhood. The hunting party was honoring Mias's 16th orbit when a 
strange metal craft came from the sky and landed in front of them. An 
door came down forming a ramp and a black furred Walker walked down the 
ramp. He held a stone, a white stone that glowed with evil. Mias could 
feel the evil emanating from it but she had to touch it. She stepped 
forward, the young man was very handsome, even if he was discolored. 
"May I," she started, "May I touched it." He nodded but the leader of the 
tribe pushed her back and Mias's tribe sisters held her. 
"Why have you come?" The leader, Viya, asked. 
"To ask you to join our order, the New Order of Evil. You feel the 
stone's dark power, touch it." The leader started but Mias's cried out. 
"No! I must touch it first. Dark Lord, you know this!" She used her anger 
to break free of her tribe sisters. "I must be the first of us!" She ran 
up to Tiran and he held her. She cried into him, they were connected by 
the darkness.. The white stone fell to the ground, the dark power had 
placed its pawns and started its plan in motion. 
All the tribe sisters touched the stone and Tiran planed to take them 
back to Ilop. That was were he would start his dark empire. He would rule 
all the Walkers, Crawlers, Woolies, and Swimmers with Mias by his side as 
his Dark Queen. As they became more skilled in the strange force the 
voices stopped. Only the feeling of a strong dark power remained. 
Mias knew exactly what she was doing. She slit the leader throat and the 
blood dripped into the vile. She filled several small vials, equal to the 
number of clan sisters in her tribe. She filled to larger ones half way 
and then added sweet berry juice. She sealed them and waited for the 
right time. 


The settlers of Ilop packed and left as soon as they could. No one knew 
what had become of my mother. Tyme and I stayed behind and no one came to 
Ilop for years. When we saw the ship in the sky we knew it was Tiran. 
"We must touch the stones, the black ones. It is our only hope. If the 
white stones are bad and turn their fur black than the opposite of the 
should be true for the black ones." I concluded. 
"Or not, but hey, it's a plan. There is no way we will be able to avoid 
them this time. This time they will come looking for us." I nodded. 
"I just want you to know that no mater what happens, I'll back you up. 
I'll always be here and I'll always stand by you." He looked straight 
into my eyes. These words were very similar to the words of marriage. I 
smiled. 
"And I will always be at your side. I will always be with you." I didn't 
know how wrong and right I was. We went to the mines, we could see the 
ship entering the atmosphere. We brought up a black stone. It was very 
unlike the white one. The white rock was shiny and polished. It was a 
perfect square. They black rock was lumpy and uneven, it was dull and no 
interesting. It didn't feel the same power coming from it as I had the 
white stone. 
We hesitated, this would change our lives, even more than they had 
already changed. I kissed him quickly. 
"For luck." I said, then touched the stone. He did the same. There was no 
explosion, no changing fur. I did _feel_ different though. Then there was 
a flood of voices and a hum of contradictions. Some were high and some 
were low. They were shouting over each other. I closed my eyes and 
listened to the quietest one. Soon I had blocked out the other voices. 
This voice said that the rock gave us the chance we needed against the 
darkness but we had to careful. It was very easy to fall to the "dark 
side" it said. It said the power came from all living things, not from 
the stones. The stones were just conductors of the living force. Beware, 
it said, beware of fear, anger, hatred, for they lead to our enemies. It 
also said to bring up more black stones. It gave specific instructions on 
how to form weapons. But the Dark Forces had landed so that would have to 
wait. 
We watched them, they knew we were here and Tiran came to us. 
"Hello dear sister." He said with an evil smile. A female Walker cam up 
behind him. There was a flash of dark lightning and then I truly lost my 
brother. He and all his followers had black eyes to match their fur and 
long sharp fangs. His evil laugh spelled out the fate of our parents. 
Anger seized me. The female walker smiled, her plan had worked, the blood 
had created pure evil. 
"You killed them! You killed them!" I threw myself on him, kicking and 
pounding him with my fists. "No! Murderer! You killed them!" Tyme was 
pulling me off. He held my waist and dragged me off while Tiran and the 
girl laughed wickedly. I was unfair, I'd lost everyone, everyone but 
Tyme. 
"No." I cried. I cried for the loss of my parents and my brother. I cried 
for a long time but it didn't bring them back. Tyme talked to me about 
loosing his family and soon I had controlled my anger. 
Tiran had gotten the materials we needed to make the weapons. The next 
morning we started their construction. We shaped the black stones in 
large crescent moon forms. The sharp blade extended all the way around. 
The blade would cut through anything, except its owner's hand. If Tyme 
picked up my blade he would loose his hand, but no matter where I picked 
it up it was dull. I was fine-tuning my hand when out of no where a dart 
hit my arm. I cried out and Tyme came to me. He held my as I lay there, 
almost dying. 
"Come out you cowards! Come out and fight." My brother and his friend 
stood up. "Ah, I would like to introduce Mias she-" Tyme flung the dart 
back at my brother. It hit the same arm and same place that it had hit 
me. Mias laughed. 
"He is already infected with the dark power, that will only make him 
stronger. 
"I don't think so, You see, Anakina is 'infected' with the light and now 
it's fighting the evil in her and in Tiran. It will kill them both. How 
about you take care of him and I take care of her?" Mias paled as she 
realized he was right. She gathered him up and stalked away. 
"Anakina, what do I do? Oh Ana, what can I do?" He asked. 
"Leave." I knew he wouldn't listen. I got up, shaking, and took my blade. 
"I'm going to die. There is nothing that you can do about it. But you 
have to carry on. Use what we've learned here. Save some of them and 
save our people. And never forget me." 
"I can't and won't leave you." He said holding me again. He hugged me so 
tight I could hardly breath. We had known each other 3 years and had 
become very good friends. But it was time to say good bye. 
"You have to and you know it." I said pulling back. "There isn't much 
time, you know it." 
"I can't." 
"You must! If not all will be lost. You have to spread the teachings of 
light. The force that binds us has shown us how to gain knowledge from 
it. Now you must show others." He nodded. He fled into the forest. I took 
my blade and went to find my brother and his 'playmate'. 
Tyme spoke to a few of the clan sisters, using the light to show them how 
wrong Tiran was. They got on the ship and took off, heading for Ilog. I 
found my brother and he was ready with his own blade. We were both weak 
for the battle within us but we began to battle. It was not as hard as I 
thought, I let my motions be guided by the force. We battled for a long 
time and then my blade struck him, taking off his head. An explosion of 
dark power and rage of evil destroyed the planet of Ilop. It was 
completely obliterated, not a speck of dust was left. Although I was dead 
I was still aware. Tyme went to our home world, but the power that 
destroyed Ilop had devastated Ilog. The trees and plants were gone. The 
people built ships and went exploring for a new home. They were fairly 
separated, landing on different worlds and starting over from scratch, no 
technology at all. These people would evolve and go to the stars never 
knowing their past. 
Tyme was the only one to keep the title Skywalker. He married and named 
his only son Anakin. The Clan sisters he rescued took willing warrior 
males with them and started their own planet. They called it Dathomir. 
The Swimmers settled most on one water world, Mon Calmari. The Woolies, 
walkers, and Crawlers spread out. The woolies that evolved the least 
became Wookies. And the Walkers evolved into many humanoid species. 
Almost all the sentient life of the galaxy came from one planet, Ilog. 
That was the first chapter in my on-going battle with evil.