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The prophecy had been handed down for centuries, from the first user in the Force until now. Not the usual one, not the one people falsely claimed, the one about a Skywalker ridding the galaxy of evil and putting balance back into the force. That one was a manipulation by Palpatine, there was no such prophecy, only his own self-fulfilling doom.
No, there was another one, a secret one, kept by the Jedi first and then stolen by the Sith. The Jedi did not like to hand down their failures, and so it had been forgotten.
The one who kills Stars and the one who makes his own name from the blood of his Master… if they join, they will bring about a total victory for the Dark… they must never be allowed to do so, or else the galaxy will be forever doomed.
No one knew what it meant, but it was still kept.
No one knew, until Starkiller.
Then they were afraid.
Armitage Hux was an untalented child in the Force, kept around for his father’s name. He soon proved his might and wit, and engineered countless miracles which kept his ruthless machine alive. By the time he reached General status, he had engineered his final, greatest project: a beast he called Starkiller, a beast of a weapon greater than the Death Star, capable of consuming entire systems in moments.
Snoke knew the Sith legends, knew that Palpatine’s doom had come at the hand of Skywalker and his would come at the hands of his apprentice, as Sith rule declared. It wasn’t until his apprentice took up the mantle of Ren, a mantle he had earned by slaying the old Ren, that he realized his apprentice was the other half of the prophecy. The Starkiller and the NameMaker… the two forces that, if joined, would make the galaxy shiver in fear.
However, even when he tried to partner them in a Co-Commandership, they never got along. Not once did this mystical joining ever occur. He had them watched at every moment by his praeoritan guards, yet never once did either of them give. Had he gotten it wrong? Was Kylo Ren not the other half of the prophecy? Obviously the General was the Starkiller, but maybe it was another one of the Ren, who would kill Kylo.
Snoke was half-convinced he should put his apprentice down and find a new one when General Hux fired his weapon and killed the Hosnian System, changing the cards immensely in their favor. And then, out of the blue, his apprentice approached the General and kissed him hard, almost desperately.
From there things escalated. The tides turned for the Order, and Hux and Ren were constantly like horny animals he had to threaten into working. The more victories, the more the two got obsessed with each other, and he constantly caught them fucking on his cameras which was an image he had to erase from his own memory.
Unfortunately, Ren made the decision to propose, wanting to form a connection with Hux. Forbidden by the Sith, and Snoke. The joining had been made, their victory secured. Now he needed them to separate and get back to work.
They did not take kindly to that.
So Snoke met his demise at the hands of his own apprentice, as prophesied, and before the light left his eyes he witnessed Kylo Ren ascending the throne, and then Armitage Hux settling on his lap, looking for all the world like he had everything he ever wanted.