"Are you kidding me?" He asks in an angry tone as he hits the table hard, startling the pony guard in front of him, who flinched.
"N-no m-my liege, we a-are sure that this slave group is m-massing a few kilometers away..." The guard managed to let go even though he was shaking with fear of his lord's hatred.
The Lord only sighted deeply as he slowly rose from his seat, now facing the nervous guard standing.
"You interrupted me and my herd for this?? A bunch of angry SLAVES??" The White Unicorn raged at his guard.
The guard started to sweat a little with the anger that his unicorn lord would scream at himself, he then nervous after a few seconds of stuttering, he would manage to let out a few words, but would be interrupted.
"GET OUT OF MY SIGHT BEFORE I CONFISCATE YOUR SLAVES FOR THIS IDIOCY!" He roared at the trembling guard that left as quick as he came.
The Lord let out a sigh as he leaned in his chair while grumbling.
"These fools fear a bunch of armed monkeys HAH!" He then laughed, it stopped as quickly as it begin, being interrupted by the sound of a door opening.
That got his attention, he turned his head to know who would be interrupting him this time, but now, instead of getting more irritated by another intrusion he can only increase his smile even more.
Leaning on the door, with her transparent robes that showed all her beautiful and defined white body that almost glowed with the sunlight that reflected from his office, she used one of her hands to run through her smooth pink hair while biting her bottom lip. .
"Is my darling stressed?~"
His perverted smile not left his face as he stood up and approached her, running the back of his hand across her soft cheeks.
"Yes my Fleur, I would love to have your help in, 'cooling' my head.~"
She giggled by putting a hand on her mouth in a cute way.
"The allow me to 'help' you my lord. ~"
The white Unicorn pulled him by his luxurious uniform further into the room that was next to the office, while the other followed without taking his smile or eyes from her, he did not know that the moment he closed that door, he had sealed the destiny of the citizens of that city.
Darth Vader marched among the various tents and bonfires that stretched across the landscape in his line of neighbors, he is impressed by how outdated the strategies and organizations of this world were.
When he debated with his commanders about strategies to invade the first important fortified city that would be attacked.
His strategists surrounding him came up with the strategy of taking everything that the army had available and charged with everything at the front door and overwhelm it with higher numbers.
He had to hold himself back from facepalming and he couldn’t even get angry, he couldn't even be disappointed.
That was it.
That was their strategy, to go headlong into the wooden walls, where they would probably be killed by a shower of arrows from the guards and pegasus.
But he should blame himself, he trained them only on how to coordinate well and how to command troops in battle, but overall strategies they were basically a blank book.
But he would use this to his advantage, since they would have no idea how to plan they would be even more dependent on his orders, absurdly decreasing the chances of them disobeying him, even if they are already very low.
He passed his gaze over his warriors in white armor around their various extinguished bonfires, some without helmets and others without their bracelets, cooking, talking and laughing.
This brought many memories to Vader, but he had to let go of nostalgia, even though he missed having a competent and sarcastic captain by his side.
The Black Lord saw how the art of war in this place was very poorly developed, they practically just got together in a place predetermined by the leaders, and if they played each other like a violent mob, without strategy or organization, the winner is those who survive or who do not give up.
The first thing he needed to do was reform the organization of his army, he needed warriors / soldiers.
He needed each soldier to create bonds, to trust each other, to break any doubts they may have in order to be more effective and brutal in combat, if they go through the same difficulties together and with each other they can manage go through these difficulties, he will have an unstoppable army.
Vader wanted the social divide that was WE/Humans and THEM/Everybody else, that humans respect each other and coexist in harmony and he would do everything possible for WE to have such a hatred of THEM that the trivial difference in location and positioning is completely forgotten.
Then he started step by step (Boring explanation about how the army will be formed in the beginning, if you don't want to ready this, jump a few lines): 10 warriors form a squad, they are forced to eat and live with each other, forcing them to work together no matter what lineage, city or clan they came from, he would break that stupid and backward division they would have.
Each Squad would start with the elders as a leader, the Staff Sergeant, because they lived much longer and had a much broader experience, but each Squad could elect anyone to be a second-in-command named First Sergeant for balance the leader and advise him.
10 of these squads would form a company of 100 soldiers, where the appointed leader of Sergeant Major would be elected by the leaders of each squad, and 10 of these companies would form a battalion of 1,000 individuals.
Each battalion leader named Supreme Major is appointed by the Supreme Lord depending on whether it is for his enormous merit or loyalty, that this moment the Supreme Lord was Vader.
This not only organized the structure of his army very well in an easy way for everyone to understand and be able to follow through, but it also generated a chain of command that each soldier would fight bravely to conquer.
And any civilian who did not do military service should do something to help the 'greater good'; harvesting fuel, organizing pastures, teaching as teachers, cooking, trading, creating weapons or even doing music and dancing to entertain the troops.
With that Vader ended classes and bloodlines, everyone worked for the benefit of the group and everyone received the rewards.
The Plan was simple, to make a fair meritocratic society, and anyone who neglected their services or committed any crime within someone under the Vader's banner, entered the in the chopping block, and whoever betrayed or committed a crime too high that death was not good enough for him....?
They were 'recruited' to the Forsaken Executioners
Each commander would have an insignia attached to the right part of his chest where he would show his rank, a red square and below a blue square, always in pairs, the higher the number, the higher the Rank.
For Vader, this was a piece of cake, he had simply taken some rankings and names from the Imperial Army, and put the groundwork for a normal society, but his citizens and military commanders considered him a genius of organization, being of divine creativity and knowledge.
In those moments he really wonders that impersonating a deity was a good idea.
He also modified his armor again, where he was able to join more mobility and visibility, and put traces of gold to show off his 'divine' and leadership status.
But now he couldn't think about it, as a huge commotion started in a distant part of the field, crackling of muskets and smoke in the distance, along with several soldiers hurried past him, looking at his guards he nodded , giving a silent command.
The Enforcers returned the wave, and would shoot at absurd speeds in the direction of the smoke, jumping from tent to tent.
He watched their silhouettes disappear, and walked slowly towards the commotion, he was in no hurry and was tired, he would let his guards prove their worth.
He spit on the floor, a mixture of drool and blood would fall on the white soldier's metal shoe, who would only respond with a 'hunf' and then catched the prisoner by the collar and then headbutted him, making him scream in pain as he fell on the floor on his back, blood running down his nose as he futilely tried to stop.
"Know your place Equestrian scum."
He would snarl at the soldier who now had a blood stain on his helmet, but he wouldn't respond, just looking away with a facial expression that mixed shame with hatred.
"Ensign, report"
The Unicorn bulged its eyes in response to the new voice, it was dark, metallic and muffled, it was scary.
His horn had suddenly started to burn, a sensation he had never experienced before.
On his knees, he slowly and with much effort would try to lift his head and see the newcomer, he had barely managed to have a glance at the foot of the figure that had arrived and received a powerful punch in the back of the head, making him gasp as he closed his eyes as he rested his forehead on the floor.
"Stay on the ground you shit! I don't want you staining our lord's presence with your miserable life." He heard the soldier from before cursing him.
"Enough already Ensign, I need this unicorn alive." The strong voice of the newcomer berated him
"My apologies, my lord, but scum like this don't deserve to contaminate your grand presence."
The other voice was silent, but his footsteps could be heard, they were getting louder and louder.
Until the pony could hear the noise literally in front of him.
"Stand up, NOW" The voice roared in an authoritarian and powerful tone, in desperation the unicorn quickly risen and stayed between both knees while slowly raising its gaze, afraid to offend whoever the giant was in front of it.
Just looking at his feet, he was already very scared, his armor style was detailed in an absurd level, details that went from his feet to his head, and his eyes were blood with no life, it was terrifying.
"Free him."
A gigantic silence reigned, no one believing what they had just heard.
"M-my lord?" The guard looked at his boss, he could see the enormous confusion behind his mask.
"Did. i. Stutter? " The black giant asked calmly and frighteningly to his subordinate, who just raised his hands as if surrendering in front of his face and shook his head in panic.
"N-not a-at all m-my lord! R-right away!" He immediately did what was told, and the unicorn could feel his hands loosening, and then when the last rope loosened, he looked at his hands and slowly at the giant completely confused and a little bit hopeful.
"Wh-why?" No answer, just silence.
After almost a minute with both of them facing each other and the pony getting more and more nervous and sweaty.
"Get out of here, and tell the owner of that town what you saw here."
Pony looked at Vader as if he had grown a second head, but he had already lost patience and he pulled the pony by its horn, which the same screamed in surprise.
Vader looked at him deeply, and the unicorn could see the yellowish glow coming out of the black lord's eyes, he trembled, his mouth opened and closed very fast, unable to formulate any sentence.
"GET OUT!"
With this roar, the pony could not even react when Vader without pushing or moving an muscle, threw the unicorn away.
He flew a few meters screaming until he finally landed on the ground on his back, he got up stumbling in despair and running down the road he came from like his life depended on it.
The Warrior slowly turns to his lord, confusion described in all his body language.
"My lord.... Why let him go...? Why want him to tell our location....?"
Vader was silent for a few moments, still watching the Unicorn in panic as he continued to run on the horizon.
"I am testing the competence of the Lord of this region."
The soldier tilted his head in confusion, and the dark lord would turn his head to meet his gaze.
"A competent commander would dispatch his army immediately upon discovering a threat to his own people, to quickly end it as fast as it begun."
"And if he not....?" Vader returned his gaze to the road where the unicorn fled and would chuckle.
"If he not, then the city is already ours."