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Bonus points if he hijacks the Millennium Falcon for it and that is the main story conflict. Han wanting his hot rod project vehicle back and tracking his son across the galaxy.
Ehhh, if you want a Warhammer version of SW, why not let the point of divergence be the fall of the Rakatan Empire?There...is my lazy but also totally amazing idea to make SW as Warhammer 40Kish as possible.
I had a similar concept on SB.Another excellent fanfic I want to recommend:
A Night for Opera and Everything Else by DarthRuinous
Despite the title, it's not a comedy fic, but rather explores the idea of what could happen if Palpatine and Anakin were attacked during the Opera where in the OTL Palpatine recounts the legend of Darth Plagueis. Over the course of events, Anakin is knocked out and Palpatine is forced to use his own abilities to save himself and his student.
It is an entertaining read, with Palpatine being forced to change plans while the Jedi Order tries to stop him. The Seperatists end up abandoning Palpatine's orders and start running roughshod over the galaxy.
The characters feel in-character, we see some delightful interactions between Anakin and Kenobi as they clear their differences up, and overall I enjoyed it so far (at chapter 26).
Ehhh, if you want a Warhammer version of SW, why not let the point of divergence be the fall of the Rakatan Empire?
Although the sheer scope of changes this would cause would scare off most writers.
alaxy is basically Europe at around 500 AD or China during the warring states period, or one of the times of Indian fragmentation.
Very early AU. Same idea, galactic fragmentation.
Disney canon doesn’t have darker themes though? I’m not sure where the idea it did ever came from.Building up on my idea...I guess it would go like this.
Rae Sloane does her nonsense where she shuts down the holonet and pastes the Hyperlane database. This causes the core to go through a period of famine so horrible Coruscant loses half its population. As the Empire retreats from the core Sloane calls for all remaining members of the Galactic Empire. But her stupidity caused so much destruction most of them either sit it out, join the NR or rally behind Gilad Pellaeon. The New Republic swells in number as they're the only ones outside of Gilad's faction with half decent star charts and the war slows to a halt because of the need to disperse aid. High Prophet of the Darkside Kadann publicly humbles himself before Luke Skywalker and asks to be taught in the ways of the Jedi, six months later Mara Jade last of the Emperor's Hand does the same this final defection of the last Dark Siders with any Sith pedigree demoralizes the fanatics of the new order.
Sloane amasses some, say thirty thousand ships, including 5 Super Star Destroyers of various classes and about four hundred ISD's around Jakku, she's going to go make one final violent push into Republic space in the hopes of breaking their military and burning her way through the Republic. This isn't about resurrecting the empire anymore, they've gone beyond the pale and this is a pure suicide charge.
Her Armada of doom gets ambushed by a coalition of Republic, Mandalorian and Remnant forces commanded by Admirals Akbar and Pellaeon but spearheaded by Luke who in conjunction with Kadann uses battle meditation to inspire the "allies" sloanes forces are driven back to Jakku where the planet is turned into a desert shithole by having an Assertor and Eclipse fall on it. Sloane is last seen laughing like a maniac as her ship burns down around her.
Mandos knife both the remnant and Reps in the back, inflict enough damage on their fleets to keep them from interferring and fuck off to gorge themselves on what's left of the Core.
in say 17 ABY the Core is liberated, with Luke's New Jedi Order leading the Republic forces on the ground on Coruscant, Alsaka and Chandrilla. among them three youths, Ben Skywalker, Jaina Solo and Poe Dameron distinguish themselves in battle. Something happens, Luke's wife dies around 18 ABY, Luke goes into exile entrusting Kadann with the Jedi Order in a move that stuns many. A mysterious Dark Jedi sets up shop in Jakku, ruling from the cadaverous ruins of one of the crashed SSD's. Orphans, wastrels, remnants of the Inquisitors flock to him. Little is know about who he is, but one thing is known. He hates the Sith and the Jedi with equal venom.
Start the story in say, 35 ABY, Jaina Solo is master of the Order, basically Mace Windu's old position. Kadann runs the Jedi Order from a newly rediscovered Ossus and Jedi Master Poe Dameron has spent the last four years wandering the stars in search of something..
The Imperial remnant rules most of the outer rim and has been in a state of peace with the New Republic for twenty years. Zorba the Hutt has somehow become Imperial Grand Vizier, Gilad Pellaeon passed away around 29 ABY and the new Emperor Jacen Solo, he's basically benevolent and more of a shrewd politician than a force using terror. He allows Jedi to operate as peacekeepers but maintains independence from the Republic. How Jacen ends up here, was due to wanting to find a life for himself away from his family's shadow.
Rey and Finn become the same character basically, she's a child soldier trained by acolytes of the darksider whose expanding throughout the Western Reaches. She's about seventeen or so but has already participated in a campaign and is traumatized by what she's seen. She's force sensitive but the call of the light is strong enough that she's drawn inexorably toward Poe Dameron.
Episode Seven would end with the Nagai and Tof invading the Galaxy called from beyond by this Dark Jedi who reveals himself to be in league with a mysterious figure with tendrils in the Republic and Remnant. While Jaina is resistant to the idea of allowing Rey to be trained for some reason, Kadann overrules her and she is sent with Poe to find Luke Skywalker to bring him home and to hopefully put an end to this terrible war. Ben Skywalker decides to accompany them, believing that he's spent too much time in council meetings and in gilded halls.
Keep the darker themes from Disney while preserving the spirit of Star Wars...Also the story is centrally a saga about the House of Skywalker and its branches...Both twins and Ben would be parents, make it clear that the saga will continue in one form or another. While Rey is the nexus upon which vents shall pivot, her story is bound to the Skywalker line..and so on. Poe would serve as the Qui Gon Jin of this story but I wouldn't kill him off in Ep 7.
I guess that's how you could do it?
I have not seen that sort of bleakness or darkness in the Disney canon.
i guess that depends on how we define darkness.
Also, there’s the fact that Jacen, Jaina, and Mara would have very different lives in your timeline making them different from people and Jacen and jaina might not be born at all.
With all due respect, the timeline and characterization of TCW clashes so badly with the rest of the Legends version of the Clone Wars that there’s barely anything I can salvage and try to fit in. From the timing of Ashoka becoming Anakin’s apprentice, to when Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight, to how the Clone Wars itself unfolds- not to mention the characterization of Anakin, Dooku and Grievous.@DarthOne I disagree with the total exclusion of the CGI Clone Wars. Pillage parts of it, and have most of it be inuniverse propaganda, either of the Republic or New Republic. Or even drama. Or Clone Wars itself could be a fictionalized portrayal of it, and then you can loot as much or as little of it as you want.
With all due respect, the timeline and characterization of TCW clashes so badly with the rest of the Legends version of the Clone Wars that there’s barely anything I can salvage and try to fit in. From the timing of Ashoka becoming Anakin’s apprentice, to when Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight, to how the Clone Wars itself unfolds- not to mention the characterization of Anakin, Dooku and Grievous.
I’ll allow this gentleman to explain in more details- jump to 30:25 or so.
Yeah I had the same reaction watching that video for the first time. I knew TCW changed things but not to the full extent that it did so. I’d also encourage you, if you’ve got the time, to watch Captain Fordo’s other videos on the Clone Wars series. As it’s shocking how many of the issues people have with Disney’s Star Wars- and indeed the people who’ve helped perpetuate those issues- had some sort of start in TCW. As well as Lucas’s neglect, as the man basically stop giving a damn about Star Wars after the backlash from the prequels started up.Then, maybe, I overestimated how how is salvageable. I guess you are right, it is sad that it couldn't have been properly integrated into the canon.
And watching this makes me very unimpressed with Hidalgo.
Building up on my idea...I guess it would go like this.
Rae Sloane does her nonsense where she shuts down the holonet and pastes the Hyperlane database. This causes the core to go through a period of famine so horrible Coruscant loses half its population. As the Empire retreats from the core Sloane calls for all remaining members of the Galactic Empire. But her stupidity caused so much destruction most of them either sit it out, join the NR or rally behind Gilad Pellaeon. The New Republic swells in number as they're the only ones outside of Gilad's faction with half decent star charts and the war slows to a halt because of the need to disperse aid. High Prophet of the Darkside Kadann publicly humbles himself before Luke Skywalker and asks to be taught in the ways of the Jedi, six months later Mara Jade last of the Emperor's Hand does the same this final defection of the last Dark Siders with any Sith pedigree demoralizes the fanatics of the new order.
Sloane amasses some, say thirty thousand ships, including 5 Super Star Destroyers of various classes and about four hundred ISD's around Jakku, she's going to go make one final violent push into Republic space in the hopes of breaking their military and burning her way through the Republic. This isn't about resurrecting the empire anymore, they've gone beyond the pale and this is a pure suicide charge.