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So, one thing I’m considering with that fic I need to write one day, is the relationship between the Clone Troopers and non-clone Republic military personnel, especially in the wake of Order 66. For many of them, given how fast it all happened, as far as they are concerned the Clones essentially...

Not too much. As you can imagine, whilst useful as field agents, they aren't let anywhere near management position on account of their "class loyalty" being in doubt.

I’d already planned on the nascent Union rising in the Outer Rim, but they were sort of already waging war against the Empire for the best part of a decade. The homeworld, a mineral rich icy ball, became somewhat akin to Krieg with a massive homegrown heavy industry and munitions manufacturing...

So an idea I once had to both further flesh out the Rebel Alliance, especially in terms of unsavoury allies, and an antagonist for a sequel trilogy, is Star Wars’s answer to the Soviet Union: The Collective Union of Systems. These guys would have fought against the Republic during the Clone...

Nah, Engineering sounds too much like hard work for him. Although he could have been sent down to supervise something. So in order for a Senior Lieutenant to take command of a Destroyer, the ship must have suffered catastrophic damage. Perhaps with her shields down, she gets raked from bow to...

I can't disagree. Zahn was actually quite good at giving a bit of realism whilst maintaining a "Star Wars" feel, which he incorporated into a good plot populated by good characters. If anything, I wish he'd been on the lucasfilm writing team instead of all the other diversity hires.

Warspite's bridge got broadsided by an MC80 star cruiser, a little after a chunk of another unfortunate warship bisected one of her shield generators. Thus her bridge wasn't entirely annihilated, and was intact enough to be repaired later. Now, Claudius is an officer but a young one (he's a...

Pretty much. Granted, I might play a bit fast and loose with the canon, but Lucas and Disney get away with it so eh. Thank you very much. However, I did have some different ideas. Claudius is a junior officer aboard the ISD Warspite, a refitted Venator class Star Destroyer and veteran of the...

Right. So I presume some of you distantly remember that "Warspite" story I am working on? Well, I've finally got a name for the main protagonist, the impromptu, young captain of the old Star Destroyer: Claudius Panteer. Now, that name has been chosen with reason. "Panteer" is a very old...

So. "Warspite: A Star Wars Story" (seriously chaps, have you got any other suggestions? Because I can't big thonk when it comes to names) is continuing to undergo formulation. We've got the ship and her captain thought of, whilst I'm still undecided as to what her complement of spacecraft would...

Now that I've got a general idea down of the key character in "Warspite: A Star Wars Story" (shite name, I know, but it's a placeholder), the ship herself, I've been doing a little more thought about the crew. In specific, Warspite's impromptu captain. This would be a man who is not very old (in...

But that's the problem. Sometimes it works, but the Empire applies hammer to everything. "Smash shit" is the default for them.

The Tarkin doctrine all but incites rebellion. The Rebel Alliance is like catching smoke with your bare hands, not something you can hit with a hammer. And by whacking it with that hammer, you just disperse the smoke more and more. That aside, wanton brutality gives subjugated worlds the...

Oh no, Vader, as commander of Death Squadron, would have requested the transfer of Warspite. It would only have been attached to his fleet for a few months by Endor, and its command crew would have gone out of their way to keep interactions with Mr "You have failed me" to a minimum. By the time...

Well as Morphic pointed out, they weren't all scrapped or mothballed. There could well be hundreds of them off in the outer territories of the Empire. Perhaps to an extent we can twist the canon with "they were refitted and sort of look like smaller Imperial Mark I Destroyers now." I mean, the...

That's a good idea, actually. Perhaps its refit involved merging the two command towers into the single classic one of the Imperial line of Star Destroyer (a bit like how Warspite was refitted from its WWI dreadnought phase to WWII battleship) along with some additional main batteries? Come to...

Oh and, just finish off this train of thought, in my mind there would be only one obvious name for this warship, a battered Mark I Imperial Star Destroyer that has likely seen over a decade of service yet still soldiers on. ISD Warspite.

I've often thought that the naval aspect of Star Wars has been neglected. Thus the idea of a sort of "master and commander" style story, of an Imperial Star Destroyer and its crew, could be an interesting thing. You could have this vessel escape the battle of Endor, although heavily damaged. In...

A concept I had for redoing the Sequel Trilogy (at least to begin with), is taking the whole "Rey is Sheev's granddaughter" and running with it. Darth Sidious wouldn't be alive mind you, this would be more about Rey's journey to the throne of an Empire that needs its monarch. The galactic scene...