Star Wars Fanfic Ideas, Recommendations, and Discussions Thread

Buba

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I had a silly though - after the events at Genosis Palpatine is trawling the holonet and enjoying the outcry against "fascist Jedi bigots" on sites such as Adequate Speed and Void Clashes :)
Not to mention the "Genosian lives matter" and "defund the Jedi" hysteria ...
:)
Feel free to use this idea if you deem it funny. And worthy ...
 
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BlackDragon98

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I had a silly though - after the events at Genosis Palpatine is trawling the holonet and enjoying the outcry against "fascist Jedi bigots" on sites such as Adequate Speed and Void Clashes :)
Not to mention the "Genosian lives matter" and "defund the Jedi" hysteria ...
:)
Feel free to use this idea if you deem it funny. And worthy ...
It's a good idea for a crack one shot fic.
 

SchrodingersWehraboo

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The whole clone rebellions thing? I've been wondering how recently how the two might be merged together in an AU. One would have the whole CIS war starting first, a brutal conflict that exhausts the ranks of the Jedi while Palpatine is pulling the strings. Then around ten years after the war ends, the remaining clone army would "inexplicably" suffer breakouts of insanity and rebel (again engineered by Palpatine akin to order 66). Of course, between the end of the CIS war and the clone wars, Palpatine would've been implmenting the "New Order" to some degree and having an Empire in all but name, also building up a non-clone Army to supplant the old GAR. Perhaps the fight between Palpatine and Windu would be the hollowed-out Jedi council's last-ditch effort to assasinate him rather than an arrest. Shortly before then, Luke and Leia might be born, only for Padme to perish during the Clone rebellion and have her Death pinned on the Jedi by Palpatine, completing Anakin's fall to the Dark Side. (It's a minor detail, but this'd explain Leia's "I remember my mother" comment in ROTJ). Then something like the Mustafar fight would happen.

I shall try to expand on this:
Episode 1:
Set around 45 bby in the decaying Galactic Republic. The Jedi are a reclusive and isolated order after centuries of stagnation. The temple on Coruscant has long been cut off from visitors, and inside the Jedi Council continue their staid examinations of the force and much diminished training efforts. Indeed, among many quarters of the Galaxy, “Jedi” might refer to some kind of Republic Special Agent, in others it’s just a club of people who are dexterous enough to wield a lightsaber, and many other interpretations that often ignore the force entirely. Despite their mixed reputation, the Galactic Senate sees fit to call on them for resolving interplanetary disputes, such as the one occurring on an idyllic outer rim world known as Naboo. The Trade Federation is up to their usual tricks, but this time they’re launching a full-scale occupation of a planet with considerable wealth. Cue the events of TPM up until after Qi-Gon, Obi-Wan, and the Naboo Royal family escape. Their damaged hyperdrive can only handle one more jump. But upon reviewing their options, Master Qi-Gon picks the desolate world of Tatooine. The others are confused, but the old Jedi confides in his Padawan that he has sensed something of note in the force on the planet, invoking the ancient prophesy of “the chosen one”. Sure enough they head to Mos Espa, following Qi-Gon’s intuition and come upon young Anakin Skywalker ( who Doesn’t build C3PO in this setting), a child with abnormal intuition and reflexes for an uneducated slave. Cue the Pod Race plot with one exception: Shmi Skywalker is also freed, but Qi-Gon tells Anakin that while the Jedi will provide her with an easy life on Coruscant, he cannot visit her again, for a Jedi must let got of prior attachments and avoid building any others beyond the camaraderie of their fellow Jedi as part of the order’s strict code. The Naboo plot proceeds with some differences: the Gungan tribes led by brave general Jar-Jar Binks engage the Battle Droids around Theed to draw them away so Amidala can sneak in, Anakin (with the help of Artoo) Destroys the Droid Control ship over Theed, deactivating the droids protecting Gunray and the other Trade Federation bosses which allows Amidala and the Naboo guards to capture them and forces a ceasefire. Qi-Gon/Obi-wan and Darth Maul fight happens as usual, leaving Obi-wan to train Anakin.

Episode 2:
35 BBY: The Republic is fraying at the seams. A movement dedicated to seceding from the corrupt Coruscant regime is gaining steam, centered mostly in the galactic rim. Pro-unitarian voices like Senator Padme Amidala even face assassination attempts. Anakin is now a Padawan. In addition to being trained by Obi-wan in a more unorthodox manner due to starting the process while he was older than the Jedi code permits, he is also saddled with sky-high expectations due to his apparent status as the “chosen one”. He MUST bring balance to The Force, lift the dark haze that has been clouding the Jedi Council’s ability ponder Galactic affairs, eliminate the Sith, and usher in a new Golden age for the Jedi and the wider galaxy. In addition to these near-fanatical assurances by the council that seem aimed more at themselves, Anakin has been secretly meeting with Padme and the two are forming a bond very much in defiance to the Jedi code. Matters come to a head when Padme and several other senators are in a meeting with the chosen representatives of the secessionist movement that end in an assassination attempt/terrorist attack on the Republic delegation. Said attack is revealed to be part of a wider network that killed many targets and bystanders, including Shmi Skywalker (secretly arranged by Palpatine of course. An outraged Anakin leads the pursuit and cuts down several of the separatist reps in his anger, prevents their escape by damaging their craft with a lightsaber throw, causing a crash that kills many officials, and collateral damage, as well as directly killing the premier Seperatist rep, and here I must thank @Skallagrim for the post that inspired this plot point. Of course the Separatists are angered while the pro-republic side views Anakin as giving them their just desserts for fostering the sentiment that incited a dastardly terrorist attack. Obi-wan pursues a lead on one of the killers and we get the whole Kamino arc, where it it turns out that the clones were ordered by wily renegade and long-MIA Master Syfo Dias some 20 years prior following a worse Stark Hyperspace war. The Geonosis plot happens and begun, the clone wars have.

Episode 3:
20 BBY.
The Clone War de jure ended 10 years ago, but the fighting persists as CIS remnants and other groups stirred to action by the war keep fighting. The wily CIS leaders are always on the move and impossible to track. Now we see the consequences of the past 15 years. Coruscant is in a state of martial law and once-active airways are deserted. Palpatine is venerated for leading the Republic through this crisis. As for the Jedi, they have been even more marginalized, if such a thing was possible. They often served on the Galaxies’ worst fronts and took expected losses, and far worse after General Grievous’ raid on Coruscant in 31 BBY. In return their sacrifices received no recognition from Republic propaganda. This is because cultivating fame, glamour and media personality is “against the Jedi way” and “a path to the dark side” so most just went along with it. It is the gratitude of those inhabitants on worlds they helped liberate that the Jedi seek. But the rest of the galaxy has little acknowledgment for them, such that even Republic officers might call the force an “ancient religion”. Anakin has been fighting non-stop on the worst fronts of the clone war and against the worst holdouts (with Palpatine’s careful nudging in the background, of course), and he has given in to his anger more and more. Anakin isn’t even aware that after his last brief visit with Padme a over a year ago, she became pregnant with twins.
Then one day on Coruscant, something unimaginable happens as Clone Troopers begin to turn on their officers and each other. It is the same across the galaxy. The Clone Rebellions have begun. Anakin rushes back to Coruscant after hearing the news. Meanwhile, Master Windu uses the chaos to enact a desperate plan concocted by himself and several other Jedi dissidents: assassinate Chancellor Palpatine, or as they know him, Darth Sidious. But Windu errs by informing Anakin of the plan to try and get his help, not knowing that Anakin has been having his own secret discussions with Palpatine. Additionally, the Clone rebellion on Coruscant has claimed Padme’s life, though Kenobi was able to rescue the twins. Indeed, right after receiving Mace’s message, Palpatine contacts Anakin with security footage of Obi-wan entering Padme’s office…
The results are pretty much what we know. Anakin sides with Palpatine and becomes Darth Vader. Palpatine tells the Senate that the Clone rebellion was the work of the Jedi who also tried to kill him and declares the founding of the New Order. Having planned for the Clone Rebellion, he already had a large non-clone component of the GAR assembled over the preceding 15 years and ready to fight. Loyal clones will still be part of the military, but the stigma of “clone madness” will leave clone experiments firmly under the onus of Palpatine and a few isolated renegades. Now the Empire will set about crushing the CIS remnants and clones with the goal of bringing peace to tve galaxy. A few renegade clones even side with the CIS hodouts, the discarded puppets of Palpatine forced to work together for survival. The Jedi Temple purge happens as usual and Anakin is then sent to Mustafar by Emperor Palpatine to “take care” of the Speratist leadeship. Cue the Mustafar fight and Anakin’s transformation to Vader minus that embarrassing “NOOOOO!” Then we’re all set for the OT.
 
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Agent23

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Well, this is pretty much self-explanatory.
This is a thread for the discussion of Star Wars fanfiction ideas, including crossovers, as well as recommendations and searches for existing fanatics.

Speaking of which, I recall there was this one ST:TNG/Star Wars crossover involving the Vong war, where the AQ powers cam in to aid the GFFA against the Vong.
It involved a wormhole, and maybe Q, and it IIRC started with the Enterprise going after a ship called the Roddenberry.
 

Bear Ribs

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Going to repeat my rec of Sith Lord Swell I made in the main Star Wars thread.

Luke, not yet fallen Ben Solo, and the entire rest of his Jedi Order trip some ancient Sith defense and wind up in the Clone Wars. Luke promptly decides that rather be outed as Heretic Jedi, they'll pretend to be Sith Lords. Cue shenanigans as Luke becomes Senator of Tatooine, ultimately forming a pro-Sith but anti-banite faction in the Senate, audits the Jedi Council's account (Uncovering the clone army in the process), and in the latest chapter that just popped, pretends to be his own tortured traumatized assistant in order to troll Palpatine at dinner.

It's glorious, glorious crack.
 

Free-Stater 101

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I would like to recommend a time travel fic which involves Mando and Grogu walking through Mos Espa only to be sent to meet Anakin before the Phantom Menace.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14056859/1/Mandalorian-Menace

It's no masterpiece of writing skill and I spot one or two moments where the characters do
OOC things but it's not so horrible or always present that it distracts from the entertainment of the story.

What I like the most about it is that Din literally has no clue how to fix things and seems to be already causing some major butterflies and I hope it stays that way rather than devolving into a fix everything style TL.

Another recommendation I have is for this masterpiece of a time travel fic.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11730208/1/Darth-Vader-Hero-of-Naboo

Similar to the above but longer, with better writing and with character that are always in character I can't recommend this fic enough as it's easily the best Star Wars fic around.
 

The Whispering Monk

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Another recommendation I have is for this masterpiece of a time travel fic.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11730208/1/Darth-Vader-Hero-of-Naboo

Similar to the above but longer, with better writing and with character that are always in character I can't recommend this fic enough as it's easily the best Star Wars fic around.
I've caught up to Ch. 30 in this fic, and I agree. It's pretty entertaining. I think some of my favorite moments are when the Dark Side giggles at Sidious... :p
 

Zyobot

Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Crossover idea: it’s been a while since I’ve read them, I’ve been toying with de-aging Anakin and sending him to HIVE Academy. (The one from the book series, not the DC 'verse.)

So, just after he dies in Luke's arms and renounces Darth Vader for good, a de-aged Anakin Skywalker wakes up in his thirteen-year-old body, on a chopper taking him to the Academy, where he befriends the Alphas and is forced to put total redemption on the back-burner for now. After all, being a hero in an establishment that's literally called the "Higher Institute of Villainous Education" is bound to get you noticed... and not in a good way.
 
I'm doing a series of Star Wars stories in the style of Marvel's What if: basically, small decision changes have big impacts. Here are some ideas.

What if Anakin took a drink?

What if Sidious Came Early?

What If Vader Raised Leia?

What if Vader Found out Leia Was His Daughter on the Death Star?

What if Vader Found Love Again?

What if Qui-Gon Survived?

What if Luke Fought Vader on Hoth?

What if Dooku Trained Anakin?

What if the Clones Were Enemies of the Republic?

What If Ben Kenobi Killed Vader?

What If Anakin Didn't Get Trained?

What if Grevious was a girl? (See Ronderu lij Kummar)

What If Dooku used himself as the Clone Template?

What if Darth Maul Turned from the Sith After Naboo?

What if Anakin pledged himself to Mother Talzin to save Padme?

What If Ahsoka redeemed Anakin on Malachor V?

just a handful of my ideas.
 

Zyobot

Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
It's not much, but I feel like a full-fledged story that expands on this would be worth pursuing?

Granted, it's one chapter, and the prose is a little odd, but I think the premise of throwing together people and factions from all across galactic history into a single time period sounds... "fun", to say the least. (Especially in light of who's doing the throwing-together here. ;))
 

stephen the barbarian

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part 2 of the Templin Institutes vids on the The First Order - New Republic War, this time on how it should have gone down.
tl;dr: condense tfa and tlj into one storyline, expand the middle into a long stalemate, use the hutts and thrawn to add assets to the NR's toolkit.
this is probably the best version i've seen of the st, but it is definitely proof that they're polishing a turd
 
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Aaron Fox

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Let's be honest, the moment Thrawn was out of the picture, what was happening during the first Thrawn book -the New Republic learning the wrong lessons- was going to happen. that much is certain. Too much 'old world blues' as it were... and basically went full Articles of Confederation...
 

Doomsought

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While reading an old Xcom-star trek crossover, I hit upon a StarWars/StarTrek crossover that breaks the mold.

After faking his death, Ludo Kresh discovers an experimental Gree Hypergate that was modified in an attempt to explore another universe. He reactivates it and uses it to establish a personal fallback base on the other side. As the Hyperspace war worsens, Ludo Kresh secretly smuggles more and more of his assets as well as anything he can steal through the gate. Finally as the Galactic Republic begins to Genocide sith on the front lines, he reveals himself, takes every part of the Sith empire he can kidnap, steal, or convince to follow him through the gate. Then he sends a droid warship to broadcast a rude hollo-message to Naga Shadow, informing his rival that he has destroyed the gate an ensured the destruction of his foolish enemies at the hands of the Republic.

On the other side of the gate, the Archer era Star Trek galaxy is cursed with a colony of semi-isolationist space Aztek wizards taking over the Orion syndicate.
 

DarthOne

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Okay, so I’m digging up an old idea of mine and giving it another go.

Basically, a chunk of the Confederacy of Independent Systems from the first half of the Clone Wars ends up in the Halo Universe early on in the Human-Covenant War. That is, somewhere in 2534. With the CIS teaming up with the UNSC against the Covenant.

Before I go further, I must stress that I will be drawing almost entirely on pre- 2008 Star Wars lore for the CIS. So completely excluding the CGI The Clone Wars series. This is from the simple fact that much of the CGI series clashes with the pre-established material of Star Wars Legends. And trying to reconcile the two is almost impossible.

Moving on, by the time the story picks up, it’s been several months to two years since the CIS fragment was transported into the Halo universe. There was understandably some pandemonium and chaos at first in response to being inexplicably transported into an unfamiliar galaxy, but things have more or less returned to normal stability.

Given the size of the Covenant and UNSC, the CIS will likely have anywhere between 50 and 200 major systems. Note that not all these would be shipyards and foundry worlds.

Additionally, this will not include systems that have been lost to the Republic at the time of the transference to the Halo universe. As this war is going to be complicated enough without throwing in Republic Remnants. In short, the point of this is to make the CIS powerful enough to change the tide of battle against the Covenant, but not enough to do so single-handedly without cooperating with the UNSC or to curb-stomp the Covenant.


For characters, the Confederacy will contain a mix of humans, aliens, and droids. As back in classic legends continuity, the CIS had quite a few organic commanders and soldiers; I’d like to have a few of them show up. I will try to use Legends characters when possible but will throw in a mix of original characters as well to round out the cast.

• Some CIS characters that will show up include:
◦ Dooku
◦ Grievious
◦ Rune Haako
◦ Gizor Dellso
◦ Kedu Ultho
◦ Marath Vooro

When it comes to the match-up between Halo and SW, my idea is that the CIS’s ships and weapons are roughly on par with their Covenant counterparts. Regarding FTL, Hyperdrives are faster than Slipspace. And my (tentative) plan is that the CIS just starts spamming probe droids or the like to map out the hyperspace lanes. As the CIS doesn't have to map out all of the Milky Way; From what I can find the Covenant only owned a large part of the Orion's arm. Mind you, it'll still take the CIS time to pull off. Space is big.

• Instead of trying to depict everything, the story is to be divided up into Episodic arcs. These would be about 4 to 7 chapters in length.
◦ First arc is the first contact between the CIS, UNSC and Covenant via the Spirit of Fire.
◦ Second would be during an early major CIS/UNSC offensive.
◦ Other arcs are To Be Decided, but will probably be 1 to 2 more.

As a final aside, I will also be drawing heavily on the Republic Commando game. Both in terms of having the Force and Force-users being uncommon within the story. As well as the gritty asthetic. Both as a way of helping the CIS fit a little more into Halo as a setting and, in scenes away from the battlefield, help provide more contrast.

Because of this, while the humble B1 battledroid won’t be completely devoid quirks, the moments where they are used as comic relief will be much more understated. Thus bringing their characterization more in line with what we saw in The Phantom Menace and the 2003 Clone Wars series, ironically enough. We will also see several enemies from those games, such as Genosians soldiers.

Any comments, question and so on are welcomed, along with anyone whose more familiar with the Halo side of things willing to give me a hand.
 

DarthOne

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While reading an old Xcom-star trek crossover, I hit upon a StarWars/StarTrek crossover that breaks the mold.

After faking his death, Ludo Kresh discovers an experimental Gree Hypergate that was modified in an attempt to explore another universe. He reactivates it and uses it to establish a personal fallback base on the other side. As the Hyperspace war worsens, Ludo Kresh secretly smuggles more and more of his assets as well as anything he can steal through the gate. Finally as the Galactic Republic begins to Genocide sith on the front lines, he reveals himself, takes every part of the Sith empire he can kidnap, steal, or convince to follow him through the gate. Then he sends a droid warship to broadcast a rude hollo-message to Naga Shadow, informing his rival that he has destroyed the gate an ensured the destruction of his foolish enemies at the hands of the Republic.

On the other side of the gate, the Archer era Star Trek galaxy is cursed with a colony of semi-isolationist space Aztek wizards taking over the Orion syndicate.
Reminds me of an old fanfic idea I had of IOSTing the Old Sith Empire of Sadow's time into the Halo galaxy and it coming into conflict with the UNSC instead of the Covenant.
 

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