Star Wars Fanfic Ideas, Recommendations, and Discussions Thread

Zyobot

Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Have something of a "crack treated seriously" crossover idea, but I’m not sure how to approach the characterization side of things? Basically, it’s something of an "Azula/Darth Vader friendship" fic, in which he, Luke, and the rest of Death Squadron — having called a truce for the time being, much like in this fic here — get stranded in the ATLA world together and help liberate Ba Sing Se.

Naturally, their assistance turns a pivotal battle into a crushing victory, with the aftermath featuring lots of rebuilding, technology-trading, and strange friendships all around. Basically, Vader gives in after weeks of nagging from Luke (and the newly crowned Firelord Zuko, for that matter) to become a much-needed "mentor figure" to Azula, which — given her instability and mental illness — is easier said than done. After all, Vader’s still working through issues of his own here, though his son — ever-persistent idealist that he is — will no doubt frame it as the start of "a support group for tragic villains seeking enlightenment"… or, you know, something like that. :p
 

Zyobot

Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Crossovers aside, another SW fanfic I’ve wanted to see written for the longest time is Anakin and Dooku meeting in the Netherworld of the Force, shortly after the former’s demise and appearance to Luke as a Force ghost.

Initially, I’d expect it to be tense and frosty, with considerable asymmetry between Anakin’s redemption making him more willing to apologize and Dooku’s lack thereof — or at least, ambiguous moral standing, seeing as he never got any post-mortem character development — making his characterization after death speculative. However, assuming Dooku has lightened up somewhat and is willing to let bygones be bygones, I can see him and Anakin basically having a "Harry and Draco as adults at the epilogue” sort of relationship. That is, not close friends or particularly fond of one another, but still civil and harboring a healthy (if grudging) respect for the other's skills and achievements.
 

Ash's Boomstick

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Crossovers aside, another SW fanfic I’ve wanted to see written for the longest time is Anakin and Dooku meeting in the Netherworld of the Force, shortly after the former’s demise and appearance to Luke as a Force ghost.

Initially, I’d expect it to be tense and frosty, with considerable asymmetry between Anakin’s redemption making him more willing to apologize and Dooku’s lack thereof — or at least, ambiguous moral standing, seeing as he never got any post-mortem character development — making his characterization after death speculative. However, assuming Dooku has lightened up somewhat and is willing to let bygones be bygones, I can see him and Anakin basically having a "Harry and Draco as adults at the epilogue” sort of relationship. That is, not close friends or particularly fond of one another, but still civil and harboring a healthy (if grudging) respect for the other's skills and achievements.

But as a darksider wouldn't he have been forced into the chaos of the force underworld, unable to interact with Anakin? I always read that dark siders end up there instead of the more sedate areas that the light siders use.
 

Zyobot

Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
But as a darksider wouldn't he have been forced into the chaos of the force underworld, unable to interact with Anakin? I always read that dark siders end up there instead of the more sedate areas that the light siders use.

Hmm, not sure. :unsure:

Actually, now that you mention it, I suppose I was more interested in what they'd say if they were to interact with one another, but forgot to verify whether they actually could according to the rules of the lore. If not, I'll do some hand-waving and write the prompt in the spirit (hah, get it?) in which it was intended, anyway. Frankly, I'm surprised no one else has tried this yet.
 

Ash's Boomstick

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Hmm, not sure. :unsure:

Actually, now that you mention it, I suppose I was more interested in what they'd say if they were to interact with one another, but forgot to verify whether they actually could according to the rules of the lore. If not, I'll do some hand-waving and write the prompt in the spirit (hah, get it?) in which it was intended, anyway. Frankly, I'm surprised no one else has tried this yet.

One possibility could be that in the moments before his death that Dooku finally understood what he had done and released himself into the Force, maybe enough to keep him in a form of Limbo along with others like him that realised too late what happened. Anakin is also destined to be stuck there until he is forgiven by the those who came before him, maybe Dooku also needs that but he can't forgive himself or allow others to until Anakin comes through?
 

Hlaalu Agent

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One possibility could be that in the moments before his death that Dooku finally understood what he had done and released himself into the Force, maybe enough to keep him in a form of Limbo along with others like him that realised too late what happened. Anakin is also destined to be stuck there until he is forgiven by the those who came before him, maybe Dooku also needs that but he can't forgive himself or allow others to until Anakin comes through?

I think that actually fits with how Dooku has been presented. He faced his death with dignity and accepted it, no begging or bargaining or attempts at trickery. No final and futile attempts to warn the Jedi, no he calmly accepts his end. He knew he had been fooled, replaced and that all curtains for him and he just peacefully accepts. Pretty unsithlike if you ask me. How many Sith actually accepted death peacefully? I am pretty sure I can count on my hands how many actually did so. Malak did, I think Revan, that one "Sith" that died surrounded by his friends and loved ones, Marka Ragnos died of old age (not really sure this counts, though), Vader accepted his Death too... So yeah, I'd say unsithlike, or atypical for a Sith and more typical for the Sith who weren't really Sith and ones that redeemed themselves in one way or another.
 

Lord Sovereign

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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 Wars, and have no desire to rejoin it after the Empire is overthrown.

Cue a Galactic Cold War.

They’d be totalitarian bastards, but simply not the monster that was Palpatine’s Galactic Empire. For example, slavers get put against the wall, not endorsed. And they suffered terribly at the hands of the Clones and their Imperial successors, giving them rather good reason to be profoundly pissed off with basically everyone.

Currently just brainstorming them at the moment, so this is all I’ve got.
 

Blasterbot

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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 Wars, and have no desire to rejoin it after the Empire is overthrown.

Cue a Galactic Cold War.

They’d be totalitarian bastards, but simply not the monster that was Palpatine’s Galactic Empire. For example, slavers get put against the wall, not endorsed. And they suffered terribly at the hands of the Clones and their Imperial successors, giving them rather good reason to be profoundly pissed off with basically everyone.

Currently just brainstorming them at the moment, so this is all I’ve got.
would be neat to see. you have the new republic, some splintered imperial remnants, and the C.U.S. (name may need workshopping). have the series be about building a functional government and jedi order. they get forced to ask tough questions about when it is acceptable for them to go to war with their neighbors that they are nominally at peace with.

You get to showcase how the warlords are different from the republic are different than this new authoritarian government. showing off the weaknesses and strengths of each ideally. I would like it a lot. especially if you can make some variation in how the imp remnants operate and make some factions if not nice tolerable neighbors.

you would probably want to sit down with a galactic map and look at where the big Imp fleet task forces were after endor. Carve out a portion of the Outer Rim and have the new faction claim it. look at what the new republic manages to hold. figure out how many warlords you want to fill out your balkanized SW AU.

Maybe have the warlord in charge of the CUS's area be a sympathizer and just flip for their ideology. or a few well placed high level guys flip on the aspiring warlord. gives them a solid starting fleet to work with. figure out what sort of local ship production they can set up and they would fill out their fleet with those. heck have them borrow some old CIS designs and slightly modernize them.

It would also be important to nail down what they do with force users. if they don't want them to go to the new jedi order what are they gonna do with them? ignore them? send them to camps? kill them off? kick them and their families out? set up their own order "loyal" to the state borrowing a bit from the KGB and inquisition?
 

Lord Sovereign

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you would probably want to sit down with a galactic map and look at where the big Imp fleet task forces were after endor. Carve out a portion of the Outer Rim and have the new faction claim it. look at what the new republic manages to hold. figure out how many warlords you want to fill out your balkanized SW AU.

Maybe have the warlord in charge of the CUS's area be a sympathizer and just flip for their ideology. or a few well placed high level guys flip on the aspiring warlord. gives them a solid starting fleet to work with. figure out what sort of local ship production they can set up and they would fill out their fleet with those. heck have them borrow some old CIS designs and slightly modernize them.
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 capabilities. The war was enough of a problem to draw off elements of the Imperial Navy, but the vast majority of it was tied up in policing the galaxy and fighting the Rebel Alliance. Hence how a grinding attrition was able to go on for so long…until Palpatine blows up with his Death Star.

By the time of Endor, the Union Navy had a few hundred warships of its own (nowhere near the size of the Rebel fleet), more than a few of them being defecting Imperial vessels as the cry of “Arise workers of the universe” is an attractive proposition under Palpatine’s rule. There’s also CIS vessels, but most of the Union Navy are essentially the beautiful love children of bricks and Cold War soviet warships.

It would also be important to nail down what they do with force users. if they don't want them to go to the new jedi order what are they gonna do with them? ignore them? send them to camps? kill them off? kick them and their families out? set up their own order "loyal" to the state borrowing a bit from the KGB and inquisition?
The Union has abolished any order of force users. They are deemed as dangerous and “oppressive” to the working men of the galaxy, thus upon detection are immediately but in “reeducation camps”, whereafter they are absorbed into the state security apparatus. It is a place where they can be put to use, whilst the state can keep an eye on them.
 

Bassoe

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The Union has abolished any order of force users. They are deemed as dangerous and “oppressive” to the working men of the galaxy, thus upon detection are immediately but in “reeducation camps”, whereafter they are absorbed into the state security apparatus. It is a place where they can be put to use, whilst the state can keep an eye on them.
To what degree have they been regulatory captured by their own force-sensitive glowies then?
 

Agent23

Ни шагу назад!
Here is an idea for you OT/OEU Thrawn, Luke and company get ISOTed to the DysneyWars universe along with Whankatine's huge ass Deep Core secret fleet and the World Devastators.

Noice stompfic!
 

Bear Ribs

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Here is an idea for you OT/OEU Thrawn, Luke and company get ISOTed to the DysneyWars universe along with Whankatine's huge ass Deep Core secret fleet and the World Devastators.

Noice stompfic!
D!Leia: "We were able to get the Death Star plans at the cost of Admiral Raddus, most of our fleet, thousands of rebels, and all but about twenty of our fighters."
L!Leia: "Huh, Kyle Katarn handled it for us by himself with no losses."
 

Agent23

Ни шагу назад!
D!Leia: "We were able to get the Death Star plans at the cost of Admiral Raddus, most of our fleet, thousands of rebels, and all but about twenty of our fighters."
L!Leia: "Huh, Kyle Katarn handled it for us by himself with no losses."
D!Luke I am a hobo hermit that dumped my duties because my emo phase hit me late.I am also into bestiality and drinking unpasturized alien milk.
L!Luke kan haz multiple hot Jedi waifus going after him, and at least 1 kid with a hot redhead.(NJO still sucked balls.)
 

Ash's Boomstick

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Nothing Disney can do against that group, even that 'fleet' that Palpy was making (I haven't seen TROS and don't plan to) before its blown from the stars by the true Imperials. They then can take over the galaxy as they wish due to the total lack of anyone to stop them (more stupidity from the people that made this new canon).
 

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