- Location
- Op een dag, Nederland.
- Pronouns
- she/her & ne/nem
Stellar Wars was an British epic sumodelw set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, produced between 1999 and 2011. It can be divided in three major stories, the one of Anakin, the one of Luc and Lia, and the one of Rei. Those stories are set in three “seasons”, one for each story.
Season One (“Under the Windings of the Stars”), which ran on for forty episodes in 1999 and 2000, was primarily all about Luc and Lia, about the swirling oppression that was the Galactic Republic under the mysterious and shadowy President Palpatine. Luc was presented as this simple farm-boy that stumbled into adventure after his uncle and aunt were massacred by a republican stormtrooper force seeking him. Fleeing into the harsh desert, he met the mysterious sage Yoda in a cave. Yoda would turn out to be a major character in Stellar Wars, especially in Season Two. Yoda would prove a key counsel to Luc, even if a frustratingly opaque one. His sage advice would lead Luc to discover his innate magical ability, which in this world is called “The Force”.
Luc would, thanks to Yoda’s advice and mentoring, manage to escape the planet and get in with the Stellar Resistance. He would learn of the myth of “The Moon Prince”, the dashing hero that fought against the collapse of the Galactic Empire and the corruption of the evil vizier Palpatine who would seize absolute power as the first President of the Galactic Republic, ordering the Moon Prince and his family massacred. The Moon Prince, whose knowledge of the Force was absolute, would sacrifice himself to save his young family. Even though he was dead, it was widely believed that he would be reborn and his return would lead to the Republic collapsing and the people liberated. Luc would find this a very unlikely tale, but would grow to believe it.
However, Luc would have a weakness, his utter hunger for fame and recognition. He was a mere farm-boy, and was widely dismissed as one by the Resistance, often charged with grunt work while others got more important responsibilities. One day, he was contacted by a mysterious woman by the name of Lia who would persuade him that it wasn’t all so simple, that Palpatine actually wasn’t entirely evil and that the Resistance would lead to more ruin if they won. Lia identified and fed Luc’s deep yearning to be seen as a hero, a great person, and corrupted him one by one. This would take several episodes, but by the time the Resistance decided to deal with the “Death Ring”, they would charge Luc finally with a key task. By this point, his mind was deeply corrupted and he would betray the Resistance, crippling them in the process and publicly defecting to Palpatine’s Republic.
But while he slept, Yoda would speak to him in a “Force dream”, imploring him to think more, and while Luc angrily rejected Yoda’s implorings, Yoda’s final statement, that of ‘there are more to your family than you even realise’ would sit uneasily with him. Growing close to Lia, they would arrive to Palpatine’s Court, full of his yes-men (“Sith”) and him sitting at his extravagant desk. The finely-dressed Palpatine would choose to take Luc as his apprentice and “vice-president”, teaching him of the dark side of the Force. It is at this time that we shift to Lia as a focal point.
One flashback episode shows us Lia’s background. She never knew anything but the harsh upbringing of Palpatine, and while she resented him for his cruel treatment of her, she grew to believe sincerely in his teachings of ‘the Supreme Being’, of the weakness of the masses and how might makes right. She would end up being his apprentice, only to be tasked with charming away a boy named Luc from the Resistance. Lia would resent that Palpatine abandoned her in favour of Luc, and sought to show that she was the superior choice to that jumped-up farmboy.
She knew of ‘the Master Key’, the ultimate weapon crafted by an ancient species from even beyond the galaxy itself, and sought to seize it and hand it over to Palpatine so that she would be recognised as the superior apprentice. It was here that she stumbled upon Hans, a mercenary for hire with zero morals. She would hire Hans to take her to the abandoned planet of Korus, the once glittering capital of the Empire and now a planet full of slums and crime. She knew the ‘Master Key’ was there somewhere, and with Hans and his sentient cat friend Beca she would find it. She ultimately failed, but she discovered records in a ruined apartment of a man who lived in the final, dying days of the Empire.
While she never found out his name, she would find out that he was a prominent critic of Palpatine and was from a deeply noble family, even considered a ‘prince’ of his society. Believing that in all this would be the secret of the ‘Master Key’, she rummaged deeper, until she discovered something. The man had two young children, and Palpatine threatened to ‘take the girl, turn her into my weapon, and make the boy into some drooling yokel’ if the man did not surrender. The man wrote in his final entry - ‘If you are reading this by any chance, my sweet children, remember me as a man who stood for what I believed was right. Please do so, my dear Luc and Lia.’
This shattered Lia’s world. Palpatine always told her she was some war orphan that he rescued from a torn planet, and that she should be grateful. Luc was… her brother? And their father was someone who fought Palpatine? None of it made sense! Hans would provide much unwelcome snarky comments and Beca, well, Beca just meowed in her weird way that had a hint of sympathy. After a while on Hans’ Millennium Eagle, Lia decided that Palpatine’s web of lies had to end.
The focus moves back to Luc. By this point, Luc believed deeply in his own superiority and that he was a ‘Supreme Being’ like Palpatine, who would become more and more his mentor and guiding light. As a final test of his loyalty, he was ordered to kill his chained childhood friends. There were flashbacks of them playing together, laughing together and it would end abruptly as we are presented with a gristly scene of them in pieces and a dark, smiling Luc in his new golden robe.
We are up to Episode Thirty. Lia contacts the Resistance, but they reject her offer of help nor her advice, seeing her as the ‘Dark Lady’, Palpatine’s chief advisor. The moment she flies away, Luc flies in and slaughters them all, destroying the opposition to Palpatine for decades, and dooming Lia’s efforts. Despite her despairing upon hearing the news, she would forge on.
Building a hub of rag-tag allies, she would finally fight Luc on the Death Ring, trying to implore him by saying “Luc, Luc, I am your sister”. This would be rejected by Luc as merely Lia’s corrupt tricks again. In desperation, Lia tackles Luc and they both fall off the bridge, plummeting to their deaths. The season ends with the following voiceover as the scene fades to black.
“Father, I plead for forgiveness for all Luc and I have done. But we do not deserve it.”
Luc would, thanks to Yoda’s advice and mentoring, manage to escape the planet and get in with the Stellar Resistance. He would learn of the myth of “The Moon Prince”, the dashing hero that fought against the collapse of the Galactic Empire and the corruption of the evil vizier Palpatine who would seize absolute power as the first President of the Galactic Republic, ordering the Moon Prince and his family massacred. The Moon Prince, whose knowledge of the Force was absolute, would sacrifice himself to save his young family. Even though he was dead, it was widely believed that he would be reborn and his return would lead to the Republic collapsing and the people liberated. Luc would find this a very unlikely tale, but would grow to believe it.
However, Luc would have a weakness, his utter hunger for fame and recognition. He was a mere farm-boy, and was widely dismissed as one by the Resistance, often charged with grunt work while others got more important responsibilities. One day, he was contacted by a mysterious woman by the name of Lia who would persuade him that it wasn’t all so simple, that Palpatine actually wasn’t entirely evil and that the Resistance would lead to more ruin if they won. Lia identified and fed Luc’s deep yearning to be seen as a hero, a great person, and corrupted him one by one. This would take several episodes, but by the time the Resistance decided to deal with the “Death Ring”, they would charge Luc finally with a key task. By this point, his mind was deeply corrupted and he would betray the Resistance, crippling them in the process and publicly defecting to Palpatine’s Republic.
But while he slept, Yoda would speak to him in a “Force dream”, imploring him to think more, and while Luc angrily rejected Yoda’s implorings, Yoda’s final statement, that of ‘there are more to your family than you even realise’ would sit uneasily with him. Growing close to Lia, they would arrive to Palpatine’s Court, full of his yes-men (“Sith”) and him sitting at his extravagant desk. The finely-dressed Palpatine would choose to take Luc as his apprentice and “vice-president”, teaching him of the dark side of the Force. It is at this time that we shift to Lia as a focal point.
One flashback episode shows us Lia’s background. She never knew anything but the harsh upbringing of Palpatine, and while she resented him for his cruel treatment of her, she grew to believe sincerely in his teachings of ‘the Supreme Being’, of the weakness of the masses and how might makes right. She would end up being his apprentice, only to be tasked with charming away a boy named Luc from the Resistance. Lia would resent that Palpatine abandoned her in favour of Luc, and sought to show that she was the superior choice to that jumped-up farmboy.
She knew of ‘the Master Key’, the ultimate weapon crafted by an ancient species from even beyond the galaxy itself, and sought to seize it and hand it over to Palpatine so that she would be recognised as the superior apprentice. It was here that she stumbled upon Hans, a mercenary for hire with zero morals. She would hire Hans to take her to the abandoned planet of Korus, the once glittering capital of the Empire and now a planet full of slums and crime. She knew the ‘Master Key’ was there somewhere, and with Hans and his sentient cat friend Beca she would find it. She ultimately failed, but she discovered records in a ruined apartment of a man who lived in the final, dying days of the Empire.
While she never found out his name, she would find out that he was a prominent critic of Palpatine and was from a deeply noble family, even considered a ‘prince’ of his society. Believing that in all this would be the secret of the ‘Master Key’, she rummaged deeper, until she discovered something. The man had two young children, and Palpatine threatened to ‘take the girl, turn her into my weapon, and make the boy into some drooling yokel’ if the man did not surrender. The man wrote in his final entry - ‘If you are reading this by any chance, my sweet children, remember me as a man who stood for what I believed was right. Please do so, my dear Luc and Lia.’
This shattered Lia’s world. Palpatine always told her she was some war orphan that he rescued from a torn planet, and that she should be grateful. Luc was… her brother? And their father was someone who fought Palpatine? None of it made sense! Hans would provide much unwelcome snarky comments and Beca, well, Beca just meowed in her weird way that had a hint of sympathy. After a while on Hans’ Millennium Eagle, Lia decided that Palpatine’s web of lies had to end.
The focus moves back to Luc. By this point, Luc believed deeply in his own superiority and that he was a ‘Supreme Being’ like Palpatine, who would become more and more his mentor and guiding light. As a final test of his loyalty, he was ordered to kill his chained childhood friends. There were flashbacks of them playing together, laughing together and it would end abruptly as we are presented with a gristly scene of them in pieces and a dark, smiling Luc in his new golden robe.
We are up to Episode Thirty. Lia contacts the Resistance, but they reject her offer of help nor her advice, seeing her as the ‘Dark Lady’, Palpatine’s chief advisor. The moment she flies away, Luc flies in and slaughters them all, destroying the opposition to Palpatine for decades, and dooming Lia’s efforts. Despite her despairing upon hearing the news, she would forge on.
Building a hub of rag-tag allies, she would finally fight Luc on the Death Ring, trying to implore him by saying “Luc, Luc, I am your sister”. This would be rejected by Luc as merely Lia’s corrupt tricks again. In desperation, Lia tackles Luc and they both fall off the bridge, plummeting to their deaths. The season ends with the following voiceover as the scene fades to black.
“Father, I plead for forgiveness for all Luc and I have done. But we do not deserve it.”
Season Two (“The Sun Breaks Down”), lasting forty-two episodes in 2006 and 2007, would take place decades earlier, in the fading years of the Galactic Empire. Korus is a thriving city-planet and the capital of the Galactic Empire, but one with great tensions. The Senate is led by charismatic Vizier Sheev Palpatine, who presents himself as every-bit the loyal servant of Her Imperial Majesty, Padmi Amidala. Padmi is a newly-elected Empress and uneasy in her new role, easily led by Palpatine. Meanwhile, Anakin Moonstrider, a young teenager from some desert planet arrives in Korus, eager to make a name for himself.
Anakin is talented at the gift of persuasion, and manages to pass himself off as a noble scion. Ben Kenobé, an elder noble and a member of the secretive Jedi Order, identifies this as a falsehood, and comprehensively destroys all of Anakin’s pretences in their first meeting. It is the first time we learn that Anakin Moonstrider is actually not a noble. But he reaches out his hand in the offer of an alliance, as long as Anakin works with him in his Order’s aims. Anakin is sceptical at first, but agrees. This is the first time we see the Jedi Order being introduced beyond Yoda’s mentions of it being an “order dedicated to fighting for good and for the Light”.
We are then introduced to Yoda, who is the Speaker of the Senate and the secret ‘Chief of the Jedi Order’. Yoda muses over Anakin’s deception, and ponders if such a teenager with that talent can truly be light enough to serve the Jedi Order well. Anakin is affronted by this statement, and pledges to devote himself to the light side, even if only to spite the doubting Yoda. Kenobé would take Anakin on as an apprentice, teaching him all the ways of the Light, and also pointing out many of the darkness spreading in the Senate and how Palpatine (by now identified explicitly as the Order’s enemy) was undermining the Empire in favour of his dark and twisted ‘Supreme Being’ beliefs.
Kenobé would be targeted by a fellow Jedi in the belief that his taking the ‘Great Deceiver’ on as an apprentice would lead to the Order’s ruin. He would die defiant, even as the laser-sword went through his chest. Yoda would retreat into his private world at hearing this news, while Anakin would be engulfed by his rage and systematically murder the fellow Jedi and anyone he believed was connected. This would lead the Order to believe that Anakin has turned evil, and back up the belief that the ‘Great Deceiver’ was genuinely deceiving them.
Anakin, upon shaking himself out of his engulfing dark rage, would be overwhelmed by regret. He would find relief in meeting a lonely Empress in a night-time garden below the twin moons of Korus. Anakin and Padmi would connect through their deep loneliness and isolation. But it was via Padmi that Anakin’s greatest weakness would be found. It was illegal to sleep with the Empress unless you were married to her, so their secretive love was one that was a death sentence for him.
Palpatine would, upon learning of this, blackmail Anakin into doing his bidding via his apprentice Jarja Benk who was a sadistic manipulator that showed glee in every misery Anakin went through. The Jedi Order believed by then that Anakin was always working on Palpatine’s orders despite Yoda’s deep misgivings about the whole affair, and saw his closeness with Padmi as a threat to the Galactic Empire. When Padmi fell pregnant, Palpatine pressed ahead with his plan. Anakin would submit the plan to declare martial law and vocally back it.
While all this was going on, there was a civil war between the Empire and some vaguely-collectivist enemies that deemed themselves the ‘Confederation of Industrial Systems’. This was not touched on before Episode Twenty, but would ramp up as a major plot. The civil war would intensify and reports of battle defeats after battle defeats would lead to murmurs of disaster. The Jedi Order (later correctly) believed that Palpatine was orchestrating it all to centralise power into himself, and moved to assassinate him, believing that his death was necessary to save the Empire.
Their plot was foiled by Anakin, who defended Palpatine that day, and grew to doubt the Jedi narrative. The Jedi fell apart as Yoda vanished and their headquarters were ransacked. Palpatine now had no opposition, and as the time approached for the birth of the children, Anakin was forced to submit the martial law bill and oversee it passing. After it did, Palpatine would then announce that “our glorious Empress has given birth to two beautiful children”, which would be named Luc and Lia. Anakin would wonder if it was all worth it to sacrifice his principles.
In the middle of the night, Yoda would enter Anakin’s room and privately confess that he was wrong to doubt Anakin, having seen the full story via a Force vision, and regret how his Jedi Order was “prone to conclusions rash”. But hope was still alive, as long as Anakin rallied people against Palpatine. Yoda would then be a consistent character in the last ten episodes, which would be about the doomed resistance.
The last episode, “The Darkest Day”, would see Padmi assassinated by a ‘Jedi’, leading Anakin to in his grief attack Palpatine even more. There would be a laser-sword duel, but Anakin would retreat to protect his infant children. The last few scenes are told in the same characteristically ‘flashback’ aesthetic and is what Lia would find out.
Anakin would finally leave his blockaded room, to his certain death. But just as the scene finishes fading to black with a clear “glurgh” sound, representing his death, it suddenly finishes with an abrupt move to the scene of a close-up of a baby’s eyes opening and the voiceover below.
“What a beautiful baby girl. I think your name will be… Rei. Yes, that’s a fine name for you...”
Anakin is talented at the gift of persuasion, and manages to pass himself off as a noble scion. Ben Kenobé, an elder noble and a member of the secretive Jedi Order, identifies this as a falsehood, and comprehensively destroys all of Anakin’s pretences in their first meeting. It is the first time we learn that Anakin Moonstrider is actually not a noble. But he reaches out his hand in the offer of an alliance, as long as Anakin works with him in his Order’s aims. Anakin is sceptical at first, but agrees. This is the first time we see the Jedi Order being introduced beyond Yoda’s mentions of it being an “order dedicated to fighting for good and for the Light”.
We are then introduced to Yoda, who is the Speaker of the Senate and the secret ‘Chief of the Jedi Order’. Yoda muses over Anakin’s deception, and ponders if such a teenager with that talent can truly be light enough to serve the Jedi Order well. Anakin is affronted by this statement, and pledges to devote himself to the light side, even if only to spite the doubting Yoda. Kenobé would take Anakin on as an apprentice, teaching him all the ways of the Light, and also pointing out many of the darkness spreading in the Senate and how Palpatine (by now identified explicitly as the Order’s enemy) was undermining the Empire in favour of his dark and twisted ‘Supreme Being’ beliefs.
Kenobé would be targeted by a fellow Jedi in the belief that his taking the ‘Great Deceiver’ on as an apprentice would lead to the Order’s ruin. He would die defiant, even as the laser-sword went through his chest. Yoda would retreat into his private world at hearing this news, while Anakin would be engulfed by his rage and systematically murder the fellow Jedi and anyone he believed was connected. This would lead the Order to believe that Anakin has turned evil, and back up the belief that the ‘Great Deceiver’ was genuinely deceiving them.
Anakin, upon shaking himself out of his engulfing dark rage, would be overwhelmed by regret. He would find relief in meeting a lonely Empress in a night-time garden below the twin moons of Korus. Anakin and Padmi would connect through their deep loneliness and isolation. But it was via Padmi that Anakin’s greatest weakness would be found. It was illegal to sleep with the Empress unless you were married to her, so their secretive love was one that was a death sentence for him.
Palpatine would, upon learning of this, blackmail Anakin into doing his bidding via his apprentice Jarja Benk who was a sadistic manipulator that showed glee in every misery Anakin went through. The Jedi Order believed by then that Anakin was always working on Palpatine’s orders despite Yoda’s deep misgivings about the whole affair, and saw his closeness with Padmi as a threat to the Galactic Empire. When Padmi fell pregnant, Palpatine pressed ahead with his plan. Anakin would submit the plan to declare martial law and vocally back it.
While all this was going on, there was a civil war between the Empire and some vaguely-collectivist enemies that deemed themselves the ‘Confederation of Industrial Systems’. This was not touched on before Episode Twenty, but would ramp up as a major plot. The civil war would intensify and reports of battle defeats after battle defeats would lead to murmurs of disaster. The Jedi Order (later correctly) believed that Palpatine was orchestrating it all to centralise power into himself, and moved to assassinate him, believing that his death was necessary to save the Empire.
Their plot was foiled by Anakin, who defended Palpatine that day, and grew to doubt the Jedi narrative. The Jedi fell apart as Yoda vanished and their headquarters were ransacked. Palpatine now had no opposition, and as the time approached for the birth of the children, Anakin was forced to submit the martial law bill and oversee it passing. After it did, Palpatine would then announce that “our glorious Empress has given birth to two beautiful children”, which would be named Luc and Lia. Anakin would wonder if it was all worth it to sacrifice his principles.
In the middle of the night, Yoda would enter Anakin’s room and privately confess that he was wrong to doubt Anakin, having seen the full story via a Force vision, and regret how his Jedi Order was “prone to conclusions rash”. But hope was still alive, as long as Anakin rallied people against Palpatine. Yoda would then be a consistent character in the last ten episodes, which would be about the doomed resistance.
The last episode, “The Darkest Day”, would see Padmi assassinated by a ‘Jedi’, leading Anakin to in his grief attack Palpatine even more. There would be a laser-sword duel, but Anakin would retreat to protect his infant children. The last few scenes are told in the same characteristically ‘flashback’ aesthetic and is what Lia would find out.
Anakin would finally leave his blockaded room, to his certain death. But just as the scene finishes fading to black with a clear “glurgh” sound, representing his death, it suddenly finishes with an abrupt move to the scene of a close-up of a baby’s eyes opening and the voiceover below.
“What a beautiful baby girl. I think your name will be… Rei. Yes, that’s a fine name for you...”
Season Three (“And Death Shall Have No Dominion”) was the last one, and it was an epic sixty episodes between 2009 and 2011. Focusing on the story of Rei, a deeply snarky yet lonely girl with unique Force talents. She has been on the run all her life, from President Palpatine who seems uniquely determined to find and kill her. Working as a ‘dogsbody’ on the illegal trading circuit, she spends most of her life in space-ships. She has no idea why Palpatine is so determined to find her and has placed a bounty on her head. Her main rivals are the father and son bounty hunter team Jago and Boba Fett, who have been pursuing her to claim the bounty. All Rei knows is that she always has weird dreams that make no sense.
When her hijacked ship crashes into a jungle planet, she stumbles on the dying Yoda, who mysteriously tells her ‘You and yours, for all I have done forgive me...’ before closing his aged eyes for the last time. A confused Rei is left with nothing to pick up on apart from Yoda’s weird laser-sword thing. Picking it up, the laser-sword automatically buzzes as in recognition of her touch. A voice in her head says ‘An elegant weapon for a more civilised age...’ which gets her to shake her head to dispel that voice. Putting the laser-sword away, she hears a knock on the door. A firm storm-trooper knock that she would recognise anywhere. Leaping under the bed, she would see the door be blasted in and a stormtrooper enters the room. Eventually they leave the room and Rei would quietly escape via the window. The Republic was here. She was not safe.
Eventually she managed to stumble on another hut, this time holding a bearded mercenary who introduces himself as Hans. Hans is a man with many regrets in his life, and would like to redeem himself after fleeing the Death Ring ‘abandoning my friend to her fate’. At the time, he insists, he saw himself as a merc with few morals, but time leads to more and more regrets. He offers his one-time teleportation device for Rei to use, which she does, teleporting away as the stormtroopers enter the room and blast Hans dead.
Teleporting to ‘New Korus’, the planned future capital of the Republic, was not good news. As she hid in a little alley-house, successfully persuading the owner that she had already paid for accommodation, she had a vivid Force vision, one where she was… someone else. She stood in the Senate, speaking out against Palpatine’s many crimes, only to be responded with a ‘So you say, Senator. But we all know you’re unduly biased against me’, which got a cheer from his loyalists. The very next day she attempted to leave, but the owner of the alley-house notices the teleportation device and angrily asks her what happened to Hans.
For she was Beca and Hans promised her ten years ago to use the device once he finished his job on the jungle planet. Rei could only say that Hans chose to sacrifice himself for her to escape the stormtroopers. Beca was deeply broken by the news, but chose to take refuge in the belief that Hans would not do such if Rei was not extremely important to the future of the galaxy. After all, the only time he risked his life before that was not for money was for the ‘Dark Mistress’ and her quest for redemption. So Beca would be a firm ally to Rei, believing that Hans’ sacrifice must not be in mere vain.
That day, they would seek to find a path out of New Korus. An ex-stormtrooper (“deserted, retired, thought dead, it doesn’t matter”) would offer the use of his ship, the Millennium Eagle. Beca would twitch her eye at that, but the oblivious Rei would agree to that. The ex-stormtrooper introduced himself as Finn. Once Beca got on board the Eagle, she quickly commandeered it, much to Finn and Rei’s surprise. Finn’s robot side-kick T4-T4 would too be alarmed by this, but quickly rolled back into their resting position, deeming Beca to know what she was doing.
Beca was never a member of the first Resistance, but she always leaned into conversations about a possible new Resistance on the dry planet of Lalooine. If Rei was the key to a massive change in the fate of the galaxy, the lock would be on Lalooine. As they landed, Lalooine would prove eerily familiar to Rei, as if she was once here before, with even the eerie voice in her head murmuring ‘Home’ every now and then. Beca quietly dropped hints about ‘a green sabre’ that got them in touch with the ‘New Order’, a clandestine group of neo-Jedi that sought to restore the lost glory of the old Order. Upon noticing the laser-sword on Rei’s belt, the self-appointed Chief (Miles Renno) would get unduly excited and ask for a demonstration.
This Rei did, turning the laser-sword on as it glowed blue, and it got the New Order to declare her ‘the last true Jedi’. None of them could do anything like that. Miles Renno in particular was obsessed with the legacy of ‘the Moon Prince’, fancying himself to be in his footsteps. He would prove the last of the team of the episodes – Rei, Beca, Finn and Miles. The New Order was extremely disorganised, but it did know of murmurs of a possible organised Resistance in the faraway icy planet of Laal. This was something that would take them a while in the Millennium Eagle.
While in the Eagle, Rei had an awake Force dream of a young boy and girl hugging each other tightly and muttering at the same time ‘Please forgive us for what we have done...’. Upon asking them what they did, they merely said at the same time ‘The unforgivable. We are eternal stains on your honoured name’. Upon hesitantly saying that she forgave them anyway for whatever they did, they faded away, with slight smiles to their faces. She would later learn of their identities as Luc and Lia Moonstrider, but would still stand by her decision to forgive them.
Laal would prove to be indeed the hub of the new Resistance, and they welcomed the New Order’s help, as well as Beca (for her insider knowledge on many Republic upper-brass) and Finn (for delivering them the ship and knowing how stormtroopers work). Rei however, was dismissed as ‘some mech with an old laser-sword’. She would be insulted by this, but merely committed herself to proving them wrong. She would show them that she was useful. And damn the consequences.
She would prove somewhat of a reckless volunteer for the more daring attacks on the Republic’s defences, which proved to be consistently in the Resistance’s favour and even the chair of the Resistance Council recognised this and consistently pushed her forth, urging people to give her some respect for being one of the most successful agents. And this they did. The attack on the New Death Ring would however, lead to Rei’s ship being captured by Republic forces.
Chained and brought before Palpatine, she would receive a deep laugh. “How you have eluded me! I ordered your death all those decades ago, and this is how you defy me, by being born again? Pathetic. Stormtroopers, I tire of the presence of Anakin Moonstrider. Rid me of them.” But after Palpatine retired from the room, Rei managed to escape the storm-troopers somehow and commandeered a ship to escape to Laal. Reporting on her statements to the chair got the chair’s alarm, and an insistence to not tell this to anyone else, especially not their friends or the New Order.
While she was firming herself up to ignore those nonsense and continue her work against the Republic, Miles Renno was increasingly believing himself to be the new incarnation of the Moon Prince and was persuading more and more people of this. His decision to attack the New Death Ring would only lead to his death at the hands of an ambush and the Resistance increasingly despairing.
The Chair would sense an opportunity to destroy Palpatine once and for all when the New Death Ring (Palpatine’s eternal habit it seemed) was being fuelled. It was a once-in-ten-years event, and she selected Rei to lead it. Rei would accept it after a short time mourning the idiotic death of Miles Renno before agreeing with Beca that it was inevitable.
The attack on the New Death Ring was an epic scene that took up two episodes, but it would lead to Rei somehow getting into Palpatine’s room and leading to a hard light-sword duel that would lead to Palpatine finally being killed by the one whose lives he so much ruined. He remained triumphant to the end, deeming that the New Death Ring was rigged to explode at his death.
It did explode, and the scene faded to black as the traditional sombre ending music played…
Only to fade back into to a scene of a Millennium Eagle somehow flying out of the explosion safe and sound, with Beca flying Rei out to safety. The rest of the episode was about how the Republic fell apart with Palpatine’s death, how Rei declined the crown of the Empire and it was elected to the Chair instead, who ruled justly and wisely, with everyone living in peace and harmony and happily ever after. The end.
When her hijacked ship crashes into a jungle planet, she stumbles on the dying Yoda, who mysteriously tells her ‘You and yours, for all I have done forgive me...’ before closing his aged eyes for the last time. A confused Rei is left with nothing to pick up on apart from Yoda’s weird laser-sword thing. Picking it up, the laser-sword automatically buzzes as in recognition of her touch. A voice in her head says ‘An elegant weapon for a more civilised age...’ which gets her to shake her head to dispel that voice. Putting the laser-sword away, she hears a knock on the door. A firm storm-trooper knock that she would recognise anywhere. Leaping under the bed, she would see the door be blasted in and a stormtrooper enters the room. Eventually they leave the room and Rei would quietly escape via the window. The Republic was here. She was not safe.
Eventually she managed to stumble on another hut, this time holding a bearded mercenary who introduces himself as Hans. Hans is a man with many regrets in his life, and would like to redeem himself after fleeing the Death Ring ‘abandoning my friend to her fate’. At the time, he insists, he saw himself as a merc with few morals, but time leads to more and more regrets. He offers his one-time teleportation device for Rei to use, which she does, teleporting away as the stormtroopers enter the room and blast Hans dead.
Teleporting to ‘New Korus’, the planned future capital of the Republic, was not good news. As she hid in a little alley-house, successfully persuading the owner that she had already paid for accommodation, she had a vivid Force vision, one where she was… someone else. She stood in the Senate, speaking out against Palpatine’s many crimes, only to be responded with a ‘So you say, Senator. But we all know you’re unduly biased against me’, which got a cheer from his loyalists. The very next day she attempted to leave, but the owner of the alley-house notices the teleportation device and angrily asks her what happened to Hans.
For she was Beca and Hans promised her ten years ago to use the device once he finished his job on the jungle planet. Rei could only say that Hans chose to sacrifice himself for her to escape the stormtroopers. Beca was deeply broken by the news, but chose to take refuge in the belief that Hans would not do such if Rei was not extremely important to the future of the galaxy. After all, the only time he risked his life before that was not for money was for the ‘Dark Mistress’ and her quest for redemption. So Beca would be a firm ally to Rei, believing that Hans’ sacrifice must not be in mere vain.
That day, they would seek to find a path out of New Korus. An ex-stormtrooper (“deserted, retired, thought dead, it doesn’t matter”) would offer the use of his ship, the Millennium Eagle. Beca would twitch her eye at that, but the oblivious Rei would agree to that. The ex-stormtrooper introduced himself as Finn. Once Beca got on board the Eagle, she quickly commandeered it, much to Finn and Rei’s surprise. Finn’s robot side-kick T4-T4 would too be alarmed by this, but quickly rolled back into their resting position, deeming Beca to know what she was doing.
Beca was never a member of the first Resistance, but she always leaned into conversations about a possible new Resistance on the dry planet of Lalooine. If Rei was the key to a massive change in the fate of the galaxy, the lock would be on Lalooine. As they landed, Lalooine would prove eerily familiar to Rei, as if she was once here before, with even the eerie voice in her head murmuring ‘Home’ every now and then. Beca quietly dropped hints about ‘a green sabre’ that got them in touch with the ‘New Order’, a clandestine group of neo-Jedi that sought to restore the lost glory of the old Order. Upon noticing the laser-sword on Rei’s belt, the self-appointed Chief (Miles Renno) would get unduly excited and ask for a demonstration.
This Rei did, turning the laser-sword on as it glowed blue, and it got the New Order to declare her ‘the last true Jedi’. None of them could do anything like that. Miles Renno in particular was obsessed with the legacy of ‘the Moon Prince’, fancying himself to be in his footsteps. He would prove the last of the team of the episodes – Rei, Beca, Finn and Miles. The New Order was extremely disorganised, but it did know of murmurs of a possible organised Resistance in the faraway icy planet of Laal. This was something that would take them a while in the Millennium Eagle.
While in the Eagle, Rei had an awake Force dream of a young boy and girl hugging each other tightly and muttering at the same time ‘Please forgive us for what we have done...’. Upon asking them what they did, they merely said at the same time ‘The unforgivable. We are eternal stains on your honoured name’. Upon hesitantly saying that she forgave them anyway for whatever they did, they faded away, with slight smiles to their faces. She would later learn of their identities as Luc and Lia Moonstrider, but would still stand by her decision to forgive them.
Laal would prove to be indeed the hub of the new Resistance, and they welcomed the New Order’s help, as well as Beca (for her insider knowledge on many Republic upper-brass) and Finn (for delivering them the ship and knowing how stormtroopers work). Rei however, was dismissed as ‘some mech with an old laser-sword’. She would be insulted by this, but merely committed herself to proving them wrong. She would show them that she was useful. And damn the consequences.
She would prove somewhat of a reckless volunteer for the more daring attacks on the Republic’s defences, which proved to be consistently in the Resistance’s favour and even the chair of the Resistance Council recognised this and consistently pushed her forth, urging people to give her some respect for being one of the most successful agents. And this they did. The attack on the New Death Ring would however, lead to Rei’s ship being captured by Republic forces.
Chained and brought before Palpatine, she would receive a deep laugh. “How you have eluded me! I ordered your death all those decades ago, and this is how you defy me, by being born again? Pathetic. Stormtroopers, I tire of the presence of Anakin Moonstrider. Rid me of them.” But after Palpatine retired from the room, Rei managed to escape the storm-troopers somehow and commandeered a ship to escape to Laal. Reporting on her statements to the chair got the chair’s alarm, and an insistence to not tell this to anyone else, especially not their friends or the New Order.
While she was firming herself up to ignore those nonsense and continue her work against the Republic, Miles Renno was increasingly believing himself to be the new incarnation of the Moon Prince and was persuading more and more people of this. His decision to attack the New Death Ring would only lead to his death at the hands of an ambush and the Resistance increasingly despairing.
The Chair would sense an opportunity to destroy Palpatine once and for all when the New Death Ring (Palpatine’s eternal habit it seemed) was being fuelled. It was a once-in-ten-years event, and she selected Rei to lead it. Rei would accept it after a short time mourning the idiotic death of Miles Renno before agreeing with Beca that it was inevitable.
The attack on the New Death Ring was an epic scene that took up two episodes, but it would lead to Rei somehow getting into Palpatine’s room and leading to a hard light-sword duel that would lead to Palpatine finally being killed by the one whose lives he so much ruined. He remained triumphant to the end, deeming that the New Death Ring was rigged to explode at his death.
It did explode, and the scene faded to black as the traditional sombre ending music played…
Only to fade back into to a scene of a Millennium Eagle somehow flying out of the explosion safe and sound, with Beca flying Rei out to safety. The rest of the episode was about how the Republic fell apart with Palpatine’s death, how Rei declined the crown of the Empire and it was elected to the Chair instead, who ruled justly and wisely, with everyone living in peace and harmony and happily ever after. The end.
[Honestly, I just wanted to go mad with an alternate Star Wars story]
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