Star Wars Fanfic Ideas, Recommendations, and Discussions Thread

[Deleted member 88]

There’s two epic duels, and at least one battle.

Some shocking deaths and the like.

It’s very character driven, and it forces the reader to ask who is really the hero and who is the villain.

 

[Zachowon]

Eh, often for me I enjoy larger less character focus when it comes to certain things.
other times I don't.

I am a very vanilla guy, even though I love to over analyse, but only when it comes to war, not someones dynamic, or the dynamics of a story.

 

[Deleted member 88]

For me, it’s the preferred ending of SW itself honestly.

 

[Deleted member 88]

So I had an idea back on SB.

Basically a triple SI.

Of the solo kids.

I was Jacen, someone else was Jaina and someone else was Anakin.

Collaborative project.

If I ever get around to it, I’d invite a few people to join for the same project here.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

That could be a bit difficult to work through tho. Worst case, all three writers seek to derail the plot in incompatible ways.
Best case... well, look at "That Bites" from SB (even if it's not related to Star Wars). It's a fairly engaging read.

 

[Deleted member 88]

Well the idea was it would be set in the same time. (25 ABY-on the eve of the vong invasion).

For it to work, it would need everyone to be on the same page and have a unified idea as to where the story would go.

They’d all be aware of the stories of the solo kids and would aim to change the outcomes.

 

[Aaron Fox]

Well, I've got three additional ideas that I've been playing with currently, one is a CnC Tiberium (personal remake) fic similar to a currently dead CnC/Star Wars fic called A Sure Thing... where GDI being part of the setting causes ripple effects in events.

The second? Something based upon the old videogame Imperium Galactica where Earth-Humanity is united by the Imperium Galactica and causes hiccups in the Star Wars setting...

The third one is having my setting A New World: A World of Conflict and Sorrow show up before the Stark Hyperspace War/prelude to the Naboo Crisis... leading our Sith duo raising their eyebrows and reworking their plans for this new, almost alien, threat.

 

[Aaron Fox]

Another thing that I've noticed is that the Star Wars: The Clone Wars CGI cartoon redeemed Anakin as a character. He looked like he was a hop and a skip away from the dark side in the movies alone, but with the cartoon, you see how Anakin became such a tragic figure... and The Fall of the Sith makes this even more apparent while introducing us to a pseudo-body-hopping Palpy in the process.

 

[Deleted member 88]

He wasn’t a hop and skip away? Like he made really bad decisions(the Tuskens) and confided about this deep secret crime in the devil himself.

 

[Aaron Fox]

He wasn’t a hop and skip away? Like he made really bad decisions(the Tuskens) and confided about this deep secret crime in the devil himself.

It gave the perception that he was a hop and a skip away... which is all that matters.

 

[DarthOne]

It gave the perception that he was a hop and a skip away... which is all that matters.

I'd say that the Multimedia project did a fairly good job with that. The problem I have with the Clone Wars CGI series is that they didn't redeem Anakin's character, they pretty much erased it. He doesn't go from being the brash Padawan in Attack of the Clones to a more stable person, he just changes his character off screen. At least for the most part.

 

[Bear Ribs]

I feel like Clone Wars did a lot to redeem Anakin as a character. His whining about what an insult it is that the council won't give him a vote is pretty pathetic-seeming in the movies. You don't get to be a Master unless you've trained up a Padawan successfully, and he hadn't.

Add in Clone Wars where he actually turned out one of the best Padawans in the order and then she left because the council hosed her, and suddenly Anakin's not a whiny complainer who wants things handed to him for free. He actually did the work and the council who pissed it away are also withholding the influence he should have had for that work.

The movies have Anakin basically suddenly turn from Jedi to "Let's murder some younglings" in the space of a couple minutes. Clone Wars shows him being casually brutal repeatedly and having his moral compass eroded by being in constant warfare and seeing his friends die and repeated betrayals.

 

[Deleted member 88]

He complained he wasn’t on the council due to his massive ego and sense of deserving.

Like the whole point of that scene is to show no, Anakin is not disciplined or in anyway mature enough to be a master. Despite the fact that at 22/23 he’s on the council.

Anakin slaughters the sand people because they tortured his mother to death. One rather extraordinary situation.

 

[DarthOne]

I feel like Clone Wars did a lot to redeem Anakin as a character. His whining about what an insult it is that the council won't give him a vote is pretty pathetic-seeming in the movies. You don't get to be a Master unless you've trained up a Padawan successfully, and he hadn't.

Add in Clone Wars where he actually turned out one of the best Padawans in the order and then she left because the council hosed her, and suddenly Anakin's not a whiny complainer who wants things handed to him for free. He actually did the work and the council who pissed it away are also withholding the influence he should have had for that work.

The movies have Anakin basically suddenly turn from Jedi to "Let's murder some younglings" in the space of a couple minutes. Clone Wars shows him being casually brutal repeatedly and having his moral compass eroded by being in constant warfare and seeing his friends die and repeated betrayals.

And again, the multimedia project covered this and generally did a better job at it first.

 

[Bear Ribs]

What are you calling the multimedia project? Is this a specific project or are you just generally referring to all the books, comics, games, and materials hovering around the Clone Wars era?

 

[DarthOne]

What are you calling the multimedia project? Is this a specific project or are you just generally referring to all the books, comics, games, and materials hovering around the Clone Wars era?

Clone Wars multimedia project

The Clone Wars multimedia project was a three-year project created by Lucasfilm Ltd., in conjunction with Del Rey, Dark Horse Comics, Cartoon Network and LucasArts. Set largely between the films Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith (in terms of both in-universe and real-life chronology)...

starwars.fandom.com

Does this answer your question?

 

[Bear Ribs]

Clone Wars multimedia project

The Clone Wars multimedia project was a three-year project created by Lucasfilm Ltd., in conjunction with Del Rey, Dark Horse Comics, Cartoon Network and LucasArts. Set largely between the films Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith (in terms of both in-universe and real-life chronology)...

starwars.fandom.com

Does this answer your question?

Yes, thank you. I would think it would go without saying that a cartoon, multiple comics, and seven novels are going to manage to cover a period better than a single cartoon by itself.

 

[DarthOne]

Yes, thank you. I would think it would go without saying that a cartoon, multiple comics, and seven novels are going to manage to cover a period better than a single cartoon by itself.

A cartoon that lasted for years?

 

[Deleted member 88]

I wish we had gotten content on the far future. Like 1000 ABY. Apparently the Sith spirits on Ruusan remained there a thousand years after Kyle freed the Jedi.

 

[DarthOne]

This image alone is BEGGING for a fanfic to be written about it. Or at least an expansion upon this into a full story:

Weiland Loveland
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"Sierra was like no other soldier I've ever seen. He definitely wasn't a clone. He was bigger than all of us, and faster too. His armor was like nothing we'd ever seen. He single-handedly tore through Clankers left and right, even Droid Commandos stood little chance against him, he was a killing machine. With the help of his A.I, called herself Cortana, we stole the data we came for and headed for extraction. That was when the ship began to self destruct. I was injured, and told the others to leave me. He wouldn't. He just lifted me over his shoulder and booked. He tossed me into an escape pod with the rest of my team. He couldn't fit, and elected to find an another way out. We watched as the cruiser crumbled and exploded, thinking he was vaporised. Then CLANG, he'd entered the vacuum, and FLEW to our escape pod! Pretty good for a brick.

We set a beacon and waited for evac. Luckily, a Venator just happened to be behind a moon nearby. Command was confused by our new ally, but nonetheless thrilled to have such an asset with them. We fought together for only a month before he went off on his own. Something about dimensional...something. I haven't seen him since. I'd like to think that somewhere, he's kicking ass like he did the separatists. He may not have been a clone, but he was a damn fine solder, and I consider him brother.