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An Idea I had for either fan fic or if Lucas were ever to reshoot the Original Trilogy was to move the ultimate destruction of the Death Star to Jedi rather then in Star Wars (I'll never call it A New Hope). I'm aware that this is a pretty massive change to the mythos but I wanted to ask your guys opinions on the change I would make to the three starting with Star Wars first I'll post my thoughts on the others later.
Star Wars-
Proceeds pretty much as we have seen it but the major change is that the Death Star has not been discovered by the Rebels yet so Leias ship is being attacked not because she has the plans but the Empire is killing or and imprisoning all the memebers of the Alderan Royal Family as they have just been discovered to be the head or at the very lest mostly in charge of the growing rebellion. Leia gets the message to Ben through r2 still but it's to plead with him to help and take charge of the rebellion or at the very least to save the rest of her family. Luke still runs into Ben, They still meet up with Han and set course for Alderan.
Leia is a prisoner on the Death Star which she still thinks is just a large military ship till Tarkin reveals the True size and scope of it too her just before he makes her watch as the Death Star blows up Alderan as it's first test of it's laser ( I should mention here that the DS looks more like it did in Jedi rather then completly built, yet all systems and sheilds work.) Tarkin informs leia that he had wanted her to see the true power of the Death Star before he had her excuted so in her final hours she would know that all is lost.
Falcon shows up. Asteroid field. Captured by Death Star. They still hide in the Falcon and then sneak onto the Death Star with a mad plan to blow it up or something. R2 Discovers that Leia is on board and while patching into the system this is where R2 discovers and downloads the schematics for the plans with the exhaust port vulnerability. They rescue Leia, Ben shuts down the tractor beam and also manages to overload the primary fire systems for the planet killing laser severally crippling it for the time being (the laser would be crippled till the start of Jedi, not able to blow up planets but still able to take out a capitol ship or star destroy sized ship with one shot, so not a planet killer till the laser is repaired but still a massive threat.) Ben confronts Vadar to cover the Falcons escape. Longer more involved fight than the original yet Ben still sacrifices himself to save the others (his death causes a tremor in the force which would be the begining of the balance coming back to the force and allows ben to make it harder for vadar to use the force to locate luke for a little while.)
Here is where some of the major changes begin to come into play.
As the Falcon is fleeing Ben appears to luke as a force ghost and informs him that he must go to yoda on Deigobah to complete his training, also I would have hinted earlier in the film that it was Bens intention from the start to take luke to Yoda so they could both train him (this would remove Luke from Hoth at the Start of Empire yes but the Hoth attack would still go down as it did although I think the time line will have to be speed up a bit so empire would start sooner after Star Wars Rather then 3 yrs later. also we could reveal that the hoth attack was less about attacking the rebels at their newest base but more that Vadar has finally discovered the identity of Luke and is attacking his friends to force luke to come to him)
Luke protests but ben insists, search your feelings, you must prepare to face Vadar, yours and vadars destinys are linked yada yada (This would be the first hint that Ben was always planning to reveal that vadar was lukes daddy just wanted to prepare him first and get him started on his journey as a balanced Jedi first. also here is where I would reveal that ben had intended to begin training luke as a baby on Tattoine but it was Yoda who spoke to ben through the force saying that Ben must wait it would be to dangerous to train luke at that time he would have been discovered and put to death by the emperor and if balance is to be returned to the force luke must not bear the burden of his fathers sins)
I'm still thinking about the ending and kinda rushing through this post but luke is with yoda by the end of the movie, Han has been redeemed and returned after leaving the rebels with his payment and the begining of his and Leias romance starts here.( also getting luke out of the picture so we can kinda side step the whole shes his sister issue)
So some of the ending details are fuzzy but I still want luke to have his big OMG I can use the force and here is a larger world for me moment so I was thinking that he has a big epic action scene where has he is trying to get to a ship he comes across 20-30 StormTroopers that any second know are going to burn through that giant door in front of them and capture and kill Leia and the rest of the rebellions leaders. Conflicted with fear and only a light saber with him he very nearly freaks out, yet Ben speaks to him Use the Force, stretch out with your feelings, allow the force to flow through you. Luke resolutely steps out to confront the Troopers, who are still to focused on the door to see him. Plants his feet firmly, big breath, closes his eyes and ignites the Light Saber. All hell breaks lose as the Troopers turn to fire on him, laser blasts everywhere, and like a blinding cyclone Storm Trooper killing machine. The force flowing through him he is unstoppable there is panic and chaos everywhere. Behind the door the rebel leaders have paused for a moment whatching in awe at the power this little farm boy seems to be wielding as he cuts through storm troppers left and right. As much as the Death Star in the sky is aportent of doom and hoplessness. Lukes actions that day, putting himself in the line of fire to save is friends and the cause they believe in gives A New Hope to the tired rebel leaders that they are not defeated yet.
There are a lot of holes I left out and this post is a freaking novel but what do you guys think.
Also real quick I wanted to add that Lukes big moment does not mean he is and ass kicker from here on out but consider more like first time lucky but with the force backing him up, like if you have ever done a back flip or skate board trick before and did it perfectly once but still had to practice to consistently do it time after time.
An Idea I had for either fan fic or if Lucas were ever to reshoot the Original Trilogy was to move the ultimate destruction of the Death Star to Jedi rather then in Star Wars (I'll never call it A New Hope). I'm aware that this is a pretty massive change to the mythos but I wanted to ask your guys opinions on the change I would make to the three starting with Star Wars first I'll post my thoughts on the others later.
Star Wars-
Proceeds pretty much as we have seen it but the major change is that the Death Star has not been discovered by the Rebels yet so Leias ship is being attacked not because she has the plans but the Empire is killing or and imprisoning all the memebers of the Alderan Royal Family as they have just been discovered to be the head or at the very lest mostly in charge of the growing rebellion. Leia gets the message to Ben through r2 still but it's to plead with him to help and take charge of the rebellion or at the very least to save the rest of her family. Luke still runs into Ben, They still meet up with Han and set course for Alderan.
Leia is a prisoner on the Death Star which she still thinks is just a large military ship till Tarkin reveals the True size and scope of it too her just before he makes her watch as the Death Star blows up Alderan as it's first test of it's laser ( I should mention here that the DS looks more like it did in Jedi rather then completly built, yet all systems and sheilds work.) Tarkin informs leia that he had wanted her to see the true power of the Death Star before he had her excuted so in her final hours she would know that all is lost.
Falcon shows up. Asteroid field. Captured by Death Star. They still hide in the Falcon and then sneak onto the Death Star with a mad plan to blow it up or something. R2 Discovers that Leia is on board and while patching into the system this is where R2 discovers and downloads the schematics for the plans with the exhaust port vulnerability. They rescue Leia, Ben shuts down the tractor beam and also manages to overload the primary fire systems for the planet killing laser severally crippling it for the time being (the laser would be crippled till the start of Jedi, not able to blow up planets but still able to take out a capitol ship or star destroy sized ship with one shot, so not a planet killer till the laser is repaired but still a massive threat.) Ben confronts Vadar to cover the Falcons escape. Longer more involved fight than the original yet Ben still sacrifices himself to save the others (his death causes a tremor in the force which would be the begining of the balance coming back to the force and allows ben to make it harder for vadar to use the force to locate luke for a little while.)
Here is where some of the major changes begin to come into play.
As the Falcon is fleeing Ben appears to luke as a force ghost and informs him that he must go to yoda on Deigobah to complete his training, also I would have hinted earlier in the film that it was Bens intention from the start to take luke to Yoda so they could both train him (this would remove Luke from Hoth at the Start of Empire yes but the Hoth attack would still go down as it did although I think the time line will have to be speed up a bit so empire would start sooner after Star Wars Rather then 3 yrs later. also we could reveal that the hoth attack was less about attacking the rebels at their newest base but more that Vadar has finally discovered the identity of Luke and is attacking his friends to force luke to come to him)
Luke protests but ben insists, search your feelings, you must prepare to face Vadar, yours and vadars destinys are linked yada yada (This would be the first hint that Ben was always planning to reveal that vadar was lukes daddy just wanted to prepare him first and get him started on his journey as a balanced Jedi first. also here is where I would reveal that ben had intended to begin training luke as a baby on Tattoine but it was Yoda who spoke to ben through the force saying that Ben must wait it would be to dangerous to train luke at that time he would have been discovered and put to death by the emperor and if balance is to be returned to the force luke must not bear the burden of his fathers sins)
I'm still thinking about the ending and kinda rushing through this post but luke is with yoda by the end of the movie, Han has been redeemed and returned after leaving the rebels with his payment and the begining of his and Leias romance starts here.( also getting luke out of the picture so we can kinda side step the whole shes his sister issue)
So some of the ending details are fuzzy but I still want luke to have his big OMG I can use the force and here is a larger world for me moment so I was thinking that he has a big epic action scene where has he is trying to get to a ship he comes across 20-30 StormTroopers that any second know are going to burn through that giant door in front of them and capture and kill Leia and the rest of the rebellions leaders. Conflicted with fear and only a light saber with him he very nearly freaks out, yet Ben speaks to him Use the Force, stretch out with your feelings, allow the force to flow through you. Luke resolutely steps out to confront the Troopers, who are still to focused on the door to see him. Plants his feet firmly, big breath, closes his eyes and ignites the Light Saber. All hell breaks lose as the Troopers turn to fire on him, laser blasts everywhere, and like a blinding cyclone Storm Trooper killing machine. The force flowing through him he is unstoppable there is panic and chaos everywhere. Behind the door the rebel leaders have paused for a moment whatching in awe at the power this little farm boy seems to be wielding as he cuts through storm troppers left and right. As much as the Death Star in the sky is aportent of doom and hoplessness. Lukes actions that day, putting himself in the line of fire to save is friends and the cause they believe in gives A New Hope to the tired rebel leaders that they are not defeated yet.
There are a lot of holes I left out and this post is a freaking novel but what do you guys think.
Also real quick I wanted to add that Lukes big moment does not mean he is and ass kicker from here on out but consider more like first time lucky but with the force backing him up, like if you have ever done a back flip or skate board trick before and did it perfectly once but still had to practice to consistently do it time after time.
