My version of Snoke would rely less on the “disfigurement=evil” trope and more on the cosmic side of the Force. This scene would take place shortly after Ben joined the Galactic Union. He’s not exactly at the Kylo Ren stage of his life, but he’s close. After Hux and Phasma induct him into the Union, when he falls asleep he has a dream (or does he). He’s in a void, with one solitary massive figure, unnamed and neither human nor alien. This being knows Ben’s beliefs and ambitions, and speaks to him on the levels Luke and his parents never did. The being plays up the idea that the Skywalker legacy deserves to be loved. The being shows him a dark potential future where Mandalorians and Republic soldiers stay at war for millennia. And most importantly for Ben, the being says that he is special, and can be the savior of the galaxy. All of the entity’s encouragements mimic the talking points of fascistic recruiters, and Ben is completely won over.

I don’t know if this being exists, or if it does whether or not it’s in the physical realm. The design is a mixture of Snoke and the Force Priestesses from The Clone Wars. Potentially, this is the sixth sister, Fear, which descended to the semi-mortal plane to instruct her first students, which became both the Jedi and the Sith, obsessed with legacy and power from the beginning. Of course, none of that would be said in the movie.

This scene honestly could work in JJ’s Episode IX or in yours. Two words: Stormtrooper Rebellion. (Moth)

Okay, a few more words. The aurebesh says Obtain Independence. Rose is the one who patched Finn in to the system. In the alternate universe, this takes place after Finn has been recognized as a Mandalorian.

I felt we got cheated with DJ, who could’ve been really interesting but became a one-note character really quickly. My version would be the last of the scoundrels Han hires to help Finn and Rey. In this version, he’s a doctor instead of a slicer, since Rose gets that role. He’s a heavy drinker and highly pessimistic, but content to stay in the cargo hold of the Falcon. But when Finn expresses uncertainty over abandoning the Galactic Union, we get his story.

DJ was an Imperial cadet serving in the Mid-Rim. He didn’t agree with all of the politics of the empire, but, like Finn, thought by enforcing order, he was doing his best to protect people, especially his loved ones. However, his family was from Alderaan. He had seen the Empire kill people before, but this was the first public demonstration of condoned slaughter of civilian innocents. He deserted and drank himself into a hole, blaming himself for being a cog in the machine that killed everyone he cared about.

Years later, he found enough resolve to join the Rebellion. The nearest cell was on Jedha: the Partisans. On DJ’s first mission, he was ordered to bomb an Imperial parade. His mission was successful, but landed three civilians in a hospital. DJ invested himself in caring for them, learning the trade of medicine and surgery. He realized any position in the war would be one of killing. This lead to his final desertion.

He doesn’t encourage Finn to join the New Republic, but he gives him a poignant line of advice. “If your only justification for staying with the Union is it’s better than the other guys, you’ve fooled yourself into a role you don’t want.” This version is admittedly more pacifist non-combatant than spineless centrist, but I personally find that more interesting. (Moth)

Vice Admiral Holdo of the cruiser Ninka. This is mostly a joke, but I couldn’t help myself. Emmy Award winner Laura Dern as a Selonian warmonger. This Holdo would be less of a lesson for teaching Poe and more of a facet of the New Republic’s military. I’m thinking she would be the leader of the forces that are squared off against the Mandalorians. (Moth)

Here is the revised Teros. Same stuff applies. Powered-up gloves for combat and utility. Collar based on Mandalore the Vindicated. Mythosaur skull on his breastplate (a wedding gift from Boba). Also, a utility belt. Most often the muscular guys in action movies aren’t the gadget experts, so that goes against that. P.S., I don’t have a last name for him, but if he were from Clan Kryze like Satine and Bo-Katan, his name would be unbearably close to Terry Crews. (Moth)

Okay, I reread the Episode VII pitch you wrote after drawing this, and realized by debris field you probably meant in space, but I thought of a planet. Thus, not wanting to recreate Tatooine like Abrams did, my “junkyard planet” is based off from the plastic garbage patches polluting Earth’s oceans. In this picture we see Poe, BB-8, and Ben crashing into a separate island, as Rey watches the plummet. (Moth)

Irene Bedard is a fantastic actor and deserves a much better Disney movie than Pocahontas. Here is Rey’s mother. I thought it would be a little convenient to have Rey’s style look too similar to a woman she only has her earliest memories of, so the design is mostly new, without too many ties to previous elements. It admittedly went more hip-hop than I was hoping for, but I kind of like it. Touches include a streak of red hair, something her culture does when going on expeditions. A medallion from her time as a Rebellion pilot, which Idrian mistakes for a Republic badge. And a hat, a little bit like Embo, but mostly original. Representative for Native Americans in Star Wars has been pretty much questionable coding and a few voices done by the amazing Cree Summer. I wanted to have an original, non-stereotypical design, while still making the drawing look “Star Wars,” but more from the uncharted territories. (Moth)

“Baron-Administrator Calrissian. Jedi Master Skywalker. It’s a pleasure. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Idrian Fett.” I wanted to give Idrian a clear tie to Boba, with slight hints of Jango. My first inclination was to give him the darksaber, but I think it’d be cooler for him to refuse to carry it out of spite for the Visla and Kryze families. Idrian is very proud, very noble, and very powerful. I don’t know if it was what you were going for, but I was thinking he stormed Rey’s home looking for his son. Also, my one change would be he states that the Republic commandos stole his child, instead of his son, leaving the gender ambiguous, as, if Richardson-Sellers got the role, it wouldn’t be too immediately obvious who the missing Fett is. I gave him some war paint and tried (and probably failed) to make him look as much like Idrian Elba as my limited art skills can allow. (Moth)

L.J.: Idrian and his husband Teros (played by Terry Crews, shoutout to @themandalorianwolf) along with their crew were desperately searching for their son when they spotted a modified Republic military shuttle that was far outside Republic space and acted very suspiciously. This ship was piloted by Rey’s parents, wanderers who had gotten hold of and remodeled a damaged military shuttle for themselves and their daughter. Idrian tried to question them and, when they fled, gave chase. Believing the Mandalorians to be pirates, Rey’s parents hid her and drew the Mandalorian ship away.

It was all a horrible misunderstanding, and Idrian warned Rey’s parents to power down their engine when he realized it was overheating. They kept running, having been living on the edge of the law already due to poverty and afraid of what the fearsome Mandalorians might do. Rey’s father died in the resulting explosion but Teros managed to rescue Rey’s severely injured mother (played by Irene Bedard), who has been in a coma ever since. The Mandalorians had her stabilized and, because she was not a Republic citizen and they had no way to contact any kin she might have, have kept her well-cared-for ever since.

The incident is one of Idrian’s great regrets in life. He still holds out hope that this woman whose name he does not know might wake up one day, and he and Teros visit her regularly.

How would Episode VIII work in your universe? (Moth)

themandalorianwolf:

ljones41:

themandalorianwolf:

lj-writes:

Now that the Galactic Union has turned the Republic and Mandalorians against each other, it’s going to try and stage a comeback using the distraction. They have a powerful Force user on their side now–Ben Solo, now called Kylo Ren–and they also have the Crusaders, the Mandalorian-born troops stolen as children. It’s going to be up to Finn, Rey, and Poe to try and foil them and keep gathering information to let the Republic and Mandalorians know they’ve been tricked into this war. Leia, despite being a fugitive, is talking secretly to her trusted contacts in the Senate trying to end the war. Lando fends off a Mandalorian attack himself and actually strikes a rapport with their commander, Idrian Fett, the Chief Commander of the invasion and a clansman of the Mandalore Boba Fett himself. Idrian (played by Idris Elba) is a good and honorable man but hates the Republic because his son was stolen by what he believes to be Republic commandos AND YES THE SON IS EXACTLY WHO YOU THINK IT IS.

Meanwhile Rey’s search for her family comes to a tragic conclusion when, in the course of the mission, she finds out that the site where she was left behind by her family and later found by space scavengers was also the place where a Mandalore-Republic skirmish took place. She is devastated to learn that her parents most likely left her behind to keep her safe while acting as a distraction to draw the Mandalorians away from her. The leader of the mission on the Mandalorian side, and the man who likely killed her parents, was Idrian Fett. Finn holds her and cries with her; the pair affirm they may have no family but do have each other. Rey vows to take her revenge on Fett and make him know her pain.

The trio together with Han undertake a daring mission to steal crucial information from the Union headquarters. They find out that the Union is now headed for Coruscant itself, and will be mobilizing its moles in the Republic security forces itself (the chief of them being Phasma) to take it over. They face down Kylo Ren while leaving with this information, with Rey’s Force sensitivity showing itself in the fight. This is also when Kylo Ren accidentally kills his father, who had joined the mission on the hope of bringing back his son and was acting as a distraction. The trio just barely make their escape while Ren is completely destroyed with grief, rocking his father’s dying body in his arms.

Despite the Falcon jumping into hyperspace, the Union ships keep catching up to them and the trio cannot get away. They make a sweep of the ship, frantic to find the tracker, but nothing shows up. Then Finn has a terrible suspicion and turns the sweep on himself; the tracker was implanted in him, likely years ago without his knowledge. With Union ships gaining on them, fuel running low and no time to find and remove the tracker, he makes his way to an airlock. Rey follows and begs him not to eject–they’ll find some other way.

Finn appears to relent and comes to envelope her in an embrace. Rey tells him she can’t do this without him, and Finn tells her she means more to him than anything in the galaxy. They share a tender kiss, and Finn uses the distraction to push her clear of the airlock and locks himself in. He ejects, his eyes locked with Rey’s in longing, while Poe runs onto the scene. Rey screams for Finn and, in a burst of Force ability, almost pulls him back in. Finn breaks her pull, showing his own Force ability for the first time. Poe physically pulls Rey back from the airlock, himself fighting tears, and orders BB to take them into hyperspace. The Falcon makes the jump, no longer trackable, and Finn is picked up by one of the pursuing Union ships just as he is running out of air.

OK I just read this again, what the fuck is wrong with you? Who the fuck gave you permission to break my freaking heart like that?

I’m not OK with this

Is that all Finn is in this story? Emotional support? What about his arc? Or his origin?

@ljones41 it was covered in @lj-writes version of EP VII

@ljones41 I should have linked the alternate Episode VII in the OP (link). Also if you squint there’s a very subtle hint, in all caps, of Finn’s origins in this post too…

One scene I would have loved to see, and would be a great way to reintroduce Luke, is a brokering of a peace treaty on Tatooine. Luke and Leia took down Jabba decades ago, and Luke has been working to unify the peoples of Tatooine in a strive for peace. The scene could play semi-dramatically for comedy. Close-ups of Luke and the various Tusken chieftains, serious music and tone. Then they both present their presents to each other. This is a way to show Luke has become greater than the Jedi of the Republic, and has secured sovereignty for the people that his father had a hand in destroying. Also there are Jawas, who have also benefited from this treaty. The whole scene plays as mostly cutesy/fanservice until the third movie, when the Galactic Union and Republic/Mandalorian forces are about to fight. Rolling onto the battlefield is a modified sandcrawler, flanked by several bantha in war-gear. The Tatooine Alliance has joined the Republic.