So here’s a fan fiction suggested on my forums at Star Wars theory dot com.
I read it and thought, do I want to tough a fan-fic for the sequels?
And I said, sure, why not.
After all, everyone knows my stance on them, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have fun
with some requests.
Mind you I’m not re-writing the story with new planets, I’m taking all elements of
the sequels and adding my spin if this scenario didn’t happen.
I also change the force awakens so that it focuses a lot on Luke during Rey’s adventures
and so on.
So a lot of what’s happening is mixing both films . So, here we go.
If Luke never tried to kill Ben Solo.
Things would have been entirely different.
Ben would continue to communicate and be under the manipulation of Snoke, however his destruction
of Luke’s jedi temple that night would or would not have happened.
Regardless, it would have happened eventually.
That night or another night.
Let’s say Ben was going to do it anyways that night, then Luke wouldn’t have been
knocked out.
He’d have been fighting for and protecting his students.
He’d have destroyed the few students who rallied with Ben and easily taken Ben out,
too.
This could cause two outcomes.
One would cause Luke to bring Han and Leia to his temple to talk with Ben, and 4 of them
together could discuss things.
Luke wouldn’t be driven to run away and cut his force powers off because A) he wouldn’t
be ashamed of trying to kill his nephew because he never did, regardless of it being a fleeting
shadow of a thought or not.
And B)
his students wouldn’t be slaughtered and his Jedi temple would still stand!
This would cause Ben to escape from his parents once they took him home, and he’d leave
to unite with Snoke.
The other outcome is, Ben gets away that night, he escapes by the skin of his teeth, just
strong enough to flee from Luke’s grasp.
He steals a ship and leaves to find Snoke.
Snoke essentially does what he originally did with Kylo which was not complete his training
until the events of the force awakens.
However, now there would be no point in having the map to lead to Luke Skywalker, because
he never went into exile.
So in order to understand this new Luke, we have to explain the force awakens slightly.
The map for Luke Skywalker, would turn into a message to Luke Skywalker, to come back
as a rebellion fighter, and join the resurgence of new rebels to destroy starkiller base and
defeat Snoke.
Who they don’t know is Palpatine.
Poe gives the message to BB-8 who runs away and fights Teedo in the desert.
And we can just say Rey meets BB-8 the same way she did in 7, then meets Finn and Poe
etc.
Jump back to the current time where Luke doesn’t kill Kylo
and Kylo runs away to Snoke.
Luke would continue to train Jedi for the next decade and become even more powerful
in the force.
He would continue to educate himself with new
texts and scrolls throughout the galaxy, and commune with the force ghosts.
He would constantly stay in touch with his sister through the force and keep tabs on
his friends.
Visiting them periodically and stopping by Leia’s home while gallivanting through the
galaxy, finding new artifacts.
Luke would become so unbelievably powerful, that no one dared to exterminate him.
This forces Snoke to train Kylo even harder.
Making Kylo into what he was always wanting, a dark, brooding, powerful fallen Jedi.
Using both the light and dark to power him.
He would lead the first order under Snoke’s command.
Snoke would order Kylo to go to Exegol where his training would be completed for real.
He would meet Palpatine and face his test against the Sith troopers.
I’m not talking about the stormtroopers in red paint, I’m talking about real badass
Sith troopers with dual wielding lightasbers.
Palpatine would also have cloned, imperfectly, a cyborg Maul, and trained him to fight like
the real maul used to, albeit without force abilities.
This Maul would be a more terrifying version of Grievous.
More skilled, and with the same personality and fighting style as the real Maul.
He would just lack the powers of the force, albeit, still force sensitive, just not very
much.
Kylo would prove himself, and fight hard against this Maul.
He would become very powerful and pass all tests, defeating his enemies.
Kylo moves like Anakin.
Sidious sees it, and smiles.
Your training is now complete, young Skywalker…
Thank you, my master.
Kylo bows to Sidious.
Servants, is it ready?
Almost my lord.
Sidious had been creating the perfect clone body over the last 50 years since revenge
of the Sith, and his servants had almost perfected it.
The body was almost ready.
And force sensitive too.
His essence transfer was almost ready
to begin.
Luke would
be unable to join, as he would be in the unknown regions in an ancient tomb uncovering artifacts
from the original masters of the Sith.
Luke had become extremely fascinated on Sith heritage and origins, he felt in order to
fully defeat an enemy, he had to understand it fully.
This was a dangerous path to follow as one could turn to the dark side in pursuit of
trying to fully understand it, but Luke was so strong willed and minded, nothing could
sway him.
The Rebels would join from all corners of the galaxy once Hosnian Prime was destroyed.
They would try to destroy starkiller base, with Leia leading the rebellion as their general.
Luke uncovers an artifact of the father.
The same father from the mortis arc in the clone wars.
He would find the dagger and upon touching it, the son would appear.
So, you wish to learn our ways, why don’t I show you, Luke Skywalker.
The Son would touch Luke on the forehead and Luke would transport to Mortis.
Where he was a fly on the wall as we got a flashback of Anakin seeing everything that
Vader would do and become.
This would be in live action, where Hayden would return to reprise his role.
Luke would try to interact with his father, but was unseen.
Luke would be transported thousands of years back and see Revan, Vitiate, the Sith triumvirate,
and Ajunta Pall.
He would see the wars of the great schism, hyperspace wars, and the hundred year darkness.
The battle of the dark Jedi against the Jedi 7000 years ago, leading to the creation of
the Sith and conquering of Korriban.
Luke would be pushed back out of the vision and collapse on the floor, out of breath.
The wealth of knowledge he just endured, the amount of emotions he felt from each warrior
and lord he saw.
It was as if he were able to feel their powers and thoughts.
He remembered Yoda’s words, once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate
your destiny.
Luke closed his eyes, and meditated, cleansing himself of the hatred he had just felt.
The son had planned to turn Luke, but it wouldn’t work.
The Son
was gone when Luke opened his eyes.
Time had passed in this timeless place.
The Sith fed off their emotions and their fears.
They weren’t necessarily bad entities, they were just constantly embracing their emotions
and provoking their anger in order to grow their powers.
Wheras the Jedi encouraged the peace within to become stronger.
The constant submission of one’s Jedi emotions definitely deviated focus, and therefore,
Luke could now see why exactly the Sith were so strong.
They were focused by being unfocused.
They were powerful through their expansion of emotions, and limitless free will to act
upon their feelings.
They had no confines within their minds, this allowed them to reach new powers and abilities
quicker than the Jedi.
But it was their downfall that caused them to falter, not because of their lack in power,
but because of their lack of control over their powers, which granted, were so much
more than the Jedi in such a shorter period of time.
It was like having a hyperdrive in a ship that couldn’t handle it.
The Jedi took their time honing their powers, taking longer and more care to do so.
Luke now understood.
If only he could use his emotions to fuel him, while controlling the direction his emotions
went.
Meditate on this new information, he would.
Luke entered his ship and headed back to his Jedi Temple.
Breaking the atmosphere, he saw fire and brimstone from where his temple used to be.
Luke landed and observed the horrors of what had become.
His hand on R2-D2, as he collapsed amidst the burning of his students and friends at
his temple.
He had left for what seemed like a day, when in reality the timelessness of the place he
entered caused him to be away for several weeks.
Ben was here.
He could feel it.
His powers still emanated from the burning walls and texts that lay scattered, around
the bodies and lightsaber hilts under rubble and stone.
Luke’s rage and pain fuelled him.
He felt the same pain the Sith felt in his visions with the Son.
Control your emotions Luke, you know what your mighty Skywalker bloodline is capable
of, the powers of the force run through your family.
He remembered his father’s face as he said goodbye aboard the second Death Star.
Immediately, he controlled himself and grounded himself in the light side of the force, while
still feeling the many emotions that surged his body.
The anger swelled.
The Pain grew only worse with each moment.
Anakin, Yoda, and Obi-Wan showed up by his side.
The ghosts were here.
They all put a hand on his shoulder.
Comforting him.
Don’t give into your emotions, son.
Said Anakin.
Your training, remember it, you must.
Luke cries into the hot air of smoke and fire around him.
I....I wasn’t here to protect them.
They all DIED
As Luke yelled into the night sky, the pale moon shimmering through his tears streaming
down his beard.
Luke let out a force field so powerful it doused all the fire around him.
Lightning crackled in the sky and the clouds began to form.
I…won’t let him…get away…with this..
CONTROL YOUR ANGER LUKE.
This is what they want.
If you give into your hate they have already won.
History repeats itself, it always will until a Skywalker breaks the cycle.
Luke spends the night in silence.
Hovering over the cliffs as he watches the waves crash into the rocky shore below.
The night wind flowing through his robes.
A ship approaches and lands. on the other side of the island.
Rey walks up the steps to find Luke staring out into the darkness.
Lightning and thunder striking the sky.
Rain begins to pour.
Luke turns, tears in his eyes.
Removing his hood, he looks at the girl.
She shows him his father’s lightsaber.
He stares at it, more tears filling his eyes.
And looks into the distance behind the girl.
Anakin and the ghosts appear, giving him a nod of approval.
The last student.
Luke’s last student.
He takes the lightsaber.
Their training, would now begin.