When the Walt Disney Company purchased the rights to Lucasfilm Ltd, many were eagerly
anticipating the release of a trilogy of sequels to follow the original franchise. The hype
led to episode VII the Force Awakens, becoming one of the highest grossing films of all time,
after it’s release in 2015, but the subsequent episodes were met with mixed responses from
Star Wars purists. So what if the sequels could be written again? How could the characters
created by both the original timeline and the sequels, be used to improve the latest
trilogy? Sit back, and enjoy part one of Episode VII, the war of the force…
Above the skies of the planet of Yavin 4, Jedi master Luke Skywalker hovered over the
jungle covered moon, in his X-Wing starfighter, alongside his loyal astromech R2-D2. The leader
of the New Jedi Order looked gravely concerned, as he had been failing in his attempts to
find any of the Jedi, that had survived the attack on his Temple. Luke turned to the navigation
computer in the cockpit, and having obtained a list of locations from the Temple’s remains,
he aimed to set course for the Jedi’s old home planet of Coruscant. But as he does so,
he can feel something wrong in the Force, and he swivelled his craft in time, to avoid
the attacks of two old model Imperial TIE Fighters. Luke knew he could quite easily
defeat his attackers, but wanted to find out who their leader was, so asked R2-D2 to take
over the controls, whilst he reached out with the Force, and entered the minds of the pilots.
The TIE Fighters swivelled on their axis, and turned with robotic synchronicity towards
a location within the view of Yavin 4, which was an old Imperial Star Destroyer. Luke could
feel something powerful in the Force, but also danger, and docking in one of the dormant
launch hangar bays, he leapt out of the cockpit, ignited his green blade, then asked R2-D2
to wait outside of the destroyer. The previously pursuing could be heard spiralling into the
depths of the galaxy, with two precise strikes from Luke’s starfighter, and the Jedi master
crept through the corridors with great caution, working towards the presence in the Force.
With the turbolift to the bridge disabled, Luke looked around for the mechanism, but
saw that the wires were mangled, and beyond his mechanical capabilities, regretting leaving
R2-D2 behind on the ship. Stepping into the elevator shaft, Luke used the Force to enhance
his leap onto every ledge, until he found his way to the bridge level. Piercing his
lightsaber through the locked bridge entrance, Luke could hear a soft cooing sound from the
other side, and carefully deposited the debris down the bottom of the shaft, finding the
youngling Grogu cuffed to one of the controls. The child warned Luke of impending danger
as he approached to free him, and Luke saw that any kind of movement from the youngling
would trigger a hidden bomb, that led to the main reactor. Luke calmly searched around
the bridge for any kind of switch or button, but could not find any, and had to resort
to the most dangerous alternative. The Jedi master released Grogu find his bindings, and
the effect was immediate, as a batch of highly explosive rhydonium triggered in dazzlingly
bright light, and the two Jedi used the Force to keep the fireball from incinerating them
to pieces. Quickly equipping himself with an abandoned spacesuit, he placed the child
in a small capsule, and jumped out of the burning destroyer. R2-D2 had caught onto his
master’s plan, and diving towards him, he opened the canopy to allow the two Jedi to
enter the starfighter. Luke regained controlled of the ship, and zoomed away from the wreckage,
with more questions yet to be answered. Setting course for his original intended destination
of Coruscant, Luke planned on searching the planet to see if he had missed something from
his first visit, just after the fall of the Empire. Soon the Jedi landed by the former
home of Darth Sidious, and Luke stepped out of his ship, then walked through the Temple
still under reconstruction. Taking a seat in what was formally the quarters of Grandmaster
Yoda, Luke meditated for a period of many moons, until he heard the voice of his father,
the legendary Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker. The Force ghost had been observing the progress
of Luke, and told him that he should go to search for his old padawan Ahsoka Tano again.
The Jedi master had found the padawan to be elusive, and even the past Jedi had not tracked
her, so Anakin suggests for his son to venture to Mandalore. Luke is confused by the suggestion
of the outer rim planet, but before he could ask Anakin for more details, the ghost had
faded out of the room. Luke struggled to stay patient, as he trudged back to his X-Wing
starfighter, unable to find a connection between Ahsoka and the Mandalorians, until R2-D2 and
Grogu revealed their connections to Bo Katan Kyrze. The Jedi master’s excitement cannot
be contained, swooping up and away from the Imperial palace, and to the outer rim, although
remaining apprehensive about the recent civil war. Upon reaching the airspace of the planet,
Luke sees an Imperial light cruiser in front of him, but this time he was not concerned,
as he had seen this one before in his original rescue of Grogu. The absence of hostilities
allows him to safely dock in the confines of the cruiser, where Bo Katan is there to
greet the Jedi. Removing her helmet baring the blue and white insignia of her clan, Luke
bows and asks for the location of Ahsoka Tano. The Nite Owls are aware that this sort of
opportunity did not regularly present itself, and offer to provide the information in return
for helping to liberate Mandalore. Luke thought about mind tricking the warriors, but these
were people he needed on his side, and walking to the holotable, Bo Katan laid out the schematics
of the capital city and their likely opponents. Using a shipment of Imperial weapons they
had stolen, the Nite Owls took their light cruiser to the ground below, raining chaos
on the Empire with their detonators and explosives, and following them was Luke and Grogu. The
youngling watched as the Jedi master leapt out of his ship from several thousand feet
in the air, and landed perfectly onto the ground, with his lightsaber in hand, and began
to effortlessly dismiss the troopers standing in his way. The new Mandalorian civilians
watch in awe at the skill and speed of the Jedi, working his way to the Royal Palace,
which had been under siege. Expecting someone to be sitting on top of the throne, Luke and
the Nite Owls instead find a small holoprojector, and using the Force to activate it, it merely
stated that the Empire would soon rise again. Those who heard the message are slightly shaken,
and Bo Katan revealed that Ahsoka had last been heard on the planet of Lothal, after
her adventures on Corvus. Leaving Bo Katan to take her place on her throne, Luke, R2-D2
and Grogu, headed for the outer rim, when they received a transmission from General
Leia Organa. The co leader of the rebellion had reported of a disturbance in the Unknown
Regions, and asked Luke to investigate. The Jedi master placed his priority on finding
Ahsoka first, and found his way to the capital city‘s spaceport, where he saw the New Republic’s
government building. Closely followed by R2-D2 and Grogu, Luke felt a shadow moving around
them, and placed a hand on the hilt of his blade on his belt in anticipation of an attack.
Suddenly R2-D2 beeped loudly, and Luke quickly turned around to see the Mandalorian Sabine
Wren, standing in front of one of her murals. The astromech breaks the tension between Luke
and Sabine, producing a recording of them collaborating to stop a shipment of Imperial
weapons being transferred, and Luke lowers his blade. Walking up to Sabine’s home,
the Mandalorian warrior shows her mural of the Ghost crew to her guests, before pointing
to a large map of Lothal, and the location of Ahsoka. Taking one of Sabine’s jump-speeders,
the group travelled north east through the grass covered plains, until they found the
ruins of the old Jedi Temple destroyed by members of Sabine’s cell. In front of it
all sat a meditating Ahsoka Tano, who turned upon sensing Luke. The former Jedi padawan
bowed respectfully to the Jedi master, scarcely believing that she was looking at her master
and Padme’s son. Placing her hand gently on the domed head of R2-D2, the droid eagerly
moved from side to side in response, before she told Luke her reason for being by the
Temple. Ahsoka had sought to try and find Ezra and defeat Thrawn once and for all, asking
Luke for transport for herself and Sabine to go to the unknown regions, just as Luke
had also wanted. The Jedi master uses his connections to the New Republic, asking for
transportation and supplies for an arduous journey, and Leia informs her brother that
they would take several days to arrive. Whilst Sabine returned with Grogu and R2-D2, Luke
and Ahsoka ambitiously lifted the ruins of the Temple, aiming to find the portal to the
world between worlds, something that Thrawn and Palpatine had failed to do. After several
hours, the force users failed to see any signs of a functioning portal, and made a makeshift
room to meditate together. The Force energy beneath the site swirled around them, and
a short while later, the Force ghosts of Anakin, Yoda and Obi-Wan stood equidistant around
them. The Jedi warned Luke and Ahsoka that there was a much bigger threat to the galaxy
than the missing Thrawn, but the answers they required may be found through the Grand Admiral.
Their meditation is interrupted by a rumbling from above, and running out of what they thought
was an imminent collapse, it turned out to be the Corellian freighter named the Millennium
Falcon. Han Solo and Chewbacca ran down the ramp of the ship to greet Luke, when the Wookiee
saw Ahsoka for the first time since the middle of the clone war, and roared in delight. Flying
back to the capital city to collect Satine, R2-D2 and Grogu, Luke tails the Millennium
Falcon all the way to the Unknown Regions in his X-Wing
Starfighter, eventually parting ways, with Luke heading to the home of the Chiss in Csilla
to look for Thrawn, and Ahsoka and the Falcon arriving on Ilum. Like her previous visit,
the climate was icy cold, and the group also had to stick together to navigate a path through
the blustering snow, until they reached the crystal caves. The former home of the Jedi
was covered with remnants of the Empire, who had harvested the kyber crystals to power
the Death Star, leaving a scar in the peaceful landscape. Han is about to return to the Falcon,
when they hear the distinct sound of a wolf, and running through the remains of the cave,
they see Ezra on the floor, barely moving. That is it for part 1 of Episode VII: The
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