A thread shamelessly ripped off from TVTropes. Simply put, if you had the power to determine the when, the who, and the what of the next three Star Wars Movies, what would you do?
The bullet points of my ideas (they're quite long and would make for a wall-o-text OP. Still a kind of wall-o-text)
Ep 7: 25 years after RotJ (30 ABY)
-Military warlord seizes the helm of the Empire which has been dwindling slowly over the last quarter century
-He seeks the aid of a hidden Sith enclave, an offshoot of the rule of 2 that was hidden from Sidious, to use them as rallying points to revive the Empre
-Luke, now a venerable jedi master, helps an Odd Couple of padawans, a young human jedi male and a Cathar female. The male is idealistic and earnest about helping people; like Anakin but without the angsty past or possessiveness. The Cathar is more like Mace Windu; almost militantly detached from passion.
-The three Jedi take the Millennium Falcon on loan from Han and go to bring relief to a contested battleground world, where the adventure plays out. They meet a young smuggler/con-woman who tries to scam them out of the Falcon and ends up involved. At the end of the adventure they meet the apprentice of the two Sith the warlord recruited, an alien woman (original species, perhaps?). She seems to take an interest in the young man, but knowing she's outnumbered, leaves without a fight.
-The young man gets a vision, apparently spontaneously, of where the Empire's next big attack, aided by the Sith Master, is going to come and the Republic goes out to meet them. It turns out the vision was sent by the Sith Apprentice to lure her master and the Warlord into a trap. Luke fights the Sith Master (an older human male), kills him. The warlord is defeated and dies. Sith Apprentice declares the Galactic Empire as the Sith Empire, takes her place as Dark Lady. This is the last action Luke sees in the films for plot reasons (he's always somewhere else)
Ep 8: 5 years later (35 ABY)
-Tense peace as the Sith Empire re-arms. Sith Lady conscripts force-sensitives from her territory to rapidly build a haphazard Sith Order, conscripts aliens to be soldiers along with the old all-human Imperial military, as well as commissioning a new generation of battle droids.
-Tensions rage within the small Jedi order, with rumors that the Sith are already as numerous as they are (Luke was working cautiously in fear of mistakes). Conservatives (similar in philosophy to the Prequel Jedi) battle Liberals (who fit Luke's more compassionate and open-minded philosophy), both sides fearing that the other will fall to the Dark Side. This places severe strains on the friendship of the young Jedi man and the Cathar woman.
-As Luke struggles with the tensions, the two padawans, now mature and on the verge of Knighthood, go on an investigation into weapons smuggling out of the New Republic and into the Sith Empire. They go with the smuggler woman from the last film as their underworld contact of choice.
-On the way, tensions boil over between the man and the Cathar due to the man wanting to solve all the galaxy's problems. They part ways, the man going with the smuggler woman and the Cathar going with a human male Onderonian Beast Rider they meet on the way, another underworld figure
-The war with the Sith Empire begins in earnest, as the Conservatives sideline Luke and the leading Conservative Jedi helps the Republic (with some familiar faces from the Rebellion's military) fight a big battle against the Sith, dueling and killing one of the Acolytes.
-Meanwhile the two investigators find a weapon-making planet selling across the border. They meet and clash, this time violently, and the Sith Lady is waiting in the wings. She blows up everything, making the man think he killed the Cathar and badly wounding the man himself.
-The film ends with the male's fall to the Dark Side as he recovers under the Sith Lady's care, as she convinces him that the Dark Side serves his wishes, being the tool with which he can enforce justice throughout the galaxy.
Ep 9: 2 years later (37 ABY)
-The war is going badly with the man as the new Sith Apprentice. Starts with a desperate battle that the Republic barely wins.
-The Cathar female demonstrates that she has had a change of heart by leading a rescue effort after the smuggler woman and the Onderonian Beast Rider are captured as Jedi sympathizers, showing that she's no longer focused on the greater good and has learned compassion.
-The main battle that spans most of the film revolves around a New Republic plan to launch a strike deep into Imperial territory to ambush the Sith Apprentice, with Luke resigned that he'll likely have to kill him. The Sith Lady foresees this and lays a counter-ambus to try to kill the Jedi strike force.
-Resolves with a duel between the Cathar and the Apprentice, where she does not win (mostly loses), but convinces him to reconsider (not to turn back). The Sith Lady kills the lead conservative jedi but is badly wounded in the process. In her desperation to slay the remaining Jedi, she convinces the Apprentice to turn back
What would your ideas be?
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