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My brother and I both liked the new Battlestar Galactica, and started to wonder what it would be like if "Star Wars" was given a similar treatment for TV. Certain considerations, like less violence and more character heavy plotting would be called for, and probably a more complicated backstory, with lots of talky political machinations just due to the realities of TV production.
After hashing out for a bit we came up with the following ideas:
For a thousand years the Jedi Knights served as the bodyguards and advisors to the Galactic Emperors. In a period of unheaval caused by economic chaos, trade disputes, civl wars, and the deaths of trillions from the Midichlorian plague, the Emperor was overthrown, the Jedi outlawed, and a new order siezed control of the galaxy. The Supreme Chancellor of the First Republic, and his newly reformed Order of the Sith now control uncounted worlds with an iron fist.
TATOOINE GULAG
The isolated desert world serves as a holding place for political prisoners to be dropped and forgotten.
LUKE: Luke is one of many young people serving time for the sins of their parents during the war. He was born and raise in the Tatoine Gulag, his mother dying in custody when he was just a child. He's a surprisingly positive young man, having never known any other life. Extremely handy with machines, Luke has certain perks with the guards because he works in machine shop. He doesn't know it, but he's also under the protection of Old Ben.
OLD BEN:One of the more colorful residents of the Gulag, Ben's an old man, possibly crazy, with a giant burn scar across the side of his white-haired head. Between bouts of muttering to himself, he claims that he was imprisoned for having too many friends in the old government. In reality he is Obi-Wan Kenobi, former Jedi Knight, hiding in plain sight on Tatoine to watch out for the child of his old friend Anakin Lars, young Luke.
LT. HAN SOLO: Guarding the Gulag on Tatoine is a last chance assignment for the rebelious young officer, after drunkenly slugging his captain. His mother, an admiral, pulled some strings and had him reassigned to Tatoine, where he spends his time drinking too much and gambling with the prisoners.
THE REPUBLIC
GOVERNOR WILHUFF TARKIN: A ruthless politician, Tarkin is uncomfortable with the 'religious mania' of the Sith, and occasionally comes into conflict with Lord Vader. Gracious and civil at all times, he oversees the development of a secret weapon project on the planet Endor.
LORD PROTECTOR DARTH VADER: This black armored figure appeared near the end of the Revolution, and it was he who wielded the lighsaber that beheaded the Emperor. As head of the Order of the Sith, Vader is outside the political and military structures, free to operate as he sees fit to protect peace and order in the galaxy. It is said he answers only to the Supreme Chancellor.
RAKKUS MAUL: Little is known about Darth Vader's chief Sith disciple, except that he hates the Jedi with a firey intensity, making him the perfect hunter for what remains of their order.
COUNT GILEAD DOOKU: One of the reformed Jedi, now a Sith, who led the Revolution, Dooku is the closest of all people in the galaxy to the rarely seen Supreme Chancellor, and speaks for him more often than not.
ADMIRAL DAALA SOLO: Admiral Tarkin's right hand woman, and mother of Han Solo.
PRINCESS LEIA ORGANA: Although she is treated as an honored guest onboard Tarkin's Star Destroyer, Leia is in fact a political hostage, being held against her father, Bail Organa, who vanished some time ago, possibly to ferment rebellion.
THE JEDI
QUI GONN GINN: This Jedi aescetic lives with a handful of young pupils in his monestary on the ice world of Hoth. The remoteness and basic unimportance of this place has kept it protected, although many still fear Ginn's prophecy of the Coming of the Skywalker.
MACE WINDU: High Master of the Jedi Order, Windu has been kept prisoner for almost two decades of solitary confinement and occasional torture, but still refused to give up the secret that he alone in the galaxy knows: the location of The Yoda, the supreme guardian of Jedi wisdom.
ANAKIN LARS: No one knows what happened to this Jedi Knight, last seen during the Fall of Coruscant. Lars was an extremely powerful Jedi Knight, as well as being politically popular. Some feared his influence over the old Emperor, and others believed that he was the long awaited Skywaller, a living avatar of the Force, destined to remake the galaxy. His polaraizing presense is one of the many factors that ignited the Revolution.
Season One would be a slow build to Luke, Han, and Obi escaping Tatoine together and ending up trying to rescue the Princess, only to learn the horrifying truth about the Death Star! And later Where is the Yoda? Who is the Skywalker? What caused the Midichlorian Plague? When wil Jar Jar show up?
I don't think I plan to do much else with these ideas, so this isn't a rewrite or anything, but I thought somebody might get a kick out of them. Feel free to pick it apart or add to it.
