It is based on the old drafts of Lucas (Adventures of the Starkiller and more), Splinter of the Mind’s eye, the old Expanded Universe before the Prequels, Dune and Flash Gordon. The movies themselves are inspired by many classic movies like Godfather, Dune, Flash Gordon and more.
The Clone Wars were a series of deadly wars that occurred 35 years before A New Hope and are raging through Episode 1 and Episode 2. The Clone Wars were fought between the "House of Mandalore ", an Alliance of corrupt corporate barons named “The Clone Masters”, seeking to overthrow the corrupt and “lost” Old Republic and replace it with a regime that will bring Utopia. The House of Mandalore were united by the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi, Black Knight of the Sith Maul
The Clone Masters are using an illegal technology, cloning; they created clones of Mandalorians, an ancient race of Warriors, and unleashed a madness on the Galaxy, “The Clone Madness”, unstable clones who are grown in less than a year.
The House of Mandalore is a totalitarian theocracy ultimately seeking domination of the Galaxy. They have some loose parallels to the House of Harkonnen and American capitalism as corporate barons are a member of them. (Lucas is a Democrat and likes to insert his politics into Star Wars)
The Clones are an army of Insane Spaarti Clones created by the Clone Masters
The main Clone Master is Governor Crispin Hoedaack. A ruthless and militant official who works under Maul.
For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. The Jedi Knights are Space Arthurian Knights, they are honorable with a sense of Justice. They are fighting in the front lines to protect the Republic from the Dark forces. The Jedi Knights serve the Planets of the Old Republic, for example, Obi-Wan Kenobi serves the House of Organa from Alderaan. A Jedi Master is someone who achieves peace and inner balance within the Force. The Jedi Masters are not taking part in fighting, unlike the Knights. The Leader of the Jedi Knights is Supreme Master Bendu and his 2nd is command is Jedi Master Clieg Whitsun
The Jedi Knights can have children and marry
The Jedi Knights are dressed like this
Yoda is only mentioned, never shown
During the War, an age of corruption and greed started in the Old Republic. Senators taking bribes, lying, and abandoning their ideals to secure their power became causality within the Republic. The President of the Republic, President Kayos, lost the trust of the public due to the corruption within his administration and his bad management of the Clone Wars (Space Jimmy Carter). His fall led to the rise of the Imperial Party, led by Xon Palpatine. Within the Imperial Party, there are officials that we will later meet in the OT like Tarkin.
These figures are “Nixonian Gangsters”, corrupt officials and elitists that surround Palpatine and through them, he is doing the dirty work that will facilitate his rise to power. They are a space version of the neocons - ruthless, militant, believers in wealth and power.
The rivals of the Imperial Party were the Galactic Party, led by Prince Bail Organa of Alderaan and Mon Mothma of Chandrila.
Within the Jedi Knights, there is a very legendary figure, named Master Yoda. Yoda is like a space prophet, akin to Samuel. Yoda is 900 years old, a legend within the Jedi Knights. He trained Bendu, and his last Apprentice was Obi-Wan Kenobi. There are rumors that Yoda resides on the Planet of Dagobah, and when a Jedi Apprentice, also known as “Padawan”, is going to complete his training, he is sent to Dagobah to construct his own Lightsaber and become a Knight.
Another famous figure is the mysterious ancient Dark Side wizard, a satanic figure named “The Emperor”. The Emperor, like Yoda, is an ancient dark prophet, more than 900 years old, and is rumored to be the old rival of Yoda, but wasn’t seen or heard from for centuries. Maybe he never existed. According to the rumors, the Emperor used to reside in Byss, but many believe that this Planet doesn’t even exist.
Unlike the House of Mandalore who are using Clones, the soldiers of The Republic, aside from the Knights, are human soldiers.
The Republic’s capital is Coruscant.
Characters
Just like in the OT we have the trio of Luke, Leia and Han, the trio in the PT will be Anakin Skywalker, Nellith Arkady and Obi-Wan.
Anakin is our Luke; In Episode 1 he is a 19 years old orphan from Corellia, the main protagonist, through his eyes we enter the huge world of Star Wars. From his POV, we see the small-town teen entering the high-class world of Coruscant (Coruscant is like 80s New York with a Star Wars version of the Reagan, yuppie era) and Alderaan and rising to fame in EP1 in a way that mirrors his son. His arc is a mix of many iconic characters. In Episode 1, he is a lot like Luke Skywalker in Episode 4, Paul Atreides, Young King Arthur, James Dean from “East of Eden”, a Young Clark Kent, etc. The way he is introduced to Obi-Wan Kenobi is an homage to Daniel LaRusso and Miyagi; Obi-Wan saves him after Anakin once again got bullied by the thugs in Corellia and takes him under his wing after sensing his potential in the Force. In Episode 2, which takes place 10 years after 1, and EP3, his arc becomes similar to that of Michael Corleone, while he is shaped by the Star Wars-version of the 80s Reagan era, luxury, ‘greed is good’, yuppie culture. He becomes seduced by the authoritarian-capitalist promise, his clothing, style and worldview changed - he sees the Jedi as weak and passive. He turns to the Dark Side at the end of Episode 2 and in Episode 3 we see him as Pre-Suit Vader, Banastre Tarleton-style character, until becoming the fully-formed villain from the OT.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is the last student of Master Yoda. He fights during the War for the House of Organa of Alderaan, working closely with Bail Organa. He is the twin brother of Owen Lars, and was revealed to have the Force within him which left Owen bitter. When Obi-Wan is introduced to Anakin and is fascinated by his potential in the Force, he quickly gets into conflict with his brother, who don’t want him to drag Anakin to a damn fool idealistic crusade. Anakin, who at first rejects Obi-Wan’s attempts to recruit him, eventually joins and the two will go on to become best friends, with Kenobi being full of himself that he could train Anakin just as well he himself was trained by Yoda. Obi-Wan have the role of Han Solo as Anakin’s foil, but a completely different purpose. As the trilogy progresses, he understands too late that he lost Anakin to the Dark Side. His character can be compared to that of Aragorn from Lord of the Rings and Atticus Finch
Nellith, obviously, has the role of Leia, though unlike Leia and Luke, she and Anakin are becoming romantically involved. An Alderaanian aristocrat who is going to marry Prince Bail Organa despite not wanting the marriage. She is assertive and strong-minded, feels she is being a “slave” to the high society of Alderaan and of her family, and is a bit headstrong. She and Anakin bond and she becomes his love interest in a love triangle between Her, Anakin, and Bail. Nellith wants to run away with Anakin. Her romance with Anakin is very Titanic-like. In Episode 2, she and Anakin are in an on-and-off relationship. They fall in love completely and are eventually planning to get engaged, but unlike Leia, as long as Nellith becomes stronger and more assretive, she starts to notice the changes that Anakin is going through. While she pretends everything is fine at first, she eventually approaches Obi-Wan at the middle of Episode 3, and from there everything is quickly falling apart.
While this is the trio, Star Wars always have memorable secondary characters. Prince Bail Organa is Anakin’s wealthy rival and foil but eventually grows to respect him and accepts that he lost Nellith to Anakin. He is a respected political figure whom Obi-Wan serves under, a space-version of a noble British Prince and Errol Flynn-type character. Burtt is Obi-Wan’s alien sidekick, the Chewbacca of the trilogy, while R2 and C3PO have their permanent position. Other iconic but minor characters include Master Bendu and Clieg Whitsun, Montross, Buzz Antilles, Gordon Minch, Mon Mothma, and more, including new Alien races that are meant to capture the spirit of the OT (Here is an idea. A design want to have for some minor Jedi character. I’ve also thought of trying to introduce a race similar to that of Prince Xizor and other minor aliens in the style of Lizard man from Flash Gordon)
The villain gallery is changing. In Episode 1 and 2, Maul serves as the Proto-Vader, having the role that Anakin will have in the OT. He is iconic, menacing, ruthless and cunning. Maul is a Napoelon style-villain, a ruthless conqueror and warlord who enjoys torturing people mentally. He breaks Anakin’s spirit in Episode 1 and in Episode 2 tries to drive him crazy, but even he doesn’t expect to be killed by him. In contrast to Vader and Luke’s dynamics, Maul wants to DESTROY Anakin and kill him and Anakin wants to avenge Maul for what he put he and his friends through. Maul is inspired by villains like a Jack Palance-type characters, Liberty Valance and more.
Palpatine is influencing Anakin from the start, but is revealing himself only at the end of 2. At first, Palpatine presents himself to the public as a calm and responsible Leader who is leading the Republic responsibly through the war. At the beginning of Episode 2, he already declares that the Republic should be a “powerful Empire”. He is Dick Cheney posing as Winston Churchill or Shimon Peres. He knows how to manipulate the public and media through propaganda like Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. He slowly injects the authothrian ideals into Anakin and is shaping him into a ruthless and brutal machine. Secretly, Palpatine is hundreds of years old, a Dark Side Emperor who has reincarnated himself through clones, dark rituals, and Sith alchemy. He’s been engineering war and chaos for generations to weaken the Republic and usher in his return as Emperor. Think Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate — charming, reserved, and terrifying
Tarkin is the technocrat of terror, the political executioner behind Palpatine’s smooth-talking statesman. He is a space Newt Gingrich/Donald Rumsfeld. A Racist elitist, cold and ruthless, who also influences Anakin a bit.
Another minor villains include the trading baron and Clone Master Hoedaack, the bounty hunter Spar, the crime lord Orvan Kadar, and minor Officers from Palpatine’s Imperial party and the Dark Worlds Alliances led by Maul.
The main locations are Coruscant and Alderaan, but Corellia is very important in Episode 1, a lot of the events in Episode 2 and 3 are taking place in the Planets of Chandrila, Mandalore, Had Abbadon, Hapes, Sluis Van, fifth moon of Da Soocha, Korriban and more.