I’m re-reading the EU right now and it brings me back to all those speculations of the prequel era (I first started reading the books back in 1997 and onward - I forgot that so many of the books were actually quite brand new as I was reading them: “Children of the Jedi”, “I, Jedi”, of course the New Jedi Order…

I remember when the prequels started dropping feeling a little disappointed in the direction Lucas went with them as they caused no shortage of contradictions with the expanded universe material, ESPECIALLY after Attack of the Clones dropped and made the clones pre-stormtroopers. But we lived with it, retconned things and it was good.

I just skimmed your treatment, but it feels right. I’m going to go back and read it more closely. Thanks for sharing!