Originally posted by: Darth-Adroit
Ben and Anakin arrive and find that Anakin’s mother has been killed by a crack whore or some shit.

Awesome!

[This is also long - sorry!]

I would have preferred the Jedi order to have been less associated with the senate. I think the analogy with Eastern monks should have been extended, so that you have Jedi temples in remote places across the galaxy. I would have liked Yoda to have always lived alone on Dagobah and Jedi get sent there to train with him. A bit like Pai-Mei in 'Kill Bill'! People would come to the Jedi with their problems and the Jedi would only intervene with force (and The Force!

) when all other methods had failed. I think the Jedi should not get involved in political struggles. I think Jedi would advise political leaders but not side with any of them. I don't like the idea of them being some kind of police force attached to the state. For me, that diminishes their status considerably.

I think that the Jedi would only get involved when they found out that the Sith were trying to take over the leadership of the senate. This could then logically lead to the senate being turned against the Jedi. Perhaps some systems would side with the senate and some with the Jedi. This would give rise to the Clone Wars. The division of the senate would allow for the systems that stay to become the Empire. The Empire have a clone army which has been assembled in secret, plus a vast fleet of Star Destroyers. This unexpected show of force overwhelms the opposition.

Sith (rule of two be damned!) could be dispatched, as officials of the empire, to find Jedi temples and kill anyone they found there. I'm sure I read on someone's post that the place on Dagobah, described by Yoda as being "strong with the Dark Side of the Force", was created by a duel with a powerful Sith (something in the EU, I think). Maybe the Sith decided to cut their losses and just wipe out every other Jedi and wait for Yoda to die? The Clone Wars would rage on between systems loyal to the Jedi and the Empire, controlled by the Sith. The war devestates both sides and leaves the Empire on top, but virtually all of the Jedi and Sith have been wiped out.

It would be through the characters of Obi-Wan, Anakin and Padme (would probably change the name, if I had my way) that we would see this epic struggle. It would fit rather well to have Anakin be a pilot in the forces under, by now, General Kenobi's command. This would be best to be the Alderaan system, as Leia states that Obi-Wan served her (adoptive) father during the Clone Wars. I reckon having Anakin found by Obi-Wan when he's about the same age as Luke in ANH is a good one, because it would allow us to see him (over the course of the SW saga) try to train Anakin and then realise that he couldn't train Jedi like Yoda and not make the same mistake again with Luke, especially since the stakes are even higher after the Clone Wars have been lost.

I like the idea of the love trianle between the three of them, but I don't like the idea of that leading Anakin to the Dark Side. I don't think it's EPIC enough!! I think that Padme should fall for Anakin and Obi-Wan should be the jealous one ("It's because of my beard, isn't it?!"). It would make sense if Obi-Wan struggled against his feelings for Padme, if we follow through the idea about the Jedi being like monks. I think it is a much more powerful story if Anakin falls in love with his growing power and that he follows that road at the cost of his relationships with Padme and Obi-Wan.

How about Sith reporting back to Sidious that they have encountered a young Jedi who is very strong with the Force and fights (with a lightsabre that Obi-Wan constructs for him) with more passion than discipline. Wouldn't that interest him somewhat? Sidious could then engineer a meeting between him and Anakin and duel with him. Sidious could then work on Anakin, as he and Vader do on Luke in ROTJ and ESB respectively, with the result that Anakin does fall to the Dark Side to gain the power that Sidious displays in the duel and is offering to pass on to him. After this Anakin would become Sith, take the name Darth Vader, help the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights and would eventually come face-to-face with Obi-Wan. Cue scene where Anakin tries to win Obi-Wan over to his side but Obi-Wan resists. Anakin becomes enraged, they duel, Anakin comes close to killing Obi-Wan a couple of times and, eventually, Obi-Wan, in self-defence, stops holding back, bests Anakin and pushes him into a lake of lava, taking the lightsabre that he had made for Anakin away with him.

Obi-Wan comes to Padme to tell her what has happened. At first she is furious with Obi-Wan and accuses him of killing Anakin because of jealousy but, eventually, comes to accept that he had to do what he did. Now, I would like to see, over the course of this story, that Padme and Anakin live together until he goes off with Sidious. A few months after he goes she finds out that she's pregnant. After the "death" of Anakin she returns home. Shortly after that, we hear of Imperial forces, led by Lord Darth Vader, scourging all systems of all remaining Jedi and their relatives and known supporters. Obi-Wan comes to her just before Vader does. She has had twins, a boy and a girl. Obi-Wan withholds from her that Vader is Anakin. He tells her that Vader will kill her and her children if he finds them. He convinces her of Vader's ability to sense the children and persuades her that, if they were separated, it would make them harder to find. He tells her that Anakin had a brother and he'll take one of the children to him. He tells her to take the other child with her to Alderaan and seek refuge with the Organas and, if anyone asks, the Organas should say that the baby is theirs. Padme will then have to make the agonising decision of which child to take with her and which to send with Obi-Wan. Well, we know the outcome of that one.

So, Obi-Wan seeks out the Lars family and, eventually, tracks them down on Tatooine. He gives up Luke into the care of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru and then puts some distance between himself and the homestead. Padme and Leia settle down with the Organas on Alderaan. And, for a few years, that's it. Then, I think, either Vader or some other Imperial officials find out who Padme is. Leia is protected by the pretence that she is the child of the Organas. Padme refuses to cooperate and Leia sees her mother get killed and that sets her on her course to become leader of the Rebellion.

Whaddaya think, y'all?