Ok, here are my answers to those last three questions I posed. 7 & 9 are important to the stories of Ep2 and 3, while question 8 is more getting my head settled into the universe:
7. Why did Obiwan tell Luke, "I was ONCE a Jedi knight, the same as your father"?
Ok, people were looking for things to be unexpected, someone DID mention this and I really like the idea. Take the above statement literally. Before this story is complete, Obiwan will leave the Jedi order. It is really the only way that THIS interpretation of the Jedi Knights and Leia calling him GENERAL Kenobi can co-exist. Part of my current story places this fact as one of the reasons that Obiwan survives the killing of the Jedi.
8. After Alderaan is destroyed in ANH, why isn't Leia a queen? Wouldn't she be the last living royalty of that world?
During my first post, I stated that Leia was adopted and that she knew it. I still feel this is true. I don’t think we really need to get into it in any way in the NPT, I just wanted to explain the reasoning so we understand where all the chess pieces are. If a kingdom falls and the ruler flees to another land, that man is still referred to as the King, correct? So, after Alderaan is destroyed. I assume the royal family (except for Leia) is gone. Wouldn’t that make her Queen? UNLESS she was not blood. As an adopted member of the family, she could be a princess, but NOT in line of succession. Is my logic correct here?
9. Why does Leia remember her "real mother," while Luke finds Dagobah familiar?
Ok, this one really needs work in my mind. We need to know Anakin’s wife was pregnant. We need to show the idea of at least ONE child being born (we don’t need a naming ceremony). And we need to see at least one child being hidden (probably Luke). I think keeping Leia’s secret will be extremely difficult but I hope you folks can help me figure a way out. I have some slight-of-hand ideas, but nothing solid YET. NOW the cooler part, Luke and Dagobah – What if it WAS “out of a dream?” During one of our Obiwan/Anakin discussions about the force or Yoda, Obiwan describes the “Heart of the Force” (not naming Dagobah) with its uncontrollable life and power and Anakin says that it sounds familiar. Obiwan replies, “Yes.” Anakin looks at him questioningly, “It was…” Obiwan completes the thought, “a dream in your youth.” Anakin still looks confused. Obiwan continues, “The force calls out but we can only hear it when we are at peace. As children, that is when we are asleep, so we see it as dreams. Some forget them, some dismiss them, and a very few take them to heart and answer the call.” Answering the call implies being guided to a Jedi and then leading the Jedi to Dagobah. (Yes I wrote that correctly. If the child cannot guide the Jedi to Yoda, then they are not ready to be trained.) Anakin could have refused the call, because he felt responsible for his sister (he can leave in EP1 because she has Owen to take care of her). Luke could have refused the call because Owen would have told him it was just a dream and to forget it.
Well, what do you think?
I've been working on the Ep2 outline and I can tell you that this needs to be a REALLY intricate script to pull off all character moments effectively. It uses alot of ideas that have been presented here, but is firmly planted in the galaxy I set up in my EP1. Either it will blow your minds, or you will banish me forever (well maybe not BANISH).