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thejediknighthusezni
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Saga Remake
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16-Apr-2011, 1:16 AM

     ...This might be a good time to review the characters of the backstory ('83).

      Yoda- leader and trainer. He takes Obi and Ani because they are especially powerful and mischievous.

      "Padme"- Some of the same qualities as her daughter. She believes in reactive defense. Maybe goes further in personal circumstances. Ani goes for global reasons (missed guess)   

      In my favorite iteration, Obi, Ani, and "Padme" formed a tight little trio.

      They were all about twenty at the fall of the Republic. Somewhere between 16-22 through the PT. They were those cool kids that everyone else envied and admired in the HS lunchroom. They were good looking, talented, strong, and top students. But even the cool kids have troubles. These problems are small, in the background, undercurrents that pop up occasionally, before the very end. Like the OT trio, these three love each other very dearly (Yeah, I know, just like 'HP'.)

      Obi is reckless and aggressive at times. "Padme" can agree to the mischief of the boys. Ani is the one who tries most to live up to expectations, but he is also given to recklessness and aggressive independent action.

     At the fall of the Republic (ep.III), things have deteriorated greatly. Many systems through the galaxy have been devastated. The Pru have built a huge new battlefleet. Sen. Palpy is working full time to build a coalition to save the galaxy from the clone powers. Palpy is from a world close and closely related to the Pru.

     At this point, the stolonoi invade Ani's homeworld. There is a party on his world that wants to build clones and join the invaders (the world was settled by various peoples thousands of years ago, mostly Pru worlds and those related to the Pru.) They launch a campaign of chaos and catastrophe to reduce and control the world's population. Millions of Ani's people are slaughtered each day and it is only getting worse. To this point, Ani has been trying harder than the other two to live up to the Jedi way in spite of the fact that his world was coming under increasing attack. It goes against everything he was taught to hold dear when he was a child to sit back and do nothing (Afghanistan was the ongoing conflict at this time {as now :(})

     The Jedi are ineffectual. They are devoted to a philosophy that requires a long term view that they can't make enemies of various parties and must have consensus in the Senate. They may be correct, for the long term, but that's no consolation to Ani. It becomes clear that Ani's world will be wiped out if action is not taken immediately. In anguish, Ani goes to the only person who can help him. Sen Palpy has assembled powers led by the Pru that, with the help of some Jedi, could send enough force to Ani's world to stop the horror. Ani goes to Obi and Padme for help, but the two he loves most in the galaxy reject the plan. They insist he must stop. Ani's is not the only world devastated in the clone wars. Many other homeworlds of many other young Jedi have been ravaged or will be ravaged. As many as a third of the Jedi (mostly the younger ones) can no longer tolerate the "navel gazing" of the older masters (reinforced by 'WG' and 'RD'). Sen Palpy has been manipulating all of this.

     Now Palpy has enough power to stop the clones and drive a permanent wedge between the rebel Jedi and faithful masters. He is elected president. He has the senate declare the Pru forces the official army and fleet of the republic.  The clone powers are thrown back, but still a threat. The faithful Jedi turn to stop the rebel Jedi. The jedi, already depleted by the CW, wipe each other out. The Pru and a few reb and faithful jedi are all that's left in the ashes. 

    Ani tries to get Padme and Obi to join him. He's heart broken to be rejected and Padme goes with Obi. Obi tries to stop Ani. They fight over the lava pit. Ani is burned and loses limbs, but not as terrrible as ROTS. Padme was killed by forces working secretly for Palpy in a way that makes the faithful Jedi responsible, after the twins were born. Ani is left hating Obi and the Jedi "posing" and anything that would encourage division and devastation in the galaxy.