This is an original short story, with no connection to Star Wars or any other previously established fictional universe/franchise. It's basically a tidied-up rewrite of an older story I wrote back in 2008/09, which was itself a rewrite of a story I wrote way back in 2003. I have completed it, so there's no chance of me leaving the story to dangle in the wind unfinished. I will be breaking it up, though, and posting each segment once a day, if only to pad the life of this thread (XD).

Anyway, the story begins with the first REAL post, following this intro in 5, 4, 3, 2 ...