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This is an ongoing fanedit of The Rise of Skywalker based on Hal 9000’s TROS Ascendant. Furthermore, it is intended to be paired with NeverarGreat’s The Force Awakens: Starlight. Most changes will be accomplished using AI voice work, although I can guarantee all of them will be as seamless as possible. If you don’t believe me, then listen to some of the samples linked below.
This project is currently undergoing maintenance. Originally, it was going to offer a different origin story for Rey, but now it’s going to be a Special Edition of Ascendant v5. Below are some of the changes you should expect in this edit:
- “Vader” calls out to his grandson on Mustafar, leading him to his Wayfinder
- Instead of Palpatine simply instructing Kylo Ren to kill Rey again when he goes to Vader’s mask, Palpatine will take the form of his grandfather and they will duel. This scene will make it clear that Kylo is not interested in the Sith at all and wants to make something new. Various tests of this can be found in this thread.
- Replace Kylo Ren’s line: “Palpatine wants you dead” with “Palpatine wants me to fight you.”
- Luke will reach out to Kylo Ren, trying to convince him to come back to the light. This replaces another instance of Palpatine simply telling Kylo to kill Rey. This is meant to fulfill his line from TLJ: “See ya around, kid.” It also is meant to chip away at the idea that Palpatine is every voice in his head. And finally, it makes their appearance together at the end of the film less awkward since they didn’t leave on the best of terms in TLJ.
- Instead of explicitly going after Rey, Palpatine will simply be going after his son in the backstory, unaware that Rey exists. This makes Ochi less of an idiot for not finding a child left alone on Jakku. We can assume that the ship child Rey sees departing Jakku has Ochi and her parents on board. Palpatine only discovers Rey’s existence through a vision at an undefined point.
- Reinstate Kylo’s line to “we’re a dyad in the Force”. I personally prefer that this was something always shared between them, given their interrogation scene in TFA.
- (Possibly) add an additional sentence at the end of Kylo’s reveal: “We’ll kill him. Together. And make a new order.”
- Modify a conversation between Finn and Poe to suggest that Ochi discovered Rey’s existence after killing her parents and was intent on informing the Emperor about her on Exegol - only to end up dying with the secret.
- Replace Luke’s line of “It was fear that kept me here” with something along the lines of “Failure was my greatest fear” to prevent Luke in TLJ from being a coward.
- Reinstate Palpatine’s line: “For my grandchild to come home! I never wanted you dead. I wanted you here, with me.”
- Luke reaches out to Ben a final time as he clutches a dead Rey, encouraging him in the moment.
I’m sure I’ll think of more as this process goes along, I’ll keep this thread updated.