What's your Star Wars Universe?

[TheDoctor]

[Dustflier]

[Whill]

[TheDoctor]

[Whill]

In my Star Wars universe, Senator Augustus Palpatine had been married but his wife died sometime before Episode I. His wife was a noble from House Melantha in the Tapani Sector and her father had been a direct decendent of Emperor Shey Tapani.

They had a son who was about 25 years old during TPM. Chancellor Palpatine's son (who I'll just call Palpatine II) was married before TPM, and he had a son (Palpatine III) that was born sometime in the same year that TPM takes place in.

During the Great Clone War, the charismatic Palpatine II became a highly-decorated Republic war hero (not too difficult if your father is secretly a Sith Lord and the ultimate master of enemy side of the war). Palpatine II had worked closely with the Jedi General Jorus C'baoth.

After the Empire formed and the Clone Wars were won, Emperor Palpatine was more secure in his throne and shut himself away from the populace, appointing "The Imperial Prince" Palpatine II to be the "President of the Senate" (and handsome face of the Imperial throne).

Palpatine III turned 16 and the Emperor granted him the title of "The Prince of Coruscant" along with govenorship of the captial planet itself.

In a few years Palpatine III got married, and a year after that they has a son, Palpatine IV.

During the beginning of ANH, Palpatine II was assasinated by senators while leading a session of congress (and of course the assasins were then killed by Imperial guards). The Emperor soon announced that the Rebel Alliance claimed responsibility for the assasination of his son, and that the Senate had been dissolved "for the duration of the emergency". (Of course you know who is really behind the assasination.)

Palpatine III's title became "The Imperial Prince of Coruscant" but his duties as the govenor of the planet during the Rebellion remained unchanged.

...After ROTJ, Palpatine III and IV will claim to be heirs to the Empire. Of course they aren't the only ones so I envision the chaotic period during the rise of the New Republic to also include Imperial Civil Wars. Three new empires rise from the remnants of the Galactic Empire.

The most powerful heir is the Force-sensative Palpatine IV, who had been trained as a secret Sith apprentice from birth by his great-grandfather...
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[Whill]

I don't see anything in the films themselves that make it impossible for Emperor Palpatine to have had a family that served the above roles. His heirs would only be more rivals to pit against the other rivals for Imperial power, like the Imperial advisors, the grand moffs and admirals, and Lord Vader. The more they plot against each other is the less they plot against the Emperor.

In my Star Wars Universe, Emperor Palpatine was never publically known to be a Sith (or even Force-user). Vader was the only one known to be a "Dark Lord of the Sith" , but the Empire was not publically viewed to be a Sith Empire. So Vader was Palpatine's right-hand man and you had better pay him respect, but Palpatine never officially desginated any heirs or succession rules. That allowed many to have dreams of the throne. Vader hoped to follow the Sith tradition and usurp his Master. Many Imperial Senators naively believed they would eventually democratically elect a new Emperor or perhaps even restore the Republic Chancellorship. The Palpatine family hoped to establish an Imperial dynasty. And so on.

But in reality, Palpatine never planned to give up his power to anyone. Palpatine hoped to discover a path to immortality that was accessible through the Dark Side of the Force so that he may have supreme power over the galaxy forever. I'm not saying that he ever found that power, but all this makes a sensible back-story that that allows for the Imperial Civil Wars and many claimants to the Imperial throne who feel they rightfully deserve to rule the galaxy. And to me, all this makes a more interesting setting for Star Wars adventures set after ROTJ.
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[Grimace]

And conveniently allows for Dark Empire with "Emperor Palpatine" (the IV) to play a role in it.

[Bren]

[Whill]

Thanks. I can't deny both the Dune and historical influences.

[Darth_Hilarious]

What if???????


What if Jawas and Ewoks are two subsets of the same species???????

[garhkal]

[Frandal]

In my SWU, Qui-Gon Jinn IS Anakin father. The scene between Shmi and Qui-Gon talking about Anakin goes like this

Q: Why didn't you tell me?
S: You know the answer. You cannot leave the Jedi Order, you wouldn't not even for me.
Q: But I would only if I ever knew..
Shmi smiles, sadly
S:That's no love darling, that's obligation.
Qui-Gon Pauses for a moment they turn towards the Chios playing
Q:I guess you are right. Nevertheless you should have contacted me, how did you end...?
S: Please, I don't want to talk about it. Just tell me that you are going to free him.
Q: He is powerful in the Force I sensed a disturbance in the Force just as we landed but never though it was... him.
Qui Gon thinks for a moment Shmi waits.
Q: I will free you both don't know how yet but the Force will help us. Still I do not know if the Order will allow me to train him.


Don't want to bore you with all my rewriting of the prequels but there are no midiclorians and the fall of Anakin to the dark side and the revealing of Palpatine as The Lord Sith is a little more elaborate than "we are going to jail him, no wait you are saying that you need him and you are threading me, after all I never trusted you so I am going to kill him instead. I knowI know I am a Master Jedi but hey I can change my mind in matters of galactic importance from one second to another for no apparent reason".

Of course I hate some Jedi deaths with Order 66. They could have beat the Jedi taking them by surprise or by sheer numbers, but come on!! No sensing nothing at all? Continuing walking like if they are just taking a walk in the park? (The Aurra Sing death is just dissapointing) And we can see in the clone wars series that the clones aren't droids. No second thoughts? Not for even a single one of them?

Don't get me wrong I like the prequels, it's just that I think that there a key moments that doesn't make sense to me and let the whole thing down, very down.

[Quetzacotl]

Well, the "no second thoughts" thing could be easily explained. Order 66 would be a command implanted in their brain, that would put them in some kind of hypnotic state where they have no more will of there own and simply have to kill the Jedi. Even if they bonded with them, they had no choice.

Personally, I like the medicholian thing. Some people are strong in the force while others are not. That was always a fact in SW. So now we got a reason y.
The only thing would be, that it is far to easy to determine. They could have left some mystery there by talking about the medichlorians, but being unable to detect how much medichlorians are inside of the Person. That way it would still have a mystic touch without being "It's magic" ^^

[Dromdarr_Alark]

My universe does not have midichlorians. They make Star Wars less space opera.
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