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All i know is that Rey is in an arranged marriage with a wealthy Lord on a neutral planet to secure funding for the Resistance, but Kylo tracks her down and crashes the wedding and drags her back to his ship. I cannot find a mention of this fic anywhere. Please tell me someone else remembers this fic because its in my TBR reylo notes and I could NOT have made this up. If anyone has it can you share a link please? 🙏

Does anyone have any good fanfic recs for fanfiction focusing on the naval aspect of Star Wars? MiliSciFi-type stories?

In this version there is no Operation Cinder or Exegol. And if you want to follow the prophecy
you could say that Vader unintentionally caused the Emperor’s death by feeding him out of date fruits or something like how Persus in Greek Mythology accidentally killed his grandfather he was propheciced to kill by a an accidental discus throw.

I suggested this idea before but the more i think about it the more like it.

Basically the Emperor SOMEHOW dies before the events of the OT and it initially cause a power vacuum that results in Thrawn and Vader in charge.

Since the Emperor isn’t around to dissolve the Senate maybe it remains for a while as a symbol with no real power.

Without the abuse or control of the Emperor Vader undergoes a severe risky surgery to improve his cybernetic body that was intentionally made faulty by the Emperor to make him independent of him so he can now survive without his mask and suit.

Without the Emperor and the now current leadership of Thrawn and Vader Thrawn is put in charge of imperial fleet and Vader in charge of the Death Star. Neither of them particularly liked the Death Star. Thrawn thought it was an over ambitious vanity project and Vader isn’t eager to use it since he primarily wants to bring order to Galaxy so the Death Star isn’t used to destroy Aldeeran.

Other ideas with this scenario: if Alderran isn’t destroyed Leia remains captive but Vader can sense something about her so he refuse to execute her.

If the Falcon still gets captured maybe Ben gets captured by Vader instead of killed and even if Falcon is tracked to Yavin 4 Vader and Thrawn doesn’t take the bait and keeps the Death Star away from Yavin 4 so they can upgrade the defenses of the Death Star instead sending Star Destroyers there so the rebel has to evacuate.

I’m just throwing out ideas: I just think it’s interesting to think how the Empire would work without the arrogant leadership of the Emperor and how Vader’s potential redemption would now work without an Emperor for him to kill.

Also another thing to consider in the OT Vader wanted to Luke to join him because he feared that the Emperor would hunt him down if he didn’t. Without the Emperor Vader’s approach to this would be different if Vader is in fact genuinely partially in control of the Empire in this version.

Also I think it would be funny if Vader sent Mara Jade to spy on Luke and they still hook up in this timeline.

Hey all,

I have redone the sequels, trying to keep the original characters and directional portrayal while cutting out a lot of the crap from the movies, especially 8 and 9.

As a note Rey will be portrayed as a dark Jedi for the majority going through the Anakin path from the prequels. This is in line with her being the Emperors granddaughter that is explicitly stated in The Rise of Skywalker.

Palpitine will be mentioned throughout this piece as the leader of the First order with Snoke and Kylo Ren below him.

Here goes:

**7: The Rise from Ashes**

The first two and a half acts stay in place, bar Palpatine looking down on Snoke rather than the actual interpretation. The final fight still happens on Starkiller Base. Finn fights Kylo, but Luke takes the blade instead of Rey, and Luke beats Ben. The movie ends on a cliffhanger with Ben snarling to Luke, "You are not my master."

**8: Duel of the Fates**

Most changes happen here. It starts with Luke and Rey retreating to the Rebel base with Finn’s broken body. Upon seeing Leia, Luke gives her a disapproving shrug, implying that Han has died, while Finn is rushed into immediate medical care. Kylo boards a Star Destroyer and executes a random Imperial officer to assert his authority. Snoke then holds a discussion with Ren about the true power of the dark side, and brings him to Palpatine's base on Exegol to introduce Ren to the Emperor.

Meanwhile, Luke takes Finn and Rey to Dagobah, teaching them about the nature of the Force and how to wield their abilities responsibly. In the climax, Palpatine dispatches Snoke and the boss stormtrooper, arming her with a lightsaber to confront Finn, Luke, and Rey on the salt planet, while the Leia-led Rebellion clashes with the Hux-led First Order. Luke dies in this battle, providing a fitting send-off to the character as a testament to Mark Hamill and his service to the franchise. Leia senses Luke's passing through the Force, showing her lineage as Anakin's daughter. She finishes the battle against the First Order, barely escapes, and embraces Finn on the transport while coldly leaving Rey out of it, cementing Rey's initial slide toward the dark side.

**9: The Death of the Jedi**

Finn and Rey take an X-wing to Bespin to counter an Imperial attack after Lando, coerced under heavy pressure from the Emperor, calls the Rebellion into a trap. Finn and Rey confront Kylo Ren with Snoke watching over the platform. Rey suddenly decapitates Ren—a ruthless, shocking move. Finn is deeply frustrated that Rey did this, though he understands why it had to be done. Back at the base, Leia gives Rey a freezing, disapproving look over the execution.

Snoke meets with Palpatine to review the outcome, confirming that Rey’s strike was the right move. He reveals five Star Destroyers equipped with Death Star superlasers, discussing the absolute control they could wield over the galaxy together. Rey is soon assigned a mission to an unknown Sith planet, with Leia telling her to look after herself. Upon arriving, Rey wields her lightsaber against Palpatine, who drops the grandfather revelation.

Meanwhile, the First Order pinpoints the Resistance base and launches a devastating assault. Leia sacrifices herself, demonstrating the full elegance of her Force abilities as she dies in combat, honoring Carrie Fisher's legacy. The Rebels manage to escape just in time. Snoke and Palpatine formally embrace Rey into the Sith, manipulating her with the claim that the Jedi never respected her and that her true power belongs with the dark side. The three Sith deploy the superlaser Star Destroyers into orbit, obliterating three planets in the direct vicinity of the surviving Rebels.

Fed up with the ruthless demands of Snoke, Ren, and Palpatine, Hux decides his time with the First Order is over and defects to the Rebellion seeking self-preservation and a higher purpose. Soon after, Rey strikes down Snoke as an assertion of singular dominance before Palpatine, upholding the Rule of Two. Palpatine eventually reveals his survival to the wider galaxy, leaving veteran members of the Rebellion completely stunned.

A massive final space battle erupts, with Hux and Chewbacca leading the assault aboard the *Millennium Falcon*. The Rebellion discovers that the fleet shares the classic design vulnerability of superlaser reactors—critical cooling flaws right where the weapons draw power—allowing the Rebels to obliterate the entire armada, though Palpatine slips away just before the command ships detonate.

Down on the surface, a brutal one-on-one duel breaks out between Finn and Rey, with Finn quickly realizing he is trapped in an all-out dogfight. Finn is nearly beaten and buried under rubble during the duel, but he pulls himself free to make a final stand after Luke's Force ghost appears to guide his tactics. Finn executes the maneuver with flawless precision, severing both of Rey's arms and legs to neutralize her. She remains alive, but in critical need of life support.

Weeping, Finn tells her, "You were my sister, Rey."Rey glares back in pure shock and blind rage, wanting nothing to do with his sympathy. Palpatine later recovers Rey's broken body and transports her to a medical vault to be fitted with cybernetic limbs. Roll credits.