Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Unexpected Consequences

Star Wars: Unexpected Consequences

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Lucinda lay on the trimmed grass between the main building and the base's storage sheds, and she pointed her macrobinoculars at the darkening sky. They were a present Mommy had bought with her first bonus working for Captain Karrde. Lucinda wasn't an official lookout—they manned the sensors inside—but it was fun to watch the ships take off and arrive. All the ships were on base, so that wasn't her current aim. She fine-tuned the scopes to see the visible stars before sunset. Then she'd have a visual for when she pretend-piloted off-planet.

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Summary: Mara Jade returns to Luke Skywalker's life with a child who needs protection from the Imperial Remnant.

Also known as “What happens to the Thrawn Trilogy if I throw a kid in it?!” I started writing the first draft on September 8, 2018 after I had finished writing "Forsaken No Longer, Outcast No More" and was working on outlining Mission on Mimban and editing Rescue the Farmboy: Liberation. Too many projects at the same time. So I didn't finish the first draft of Unexpected Consequences until July 13, 2020. I finished edits and published it on Ao3 in 2021 and at the Library in 2022. I hope you enjoy this Legends AU.

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Sororal Lineality: Miha

Star Wars: Sororal Lineality: Miha

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Biggs Darklighter pushed the hyperdrive lever back to the sublight setting and the blue mottled sky around his cockpit shifted to starlines and then pinpricks of light. The Rebel Fleet hung on the edge of the galaxy, relieving his uneasy stomach. It was bad enough that Luke hadn’t turned up and he hadn’t found his storm-brother; if the Fleet had moved while he was on Tatooine, he would be totally lost right now. Thank the Force that hadn’t happened.

The comm chimed. He gave out the correct codes to be readmitted back to the Fleet. That officer signed off, and Commander Wedge Antilles, acting commander of the Rogue Squadron when Biggs left, replaced her voice. “Your trip to Tatooine was a bust.”

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Summary: Biggs Darklighter arrives back at the Fleet and finds out what happened to Luke Skywalker from a new defector, Mara Jade.

So this story sets up the major change that happened in the Sororal Lineality's A New Hope: that Han Solo turned around faster and knocked Vader and his TIE fighter wingmen out of the trench before Vader shot Biggs Darklighter dead. Biggs also survived the Battle of Hoth and took a sabbatical of his own before showing up now to have his meet cute with Mara Jade. Biggs is the oldest in this trio and also the only one raised with younger siblings, so he slots into protecting Luke and Mara so easily.

One of the biggest surprises out of writing Rescue the Farmboy: Liberation (BookWorm's Library | Ao3) was how much I liked expanding Biggs and giving him a connection to both Skywalker twins. It hurt to kill him off when I could see how to save him. Sororal Lineality gave me a chance to put that idea in action, albeit in the history of the characters that I'm not planning on writing again. Biggs does owe Han. It's not the same level of bonding that Han and Luke got on board the Death Star and later the saving on Hoth, but just try to leave Biggs out of saving Han fun. Luke knows better.

I hope you enjoy this story and this series.

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Sororal Lineality: Aftermath

Star Wars: Sororal Lineality: Aftermath

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

“Come with me. It is the only way.”

Luke had rejected that offer of aggression, fear, and anger. The Dark Side was easier and seductive, like Master Yoda had warned. But Luke had seized on his sense of justice that led him to join the Rebel Alliance. He would never rule anything as evil as the Empire even with his father. A father alive? A monster that had stalked him for years.

He let go of his rage and his fear and his despair and the pipe he had gripped with his remaining hand.

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Summary: As Luke struggles to hang on under Cloud City, someone besides Leia answers his call for help.

This is the story that firmly establishes the time frame Sororal Lineality is taking place in the Original Trilogy. Most of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back takes place, but there are a few changes to those stories too. I hope you enjoy this series.

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Sororal Lineality: MJ-0002

Star Wars: Sororal Lineality: MJ-0002

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Another treasonous Moff dealt with, Mara thought to herself as she stalked down the corridor to her favorite training room in the Imperial Palace. It was like they were breeding like spider-roaches, and that was all they wanted to do with her alias identities too. No matter how many she rooted out, still more turned up. She let a shudder ripple through her body.

At least she didn’t have to worry about lecherous thoughts or actions for her next assignment. If Lord Vader had any, he kept them to himself. He even kept his hands to himself when he was killing someone!

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Summary: Mara Jade discovers she is not the only Emperor's Hand.

The Star Wars Fic Whining Circle started in May 2018, and soon we were bouncing plot ideas and detail double-checking off each other. We decided to start an Ao3 collection of clone stories called Attack of the Clones. I ended up plotting out my idea that the multiple Emperor's Hands were all clones of Mara Jade, and once "Mara" discovers this fact, she runs to the Rebellion and Luke Skywalker for help to free them with the Whining Circle's feedback in 2019. Deciding to challenge myself by outlining with with MACE method from the Writing Excuses podcast and then writing the whole series in sequential short stories was all me madness. I hope you enjoy the first story in this series.

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban

Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Mission on Mimban

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Luke Skywalker pushed the hyperdrive lever of his X-wing, returning the snub-fighter to subspace. A murky green-white sphere sat ahead with its star, Circarpous Major, angled behind him so they approached the planet’s dayside.

He frowned at the transponder in his cockpit. Mara’s presence in his mind approached. The transponder pinged as her X-wing rippled into existence on his port side.

“Rogue Three reporting in,” Mara Jade said crisply over the comms.

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Summary: Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade’s exploration of Mimban is derailed by the unexpected Imperial presence on the planet and their way off-planet depends on finding the Kaiburr crystal before the Imperials do.

2019: the end of the first story of Rescue the Farmboy AU (Liberation) is in sight, so what to start next is bubbling up. Unexpected Consequences is outlined and I don't foresee needing a lot of research to get started on it. Then of course there's the next novel in Rescue the Farmboy's series covering ESB events. But I'm not ready to start another novel.

I've already written a short story for Rescue the Farmboy set after the Battle of Yavin and before Hoth. Another short idea I had was Luke and Mara getting the snot kicked out of them while on a separate mission and that finally gets rid of any lingering doubts over Mara's loyalties and also makes Obi-Wan move healing techniques up in the lesson plans. Nothing else gelled until I was fixing my Darth Vader issues in the outline and realized the background crazy from Splinter of the Mind's Eye can be that mission with a lot of tweaking.

And now in 2025, Mission on Mimban is available to read. I hope you enjoy this latest novel in the Rescue the Farmboy series.

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Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: One More Service

Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: One More Service

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Obi-Wan sighed in the telepathic conversation and his body in meditation followed it. Master Yoda, they should be told the truth.

No! As hard as it was to communicate like this, Yoda’s meaning was clear and strong as transparisteel. Lose them to the Dark Side for attachments we will not. Train them in what they must know to defeat the Sith, Master Obi-Wan. May the Force be with you.

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Summary: Princess Leia Organa of the remaining Alderaanians has a question over something Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi said to her. She finally gets a chance to ask about it after the evacualtion of the Yavin IV base is complete.

It had always bugged me from first viewing the Original Trilogy that Princess Leia never got a title upgrade to Queen when the Queen of Alderaan so very clearly died. My answer to that is publicly adopted Leia was never going to inherit the Throne of Alderaan and it was due to go to another branch of the family, which is now also dead. After I had plotted out how the Original Trilogy events would change in the Rescue the Farmboy AU, I had a few more ideas for smaller stories that fit into this AU and answered some of my lingering issues. So I decided to fit them in between the novels. This story is the first of those, and I hope you enjoy it.

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Liberation

Star Wars: Rescue the Farmboy: Liberation

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Luke Skywalker tightened his grip on his duffel bag and strode off the landing platform. The mass of other beings in the spaceport walkways slowed his gait. He gazed up and down at the massive buildings that dwarfed the liner he and Biggs had just disembarked on this local afternoon. The wind gusting over and around the aerodrome tugged at his shaggy blond hair. The sharply acidic smell of the air irritated his nose. He clenched his teeth. He wasn't gawking at Coruscant like the spacers said he would.

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Summary: The comment said: "Now I want a Star Wars AU where Luke went to the Imperial Academy and his name set off all kinds of alarms." And my muse wanted that too, and added "What if Luke became the damsel in distress; the one who needed rescuing from the Death Star?"

The first notes of this alternate universe take on Star Wars were dated for May 12, 2016. I forget if it was a comment on one of the movie essays or if it was on one of the book reviews for the Extended Universe Legends line, but it was a comment in Tor.com's Star Wars collection. The conversation was on how nobody really tried all that hard to hide Luke Skywalker from Vader/Empire. The comment said: "Now I want a Star Wars AU where Luke went to the Imperial Academy and his name set off all kinds of alarms." And my muse wanted that too, and added "What if Luke became the damsel in distress; the one who needed rescuing from the Death Star?"

The plot bunny started hopping and damn, this idea had the potential of fixing the prequels and being so much better than the fix-it fanfic I wrote in high school. This series is so much better than that and I hope you enjoy it.

Six Sentence Sunday: Star Wars: Crude Matter

Star Wars: Crude Matter

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Jade’s Fire swooped gently over Anzat’s grasslands and the comm system chimed that Mara’s prey was in voice broadcast range. She toggled it on. “I got your text comm and my ETA is fifteen minutes, Skywalker. Anything I need to be alert for on the ground?”

For a moment, she wondered if he would respond. The way the text comm had been phrased she thought it had been sent through his astromech droid. The landing beacon that she was flying toward was bound to be the droid’s work. The Force wasn’t giving her a warning, but that didn’t mean she’d find a conscious Luke Skywalker.

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Summary: Mara Jade answers a comm from Luke Skywalker. Maybe she should stop doing that.

This story is also known as my muse having a "you want to write what now?" reaction. Early in 2019, the Star Wars Fic Whining Circle (aka the Slack group of fellow writers I whine to) issued a writing challenge with a pair of kinks picked at random. My random selections were gender switch and aphrodisac.

They offered to have me draw again but I didn't want to take a chance on getting a worse pair. So I went away to think about it. The muse gave me the plot line. Excellent, that was quick! Shared it with the Slack group and JediMordsith summed up the theme for me:

We live our lives on the boundary where luminous beings meet crude matter.

I hope you enjoy this story.