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

Star Wars: Sororal Lineality: MJ-0002

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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

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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

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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

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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.