Star Wars: Sororal Lineality: Miha
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.”
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.
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