I Have Assumed That Naboo Was Supposed To Unstablized The Republic If Things Went According To Plan.

I have assumed that Naboo was supposed to unstablized the Republic if things went according to plan. If things went according to plan Padme, or Sabe disguised as Queen Amidala, would have been forced to sign the treaty and killed shortly afterwards.

Once this got out there would be outrage throughout the entire Republic. Trust would be lost in the Senate and worlds could then be led away possibly em masse because of it.

After a lot of unrest and everything things would come to a head and boil over.

Then at some point Palpatine would seize control and be a hero.

BUT this might not be the case and in an Alternate Universe anything is possible.

So in Anabasis the Invasion of Naboo was the first act of the Clone Wars, right? Did Palps see this coming, and have timetable stepped up, or were they forced into service half-grown/trained? Were the clones not only child soldiers by years as in canon, but also by physiology? Or were they spared that indignity, and 'only' thrown into the meatgrinder half-trained, with only the best or luckiest surviving? Was there a cadre of the first batches, who had completed their training, serving as NCOs?

Naboo was the beginning of the Clone Wars, yes.

I’m actually pretty sure it was supposed to be in canon, in fact. But Queen Amidala foiled his plans, and Palps had to fall back on Option B.

That said, it’s honestly a little weird that AOTC tells us the clones are only ten years old, since it does leave the question of who Palps was planning to use to fight his war if his plan in TPM had gone…well, according to plan.

But for Anabasis purposes, I’m basically just assuming that Palps ordered his clone army a bit earlier in the timeline. So they were physically adults at the beginning of the war, though none of them had any field experience. Basically the same situation as Geonosis in canon.

The NCOs did come from the first batch, and as in canon, the commissioned officers were all Jedi.

As the war went on, though, new clones were increasingly put into service before they were fully grown or fully trained, because the first batch was really quite small.

So yeah, an army of very very young men, technically adults (but only in the most technical sense), with a whole host of Jedi child commanders, and soon enough, a child Sith commander too.

Everything about this was terrible, basically. (But really that’s not any different than canon.)

This would only work if the controls on his belt were moved first. This prevents accidents like the one mentioned above or outright assassination via flipped controls. Of course if he had messed with the controls just before training and forgot to set them back into the right position that would allow a head butt to the chest plate to flip a switch or two. Or maybe even more unlucky she accidentally flipped the controls on the belt just before the head butt. Either way her reaction would amount to horrified shock.

leia only comes up to about vader's chest, so there's a rumor that she headbutted his control panel and he fell over unconscious like a giant jenga tower

This actually happened though.

It was an accident of course. Even without lightsabers involved, training gets kind of wild sometimes.

Leia was kind of terrified in the moment when she saw all the little blinking lights on his chest panel had gone dark for half a second, and then pretty embarrassed after he came to, and then terrified all over again when she realized that his suit was actually a life support system and oh no.

Anakin was mostly embarrassed tbh. Like, what an awkward way to announce, “By the way I’m on life support.” But later he actually finds it really funny.

(Leia thinks his tendency to turn the state of his health and life into a joke is a bit disturbing, but post-Alderaan, especially, she knows she’s got some unhealthy coping mechanisms of her own.)

Eventually they tell Luke about this, and Leia tries to downplay it but of course Anakin wants to play it up and Leia just sits there feeling embarrassed for both of them while Luke can’t decide whether to laugh or be horrified. Or both. Both is good.

You can even see in the PT how Obi-Wan treats the Council's words as law and seems to disregard what the Force might have to say on the situation. The only time we see that he was willing to go against the Council and their decree was to train Anakin and that was to fulfill the promise he made to his dying Master and some people take deathbed promises very seriously.

Why is it that every time Obi-Wan is involved in your fics, he tends to come across as almost a villain? I am a bit confused.

He’s not a villain at all. He’s a Jedi who fully believes in and defines himself by Jedi teachings.

It’s canon that the Jedi do not believe there is any way for someone to be redeemed from the Dark Side. That is literally the entire plot of Luke’s conflict in ROTJ. Does he abide by the belief of his teachers, or does he try to find a new way when it may not be possible, and his trying may doom them all?

I see a lot of AUs where Anakin turns back earlier or in a different way than in canon, and almost always Obi-Wan accepts him back easily, and they both apologize and become friends again, and….I just don’t think that fits either character.

Anakin’s not good at forgiveness, and from his point of view, he’s still going to be very angry at Obi-Wan. His turning back isn’t going to make him magically think Obi-Wan was right about everything all along and Anakin deserved what happened to him.

And Obi-Wan, for his part, just flat out doesn’t believe that Anakin can turn back. That’s why Mustafar happens the way it does, for both of them. Because Anakin can’t forgive and Obi-Wan can’t see any other alternative.

And the entirety of the OT, of Obi-Wan’s interaction with and training of Luke, is aimed at fixing the Darth Vader problem that Obi-Wan believes he started. And the only way to fix it is to kill Vader. He firmly believes that. It’s the only thing he can believe.

That would still be the case in any AU where Anakin turned back sooner or in a different way. Obi-Wan’s worldview doesn’t allow for that possibility. His opposition to Anakin, in such a situation, arises out of a genuine belief that Anakin is lost, and the desire, therefore, to protect others and save the galaxy from him.

He’s wrong. That doesn’t mean he’s evil.

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While I suspect that Rey is a Skywalker I laugh and laugh at the thought of Kylo Ren geeking out and babbling about Lord Darth Vader to Rey while she interjects things to him that leave him confused. More seriously I had a vaguely similar thought for an AU but Rey doesn't know who her caretaker is/was but until the movie I don't know where to go with it. And for possible spoilers and certainly more laughs I will both laught at and feel very sorry for everyone who has written fan fics with Kylo/Rey pairings if they are related. Bonus Points if they are brother and sister and not cousins. #laughing my head off #spoilers?

I'm having a lot of feels about Force ghost Anakin communicating to Rey while she's left on Jakku (since she was 5??? Idk if that's true???) and using the Tatooine religion you've talked a lot about to sort of help her and make her feel a little less alone (especially if she's his granddaughter I feel like there would be some sort of familial obligation)

How dare you anon.

How dare you come into my inbox and just leave this here. Do you realize what you’ve done?

I told myself I would absolutely not write any TFA fic before the movie came out. I’m not going to do it, I said. It will be drastically AU in less than a month, I said. It’s a terrible idea, I said.

Ugh now I’m going to have to do it. This is all your fault, anon. Expect some fic soon you jerk.

But also, just imagine this: For years, Anakin Skywalker has been Rey’s best friend. He’s told her stories. He’s taught her how to cook, and how to fly, and how to fix any number of things and how to create useful items out of scraps of old junk. He’s sat with her through every single sandstorm. He’s shared all of his dad jokes with her, and Rey knows they’re terrible, but she doesn’t fully appreciate just how terrible, since there’s no one else around to compare them with.

(Actually, Anakin has been with her more often than not. Probably the Force police keep trying to tell him that there are rules, that spirits are only supposed to visit the living in times of real need, and sparingly. Anakin just glares and says, “My granddaughter is adding a new mod to BB-8 today, that is absolutely vital, of course I have to be there.”)

And now imagine that Rey, whose best friend is the ghost of Anakin Skywalker, meeting Kylo “I’m Darth Vader’s Biggest Fan” Ren.

It would be absolutely amazing.

“Darth Vader was a visionary!” Kylo Ren says rapturously. “A military genius! He created a galaxy that worked! He - ”

“Yeah, okay, believe what you want,” says Rey. “But I’m telling you, the man’s favorite joke is ‘Two Corellians walk into a bar. The third ducks.’ He’s a hopeless dweeb.”

Kylo gets so offended, like, “How dare you talk about Darth Vader like that!”

And Rey is just unphased, because really, just last month her grandfather was geeking out about that set of jet boosters she found in an old wreck, and while they worked on souping up Rey’s speeder he was gleefully telling her all about his latest prank against his former Master in the afterlife.

“Darth Vader was a genius,” Kylo Ren insists. “Palpatine was a fool, but Vader was the real power behind the Empire.”

“Yeah, that definitely makes sense,” says Rey. “He told me just last week all about how he sent Palpatine a gilt-framed blueprint of the Death Star reactor core for the anniversary of his death. It was very tasteful.”

(Kylo wants to be mad, but he’s honestly more confused than anything. She’s talking like she chats with Vader’s ghost regularly, and apparently Vader’s spending his afterlife pranking Palpatine. But obviously that’s completely ridiculous. Obviously.)

 A really funny image that is in my mind right now is until Vader learned about Luke he was basically acting like Ash Ketchum’s Charizard: lazying around until he is commanded to smash Rebels or he wants to curb stomp them. It’s a funny image.