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Sock_of_Darth_Vader Registered: Dec '02	Date Posted: 8/27/03 11:40am Subject: Rebel Heart, OT fic. Some news 22/10 - Date Edited: 11/22/04 12:14pm (57 edits total) Edited By: Sock_of_Darth_Vader
	Rebel Heart Cover Art Title: Rebel Heart Author: Sock_of_Darth_Vader Characters: OCs, Leia, Luke, Han. Timeframe: Between six years pre-ANH and the end of RotJ. Notes: This story is OC-centric, although there is a lot of Leia, some Luke and a little Han. There is a spoiler-filled timeline here, a list of characters, both canon and original here, and a glossary and note on Alderaanian here and here. I'm going to try to stick to a schedule of Wednesday posting. Many thanks to my beta Sue Parsons (Geezerette50) and my sister Naomi, for proof-reading and idea-bouncing. Non-EU compliant. -~-~-~-~-~-~ PROLOGUE A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... The Republic, the Republic that had stood for a thousand years, was dying. As Palpatine tightened the Imperial stranglehold, anyone who stood in his way was destroyed. The Jedi, the Separatists, and the free peoples all fell before the Imperial regime. In the Senate, a few brave representatives spoke against him; Bail Organa, Padmé Amidala, Mon Mothma. As Palpatine's megalomania grew, they turned to outright rebellion. Their peoples largely supported them, for they were cultures that valued peace and freedom highly. Among Bail Organa's more vocal supporters was his old nanny. She had married the owner of Alderaan's richest transport company, and put her fortune, her company, her intelligence and her offspring at the fledgling Rebellion's disposal. Her name was Miridh Avram-businesswoman, fighter, Rebel-and I was her granddaughter. -----signature----- All your privets are belong to us. Catré, Handmaiden of the Crest. I'm the mini-oba! Fic in Bio. http://a-larger-world.com : Star Wars fanfiction http://catofthejedi.users.btopenworld.com Star Wars is a two-trilogy saga; everything else is optional.
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Wilhelmina Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 8/27/03 3:39pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	Oooh, Cat, a full-length fic? I'm in! Can't wait to see where you take it. -----signature----- Questions about the Archive? Ask me! http://fanfic.theforce.net/
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LadyPadme Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 8/27/03 8:11pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	Wow, Cat, a new fic! * Makes popcorn, gets comfortable and sits back for more * -----signature----- Evil Twin of Gabri_Jade When a baby smiles the world is happy "Damnit, man! I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" -- Leonard "Bones" McCoy
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Devi Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 8/28/03 12:34pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	Neat beginning, Cat! Looking forward to seeing your story! -----signature----- Still Ysanne_Isard's twin! I love Tang! \| e-married to TIEPilot051999 Deviré, Handmaiden of the Crest -Devi- (with the hyphens) is not my sock! Wearing an icon again, still supporting the mods!
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starwarsfan68 Registered: May '03	Date Posted: 8/28/03 7:47pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	Ohh Wednesdays are looking good now. This is better than TV. -----signature----- There is only one true movie romance, the one between Han and Leia http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=13094011&replies=6 September 2003 teaser
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jedishellyskywalker Registered: Oct '02	Date Posted: 8/29/03 5:06am Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	Hmm, sounds good! -----signature----- My fanfics are but a click away! http://boards.theforce.net/user.asp?usr=717534 I Valin, do you? see bio for link Note to Ann: I am NOT a possum, however small I may be!
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KrystalBlaze Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 8/30/03 6:38pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	Cat? Catttt?? You there? Post, please! -Krystal -----signature----- We'll go together... AHBY... always.
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Dev_Binks Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 8/30/03 7:08pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	passes out buckets of chocolate covered popcorn and such then sits down waiting looks good. -----signature----- "There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of them will have letters on them, and the vast majority of those letters will be in the roman alphabet." -Aaron Allston
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MariahJade2 Title: Former Fan Fiction Archive Editor Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 8/30/03 7:41pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	Hmmm, could be interesting. I'll buy some popcorn and wait. -----signature----- Have a question or suggestion for the Archive? Ask the NEWBS! Thank you Phillies! World Series Champs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7CI39brXvw "Why can't us" Best line of 2008
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Tahi Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 8/31/03 9:54pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	This looks fascinating. It's good to see an OC story. Looking forward to see what you do with this. -----signature----- "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1 Master to THE_PIED_PIPER
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Sock_of_Darth_Vader Registered: Dec '02	Date Posted: 9/2/03 11:57am Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic.
	Mina: First reply. Good one. LadyPadme: Yes, a new fic. passes Coke to go with the popcorn Devi: Thank you, and welcome! starwarsfan68: I'm better than TV? jedishellyskywalker: Thank you! Krystalblaze: Next post coming tomorrow! Dev_Binks: passes cushion to sit on Mariah: More popcorn! *brushes spilled popcorn out of thread. Tahi: Hee, another OC writer! I'm still reading yours, just being a bad lurker. -----signature----- All your privets are belong to us. Catré, Handmaiden of the Crest. I'm the mini-oba! Fic in Bio. http://a-larger-world.com : Star Wars fanfiction http://catofthejedi.users.btopenworld.com Star Wars is a two-trilogy saga; everything else is optional.
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Sock_of_Darth_Vader Registered: Dec '02	Date Posted: 9/3/03 12:06pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic. Chapter 1 now up.
	Eighthmonth 1094 I was born on Alderaan rather less than eighteen years before its destruction. That was the single most important factor in my life's path. I am no-one special; no destiny fastened itself inexorably to my shoulders, no portents heralded my birth. Born in another time or place, I would have lived a busy, obscure life, as untouched by galactic events as they were by my existance. But I was caught up in the events of the Rebellion against Palpatine's Empire, without my will, almost without a choice on my part. Perhaps the first step came in the summer of my twelfth year. We-my grandmother and I-were walking in the courtyard garden of our house; I was barefooted, with the grass stems tickling my legs under my skirt. Shamma had been talking of other subjects, and suddenly demanded of me, "Keitin, do you want to go to Girls' Model next year and learn how to catch a man, or do you want some real education?" This was an unfair reflection on the perfectly adequate syllabus of Aldera Girls' Model School; but most of my classmates who were going there seemed only interested in clothes and boys-subjects that inspired me to no great enthusiasm at that date. I replied vaguely that I would rather become a pilot or an engineer. Shamma laughed. "Then it's the Inst for you, m'lei." I had too much healthy respect for my grandmother to disagree even if I had wanted to. She had been running Avram Trade and Transport with an iron hand since her husband's death twenty years before, as well as rearing me, and I held her in as much awe as any of her employees did. My early years had the humdrum uneventfulness of any happy childhood-I went to primary school, played and fought with my cousins, learned to drive a speeder. I was something of a misfit both at home and at elementary school, and not much changed when I went to Inst. Eighthmonth 1085 The Vice-Regal Institute of Education, commonly known as 'Inst', was one of the foremost schools in the capital province, for Bail Organa sponsored it and indeed sent his own daughter there. As well as further lessons in the foundation subjects-mathematics, science, languages, galactography and astrogation, we learned wilderness survival, unarmed self-defence and combat, first aid, basic piloting and starship mechanics and repair. I also elected to study cookery and singing, out of a vague notion they were feminine and would please my aunts. I was the only granddaughter amid a swarm of boy-cousins, and as a result was a gawky, awkward tomboy of a child, more interested in piloting and mathematics than in dolls or frocks. My aunts must have despaired of me-I was a poor substitute for the daughter neither of them had. History was noticeably absent from the official curriculum, but the Empire-prescribed version of His Highness Emperor Palpatine's glorious New Order, told listlessly in primary school, was supplanted by a truer version told in lowered voices. All in all, it would be hard to imagine a better education for potential future Rebels, and I can only conclude that was Bail Organa's intention. The most popular girl in school was undoubtedly Princess Leia Organa. She was in the year above me, and always surrounded by a crowd of her friends like a bodyguard. I had, of course, known her before I started school. Shamma would take me with her when she visited Bail Organa at the Palace, and we would be expected to play together while the grown-ups talked. At this period I believe we had rather disliked each other than otherwise. It was on the shooting range that I changed my mind. Since Alderaan's destruction, I have often come across the misconception that we were a planet of pacifists, unable to tell one end of a blaster from the other. It is true that we had no capital warships, no standing army, no starfighters or ground-to-space missiles. However, people with the ability to use a blaster were common enough, though our low crime rates meant few people needed to carry one regularly, and they were strictly controlled. As I struggled to hit the target, Leia scored a series of centre shots on the next one. She watched my efforts with impatience, then leaned over to me. "You need to sight down the barrel. Imagine you are the bolt." I turned to aim again, too shy to thank her, and she added, "Sometimes your first instinct is the best one." I pulled the trigger, and managed to hit the target for a change. "See?" Leia said, smiling. "You can do it." That was the first seed. Leia Organa was an easy person to admire; brave, highly intelligent, witty, confident, beautiful even at fourteen. I envied her her easy grace-I had shot up recently, was still not sure how to handle my newly elongated limbs, and had developed a distressing tendency to fall over my own feet. As for the rest, I had hazel eyes, freckles on the bridge of my tip-tilted nose, and wavy brown hair with a mind of its own-it took concentrated effort to put it up and keep it up. Overall, I was pretty, for the Avrams were a good-looking clan, and in this at any rate I ran true to type. I tended to blend into the background at school, unlike my flamboyant cousins. My eldest cousin Lusar was still well remembered-when the teachers heard my surname they always asked was I his sister. Dan, the cousin closest to me in age and friendship, was in the year above me, but his method of coping with family in school was to ignore them, and so he made little impact on me at school. -----signature----- All your privets are belong to us. Catré, Handmaiden of the Crest. I'm the mini-oba! Fic in Bio. http://a-larger-world.com : Star Wars fanfiction http://catofthejedi.users.btopenworld.com Star Wars is a two-trilogy saga; everything else is optional.
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jedishellyskywalker Registered: Oct '02	Date Posted: 9/3/03 12:33pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic. Chapter 1 now up. - Date Edited: 9/3/03 12:34pm (1 edits total) Edited By: jedishellyskywalker
	Oooh! Wonderful post! Can't wait for more! BTW: Where in Ireland are you from? -----signature----- My fanfics are but a click away! http://boards.theforce.net/user.asp?usr=717534 I Valin, do you? see bio for link Note to Ann: I am NOT a possum, however small I may be!
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Sock_of_Darth_Vader Registered: Dec '02	Date Posted: 9/4/03 1:06pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic. Chapter 1 now up.
	Thanks, Shelly. (Can I call you that?) Co. Down, the bottom of the top-right-hand corner with the terrorists. About 25 miles from Belfast. -----signature----- All your privets are belong to us. Catré, Handmaiden of the Crest. I'm the mini-oba! Fic in Bio. http://a-larger-world.com : Star Wars fanfiction http://catofthejedi.users.btopenworld.com Star Wars is a two-trilogy saga; everything else is optional.
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LadyPadme Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 9/4/03 1:30pm Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic. Chapter 1 now up.
	Lovely background on Keitin, Cat. How frequently will you update? -----signature----- Evil Twin of Gabri_Jade When a baby smiles the world is happy "Damnit, man! I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" -- Leonard "Bones" McCoy
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Sock_of_Darth_Vader Registered: Dec '02	Date Posted: 9/6/03 2:13am Subject: RE: Rebel Heart, OT fic. Chapter 1 now up: Genesis.
	On Wednesdays, LP. -----signature----- All your privets are belong to us. Catré, Handmaiden of the Crest. I'm the mini-oba! Fic in Bio. http://a-larger-world.com : Star Wars fanfiction http://catofthejedi.users.btopenworld.com Star Wars is a two-trilogy saga; everything else is optional.
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