Saga - PT A Thousand Generations - Idea for a PT mini-series

Mav Edit: Hi AveKender- This appears to be, while quite detailed, an outline for a story rather than the story itself. We don't allow for posting of outlines, but we'd love to have the story you are working on here posted to our forums. If you have any questions, please feel free to PM me (mavjade) or Briannakin and we're happy to discuss this, or any other questions you may have. I'm going to go ahead and lock this thread.

Hello, everyone.

I know this kind of thing has been done to death already but I still am eager to take a stab at it.

One major issue I had with the prequels is that it did not feel like there was enough story material present to occupy three feature-length films. With that in mind I propose the solution of telling the prequel story as a trilogy of hour-long episodes.

"A Thousand Generations" tells the story of the joining and separation of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Padme Organa, making it as character-centered as the OT. The plot cribs from elements of Legends EU and the existing prequels that I find interesting.

Here begins Episode I...

In deep space, a signal outpost on a lonely planetoid falls under devastating bombardment. The fleet of deadly Utapauan dreadnoughts makes way for its next kill under the command of Miat Alpha, chief lieutenant of Atha Prime.

The Republic loses contact with its distant member world of Alderaan. In response, the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, good friend of Alderaan’s reigning monarch King Bail, boards the next outbound freighter from Coruscant to investigate. He meets the pilot, one Anakin Skywalker, a young man in whom Kenobi senses tremendous potential in the Force. During the journey Obi-Wan casually mentions that he comes from the desert world of Tatooine.

The freighter reaches Alderaan and the two men encounter Padme with her droid ZeeGee and King Bail at the royal palace. Anakin takes his first step on the path of the Jedi under the guidance of Obi-Wan and also takes an interest in Princess Padme. He loads up his ship with a cargo of precious jewels only found on Alderaan.

The next day they meet an ambassador from Utapau only to find out that a bomb is hidden inside the ambassador’s cybernetic body. The bomb explodes in the heart of the royal palace and kills most of the royal family. Obi-Wan barely manages to protect Bail and then sees Utapauan dreadnoughts overhead laying siege to the planet.

Anakin is in for more than he bargained for, so he decides to high-tail out of there. Padme tells him she needs to return with him to Coruscant in order to summon the Republic fleet using a recording of the bombing she kept inside ZeeGee. The Utapauans damage Anakin’s ship’s hyperdrive with blaster fire. He uses his supernatural reflexes to weave through the invading fleet and jump to hyperspace. One of the ships that Anakin passes by runs its scanners on him and detects the valuable jewels in his cargo hold.

Because of their damaged hyperdrive, Anakin and Padme are forced onto nearby Tatooine where Obi-Wan told Anakin his brother Owen still lives.

Amidst the ruins of the royal palace, Miat Alpha steps out of his personal shuttle and revels in the conquest. Bail and Obi-Wan meet up with the surviving royal guardsmen in the forest; theirs is now a guerrilla war.

Miat Alpha commands his clones through the process of constructing “the Machine” amidst the ruins of the royal palace. He is met with his fearsome ally, Fenn Shysa, the heavily-armored mercenary from Mandalore. Miat must tie up any loose ends if construction of the Machine is to proceed smoothly, and that means eliminating young Padme. He tells Fenn of the precious crystals hidden in the escaping freighter, and Fenn obliges the offer. He boards his Firespray-class interceptor and blasts off from Alderaan’s besieged surface.

Anakin, Padme, and ZeeGee land their damaged freighter at the Tatooine spaceport of Mos Eisley. You know what it’s like there if you are reading this so I will dispense with the descriptions of the alien bazaars and cantinas.

They reach the junkyard where Obi-Wan told them to go and find that a scruffy young Owen Lars is the owner. They tell him that his brother Obi-Wan is marooned on Alderaan, which has fallen under clone occupation.

Owen tells Anakin and Padme he does not wish to get wrapped up in the war. However he agrees to help if it means his brother will be alright, though he still does not approve of Kenobi’s idealistic, crusading ways. It is through Owen that Padme learns the location of Tatooine's only interstellar transmitter.

Anakin wants to return to Coruscant to sell the crystals, but Padme wants to transmit the message inside ZeeGee to the Fleet and return to Alderaan to liberate her people. If Padme gets her way, Anakin cannot get to Coruscant because the Republic will have placed the planet under mobilization lockdown. If Anakin gets his way, more of Padme’s people will die at the hands of the clone army.

Owen agrees to fix Anakin’s ship in exchange for some of the crystals, but it will take some time.

On Alderaan…

Obi-Wan undertakes a recon mission to the site where the Machine is being constructed. After using the Force to distract a couple of clone guards, he enters the inner workings of the massive contraption. Inside he discovers thousands of pods containing clone bodies being fabricated at the cellular level within liquid-filled tanks. The Utapauans are building another, more powerful Machine with which to overrun the Republic!

But before Obi-Wan can report his findings to Bail and the royal guardsmen in the woods, he gets captured by a detachment of clones under the personal command of Miat Alpha. Kenobi gets taken prisoner. Miat tells Obi-Wan he has walked directly into his trap.

Nighttime on Tatooine…

Anakin, Owen, and ZeeGee all rest in Owen’s modest dwelling near his junkyard. But Padme, only pretending to sleep, decides now is the time to strike out on her own. She quietly collects ZeeGee and embarks on a dangerous journey through the streets of Mos Eisley to the interstellar transmitter. She has only her blaster and her wits for protection.

Episode I to be concluded...

 

On Alderaan...

Obi-Wan floats suspended in a lightning cage, like the one in which Count Dooku confined him in AOTC. Miat Alpha paces around his catch and tells him his plan: interrogate knowledge of the Force out of Obi-Wan and then clone him in order to spawn an unstoppable army of Force-sensitive cloned soldiers for Atha Prime. During his gloating villain monologue, Miat ignites Kenobi's lightsaber and waves it around, striking and killing one of his own clone henchmen in the process.

On Tatooine...

Padme and ZeeGee access the transmitter in the dead of night. ZeeGee inserts a data prod into the transmitter's port (R2D2-style). Padme sends the footage to Chancellor Valorum on Coruscant along with a message imploring him to deploy the fleet to Alderaan.

Then Padme and ZeeGee start back towards Owen's home in the darkness. She gets ambushed by a pack of alien street thugs, who attempt to pry the droid from her possession. Padme shoots one of them and takes off running in the other direction towards the junkyard.

On Alderaan…

Obi-Wan reaches out to his new friend Anakin through the Force. Focusing all of his thoughts on a distant point somewhere out in space, he finds the unique presence that he recognized onboard the freighter. It is not far from that of his brother Owen.

On Tatooine…

Anakin tosses and turns in a bunk. He receives a Force vision from Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan tells him of the history of the Jedi Knights. Thousands of years ago, before the founding of the Republic, the galaxy was ruled by a family of bloodthirsty Sith Lords. In dark avarice they visited countless injustices upon the tired masses under their control. One day a Sith baron taught one of his slaves some of the secrets of the dark side of the Force, the better to drive the other slaves into subservience. But the slave-driver rebelled and decided to use the Force for justice instead of conquest; he vanquished the baron and sparked a great uprising which eventually collapsed the Sith empire from within. Such was the origin of the Jedi Knights, and with them came the Republic which has lasted for over a thousand generations.

Obi-Wan then tells Anakin that the clones threaten to destroy all that the Jedi have built. He appeals to the idealism that he knows resides in the young man and implores him to stop the machinations of Atha Prime.

Anakin tumbles back into reality. He gasps in disbelief at what he just experienced. But there is little time to reflect, as he hears the distant drone of an approaching hostile fighter. Sounds like a Firespray-class, which means only one thing…

To be continued...

 

Fenn's fighter drops a sonic bomb on Mos Eisley (like in the asteroid field chase from AOTC, AKA one of the very few good parts of that movie).

Padme seems at first cornered by the alien thugs and it looks like all is lost, but the massive sound wave collapses all structures and knocks down the thugs. Padme is dazed. ZeeGee has been destroyed!

As the smoke rises, Padme rises and continues her escape to the junkyard. Fenn lands his ship and exits the craft, brandishing a heavy repeating blaster (think Baze from R1). He guns down the thugs when they try to get up and then coldly stalks his prize, the valuable crystals in Anakin's ship.

Here there should be some kind of firefight in the junkyard. Eventually Anakin gains the upper hand on Fenn and severs his backpack power source's cable with one of Owen's fusion torches. But at this point, Fenn has already entered Anakin's ship and the supercritical backpack explodes. Anakin and the others survive unscathed but the ship is in tatters.

Amidst the flames of Anakin's ruined ship, Padme confesses to Anakin what she did. In response he tells her of his vision from Obi-Wan. It has filled him with newfound purpose. The two set off for the Firespray and set a return course for Alderaan. Owen bids Anakin and Padme farewell and they blast off in the Firespray. They will finish what the clones have started.

To be continued...

 

The Firespray lapses back into realspace in the sky of Alderaan and deactivates its cloaking device. Anakin reveals to Padme that he once tried to enlist in the Republic military, but they turned down his application because he was born on the Outer Rim. He feels he must partake in this mission to make up for that.

Padme knows where Bail and the royal guardsmen have congregated and tells Anakin where to guide the craft to a soft landing.

Amidst a forest clearing populated with a makeshift barracks and several camouflaged assault speeders, King Bail reunites with his sister Padme. She tells Bail of what happened on Tatooine and they then draw up a plan to assault the Machine complex in conjunction with the arrival of the Republic fleet.

Padme and Anakin will take the secret passage with the infantry to show up inside the complex and disable the shield generator. At the same time Bail will lead a group of vehicles to divert the Utapauans away from the infantry long enough to blow up the shield generator. Once this is done, the Republic fleet which is en route will be able to destroy the Machine with turbolaser fire...provided they can deal with the Utaupauan fleet first.

Padme and Anakin lead most of the guardsmen to infiltrate the palace ruins through the secret passage. The party of troopers emerges inside the vast shield dome which covers the Machine; to their shock they find that the contraption is now complete!

To be continued.