Lit What hasn't been done in Star Wars?

Oh, yeah. That was a...unique story, for sure.

 

I know there were a couple of "what if" comics like. What if DS-1 didn't blow up or. What if Luke died on Hoth. I guess that's kinda like a Mirror Universe.

 

I want to see the Damn Fool Idealistic Crusades of Obi-Wan, Annikin, and Darth.

 

I remember getting an absolute kick out of that scene when I read the book for the first time. Still tickles me today.

 

I've always been interested in the persecution of Separatist-aligned species under the Empire. Neimoidians, Skakoans, and such. We know it happened but I don't think anything's gone into much detail. It'd be an interesting story (Syrian Refugee Crisis IN SPACE, perhaps?) and I'd like more sympathetic characters from those races in general.

 

That should be easy to achieve. Just make the protagonists of the tale sympathetic separatists fighting ''republic tyranny'' for their home world.

 

Or the Bane novels...or the Republic/Imperial Commando series.

 

How about a "literary" Star Wars novel...like if Salmon Rushdie or Don DeLillo were to write one.

Or a book solely about an non-combatant person living in the NR. No real violence either. Just a normal person from this universe who maybe is a political junkie and follows the news and has his views about that War Mongering Leia and her hippie hermit brother Luke. But mostly he just does his work and keeps his family afloat... and all the drama that entails.

THAT has never been done.

Lock the thread. I win.

 

The Coruscant Nights books attempted to do this - Book 2 was kind of in the ballpark. Also, I would argue that most of Survivor's Quest reads like a mystery novel.

 

I think some of the Galaxy of Fear stories could be called "junior mystery novels" where "who's the antagonist" questions come up early on.

Splinter of the Mind's Eye may count - I think the novel states outright that Leia died and the crystal brought her back.

 

They just have to attempt some kind of Sherlock Holmes tribute novel with this guy. Or, even better, an anthology of detective short stories.

Let's think about this for a moment: what if Palpatine had been reared by the Jedi from infancy? What would he have become? (Yeah, yeah, I know whatifs are forbidden.)

 

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Long live Coruscant Nights!

The second book was very much a straight up detective murder mystery...with intentional use of common murder mystery tropes and elements...along the lines of The Big Sleep and Maltese Falcon.

 

Wasn't Shadow Games a mystery too?

 

No.

But yes.

 

It's locked in my TFN head Canon.

 

Several entire forums are, in mine.

 

Travel to other galaxies outside the GFFA. Encoutering an Intergalactic Republic and become part of the Intergalactic Republic. The Jedi and Republic colonizing other galaxies. Improving starship hyperdrives to travel to other galaxies in weeks or days or even hours. And of course encoutering Intergalactic enemies and empires. OutBound Flight Project II y'all!!!!

 

This might sounds really dumb, but is there anything stated in the current new canon that prevents the GFFA from having already established contact with other galaxies? More than just the close minor satellite galaxies, but other huge galaxies as well?

 

I don't think so, but it seems to be an underlying assumption still.

 

You know, ever since I learned they killed him, I was positive the day would come that Chewie would be back. And I was right. I was not right that it'd take a reboot to do it, though.

Interestingly enough, Endorian magic, as practiced by the Ewoks and their various friends and foes throughout the cartoon, comics, and TV movies, was apparently not intended to be the Force originally, but got retconned into it later. IMO that's probably for the best.

 

You know, when people try to make the argument that Star Trek is more "scientific" or grounded in reality than Star Wars, I always remind them that it (and Doctor Who) have some of the more "soft" or fantastical sci fi elements like time travel, teleportation, cosmic beings of godlike power. Of course the Star Wars EU has had a few isolated example of these elements crop up, and several people have already listed examples. But they've never been it's bread and butter. If any of those three appeared in the next Star Wars movie, there'd be major backlash. (Except MAYBE the teleporter, if it was established as new and experimental technology).

 

I think they'd be far more likely to get away with beings of cosmic power than teleportation, actually.

 

Actually now that I think of it, alternate time lines/time travel could open up a lot of possibilities.

You could have the standard "Infinities" style "What If?" time lines.The ones that interest me most are how Anakin/Vader would have changed if he grew up in a different environment, or never met Obi-wan, or even if Palpatine raised him as an apprentice since birth so he never knew love.

Then you could have the standard Mirror Universe or Alternate Universe stories. There could be one where the Empire won, one where the CIS won, one where Droids rule the galaxy, one where humans are an oppressed minority and some other species like the Hutts rules.

And of course, pretty much every time travel story has to have a "time is broke" story, where dinosaurs, WWI bi planes, armored knights and robots all appear and fight each other or the heroes. This idea is fan-fic-ey as all hell, but part of me wants to see CIS droids, clone troopers, Rebels and Imperials, ancient Sith and Jedi and Yuzzahn Vong and the factions from the Legacy comics all battle it out.

Of course these are just fun ideas, I think if they were to actually implement them there's a danger of turning Star Wars into, as Ulicus said, a "DC style nonsense-verse".

 

Well I haven't seen much of the Clone Wars cartoon, but from what I understand didn't they have some episodes with "cosmic beings"? If so you may be right.