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In a clone wars episode Palpatine kidnaps a bunch of Force Sensitive kids as part of "Project Harvester" to try as force using spies.

The Inquisitors also kidnapp kids on multiple occasions, but are never seen training said kids as new Inquisitors - and I believe the Darth Vader comic establishes they don't know what happens to the kids after turning them over to some creepy nurses - but it has been mentioned that the kids are being taken in as part of a "Project Harvester"

Then you have the Freemaker Adventures and Agent Naare - a darksider working directly for Palpatine, undercover pretending to be a surviving jedi, who doesn't seem to be associated with the Inquisitors in any way (no spinning saber, no black uniform, no Xth Sister name etc). Given her agent title implies she is a spy like project harvester wanted to create...
(And yes, Freemakers isn't actually canon. However, it is a "canon paraphrase" and some canon sources like Droidography reveal that similar events happened, so good enough for a wild theory in my opinion)

So basically I think that any force sensitive children taken in by the empire were made into force sensitive secret police, possibly the canon version of the Emperor's Hands, rather than inquistors, and that it make sense to bring in Mara Jade and Galen Marak as agents of this group.

....Especially since the original TCW episode with project harvester was a deliberate shoutout to Mara Jade and her backstory.

 

Cassian Andor's missing little sister Kerri is no other than Han Solo's Exgirlfriend Qi'ra of Crimson Dawn.

Cassian was born 33BBY, his little sister around 30BBY, Qi'ra is born 31BBY. Agewise it fits so far.
Han Solo (born 32BBY in canon yet 29BBY in Legends), has several backstories that need to be squared to explain this headcanon:

In the Disney Solo movie, he has been on Corellia ever since childhood, like Qi'ra.
In Lucas cut ROTS ideas he was a war orphaned kid raised by Wookiees on Kashyyyk.
In Legends he was picked up by Shrike and was like in Disney part of a thief gang (includint a Wookiee that helped raise him) learning the trade before escaping to make his own way.
Furthermore in Legends Han's parents were Jonash and Jaina Solo! In canon, his fathers name is Ovan Solo though there is a rumor that he is the descendant of royalty and Prince-Admiral Jonash e Solo from 3000+BBY, much like in Legends and the COPL royal ancestry.

Now, here is my take on how it all fits:

Han Solo is royalty, but as Legends had it, a royalty that no longer has power and had some dark "Suul" relatives since their glory days. Royal "e Solo"'s, "Sal-Solo"'s and "Suul"'s all are different branches of the same family and Solo as a name for orphans was at some point established by the royalty.
Han Solo's true biological parents, Jonash and Jaina Solo, were common people despite their ancestors fame. And whatever tragic fate happened to them, Han was orphaned at a very young age and basically raised by a relative (uncle?), Ovan Solo, who built YT's for CEC and was like a father for him. Something happened though that orphaned Han again, was it a factory accident? Murder? Regardless, Han survived on his own on the streets and defied the White Worms that tried to recruit him and hunted him for having successfully stolen from them occasionally even.
When Corellia got too hot for him in 24BBY with the White Worms gunning for him, he stowed away on a ship in the spaceport to get away. But that ship had a tragic accident and crashed on Kenari spilling its chemical cargo.

Here as we know from Andor, Kassa/Cassian's story begins as he is rescued/kidnapped by Marva and Clem leaving behind his little sister. Later he would search for her and only learn that she once had briefly been working in a brothel on Morlana One.

Now, Han survived the crash and met Kerri and the kids, who had a dark fate awaiting them given the Republic liked to cover up such accidents and chemical spills which meant silencing the native population. Thus Han helped, after the Republic officer from the crashed ship had killed the tribes leader, to unite the kids so they would survive. When the Republic came to investigate the wreck and silence any witnesses, these Lost Boys and Girls hid, fought and lost some friends. But Han and Kerri got away and stowed away on another Mining ship taking them offworld as there was nothing for them anymore on Kenari.

Given the Mines were worked by Wookiees and other strong species, they were lucky a Wookiee found them and took care of them, taking them along to Kashyyyk when her shifts were done and she had some leave to visit family for Life Day. Thus young Han Solo ended up on Kashyyyk during the Clone Wars, as in Lucas concept, further raised by Wookiees, who he helped against Trandoshans (including Bossk perhaps) and Separatists. He even met Yoda briefly during RotS as in Lucas ideas. In the aftermath of RotS though and the Empires occupation beginning, he and Kerri were no longer safe and needed to get offworld, with help from the Wookiees.

Dewlanna, their Wookiee "mother" that had brought them to Kashyyyk with er, also would leave Kashyyyk and joined the Crew of Garris Shrike and hoped to take them along elsewhere. She hid them as cargo, stowaways again, so Shrike would not know. On Corellia, they left the ship unnoticed, and Kerri got away, but Shrike caught Han when he was doing something probably stupid and brought him back to the ship, oblivious still that they stowed away but having noticed his pickpocketing talent in the spaceport. Thus Dewlanna and Han were now officially part of the crew and Kerri left behind, soon to be found by the White Worms. Much like Kassa became Cassian, Kerri became Qi'ra and would barely recall much of her earlier life given trauma of the Clone War, abuse and other harsh life experiences kept her focussed on the present rather suppressing memories.
Later after the Solo Movie's scenes where Han got away and joined the Military and she did not, the Worms sold her into slavery and prostitution with Dryden Vos, explaining how/when/why she briefly worked at various brothels. First as worker, later as his Lieutenant undercover or doing inspections and debt collections.

Han travelled with Shrike for a few months up to 2 years before he too ran away on Corellia again to meet his family he recently learned about, which would go not well thx to the Sal-Solos.

Han's life though is more complicated, especially when squaring Disney and Legends. One can assume that Shrike is an alias of Tobias Beckett. One can also shove around some of the Shrike backstory with young Han to during the Clone Wars, if Han left Kashyyyk occasionally with Dewlanna to run missions for Shrike before returnign to Kashyyyk. Only after RotS they joined full time. Likewise, we can built in a break where Han on Corellia gets caught by the White Worms and has to stay with them for few years, reuniting with Qi'ra bittersweet, before leaving as per Solo movie again.
The rest of Shrike's story and Becket and his demise may not align too well, but can be ironed out still, if one allows there to be two Shrikes/Beckets. What if Becket faked his death in the Solo movie? And Shrieks death is his final one? What if Beckets death is final, but Shrikes is another man wearing the mantel and mask of Shrike? If Shrike had a mask or such, it would make sense Enfys Nest style, to have someone inherit it or pose as him to use his fame and name. Also it would help why Han did not recognise him unmasked as Becket from earlier times, while Becket probably recognised Han and knew he was trouble trying to avoid him but also recognising his useful skill.

It takes some leaps of faith but overall, loosely, it might work. Spread out the Legends backstory to intersperse it with Disneys and Lucas ideas. The most changes aside some timeline shoves we are used to ever since timelining the Clone Wars or OneCanoning? Well, that would be to ignore when they claim to never have left Corellia so far, or allow for suppressed memories, trauma and amnesia due to some shocks or else to be a part of their lifes.

Thoughts?

PS: Even without Kerri = Qi'ra, this Han Headcanon may have some value. I get that Kerri and Qi'ra do not exactly share ethnicity, but they are not too far off either if one ignores eye-color like for we have to for Saw Gerrerra!

 

All you have to do to fix the Saw Gerrera eye color is just have an offhand reference that some Onderonain's have a gene that leads to changes in eye color. Its a fictional galaxy is with a much wider amount of human populations then ours. The gene pool would be much different

 

Anakin Solo is neurodivergent.

 

naw lets just wait for season 2 of andor to show Cassa's little sister

 

The Emperor's Shadow Guards in TFU and the Imperial Sentinels in Dark Empire are captured Jedi Knights, who were genetically modified and chemically brainwashed by the Empire to serve as enforcers on Byss and other dark-side affiliated worlds like Prakith.

 

Some headcanons regarding the Disney SW novel "Padawan", which I really enjoyed, well written as it was and inventive in what it brought new to the table!

- The living symbiotic Planet is interesting and reminded me of Galaxy of Fear's alive planet D'vouran. I believe it to be the same type of living planet and planetary organism. GoF's backstory even involed a ship crashing on D'vouran before it turned volatile due to the Imperials on it. (Also it reminds of the Cameron Movie Avatar's symbiotic nature, but that one is not as old, dear or classic to SW as Galaxy of Fear) Could this living planet be also related to Sekot and Zonama Sekot and thus give us more insight in how those work and operate, just minus the Force Avatar?

- The "Power" being local only reminded me of other similiar concepts throughout Star Wars, where something resembling the Force is related to it yet different. "Magick" like for the Nightsisters comes to mind, or magical planetary mists like on Dathomir and Anzat. Magick also is said to be strongest on the homeworld of origin, and decreases with distance to it, which the Force does not. It kinda is using the Living Force of a place and its people, without being able to connect to other Living Forces of other people and places to (ab)use them the same way. One might say, closed symbiotic harmonic ecosystems have their own Living Force perpetuum mobile. Forceusers can use either the Living or the Unifying Force. But using local Living Forces would be magick and decrease with distance. Using galactic Living Force or Unifying Force though would not. Thus it depends on what you are attuned to. Not as in different spectrum like the Yuuzhan Vong were in but like what limitations you put on the power you wield via your believes regarding that power. Mind over matter, over power and the Force after all. Which is why Jedi unlearn what they knew before to start not being tied down by localities.

-The Path of the Open Hand in the High Republic Phase 2 seems to be right in believing Forceusers abuse the Living Force and thus harm ecosystems. This book, Padawan, seems to confirm that with hard evidence. Yet if Jedi use the Unifying Force unlike other cults, or are used by the Force rather than using it, the Path may have to learn and accept that that is ok and not a Jedis choice, but that of the Force. Yet many Jedi only use the Living Force and barely are able to touch the Unifying Force as per "Jedi Path" and other Jedi lore books. Even if closer to the ideal, most are not there yet. So the Path does have a point. Who'd have thought that!

-The aliens inhabiting Lenahra as per the murals seem by description of Obi Wan to be remniscient visually of Zeffo. Could it be Zeffo? The murals seemed to imply they were not from this world but also arrived via crash and later died abusing the Power there.
The question is, did the Zeffo that visited Lenahra do so during the their high time spreading out, or after their demise when they went into the Unknown to seek peace finally, but stranded crashlanding on Lenahra where they distrurbed the planets balance and went extinct there?


Unrelated to Padawan headcanons:

-The planet Eiram was named after Eilram, the Zeffo Sage

 

Set Harth is the real Lord Cronal. His extensively long existence has led him to boredom. In his boredom, he messes with the Arkanians and causes a civil war. (He may have originally been an Arkanian). He creates shadowspawns on both sides including Zeta Magnus the ATHA Prime (Accelerated Transgenic Heuristic Abhorer) and Perek (an (Assimilator/mechu-deru)). He creates non-Arkanian shadowspawns as well, as seen on Mimban..

 

Evereni are Yuuzhan Vong or the Vong are Evereni.

Either long ago, a sleeper ship with Evereni colonists got lost and passed into the void between galaxies until it reached another via wormwhole or other phenomenon and settled there on Sekot.

Or the Vong scouts that hit the GFFA in the past during the Mandalorian Wars settled down and became the Evereni cut off from their fleet unable to get back. The Voduun Crabs they had with them they already had lost on a remote planet Zav Alox, where they entered the galaxy back then. (though that would not explain why they are not Force Voids anymore, hence me going with the above theory more likely) But the Voduun Crabs can still be all that's left of these Vong parties that got eradicated by Mandos back then most likely.

The Path of the Open Hand, which canon has in the High Republic so far, would reemerge in Legends post NJO with the Vong grateful of the Jedi saving their culture, but aware of the dangers of Forceuse and especially after Vongerella and the Ossus Project failure, careful to live in symbiosis with their planet more so than abuse its Lifeforce. More planets symbiosis should be restored according to them, like on Lenahra.

 

Cad Bane was Fan of Darth Bane

The Mandalorians from TCW are Fake Mandalorians they just Won a War and Exiled the True Mandalorians off from Mandalore and stole the Mandalorian Culture

Unlike Legends in the New Canon the Solo surname is not part of a large Corellian lineage Solo it is just an alias that some Imperial Officer came up with as we saw in the Solo Movie Ben Solo Real or Formal Name is not Ben Solo but Ben Skywalker or Ben Organa only his Family or Friends called Kylo with the name of Ben Solo

 

The Celestials/Mortis Gods are the ones who created and sent the Tho Yor to find Force Sensitives maybe the Celestials are the true Creators of the Je'daii Order

The ST Movies takes place in an Alternate Future where the Son Won and succeeded in destroying the Skywalkers Family/Clan the Descendants of the Chosen One maybe in this Alternate Future Palpatine replaced the Son or destroyed the Celestials and took over Mortis

 

Been thinking about this all day. Not sure how this will go.

Whilst much of Red and Gold Squadrons (including Red Leader, Red Six, Red Seven, Red Eight, Red Nine, Red Eleven, Gold Leader, Gold Three and Gold Five) made it back to Yavin 4 with two CR90 corvettes, two GR-75 transports and one Hammerhead corvette, thus going on to participate in the Battle of Yavin, none of the survivors of Blue or Green Squadrons (and maybe others from Red and Gold) returned to base. This was in part because the Devastator blocked the main entry to hyperspace over Scarif, thus causing parts of the Rebel Fleet still trapped to make blind jumps to other locations. It took almost a fortnight for these survivors to rendezvous near Yavin and by that time the Battle of Yavin was won. As a result, the Green Squadron that participated in the Battle of Yavin consisted of ten pilots -- most of them fresh rookies and a few aces pulled from a Mid Rim convoy raiding group -- led by Commander Hamo Blastwell and included Fin Danglot, Talos Merkin and Milar Travis. None would return.

When Jon "Dutch" Vander reformed Gold Squadron following Scarif, he switched Evaan Verlaine's callsign from Gold Three to Gold Seven (as Gazdo Woolcob had not reported back to Yavin 4 following the battle at the time) and put Ryle Torsyn in her place. She flew as Gold Seven at the Battle of Yavin and survived. This change, along with other issues, did not catch Nera Kase's attention. And during the Battle of Yavin, she mixed up which Y-wing went down, mixing up Gold Three with Gold Seven and mistakenly remembering it was Woolcob (though Torsyn and Woolcob shared helmet designs). This happened also with Kase mixing up who was Red Seven as Rue was the regular pilot but had been out of action during to illness and had been replaced by Harb Binli. Kase was herself surprised when she found Rue alive and Verlaine flying as Gold Seven.

The three pilots seen racing to Luke's X-wing, along with Wedge's X-wing and Evaan's Y-wing were three R-22 Spearhead pilots who were supposed to launch to assist the X-wings and Y-wings but were instead forced to stay grounded when their systems failed simultaneously. One of the pilots was Ernek Marskan.

 

Black Annie was renamed to Empire Maker and taken in by the Imperial Remnant, hence Empire Maker having been mentioned as having Baradium missiles.

 

In the Republic Comics we see that the Mon Calamari are on the side of the Separatists this is different in TCW because in there the Mon Calamari are on the side of the Republic for me Multimedia Project and TCW are different Universes so for me in Legends Ackbar was on the side of the Separatists helping the Mon Calamari later Ackbar regretted his actions and joined the Rebellion to compensate for his actions in the Clone Wars

In Legends the Human Stormtroopers argued that the Clones were not the First White Armored Soldiers since the SWTOR Republic Troopers wore a similar Armor to the Clones and they were Human like the Stormtroopers

Korkie Kryze Satine nephew is the Son of Obi Wan in the New Canon but Satine pretended to be her Aunt to avoid trouble in Legends Obi Wan was in Love with Siri Tachi

The New Sith Wars are named as "New" because the predecessor War was the Republic and Sith Empire conflict of SWTOR

Darth Gravid wanted to create his own New Order of Force Users that was not Sith or Jedi or Gray Jedi

Many Sith apologists said that Darth Vectivus was a Sith that did no harm anyone and that not all the Sith were extremists

The Sith Gungan from the New Sith Wars is Jar Jar Binks Ancestor

 

Merai and his forces were with the CIS, but we see from the Tartakovsky CW (and ROTS deleted scenes) that there were also loyalist Mon Cals.

 

Still for me Ackbar was with the Separatists in Legends in my Headcanon

 

Alpha-17 Clone Friends called him with the nickname of Rex

By the time of the OT many Imperials already knew that Vader was a Human i always considered why the Imperials were Ok with a Cyborg to be their Boss if the Empire are Human Supremacists well the reason is that the Imperials already know that Vader was a Human but they did not know what was his True Identity

Aayla Secura is the Equivalent of Ahsoka Tano in Legends and Quinlan Vos TCW Anakin

Legends Ventress Worked for the Empire Ventress was the tutor of Lumiya

In Legends at first Obi Wan and other Jedi did not believe that the Clone Wars was a plan created by the Sith to control the Galaxy they believed that it was another conflict that had gone on too long similar to the Stark Hyperspace War, the Yinchorri Uprising or Xanatos conflict

 

It’s come to my attention that in KOTOR 1, if you get the Kashyyyk Star Map last, the hologram will tell you that Revan got that map 5 years before the events of the game, which is 1 year before the Mandalorian Wars ended. This means Revan was looking for the Star Maps at least a year before he met Vitiate.

 

When Palpatine was a Teenager he had Long Hair like Anakin in Episode 3

Underworld Palpatine Story was Canon to Legends the Plagueis Novel is divided by chapters and there are many jumps in time so many things could have happened after what happened to his Family Palpatine wanted to Redeem himself he felt abandoned by his own Family and by his Father Cosinga Palpatine looked for a Father Figure in Plagueis then he met the Gangster Girl then she betrayed him and Palpatine went even deeper to the Dark Side after that event believing that now he could not trust anyone later he found Sly Moore but it wasnt the same anymore

Cad Bane is named like Bane because Maul or Palpatine called Cad by the nickname of Bane referencing to Darth Bane as a joke and he liked the name

In Legends during the Hundred Years of Darkness the Dark Jedi or the First Sith they did not use Red Lightsabers Colors i want to believe that in this Universe the Origin of the Red Lightsabers Crystals is because the Sith wanted to Pay Tribute to the Sith Species with the Red Color

For me Zayne Carrick had a Lightsaber Duel against Darth Malak for me Zayne has two fates the first one is that Zayne didnt survive the Duel the second one is that he did and he Rebuild the Jedi Order after KOTOR 2 and after Revan and the Exile went to Dromund Kaas Zayne became the Jedi Grand Master in this fate

 

Palpatine had a huge chunk of Trade Federation assets and material to Xizor Transport Systems. XTS in term became the replacement for the TF in terms of influence and wealth (in fact I think it’s safe to say it surpassed it?)

 

I just headcanon only the first game as having occured; it saves a lot of trouble that way, IM

My solution was to just do away with Iella merge her daughters into one character who is now the child of Wedge and Norra (Syal Myri Antilles)

Nah...

Kylo's totally the guy on the right

I mean, the Inquistors still have names and Naare was undercover, so the uniform and lightsaber would be a giveaway.

That being said, Naare was probobly an Emperor's Hand or possibly even (given that, IIRC, she's called "a Sith" at one point) an Exegol cultist.

As a person on the spectrum, I think the only time "is this fictional character neurodivergent?" has 100 percent worked for me is with Helaena Targaryen.

 

I can't see Wedge and Iella divorce... given her Intel background, maybe she had to go deep undercover and to the point of pretending to be dead and to sell her cover Wedge should re-marry with Norra so nobody would doubt Iella is dead. Or they had an open marriage with sharing is caring...


You know, Vader letting himself be beaten so folks can take a shot at Palpatine is genius! Bet he tried that, too, at the end of TFU2 when he got captured to see how much of a shot the Rebellion might have at Palpatine, while Palpatine secretly got himself his own Starkiller clone (army) and sent them to retrieve Vader... if Boba locates their final destination. That way we might have missed upon seeing Vader fight off the Emperors Minions and Starkiller clones to protect HIS rebellion, or get their trust. Which may have ultimately tragically backfired thx to some Palpatine plot so that Vader had to turn volatile on them as well and return to the Emperors side for the time being.

I can already see Vader listen in on Tarkin and Motti and the cabals mindgames about using the Death Star to topple the Emperor, wishing they'd do it, while always shying away from actually doing it.

 

Ken Palpatine is a member of Luke's New Jedi Order. But he's assumed a different identity to avoid the persecution of being the grandson(?) of the galaxy's most hated tyrant. Luke tries to get him to move past it, but Palpatine's cruelties run so deep and Ken doesn't have the hero fame that Luke does for his heroics in the GCW. So he tries to hide from public scrutiny up until Luke starts up his academy on Yavin IV and enlists, becoming his second class of students with members like Havet Storm and Desaan. He participates in every conflict from the Empire Reborn uprising up to the Abeloth crisis, becoming a great Jedi Master and a man dedicated to fixing the pain that his grandfather inflicted upon the galaxy.

He would meet and fall in love with another initiate at Luke's academy, marrying her and having a daughter they named Rey, who would later enroll in Luke's academy and participate in the 2nd GCW and Abeloth crisis alongside her family. She knows of her family's dark lineage but assures her father that the mistakes of their progenitor will not befall them.

The Palpatine bloodline would (unknowingly) continue into the Legacy era under multiple surnames.