Star Wars Sequels Reimagined: Episode 9, Part 1 of 2

This is a continuation from the story from Episode 8, which you can find here: https://boards.theforce.net/threads/star-wars-sequels-reimagined-episode-8-part-1-of-2.50058527/

Star Wars: Episode 9 – An Empire Reforged




Opening Crawl

THE NEW REPUBLIC is in great turmoil. Even as many worlds continue to fall to encroaching imperial forces, the Republic Senate cannot seem to agree on the best way to combat the threat. Each day as the senators debate, new worlds fall.

Meanwhile the territory of Grand Admiral Thrawn continues to expand, as many of the outlier planets from THE NEW REPUBLIC fall to Thrawn's invasion fleets, and imperial warlords from smaller factions willingly join their forces to Thrawn's.

Grand Moff Purgan is now the only Imperial warlord left with a fleet larger than Grand Admiral Thrawn's...

Camera pans down after the opening crawl to show a planet with two fleets in orbit, both of them Imperial, but one of them is Grand Admiral Thrawn’s imperial fleet, with his colors and flags,


the other is Grand Moff Purgan’s fleet, with his flags and colors.



The fleets are about the same size and poised as if to attack one another, but they’re holding still.





Down below on the planet, we find it is Grand Moff Purgan’s home base planet, and he is in his capitol building, on a throne surrounded by a huge amount of security forces. Sitting on a simple chair before him is Grand Admiral Thrawn, and standing at his side silently is Darth Mortak.




Purgan is saying to Thrawn that when he agreed to an in-person meeting to discuss an alliance between their armies, he was surprised by how little security Thrawn took with him. Thrawn smiles and says he believes there will be no need for security between either of them, because the terms of the treaty he has made will be very satisfactory for both of them.

Thrawn hands Mortak a folded piece of paper, which Mortak then floats across the room to Purgan using the force. There are surprised gasps by some of Purgan’s imperial officers, and Purgan looks uncomfortable. He reads the paper and becomes angry. He says this so called “treaty” would effectively make all his officers and troops subject to the authority of Thrawn’s officers and troops.

Thrawn tells him he will sign it before the end of the day. Purgan laughs and says he is an overconfident fool. He tells him he will draw up a new treaty, one that subjects Thrawn’s army to his own, and that Thrawn will not be allowed to leave the planet until he signs it.



Purgan’s soldiers then advance towards Thrawn, and Darth Mortak ignites his lightsaber.

Here will be a cool scene of Mortak destroying everyone in the room except for Grand Moff Purgan, who looks shocked and scared. After he slaughters everyone, he places his blade at Purgan’s throat.



The next scene is a nervous, sweaty looking Purgan broadcasting a signal to his whole fleet that they are joining with Thrawn’s forces, and until further notice, are subject to his orders.

Grand Moff Purgan was the largest of the remaining rival warlords, and with his fleet, Grand Admiral Thrawn has more than doubled the size of his empire.

MEANWHILE:

On Naboo, Aliisa, Jake and Versa still want to try to rescue Rakkan and bring him home. They say he must have been drugged or controlled by Thrawn.

Luke will not let them enter into Thrawn’s home base territory, but tells them the clues to why Rakkan might have turned to the dark side could lie on the planet they first found him on. Luke sends them back to Ord Mantel, in Aliisa’s fast ship, which now has a rudimentary cloaking device. He says that while the Junkyard planet is technically part of Thrawn’s territory, it unlikely to be a hot spot of imperial activity. Just to be on the safe side, all three are given imperial uniforms to wear, which could help them if they run into Thrawn’s forces.

Jake




Versa



and Aliisa disguise themselves, get aboard Aliisa's ship and take off.

MEANWHILE:


On Coruscant, Senator Leia Solo is struggling to get an army together to fight the Imperials.


Faleen Senator Na’em Dukan is very against raising an army specifically created and working under the control of the New Republic, because like the first time, that could lead to another empire. But a compromise is reached. Instead of building New Republic-specific ships, every world in the New Republic that has military capability, will send their strongest warships and soldiers to rendezvous over Coruscant.

Each small squad of ships from a planet will be under the control of their own leader, but all squad leaders will be under the orders of a New Republic commander, who will be on the bridge of “The Liberator.” He will pass the orders to each planetary squad leader, who will then send those orders to their own ships.

Many argue that too many leaders will complicate the battle and make it difficult for the New Republic fleet to fight in coordination, but in the end they agree that the risk to too great in making another “Grand Army of the Republic” and that it is better to have many smaller armies working together from worlds across the New Republic.

MEANWHILE:

Back on Admrial Thrawn’s base planet, Darth Mortak sits alone in his chambers, with his helmet off. He looks tired and sad. The holocron of the Sith lord Sadow is being projected in front of him.


Lord Sadow’s hologram tells him the Dark Side has brought him all the power he promised it would, and that even more remained to be unleashed.

But Mortak says what is the point of having power, if he has no friends, no joy, and no one to share his life with. He only feels a seething anger all the time, and while it temporarily feels good to use it in a battle, to feel anger all the time has sapped him of any happiness.

Sadow tells him power is it’s own point. He tells him that if he gave up what power he has now, he would crave what he once had the rest of his life. Sadow then tells him he doesn’t have satisfaction yet because he isn’t fully Sith. He has to complete the final rituals to be a true Sith. And one of those rituals includes killing the person you once cared about the most.

Mortak looks uncomfortable at this, and asks if there is any other way to become a true Sith.

Sadow doesn’t answer directly, but says the ancient book with the complete record on how to become Sith is still in the crashed ship on Ord Mantell. Mortak quickly stands up, puts his helmet back on, and leaves the room.

MEANWHILE:

Luke is talking with Leia over a communicator. Luke is preparing his best Jedi to prepare to aid in the coming battle as best they can. Some Jedi are good fighter pilots, others are better on the ground. They hatch a plan to load Luke’s best Jedi ground fighters into boarding pods, to enter Thrawn's ship.

Leia says New Republic spies also need to find out more about the rumored super-weapon that Thrawn’s scientists have created. She also is troubled by the connection between Thrawn and a mysterious senator here, but they don’t know who. They are still working on the data-pad Jake recovered but haven’t broken through it’s code yet.


MEANWHILE:




Jake, Versa and Aliisa arrive at Ord Mantell, and begin skimming over the surface near where Aliisa once landed. They set the ship down and Jake and Versa both feel the faint coldness of the dark side coming from the northeast. They leave the ship and tell Aliisa to stay there.

When they leave, Aliisa wanders through the junkheaps for a bit and uncovers an armored pod. She calls for the loader droid to come pick it up and bring it back to the ship. Her droid co-pilot asks what she found, and she says it’s a rare, armored crash pod, and it’s really valuable.




It’s like an escape pod, but it isn’t launched from a ship. Instead, if a ship explodes and is destroyed, it’s designed to absorb the impact and keep the occupants inside alive. It’s not guaranteed to work but you stand a much better chance of surviving your ship exploding if you get inside. Small thrusters allow the pod to be steered towards the closest planet and allow it to make a safe landing.

Aliisa's loader droid picks up the pod and brings it back to the ship.

Jake and Versa are heading towards where they feel a cold presence. By now it’s late evening, and the sky is dark red, the lighting is very dim. Versa tells Jake that it’s possible a Sith lord has a secret hideout here, and he’s the one who trained Rakkan. Following the tremors of the force, they travel through vast empty buildings and mounds of rubble until they come to a small hole in the floor of an abandoned ship.

When they drop through, they see another, smaller ship, and this one has a dark figure standing in the dim lighting. Jake and Versa both instantly ignite their lightsabers, and the black robed figure turns at the sound and ignites his red one.


Darth Mortak then pushes with the force and blasts both Jake and Versa back out the hole they came in. He runs after them.

What follows is an epic lightsaber fight between Jake and Versa vs Mortak.

Story Continues in Part 2!
https://boards.theforce.net/threads...de-9-part-2-of-2-an-empire-reforged.50058533/