Posted by: Revanchist
« on: January 02, 2017, 08:56:07 PM »A multi million high-budget adaptation of The Glove of Darth Vader, just for the reaction it would cause alone.
That would be hilarious.
A multi million high-budget adaptation of The Glove of Darth Vader, just for the reaction it would cause alone.
it was a rush job, but the rest of the 4 movie series doesn't quite follow the same pathok, if we count R1, then 1 movie down. but how do you know it from the next 3?
A little different but its still the same premise of episode four in the terms of finding out there is a super weapon, being captured and taken aboard, having people come rescue you, and blowing it up (nearly). For me I would've kept the same cast and characters from TFA, and changed it to them fighting the first order with out any sort of super weapon, just with a massive fleet.
While interesting isn't it unrealistic with the technology of Star Wars and probability to say that Thrawn could fight a shadow war for years with noone figuring out its the Empire?not really. coms and sensors can be jammed as the battle of Endor shows, ships can be stopped from jumping with immobilizer 418s and thrawn is such a tactical genius that he (and maybe 2 or 3 more guy in the EU) can pull such a thing of. Think of the black fleet as I said. it disappeared and haven't been found for a decade.
Well, I would go at it in a very very different approach.
I would start by imperial fleets disappearing left and right black fleet style with no sources of indication where they went. Imperial planets abandoned, no sign of opposition in chokepoints. Nothing, nowhere, but star destroyer wrecks at a few places, heavily damages on outposts.
The investigation's conclusion: infighting between imperial groups. It culminates in finding an Executor class in pieces. The NR salvages the wreck and starts to rebuild it. They secure the galaxy in 5 years(the decreased time can e ruled out as the missing opposition in this case, yet still not as ridiculous as 1 year.)
Then it happens. The New Republic high command loses contact with a patrol. They send a fleet but they just go dark. The NR declares the sector off limits in precaution.
Then comes the disappearence of some mole miners. Then the canonized version of the battle for Sluis Van. And since thrawn is canon, he could pull the strings. He reunited most of the empire and pulled back to the unknown regions, regrouping an salvaging whatever he could, calling out for all who is loyal to the empire. The attack on Sluis Van is a success this time, and he captures a whole new republic fleet. The fleet of MC 80s are got a good use immediately. Posing as a New republic fleet under attack by imperial forces engages in a fake battle against an ISD and an Interdictor. When reinforcements arrive, the imperials does not retreat. The NR support fleet comes in range, and then... A whole imperial fleet pops up right on them, using a precision hyperspace jump with the gravity well of the interdictor.
The new republic fleet gets obliterated before they could report back. System after system falls with no info for years. And this is where we start episode 7. The NR is in fear and the Resistance could be those brave few whom would try to go after whatever kills their fleets. and by the end, trough sheer luck plot bunnies as ever they get to know that it is the empire, that thrawn leads the empire and there wouldn't be any superweapon. just super tactics. Oh, and Han would die, but in a much more dignified way. In the final battle of the movie where the heroes would try to run away with the info, they would be outgunned and couldn't jump because of an interdictor, and to save them, Han would ram his ship into it so the others could get away. So Han's death would at least mean something and not just die because why not. This would be a death fitting for him, and even his development in the original triology would mean something, culminating in this event.
What do you guys think?