OK I FORGOT I WAS GOING TO MAKE THIS POST BUT. A couple days ago I commented on @symeona ‘s post about how I had a bunch of different ideas for what could’ve been done for the sequels, then I realized they actually worked better as a series of the sorts so.
Basically, you’d have a TV series that’s set during the Imperial Era, though instead of some great big conflict, it’s focused on the individuals—the little guys, if you will—and it takes place from 16BBY–10BBY with no real chronological order. How it would work is each episode would be maybe an 30 minutes to an hour, and you’re introduced to new characters and stories every time. No one episode is the same, and I had a couple of ideas already, so I’m just gonna dump these here and maybe add more later:
Set at the core of the Empire, Coruscant, the episode centers around a young, half-twi’lek mechanic who runs a droid repair shop in the lower levels. Just barely scraping by with credits, they find the deal of a lifetime when a Senator and her family offers them half a million credits to keep her hidden from the Empire. They accept, hiding the Senator in their shop and calling on favors in order to get her off planet, all the while setting up various traps for the Imperials to run into once they arrive.
The next episode focuses on an old Togruta who has long since abandoned his title of “Jedi Master” after surviving Order 66. He resides on a backwater planet untouched by the Empire in hopes that he will be left alone, though his isolation is broken when a young girl comes to him for help. Her village has been terrorized by pirates for weeks now, and after hearing tales of a great warrior living in the open fields, she took it upon herself to find him. When he initially denies, she reveals that she’s Force Sensitive in a fit of rage, and he decides to train her so that she can protect her village instead.
Episode 3: Do Your Loyalties Lie?
Episode 3 follows a former Republic Scientist—now Imperial—who has recently been re-stationed on Kashyyyk due to his botanical knowledge. He’s happy to comply at first, however, he’s horrified by the treatment of the Wookiees by the Imperials and begins to question his loyalties as well as the differences between the Republic and the Empire. After encountering Saw Gerrara and his rebel cell, he has a choice to make: remain with the Empire, or defect to the Rebellion?
A young pilot competes to be at the top of her flight group in the newly established Imperial Flight Academy. With a big test approaching, she grows frustrated with her inability to top the best of their class and constantly butts heads with the other pilots in her squadron. She goes to one of the older recruits for advice, and ends up finding a mentor figure who guides her throughout the rest of the episode.
A pair of twins are sent off to the Imperial Academy by their parents, though during their first night at the Academy, one reveals to the other that they plan on joining the Rebel Alliance instead. Split between paths, the remaining twin feels betrayed and questions their purpose/what they’re fighting for. Instead of focusing on this singular moment, the episode takes the viewer through their relationship growing up together before reaching its climax, aka, the moment of questioning.
The episode begins with a Chagrian Rebel saying goodbye to his mother before going off on a mission while she sings a soft song and it’s established as a ritual between them. He leaves a pouch of credits with her, promising that he’ll see her again, before leaving with the rest of his squad. We follow the squad throughout the episode, though right before its conclusion, we learn that both the Chagrian and his mother both knew that he was being sent on a death mission. The episode concludes with a flashback to the mother rocking him as a child, humming the same song that she sang at the beginning of the episode.
Episode 7: For the Empire
We are introduced to two inquisitors who have been romantically involved with each other and are working to keep their affair a secret from their superiors. The episode mostly focuses on their relationship—hands brushing against each other, soft forehead taps, interlaced fingers, just small things—until the very end where they are in a training session with the rest of the Inquisitors. Vader steps in and calls them both forward, ordering them to fight to the death.
Freshly graduated, a stormtrooper is sent off on their first mission with their newly assigned platoon. The group chats and jokes amongst themselves on the way there—something meant to purposefully “humanize” them—and the shiny Storm Trooper quickly feels at home, molding well with the others. Their given objective is to destroy a village which higher ups have said is full of Rebel fighters. They meet little resistance on the way in, though the shiny Storm Trooper quickly discovers this is because the village is actually fully of civilians.
Episode 9: Familiar Faces
A former clone trooper lives in seclusion with his adopted son, offering his services up as a medic in order to scrap together credits though otherwise keeping under the radar. When he’s called into the village to help an injured stranger, he brushes it off as another day on the job, though ends up finding more than he bargained for when he comes face to face with his Jedi General for the first time since the Clone Wars.
Set on one of the lesser-known midrim planets, a village has been under the oppressive thumb of their Empire-appointed governor for months now. Said governor is unbearably corrupt, leaving the rest of the village in poverty, and while the elders seem to have resigned to their fate, the younglings of the village are more determined. A group of orphan kids band together to fight back, repurposing discarded imperial droids and astromechs in order to aid their cause.
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head, though like I said, I’ll probably add more in the future :)
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