Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rewrite
Alright, I’m going to preface this with an unpopular opinion: I enjoyed the Sequel Trilogy. It did everything I wanted a Star Wars trilogy to do, and I liked all three movies. I do not get the pure hatred for them by many people - although I do understand the critiquing by most of the fans. However, I do know there are issues with the Sequel Trilogy, and that they can be made better. So, I decided to do a rewrite of the trilogy. It’s not perfect by any means, but I had fun writing it, and that’s what matters. So please, hope you enjoy!
Keep in mind for this, Clone Wars is canon, Rebels is canon, and The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett is canon as well. The only change I made is that Maul did not track down Obi Wan on Tatooine, keeping him alive.
Post Episode 6:
After the fall of the Empire, the remaining Imperial Forces escape across the galaxy, remnants holding up in the Outer Rim. One faction, led by Rae Sloane and her subordinate Brendol Hux, head into the Unknown Regions, following the Sith Wayfinder that Rae took from the Death Star’s treasure room after it crashed. They arrive at Exegol, and set base in the old ruins there, where they encounter Snoke, a deformed clone of Darth Sidious. He becomes their benefactor, giving the planet as a base of operations and the resources that come with it. The remnant gives up the name of the Empire, instead becoming the First Order. After two decades, they have rebuilt themselves and their army, and begin plundering worlds all across the galaxy since Exegol has run out of resources.
Maul, who is running the Crimson Dawn criminal organization, has gained massive control over the Outer Rim territories Underworld, only a few planets such as Tatooine and Mandalore being out of his control. When word of the First Order gets to him, he immediately begins supplying them with information and resources, wanting to keep his organization running.
After the fall of the Empire, the Rebel Alliance brought the New Republic into existence, a democratic confederacy of systems. They have built themselves over the decades, having good control over the Core and Inner Rim planets. They have an army, but it is not very big, leaving many planets without protection.
Luke has been training Force-Sensitive people in the ways of the Force. His school for Jedi is well underway when his nephew, the son of Leia and Han, Ben Solo, comes to train under him. However, a band of pirates attack the New Jedi Order, and end up killing several padawans. Ben and a few other padawans, enraged, kill the pirates and are about to pursue them throughout space when Luke stops them. Without thinking, Ben attacks Luke, who defends himself. Luke easily beats him, but then a wave of Dark Side Force Energy comes from Ben, and Luke instinctively raises his lightsaber in response. Ben and the other padawans misunderstand this, thinking Luke was going to kill him, and they leave Luke’s planet. Snoke reaches out to Ben, and corrupts him, turning him to the dark side, while the rest of the padawans become the Knights of Ren.
Distraught, Luke destroys his school, and travels to the Outer Rim after telling Han and Leia what happened, desperate to rediscover the original Jedi ways. He leaves a map for people to find his location, but it is incomplete.
Thirty years after the fall of the Empire, the First Order begins their assault on the galaxy, openly raiding and attacking worlds along the Outer and Mid Rims, slowly getting closer to the Core, using conquered planets as bases to keep their real base at Exegol hidden. The New Republic mobilizes their army, led by Senator Leia Organa. Several people in the army include Poe Dameron, and Lando Calrissian.
Episode 7: The Force Awakens
Desperate to find Luke again, Leia tracks down the location of Luke’s map, which has been entrusted to a man on Jakku named Lor San Tekka, an old explorer. She sends Poe Dameron to retrieve it, whereupon he places it safely in BB-8. However, before the pilot can leave, Kylo Ren arrives with a force of Stormtroopers, and burns the town and people in it; capturing Poe and killing San Tekka. Unbeknownst to him, BB-8 escapes into the desert. One trooper, FN-2187, is disillusioned by the First Order, and doesn’t fire upon the civilians. On his ship, Kylo Ren tortures Poe for where to find the map, and learns of BB-8. He sends his troops to comb over Jakku again.
A young scavenger woman climbs through the wreckage of an Imperial Star Destroyer, swinging from rope to rope and collecting salvage; using small bits of the Force to pull things closer to her. She comes across a strange artifact: a small crystal that seems to hum with power. After finding her scrap, the woman, Rey, leaves the wreckage to go turn it in for portions.
In Niima Outpost, Rey saves BB-8 from being turned into salvage by Unkar Plutt. Later that day, the First Order forces sweep through the area, and Unkar tells them about Rey and BB-8. However, before they arrive at Rey’s AT-AT, she gets a Force-Feeling, and abandons the place, escaping into the desert.
Onboard the First Order ship, FN-2817 helps Poe escape on a TIE Fighter, where they crashland in the desert. Finn starts walking oddly in a seemingly random direction, and they come across Rey and BB-8 in a scrapyard. There, Poe tells them that he needs a communicator to contact the New Republic Army, and they use scrap to build it, and Poe calls for reinforcements. After a few hours, the First Order catches up to them, and begins to capture them when the New Republic Army arrives, fighting off the forces. Rey and Kylo have a staredown, the latter sensing her Force-sensitivity and the crystal she found.
Han Solo and Chewbacca pick Poe, Finn, Rey, and BB-8 in the Millenium Falcon, taking them to the Army’s main base in D’Qar. The war council looks at Luke’s map, and sees it’s incomplete. R2-D2 provides a holographic map of the galaxy to show it’s in the Unknown Regions, but it’s not enough. Rey gets another Force-Feeling, and grabs a piece of paper. She draws the shape of the missing part of the map, and under guidance from Leia and the Force, draws the remaining portion. Rey is officially declared Force-sensitive. Han, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 are sent with Rey on the Falcon to find Luke, while Leia, Poe, and Finn stay behind to help prepare for the next confrontation. Finn meets Rose, a nervous former trainee Admiral for the First Order, and expert hacker, and they start bonding. Leia gives Rey her old lightsaber, just in case.
On their journey through hyperspace, Kylo Ren finds them above Mustafar, and captures the ship in their tractor beam. The group sneaks through the First Order ship to the hyperdrive engines, and split up to start placing charges to blow up the reactor. However, Kylo Ren finds them, and confronts his father on the walkways between the reactors. This scene happens just like it did in the movie, but Han triggers the saber, not Kylo (not revealed for a while), but the heroes don’t know that.
Chewbacca shoots Kylo with his bowcaster, injuring him. Rey places the final charge, and detonates it, escaping to the hangar before Kylo catches up to try and capture her. Rey distracts him with a lightsaber duel, and uses Force agility and his mental hesitance to trip him up enough for her to get onto the Falcon, and for Chewie to fly them away. Heavily damaged, the First Order ship crashes on Mustafar, not far from Vader’s Castle. General Brendol Hux chastises Kylo, who kills him.
With assistance from Rey’s Force-Feelings, Chewie lands the Falcon on one of Ach-To’s islands, where they explore it to find Luke and Mara Jade. Rey holds out Leia’s lightsaber silently, asking for Luke’s help.
Post Credits Scene: Across the galaxy, on Vandor, Maul receives a message from the First Order about Rey and the Republic Army, and mobilizes the Crimson Dawn organization.
Inbetween Episode 7-8:
Kylo Ren, trapped on Mustafar, learns through a vision with Snoke that he has but a few lessons left to complete his training. Desperate to stop the conflict in his heart and commit to the dark side, Kylo begins searching through the ruins of Vader’s castle for what he needs.
The New Republic officially declares war on the First Order, and General Leia Organa receives word of Han’s death. She hands over leadership to Amilyn Holdo, a decision contested by Poe.
Episode 8: The Last Jedi
Luke takes Leia’s lightsaber from Rey, and holds it reverently. He asks Rey what she wants, and she explains that the New Republic needs his help to stop the First Order; along with her being Force-Sensitive and needing training. Luke, who has grown disillusioned with the Jedi because of his experience with Ben, declines, saying he has a new life with another Force-Sensitive, Mara Jade, who is shown to be pregnant. He walks away, ignoring Rey’s pleas.
On Mustafar, Kylo discovers the Sith Wayfinder, and accidentally triggers an illusion of Darth Vader, and Kylo scrambles to fight it. Upon coming back to himself, he comes across a Darkghast, and kills it. Kylo takes the Sith Wayfinder, and returns to his fallen ship, where Rae Sloane’s flagship, the Supremacy, has come to take him and his crew away.
Mara Jade and Luke talk, and she convinces him that he can still help, even if he is no longer a Jedi. Conflicted, Luke searches the Jedi texts in the ruins of Ach-To, and learns about the Gray Jedi. He agrees to train Rey in the ways of the Force and lightsaber, along with Mara Jade.
Maul, along with the fully assembled Crimson Dawn, attack the New Republic Army base on D’Qar, and easily gain the upper hand. The Army tries to fight back, but is surprised and overwhelmed, so they retreat to Crait. Poe protests, but Finn and Rose stop him. On the salt planet, they take refuge in an old Rebel Alliance Base, and prepare their defenses. Leia and other members of the Army stay on the Raddus while the others get ferried off.
On Ach-To, Rey learns how to make her own lightsaber using the kyber crystal she retrieved, the crystal turning yellow. Splitting it in half, she turns her quarterstaff into a double-sided lightsaber-staff, and continues her training with it. She goes down into the cave, and a vision of her Sith-self surprises her, making her let loose Force Lightning. Scared, she leaves the cave and runs into Luke, who senses the darkness in her, and tries to explain, but just then, Chewbacca receives the distress call from the New Republic Army, and Rey leaves to go help.
The Crimson Dawn land their speeders on Crait, and begin approaching the base, while the Army uses the derelict canons and speeders to fight back. Clearly outmatched, this only gets worse for them when the First Order arrives with the Supremacy, and they land their own AT-AT machines, along with a cannon to blow down the doorway to the old Rebel base. Other members of the Army answer the distress call, and begin landing their own troops down, while ferrying away the injured. However, the First Order sees this, and launches ships from the Supremacy to counteract this. Kylo flies on his TIE Fighter and is about to destroy the ship Leia is on, but pauses. Before he can destroy it and one of his few connections to the light, one of the other TIE Fighters destroys it, and Leia is blasted into space, injured. Miraculously, she Force-pulls herself to the Raddus, where only herself, Poe, Finn, Rose, and Holdo remain. She convinces them that she will sacrifice herself, and lets them escape, before lightspeeding the Raddus into the Supremacy, destroying Rae’s flagship. Kylo watches this, and with his heart in fluctuation and enraged, he flies down to Crait.
Poe, Finn, Rose, and Holdo arrive on Crait, and Poe gets promoted, leading the entire remaining force. In their run to the base, Finn does some more Force-Feeling stuff, like dodging blaster bolts without looking. One of the arriving New Republic Army ships carries a fleet of Mandalorians, led by an aging Din Djarin, who still wields the Darksaber. He fights Maul, and puts up a decent fight until Kylo and the Knights of Ren land on the ground to join the fight. Then the Millenium Falcon arrives, dropping Rey on the ground to fight Kylo. The rejuvenated Army begins to fight back harder, but then the cannon blasts through the base, causing massive damage. It begins charging up again, and Finn is about to leave to disable it, in which he would be sacrificing himself, but Rose stops him, instead hacking a signal into the Rebel Base that stops the cannon, allowing them to destroy it with an empty speeder down the barrel.
As Din beats and captures Maul, Luke appears to confront Kylo while Rey goes to help her friends, and Kylo becomes enraged. The two fight, Luke never once being touched or touching Kylo. Luke explains himself, but distraught, Kylo calls him a liar and tries to stab Luke. However, this reveals Luke is a Force Projection, and Luke disappears, dying from the effort under Mara Jade’s sad watch. Angry and saddened at this, Kylo accepts that Luke hadn’t been trying to kill him all those years ago, and turns his anger to Snoke, and leaves Crait to try and kill him. With Kylo leaving, the Knights of Ren follow. The New Republic Army is victorious once again, although they have suffered heavy losses.
Back in Exegol, Snoke promotes Armitage Hux to Supreme Leader of the First Order, and they recall all forces to the Sith planet in order to focus on the ‘next phase’. The clone senses Kylo’s anger, and grins, knowing everything is coming into place.
Post Credits Scene: The New Republic holds a funeral for Luke and Leia, which is also attended by Mara Jade. After it, Rey asks for her help to train, and from the crowd steps out an elderly Ahsoka Tano and Cal Kestis.
Inbetween Episode 8-9:
During a timespan of over a year, Rey has been training under tutelage from Mara Jade, Ahsoka, and Cal. She has become extremely skilled, and can rival the skills of Ahsoka. She has an upgraded Lightsaber-Staff, the main portion of the weapon being make of Beskar. The time has come for her final test, but she is conflicted about the rules of the Jedi, not wanting to get rid of her attachments.
Kylo Ren has been on a warpath throughout the galaxy, destroying anyone in his way, First Order and New Republic, slowly making his way towards Exegol.
Maul, who has been captured after the Battle of Crait, escapes his cell and retreats to Batuu, where he hopes to join back with the Crimson Dawn.
Episode 9: The End of the Jedi
Rey, upon failing her final test due to her attachments to her friends, reads about the Gray Jedi, and calls upon their teachings to grow, a decision supported by Mara Jade, Ahsoka and Cal. She begins learning about Dark Side Force abilities, and nervously attempts to purposely use her Force Lightning, but fails. She is then called upon to find Maul and question him about Snoke and Exegol, and she leaves with Finn, Rose, and Chewbacca on the Falcon. Poe is feeling lost about his role in the New Republic Army, since he was field-promoted by a tiny force, and they’re all the Army has left; making Poe feel like he doesn’t deserve to lead.
Kylo arrives on Exegol, and fights his way through the forces, and attacks Snoke. He is easily defeated, and captured in a cell, and taunted by Snoke.
Rey catches up to Maul on Batuu, and duels him. The battle is short, and Rey successfully uses the Force Net technique to capture him. She interrogates him about Exegol, and receives the coordinates. Maul also reveals that Rey is a Palpatine, causing her to falter, but is then killed by Finn, who was warned of Maul’s counterattack by a Force-Feeling. Rey and Finn discuss this.
The First Order rises under Snoke’s command, and a new fleet of Star Destroyers has been made, each with a planet destroying cannon underneath it. Snoke sends out a message across the galaxy, declaring them all under his rule, and sends a few Destroyers to blow up the New Republic’s Core Worlds.
Poe is sent off to Mandalore with to send a broadcast, and he misinterprets this as a punishment. While there, he runs into his old spice-running crew, who are very proud of him for joining the Army when the call came out. Emboldened by this, he sends out a call with a really awesome speech asking for the help of everyone able and willing to fight for their freedom. He mentions he was a spice-runner and that anyone can help the alliance if they believe it. Lando arrives and says he will stay behind in case more show up. From there, Poe leads what meager reinforcements he can back to the Army base, where they broadcast the map to Exegol in case more come. Holdo sends the remaining portions of the New Republic Army to Exegol.
The Falcon leaves Batuu after hearing Snoke’s broadcast, and arrives at Exegol before the New Republic. They begin attacking the underbelly cannons, but are quickly chased off by numerous TIE Fighters. The ship gets destroyed, and they crash land on a Star Destroyer. Finn, Chewie, and Rose escape while Rey is captured and brought before Snoke. Rose, remembering her old training on First Order ships, sneaks them through a Star Destroyer and gets near the bridge. Chewbacca accidently gets seen, and the trio get captured and brought to the hangars for execution by Captain Phasma.
Rey and Kylo are brought before Snoke, and they attempt to kill Snoke but fail. Snoke taunts Kylo about his parents and Luke, while attempting to bring Rey to the Dark Side since she is a Palpatine. He shows her a vision of herself as Empress, and she is tempted by it until she senses her friends getting captured. She defies him, and breaks free of his Force hold, summoning her lightsaber to fight him, but Snoke just sends his Praetorian guards after her.
The New Republic Army arrives at Exegol, and begins fighting the TIE Fighters. Finn, Rose, and Chewie are nearly executed, but Finn deflects a shot from an outside blaster cannon, and they stay alive. Finn grabs a weapon and fights Phasma while also using the Force until she falls off the hangar and falls back to the planet. Meanwhile, Rose finds out how to shut down the guns on the Star Destroyers, and begins hacking into theirs to send the signal to all of them.
Rey fights off the Praetorian guards, and kills them all, using both light and dark side Force powers. Wary of this, Snoke attempts to sway her again, but she instead attacks him, forcing Snoke to pull out his own saber and fight back. Kylo breaks free of the Force Hold then, and grabs his lightsaber to fight alongside Rey, and the two charge at Snoke, engaging him. Rey gets knocked aside for a minute, and a vengeful Kylo screams at Snoke about his manipulations, and Snoke reveals that Kylo was always just a pawn to him, and would never amount to anything. Distraught, Kylo collapses, and Rey takes over the fight.
Outside, the First Order fleet overpowers the New Republic Fleet, leaving barely any left. But as they give up hope, Lando Calrissian arrives, leading the Citizen’s Fleet. They turn the tide, and begin destroying the Star Destroyers, which have their weapons now disabled due to Rose’s hacking. She, Finn, and Chewbacca escape the Destroyer, and are picked up by Lando on his ship.
Rey convinces Kylo to stand up and fight back, and Kylo returns to Ben Solo, his lightsaber blade turning white. The two fight Snoke to a standstill, but the clone of Palpatine uses his Force Lightning to fatally wound Ben. Rey uses the same method of redirecting Force Lightning that Yoda did in Episode 3, blasting Snoke back. She then uses her own Force Lightning to disintegrate Snoke, ending him and the Sith. The First Order Fleet is decimated without their weapons, and all the ships are defeated. The fleet and the Army leave the Sith planet, and begin their post-fight celebration, cheering happily. Rey checks on Ben, who is nearly dead. She attempts to heal him, but Ben refuses, saying he wants to see his parents again. He dies, and Rey leaves in a TIE Fighter, arriving on the planet the New Republic landed on. She reunites with her friends, and the war is won.
Post Credits Scene: Finn wakes up and walks outside of a hutt on Ach-To, and sees Rey sitting outside on a rock, while the other former Jedi are in the background archiving the Jedi texts there. She smiles at him, and asks if he’s ready for his first day of training.
