Making Sense of the Sequel Trilogy

Let’s try to bring some concepts over from the Sequel Trilogy with having it all make sense.  Also, to properly tie in the films with what was set up in expanded material.  So the Battle of Jakku was where the remnants of the Empire met with the Rebel forces.  The Galactic Concordance is signed by Mon Mothma and Mas Amedda.  The Imperial fleets and troops are drawn down and loyalists scatter.  All of the fleets and army heading to the Unknown Regions is silly, no intelligent governing body would have an opposing military power go into exile fully armed.  So let’s look at Palpatine, he’s dead, I can see maybe he was cloned, this was something in the Dark Empire comic book, but the clone facility on Kamino was shut down by the Empire.  Maybe it could be requisitioned by the Empire, but it was really the Kaminoans who made cloning possible.  So maybe the cloning technology produces an unviable clone, why this Palpatine doesn’t suddenly show up, he is basically in a bacta tank forever.

Let’s say that Snoke has some Dark Side powers and contacts the clone from the Unknown Regions.  Imperial loyalists have tapped into the funds that fueled the Empire and send ships to Snoke.  He is taken to the clone who dominates Snoke through the Dark Side to take over his body.  This Snoke takes his forces into the Unknown Regions with loyalists that are in place around the rest of the galaxy.  They are developing the Starkiller weapon and assembling a fleet.  Returning to the New Republic, Mon Mothma has rebuilt the worlds ravaged by the Empire and reforming the galaxy without the Empire.  She shifts over duties to Leia and acts as an advisor.  Han and Leia marry on Naboo and Chewbacca changes his lifedebt to their son, Ben.  Han has joined Lando and Ackbar to suppress the uprisings after the Empire.  They soon turn over military authority to General Wedge and Admiral Nien Nunb and retire as advisors.  The point is to keep the characters that appear in the films and have them for the same time as the actors.  

Luke Skywalker has formed his Jedi Academy, it is located on Devaron (the setting of The Weapon of a Jedi novel), Tatooine, and Naboo.  Luke learned about the Force in the novel and said he would set up a Jedi training center there.  He has his own Jedi retreat on Dagobah and starts learning Qui-Gonn, Yoda, and Ben Kenobi’s separating oneself with the Force.  Sources of kaiburr are found in the galaxy to supply lightsabers and guarded by Jedi.  Soon, his apprentices are sent as advisors to settle disputes across the galaxy.  Ben becomes an apprentice, he is head strong like his father, and hears a call through the Dark Side.  Chewbacca who was with his family on Kashyyyk, contacts Luke,  and the Jedi Master follows Ben into the Unknown Regions and is lost.  Ben returns as Kylo Ren and takes leadership of the apprentices, now the Knights of Ren.  Leia argues with General Wedge to commit forces into the Unknown Regions, she forms the Resistance and takes military leadership as General Leia.  This leaves the new characters besides Kylo Ren.

First is Finn, he was the child of Lando, but his mother, Dhara (yup, I’m still pushing the Servants of the Empire novels) was stolen by the First Order and the baby taken into the stormtrooper program.  Lando brings in Han and Chewie to find his wife and child.  They find Dhara, but his child is lost.  Dhara has not lost hope and hopes to train as a Jedi as way to find him.  She leaves the Jedi Academy, before Kylo Ren destroys them, and heads off to find the missing child with Lando.  Lt. Poe Dameron (he was Commander in Force Awakens which is a rank at the middle of an arc for a character like Luke), he has been born after The Battle of Endor, his parents, Rebel pilot and soldier (this was in the Shattered Empire comic book), were well known in the New Republic.  He was in the New Republic fleet led by General Antilles, why Wedge is missing in the first two films, when his parents are killed by the First Order.  Poe joined the Resistance and makes runs across the galaxy to help build their military forces.  His senior officer is Commander Wexley.  This is to bring him in line with Luke Skywalker's character.  They have taken the old model X-Wings and upgraded them with new technology.  Admiral Nien Nunb leads the Resistance fleet.

Then, we have Rey, orphan girl who lives on Jakku.  It is not a junkyard, desert planet.  So thirty years and the scavengers of Jakku leave Star Destroyers mostly intact?  The engines and weaponry can be sold off.  What about the bodies?  Where are they?  The resourceful colonists there have built cities out of the wreckage from the Battle of Jakku and have a patchwork spaceport.  This is really when I took a trip to England and saw Hadrian's Wall.  Now, it is in someone's front yard, the pieces were used in a person's house.  The rare planetary visit trades in fuel and repairs.  Rey lost her memory when there was an accident and left by her family on Jakku.  Her guardian, Lor San Tekka, has raised her.  The guy who has the map to Luke Skywalker happens to be on the same planet as Rey and there is no connection?  Lor is the former records keeper and advisor to Luke Skywalker.  He was sent with Rey to protect her and keep her secret.  Lor has a rickety droid, Ar-U55, to watch over Rey and teach her how to fight, but keeps breaking down (I keep hearing the battle droid voice for him).  Rey goes out on her own to salvage wreckage and assist freighters with her tugboat.  This all of course to address Rey as a Mary Sue; how she is able to survive on her own, fight, and fly.  The droid was what is missing, no C-3PO just an R2 equivalent with BB-8.  So this brings us up to speed with Force Awakens.

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