* I'll be flexible on this point, and on the PCs all being fringer types. I hope to be able to do six mini-campaign 'episodes' that take them from freewheeling criminals to bringing down the Empire. They'll start off in a Firefly-like set-up, doing jobs for pay, and then get drawn into the Rebellion when they get mixed up in the Death Star plot. The general plan is to have the characters start off as rogues with hearts of gold, or at least the potential to develop hearts of gold. (Which makes the alternate history thing more than just me indulging my love of alternate histories, but a way to keep the players in unfamiliar territory). A big theme of the campaign will be learning history to understand the present, with the characters uncovering what exactly happened in the Clone Wars, and being able to use that knowledge in the present.

The characters will be young enough that they don't have lots of memories of the Clone Wars, if any, and only know what the Republic was like before from stories and Imperial propaganda.* The changes to history mean that the PCs will be able to be positioned to be the heroes of the saga, rather than the Skywalkers, since Anakin and Padme didn't have children. The campaign, which isn't fully formed in my head yet, in part because I don't have a group and they don't have characters, is that the characters will be fringe and underworld types operating in the Rebels/Rogue One era.

(Anakin still falls to the Dark Side for other reasons that butterfly off from the lack of Jar-Jar, though.) The general thrust of the Clone Wars and the Empire stays the same, but Anakin doesn't get dismembered and burned, Obi-Wan quits the Jedi Order before the end of the Clone Wars, and Anakin and Padme never fall in love. The point of divergence is that Jar-Jar doesn't meet Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan on Naboo, and from there changes butterfly out. Click to expand.It's an alternate history, based off of an idea that I had a year or two or more ago.

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