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Using The Force Made Easy

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Fencer said:
K so.... I'm going to be brutally honest with all of you. I still fucking love this story to pieces but I feel like I'm ramming my head against a wall here. the last chapter fought me tooth and nail even though I knew exactly what I wanted going into it. now... Hell now I'm having more trouble than ever even just starting the next update. the whole galaxy finding out whats happening is something that causes everything to go topsy turvy. Sure given how few Jedi there are they aren't a part of daily life but at this point in the time line they are also a source of hope and inspiration for... literally anyone in need. See Anakin dreaming of freeing all the slaves even if his mother was experienced enough to know that's just not how it works.

So you have alarmists convinced this will lead to a neo sith war, not impossible. You have people that are excited to emulate their childhood heroes, you've got hoards of people trying to figure out how they can turn this to their advantage with different plans for how to do that some of which will inevitably be incompatible.

The part of me that wants to produce the best story possible wants to go into detail on this, give perspectives and show this off. My muse on the other hand keeps shying away from the idea like a whipped dog. so I think I just have to accept that it's not going to happen.

my back up plan which I liked more was to write about all this chaos from the POV of people in power, I was leaning towards Padme and Satine. guess how well that's going over with my muse... Yeah it isn't. Padme is a weird collection of contradictory traits in my mind not exactly mutually exclusive traits. just... they don't fit together properly in my head which makes the idea of writing from her perspective about issues that nothing even remotely similar to has happened on screen I can draw inspiration from is daunting and I feel like I don't have enough of a framework to pull it off... Granted I've written Dumbledore and he is so much worse, but at least I have more examples to draw on for him and it wasn't his POV. Satine by contrast is just... does not compute. She's the head of a planetary government and a pacifist. yes yes I understand the how of it all, childhood trauma, her world horribly scared by war etc etc etc. but writing from her POV, her thoughts? Forget it, I'll only end up bashing her trying to twist my brain to fit a mold it can't see. if her personal stance was pacifism and she was just one person fine, I could make that work, but as the leader of a planet... no. I really really can't, it's willful ignorance and denial of reality and I can't write that without bashing her to hell and back and if I do that from her POV it would just be so much worse.

I thought about doing some kind of forum discussion but honestly that just sounds like chaos with dozens of different points of view and I really don't want to try it.

Getting some of these ideas out there seems important in an abstract way but it's fighting me tooth and nail. I'm kind of leaning towrds a different idea now. Maybe just write chapters from POV's I've already used where the POV character is confronted in some way with a few of the more common opinions? It would take a lot of the pressure off and let me get on with some of the more interesting character interactions I've been wanting to explore...

I don't know. Mostly right now I just... I'm aware how neglected this fic has been, and it makes me cringe. so I guess I'm info dumping to let you all know what's been going on in my head and to try and get my thoughts in order and to hopefully kick start something in my muse which has spent the last month bouncing between four different fics like a sugar high squerral, and no I am very much not in charge when my muse get like this. If it keeps running away from me like this I'm going to find myself with more stories and I kind of really do not want that right now thanks, but I've never once been in complete control of my imagination so that's just going to be whatever it decides to be and I'll just have to live with it.
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What a out useing Bail Organa the guy was literally the spy master for the Rebel alliance. He's also the current person representing Alderaan.
 
On another note about Bail Organa when Palp won Bail not only got alot of high ranking jedi out but knew where they all were. He knew where yoda, obi wan and Asoka we're all hiding. He was keeping a eye on Luke as he lived on the dustball. Raised the sister. It is also highly suspected he was part of The Path so know were almost all the refugee force users are hiding. This guy gave out a helping hand to almost everybody and not even Pelp suspected.
 
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Orannis said:
On another note about Bail Organa when Palp won Bail not only got alot of high ranking jedi out but knew where they all were. He knew where yoda, obi wan and Asoka we're all hiding. He was keeping a eye on Luke as he lived on the dustball. Raised the sister. It is also highly suspected he was part of The Path so know were almost all the refugee force users are hiding. This guy gave out a helping hand to almost everybody and not even Pelp suspected.
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Given Alderaan was exploded, he probably suspected tbh.
 
Orannis said:
Yeah, but he was such a problem that it took a death star to take care of him
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In a worm/star wars crossover, Taylor, tricked by HK47 into being "Darth Khepri", explain to a powerless Ventress (said sith had gone for the intimidation as first impression and entered the range of mastering) that she is actually very fragile : she would have no defense against orbital bombardment destroying the planet she is on, Apparently Bail would not have any defenses either.

... skill issue.
 
Icare said:
In a worm/star wars crossover, Taylor, tricked by HK47 into being "Darth Khepri", explain to a powerless Ventress (said sith had gone for the intimidation as first impression and entered the range of mastering) that she is actually very fragile : she would have no defense against orbital bombardment destroying the planet she is on
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Can we get a link to that story? I really want to read a Darth Khepri.
 
Icare said:
In a worm/star wars crossover, Taylor, tricked by HK47 into being "Darth Khepri", explain to a powerless Ventress (said sith had gone for the intimidation as first impression and entered the range of mastering) that she is actually very fragile : she would have no defense against orbital bombardment destroying the planet she is on, Apparently Bail would not have any defenses either.
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prince84 said:
Can we get a link to that story? I really want to read a Darth Khepri.
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I think it's Overkill. I did a google search on "darth kepri".
 
henifataffle said:
Tbf hardly anyone has a defense for the planet they are on exploding.
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Negation said:
It depends. How far can you go with Tutaminis?
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That's... One option. There are also people who are said to be able to teleport with the force... And I guess if you take force stasis to an absurd extreme...

Honestly, there are a lot of force powers that could theoretically save you from planet scale destruction if you could scale them up enough, somehow...

It's a pity Palpatine killed or enslaved pretty much everybody that could have conceivably done anything close to that in his part of the time line...
 
Krazyfan1 said:
the nightsisters and those that know their skills are one of them.
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Along with Abeloth, Darth Jadus, certain members of the Dread Masters, Darth Vitiate, etc.

And while I couldn't name any off hand, I'm certain that I've heard at least one reference to Jedi using this power. So it's not necessarily a dark technique, for some reason we just know more Dark Siders who use it by name.
 
The Dathomiri consider "dark" and "light" side Force powers a false dichotomy anyway, and may not be entirely wrong about that.
 
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The Keetael

Reference Book: Star Wars Saga Edition Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide On the Draethos homeworld of Thosa, warriors and hunters dominate the culture. Unsurprisingly, the Draethos Force Tradition of Keetael uses The Force to increase fighting and hunting prowess. The Keetael do not...
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The Keetael are still the sane ones.
 
Jake said:
The Dathomiri consider "dark" and "light" side Force powers a false dichotomy anyway, and may not be entirely wrong about that.
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Don't use the D-word where Mace Windu can hear you. He still hasn't gotten over Anakin's Thesis.

Not that Ki-Adi's flame thrower attack on the Geonosians helps there. Or Kenobi calling child soldiers morally good, cause it's apparently the Will of the Force for that matter
 
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