Alternate Star Wars Episode VII-IX: Arr, Me Hearty, Pirates!

I didn't like the first book of the High Republic series that features some pirates fighting Jedi like 300 years before Episode I, but I got thinking that pirates might have been an interesting villain for Episodes VII-IX, better than the First Order anyway.  

The idea is that there's a big election coming up with Leia against General Snoke for president or chancellor or whatever of the New Republic.  To help steer things his way, Snoke recruits Kylo Ren and a group of pirates to create a crisis by attacking targets in the New Republic.  Finn and Poe are guards for Leia who are dispatched to look into the attacks.  They need some discreet transport and so recruit Han and Chewie to take them somewhere.  They eventually find Rey on some planet where the pirates have a base.

The big finish for the first episode would be the pirates try to steer an asteroid into the capital of the New Republic.  Snoke then is supposed to be the big hero but when he's betrayed by Kylo, it's up to Finn, Poe, and Rey to stop the asteroid, which they do.  At the end Kylo reveals that he's really Ben Solo, who was kidnapped and thought to have died years ago, which had broken up Han and Leia's marriage.

Arr, matey! I be a pirate now!

In the second episode then Snoke has lost the election but the pirates are still rampaging around and so the good guys try to track them down.  Finn infiltrates the pirates while Poe stays with a fleet that always seems a step behind the pirates and Rey goes to find Luke Skywalker to learn more about the Force.  Finn finds out that Kylo is gathering more pirate bands and a bunch of other scum and villains.  And Rey learns more about the Force on some planet.

Eventually everyone comes together somewhere in a big fight where Rey and Luke fight Kylo while Finn battles some pirates and Poe leads fighters against the pirate ships.  Things take a turn when Luke is killed by Kylo and Snoke shows up with New Republic ships that start firing on the good guys.  Leia barely escapes the capital as Snoke takes over and declares the dawn of the Second Galactic Empire!

And so then in the third one the good guys have to gather loyal forces to defeat Snoke and his new Empire to restore the New Republic.  It would all end with a big battle on and around the capital planet with Rey confronting Kylo and Leia/Finn taking out Snoke and Poe leading the battle in orbit.  Of course in the end the good guys win and the New Republic is restored.  Yay!

Again I could probably try to fill in more details and stuff, but who really cares, right?  I think you get the gist.  Or not.