Alternate Star Wars Episode VII-IX: Invasion By Force

Slightly before the Obi-Wan Kenobi show I had one of those random thoughts while watching the animated shows:  why wasn't there some kind of Underground Railroad for Jedi and other Force users after Order 66?  And then the Obi-Wan Kenobi show actually featured something about that, so maybe I have the Force!

That thought collided with another about one of the problems with the sequel series was a pretty meh villain.  The First Order was basically just a cut-rate Empire with all the same stuff even.  Probably because it was so rushed into production that no one had time to design a bunch of new shit.  Anyway, while the 2000s books about a race called the Yuuzhan Vong invading the galaxy far, far away were pretty stupid, the principle was a good idea.

Now we get to the point:  what if a bunch of Force users who escaped Order 66 had formed their own colony and returned to the galaxy far, far away some 50 years later?  It's similar to something I wrote in 2010ish called Liberation Front that was about a human colony on Mars returning to Earth to "save" it from itself.  Only one of the Martian soldiers eventually realizes they're really conquerors not liberators and ends up helping to start a rebellion against her own people.

Rey would be the one who is part of the invading group but gets a conscience.  Probably her people would capture Finn and/or Poe and in talking to him/them she realizes that her people are doing more harm than good.  Then she joins up with Finn, Poe, Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie to repel the invading Force users led by Kylo Ren, who would not be a son of Han and Leia.  Snoke would be one of the original Force users who helped to found their colony.

The first movie would have the Force users invading and in the final act Rey turns on them to join the New Republic.  Then the second movie would have her and her new friends struggling to fight back as the Force users gain more ground.  Then in the third movie, Rey and the others would go to the colony of Force users to confront Snoke and get him to stop the invasion.  In the end Kylo Ren is killed and some of the other Force users come to Rey's side and the invasion is stopped to let them and the New Republic work things out.

I could probably try to work out the whole thing, but from last week's entries that gets really hard the farther down the rabbit hole you go.  So it's better to stick to just a broad overview.  I mean it's not like this would actually happen, right?

Though you could also reengineer this to be episodes X-XII.  Say it's like even longer, like 70 years since Order 66 or maybe like 20 years after Episode IX.  With Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia dead and Kylo Ren dead and Rey "Skywalker" just sort of wandering around, the New Republic has pretty much forgotten about the Force or Jedi.  

Then a bunch of Force users return to take over!  Poe and the New Republic initially try to take on the Force users, but they're getting their butts kicked.  He enlists Finn to find Rey to help.  Finn and Jennah and whoever have to dodge some evil Force users until Rey finds them.  Meanwhile, Poe and the New Republic military make a big stand, but when it fails, they have to fall back and try to regroup.

In the second part, Rey and Finn have to find and recruit some Force users of their own while the evil Force users continue their push towards the heart of the New Republic.  The fighting is getting desperate for Poe and the military.  It gets worse when the evil Force users come out with some big Force-powered weapon.  Rey is struck down while Finn and some of their new students manage to escape.

In the third part, Finn has to use his fledgling Force ability to help the others unlock as much potential as they can.  Along with Poe and what's left of the military, they plan one last assault to drive the evil Force users back.  This involves Finn and the good Force users getting on whatever the weapon is to stop it so Poe and the military can safely counterattack.  But of course things don't go to plan.  In the end, Finn unlocks more ability than he thought he ever had and destroys the head of the evil Force users.  He convinces the others to let go of their hatred and come back to the light side.

And so everyone gets together to start the healing and rebuilding...