Chain 121: Star Wars - The Original Trilogy

Chain 121: Star Wars - The Original Trilogy
Location: Free Choice (Alderaan)
Age: 31
Identity: [-200] Drop-In, Force Sensitive, Human
Drawbacks: [0] Return of the Jumper

[200/800] I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
[Free]    Basic Powers
[400/800] Ship Import: Hyperion
[800/800] Old Friends: Demona, Conspiracy

Phew, those are some expensive imports.

In any event... things here started fairly close to canon, except that the message was from Bail Organa rather than, say, Leia. Of course Obi-Wan Kenobi was his only hope, so far as he knew almost everyone else was dead, purged by Darth Vader. And things there went somewhat canon in the beginning as well, though it was both Luke and Leia who went to find Kenobi - then again, when the stormtroopers tried to burn down Luke and Leia's home while they weren't there, Anakin handled them while Padme was busy packing up. Oh, I'm sorry, I meant "Owen and Beru Lars". Either way, when Kenobi and the Skywalker twins returned, the elder Skywalkers jumped in the speeder. It seemed the war had found them at last and there was no escaping it.

Of course, being who he is, Anakin wasn't one to avoid training the kids, even if the first thing he trained them to do was to hide themselves. So they hitched a ride with Leia's future romantic interest to Alderaan, and that's where things went... sideways.

You see, I imported Hyperion into this jump. As a result, it no longer looks so much like it did before with the bronze color, so much as it does a Death Star the size of Neptune - at least, when it's uncloaked. On the other hand, I did keep it cloaked in orbit of Alderaan while I tried to figure out how it fit into the plot. When the Death Star itself turned toward Alderaan and fired, only to cause Hyperion's cloak to fizzle out due to the incoming damage... well, that's when things took a bit of a turn.

Imagine for a moment, if you will, that you are Wilhuff Tarkin. You have ordered the destruction of a world, only to see the shot fizzle against something invisible not even a quarter of the way to your target, and abruptly your view of the planet is obscured by a much, MUCH larger version of your own station. Which then immediately begins powering up everything and seizes your station in a tractor beam like an unhappy parent grabbing an unruly child.

It is at this moment that you are wishing that the Imperial Navy uniform included brown pants, rather than slate gray, especially when the other station cloaks again but does not release the tractor.

During the ensuing chaos, the Millennium Falcon boarded the Death Star, liberated Bail Organa, and then fled. None of the other ships could do much of anything, as every time TIE fighters were launched from the Death Star they found themselves tractored back into the bays they had come from.

No one who isn't on the bridge of the Death Star is really quite sure why it's remaining stationary where it is or why the fighters can't launch, though eventually a few star destroyers show up in order to evacuate personnel from it - apparently THAT caused no problems. And then the rebels launched an attack and blew it up while only a skeleton crew was on board (aside from Tarkin), and the only defenses were a handful of TIE fighters that somehow DID manage to be launched...

When it exploded, the cloaked Hyperion kept any of the wreckage from hitting Alderaan, even if it briefly uncloaked again and caused some nightmares for the rebels before it disappeared. Vader crashed into Hyperion, too, so I got to meet him after we left the system.

Turns out he was Dooku all along, who knew?

I exiled him to Tattooine, because I'm a dick.

In any event, without Vader as his lapdog, the various systems of the Empire were a lot more willing to commit to the rebellion. And during the construction of the second Death Star... well, it turns out that me being neutral in the conflict, as I'd formerly told the Emperor, extended only to the point that I was attacked. Not that I mentioned anything about it to him, until he arrived and boarded the Death Star. At which point Hyperion uncloaked, cut through the Death Star's shielding like so much tissue paper, and dragged it into the sun. While cloaked.

The rebels arrived for their attack only to see the Death Star seemingly flying itself into the sun for no apparent reason. With the Emperor on board and the Imperial fleet in disarray. It was all a very confusing time.