Subject: Meanwhile, in the Galaxy Far, Far Away...
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Posted on: 2021-12-09 23:03:41 UTC

Well, not so much 'meanwhile'. SWH ran up to 994.M41, but that's a year after the 13th Black Crusade falls on Cadia. "Meanwhile" would be 14 ABY in the Star Wars timeline, or what should be 9 years after the Battle of Endor and the declaration of the New Republic.

The remnants of the Empire have fled into the Unknown Regions and been met by secret reinforcements. Reading between the lines, these probably come from Snoke, as a puppet of the not-exactly-dead Palpatine. They may also have a Chiss element. Grand Admiral Rae Sloane is probably still in command.

The Republic is firmly established. Luke Skywalker has spent a few years wandering around looking up Force lore, but by now seems to be building a class of students, including one who looks a lot like Yoda as a baby. He would officially restore the Jedi Order in 15 ABY.

Han Solo has tried family life - he and Leia had a son, Ben, who is now 9 - but seems to have given up on it. By this time the Falcon has already been stolen, which implies Han and Chewie are out smuggling again while Leia helps run the galaxy.

The sequel characters are all pretty young still. Poe Dameron is already flying ships. The likes of Finn and Rose are small children. Rey's mother might just be pregnant.

Elsewhere... well, the problem with the Disney Canon is it hasn't got a lot of 'elsewhere' yet. The Knights of Ren are active, so we can postulate several Force cults now that both the Light and Dark have been decimated. The Chiss Ascendency is probably still its isolationist self; an interesting point is that we now know their ships are navigated by specialised Force-sensitives known as skywalkers (no connection). Rogue Imperial factions are still causing trouble. There's still criminals, and still heroes.

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Most of which can't carry over to SWH except in the broadest strokes. Your stuff, though... well, the T'au won't be experimenting with warp drive when they have access to hyper drive, but a lot of the rest can make it over. In particular, we left the 13th Black Crusade at the gates of a weakened Cadia. There is every possibility of 994.M41 being the year the Rift opens across two galaxies.

Two questions, while I contemplate the state of the galaxies:

  1. How many Primarchs should enter the fray? Bobby Gulls is probably a given - but the SW sequels made 'sacrificial Force resurrection' a canonical power. Can we give someone a vision and send them to, say... the Rock? How does the prospect of Guilliman and the Lion as unwitting rivals on either side of the Rift strike you?

  2. Ten thousand years ago, the Cabal had a plan to destroy the Gods of Chaos by wiping out humanity. The principle was that the Powers were so heavily invested in humanity that its death would utterly deprive them of the emotions they feed on, wiping them out. Is that plan still viable? More specifically, could Palpatine have foreseen or intuited it while a 'prisoner' of Tzeentch? Because if the Great Powers of Chaos can be destroyed by starving them of the minds of humanity, well, ol' Sheevie might have a few ideas about free will and how to do away with it...

(I know last time there was a faction who were firmly on the 'Chaos can't be destroyed' side, but we're not talking about force of arms this time.)

hS

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