The Kenobi Connection

by Skywalker2B

A 3-part story that shows how important Obi-Wan Kenobi is to the whole Skywalker Saga. The story starts shortly after the events of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith with Obi-Wan Kenobi keeping watch over an infant Luke Skywalker, when a person from Obi-Wan's past arrives on Tatooine that sets things in motion that will affect the galaxy's future.

1. Author's Pre-Story Notes

Author's Notes:

One thing I like in multi part stories, and especially Star Wars, is that each new part connects to and sometimes changes the way you see previous parts. ESB changed the way you saw ANH, RotJ changed the way you saw ESB, the PT changed how you saw the OT, TCW changed how you saw AotC and RotS, Rogue One changed how you see ANH, etc. I'm also big on continuity between all stories in the SW canon. My intent with these ideas is to connect and change the way you see the PT, TCW, the OT, and the ST while maintaining canon continuity.

OB1 is my favorite character from the prequels and TCW. I loved Ewan as OB1 in the PT. And James Arnold Taylor (JAT) did an awesome OB1 voice in TCW and Rebels. And now, Steven Stanton has done an awesome job as OB1 in Rebels. There have already been rumors that there may be a Kenobi trilogy with Ewan. And, how about the cool fan (Ben Ostrower) theory of Rey (from TFA) being Kenobi's granddaughter ( ben-ostrower/rey-is-obi-wan-kenobis-granddaughter_b_ )? Well, I took those ideas, what we know in the new canon thus far, and my love of the EU and ran with them.

Things to keep in mind:

1. Kathleen Kennedy said that the saga is, and will be, about the Skywalker's. While Ben Solo is technically part Skywalker, I don't think that is what she meant. I think Rey is a Skywalker.

2. When I came up with this story idea in early 2016, TFA and most of the new canon stuff did not connect too much to the PT, TCW, or Rebels.

3. Pablo Hidalgo, in discussing the Legends title, said that they called it Legends because there is some truth in it. Even in Rebels' season 2 Ahsoka states that there is some truth in legends. During a panel at an earlier Celebration about the new Story Group: "...the Story Group said that while the Expanded Universe is now Legends and has been wiped clean, they do have plans to reboot or reintroduce characters from that world in the canon." We now have proof…Thrawn.

4. Filoni and Pablo, at Celebration London (2016), in an Ahsoka lost stories panel talked about how TCW was supposed to end with the Siege of Mandalore. Filoni talked about it previously, but we got a little more info about it recently…the characters involved and the basic plot and how it connected to RotS. Also, we've been told that even unproduced TCW story arcs are considered canon. This idea stems from the Siege of Mandalore story arc and several previous TCW episodes.

5. The current rumor is that Kenobi (played by Ewan) will be in Episodes 8 and 9 and has some connection to Rey (as his voice in Rey's Force vision implies in Episode 7).

Things to add into the story:

Finds out Vader is still alive (how does he know that Vader is "more machine than man"?)

Discovers Jabba is a crime lord. His goons infest Mos Eisley

Attacked/Chased by a Krayt Dragon. He kills it. It is the skeleton we see in ANH.