alert1 - this is not for profit Lucas owns whatever Disney did not buy
alert2 - this was kind of a filler episode/issue for the comic, and a standalone story, dream of the crossovers
alert3 - based on the 1980 comic produced by marvel authorized by Lucas (frankly I haven't seen anything reprinted, it may be out of copyright)
alert4 - emphasis is handled oddly in comics, all text was capitals(shouting for the web), also emphasis was handled by making some text bold (EXAMPLE="I don't like it!") many people put extra emphasis on specific words as they talk
think of this as a yeast starter for other stories as of yet I have not seen any fanfiction using earlier material (comics) in their stories
and now the story
Long ago in a galaxy far, far away...
there exists a state of cosmic civil war
A brave alliance of underground freedom fighters
has challenged the tyranny and oppression
of the awesome galactic empire
this is their story!
a habitable planet of land and seas rotates below, with a large orbiting moon edging behind the planet sets the stage for the opening drama
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TIE fighters fly as if hawks for a hunting, the Imperial Star Destroyer following behind the TIEs and prey.
the target a twin front pod spice freighter laden with cargo.
ordinarily a lone spice tanker flying the outworld trade routes is of small concern to the empire...
.
but ordinarily, such a tanker doesn't have its holds lined with medical supplies bound for the rebel alliance...
or two prominent members of the rebellion at its helm
.
a female voice shrills in the pilots cockpit
"Luke...! we've been betrayed!"
her face holding surprised outraged shock at the situation Leia watches Luke piloting the freighter
"I should have known those smugglers were playing a double game when they let us have those supplies at a bargain!"
calmly focused on piloting with grim focus
"Don't worry, princess-"
.
the freighter shifting and sliding as energy bolts from the first of the two TIE fighters slam the rear shields
"-another second or so dodging their laser bolts and we can make the jump to hyperspace."
"Get ready, Leia. I'm going to punch it-"
.
"-now!" Luke's fingers hammering the button for the hyperdrive
shots from the second fighter slam into the freighter hull
"Luke! that blast pierced the rear shield!"
.
in the cabin a console bursts apart sparks exploding across the rebels
"and maybe a lot more-"
.
"-but we're makin' the jump and right now that's all that counts!"
stars streak by faster and faster
brave words...
...but spoken a bit too soon! for as the small transport craft leaps into faster-than-light speeds...
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consoles sparking, blowing apart the cabin screams with engine and hyperdrive feedback
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hands working the controls grimacing pain on Luke's face as leia's hands covering her ears
"I-it feels like we're shaking apart...! every circut is blowing...! let's get out of this!"
"I'm trying...! but... instruments are going crazy... nothing's responding... like it should!"
.
still, the young star warrior fights to manually override the shipboard computer system! until...
"...got it! we're dropping back to sub-light!"
beyond the windows of the cabin only dark black can be seen
.
holding her head in pain, leia sagged against the console
damaged systems sparking to the rear
"Thank the force...!"
puzzled confusion on his face, Luke's eyes roam the windows
"Uh... I'm not so certain the force was with us, princess."
"That hit we took definitely affected the hyperdrive. we've jumped way to fast-"
.
empty space showing darkness without even a glimmer of stars to the naked eyes
"-and much too far!"
"The stars...! they're gone! w-we're beyond the galaxy... lost somewhere in the void!"
.
consoles still sparking from damage in the background
lukes eyes roam the windows hunting for any details
"And I had to kill all power to stop us. It'll take major repairs to get us going again."
"I'll try the emergency beacon, but we're bound to be light years from any kind of-"
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dressed in long loose clothing, Leia spots a distant star
"Luke...! there's something... one star I didn't see before!"
pointing off past the starboard hull
suddenly, the ship's communicator crackles to life overhead.
"hee hee hee ha ha ha ha ha heh heh heh"
crazed laughter pours through the speaker
"Our beacon's getting a response. but what..."
.
shifting like lightning the point of light
moves from going past, to moving at their ship
.
surprise covering Luke's face
"The star...?! it's moving, Leia...! fast-"
.
"Much too fast-"
the star closes on the freighter
details showing it to be a mass of green bubbles with pods
.
luminous, a mammoth organism of flowing curves, tendrils and psudopods overshadows their freighter
"-to be a star at all!"
"Luke, it looks..alive! but... that can't be! not out here! there must be some other answer-"
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Luke and Leia instinctivly flinch and recoil from the windows as instinct has them try to dodge the collision
as light from the juggernaught's pod floods the cabin
"I sure hope so, princess! 'cause whatever it is-"
tendrils separating from the surface of one pod bubble, opening a mouth like pit
"-it seems to be swallowing us!" Luke shouts,
gaping the freighter slides inwards into the pod as the tendrils curve and coil around the freighter
.
almost instantly...
...any fears are lost to...wonder.
their eyes gazing out the windows, awed amazement paints both their faces
.
curving walls supporting flowing pods vague in their design yet similar to past equipment seen and used
for a time, they stare in silence. then training and instinct snap them back. even with their main power shut down...
...limited readings can be made.
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"The atmosphere's compatable...at least as far as breathing is concerned."
their ship touches down as the automated systems extend the ships landing gear sensing the approaching landing
.
the ships ramp drops to the orange green floor
luke is off the ship first, hands loose and free yet ready to grab gun or saber off weapon belt at need
"Kind'a like a ship's hold...or docking bay, Leia. only-"
"There's this strange flow to everything! the equipment, the machinery...almost organic. as if-"
Leia cautiously steps down the ramp watching the area
"-it had grown here! the whole place practically pulses with a life of its own, Luke-"
at the base of the landing ramp, snorts, leans her shortrifle on her hip, eyes luke while watching the area
"-and though it may sound just a touch provincial for a former senator and a seasoned intergalactic traveler-"
"-I don't like it."
.
confidence returning, Leia walks towards Luke
"In fact, I get a very uncomfortable feeling of being watched...or being studied."
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Hands resting on hips near his equipment belt, Luke turns to Leia
"Well, something definitely brought us here. but if its purpose was to harm us-"
"-it surely would've done it before now."
.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
startled both look up and around as
the laughter seems to flow all around them...
.
and then...
the orange floor softens like mud under the two, sucking them below
the madness begins.
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Luke drops through the floor, falling like a stone
"Leiaaaaaa"
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Leia with her own set of problems, slides down an open chute
"Luke! where are you? Luke?!"
"All right Leia Organa...calmly does it."
small forms glide out of the floor behind her as she picks herself up off the floor from the end of the conveyor slide
.
"If our laughing host thinks you're more vulnerable separated from Luke, he, she, or it better-"
long brown whip like forms arc toward her left shoulder
.
inborn instinct of unknown monsters causes her to look over her left shoulder sensing motion
.
"heeheeheeheeheeheehee"
Leia begins to shoot rapidly at the dozen brown tendrils curving toward her
.
for Luke
the fall ends as all falls must..with impact.
cushioned...
.
padding keeping him from breaking and keeping him alive
...but all the same, stunning.
still, he is young, his body is strong...
.
...and his senses are honed by the ways of the force.
"W-who...?"
warily Luke lifts his head looking right
.
Luke tumbles left scrambling to dodge
shraaakk!
a red lightsaber slices into the pad where Luke had been
after the first surprise strike failed, a humanoid robotic droid form flows out of the shadows of the room
"Fast reactions...I like that. good. good. challenge makes it interesting."
double handed, it swings at Luke crouched on the floor
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"Like the saber too. fun analyzing it. duplicating it. good touch."
only lukes kneeling position allows his desparate block to hold vs the overhead strike
"Too bad it's all over so-"
.
eye covers opening wide, the droid looks surprised for a split-second
"Killing stroke blocked? not sure that's fair...so many variations at once."
.
"Something should be saved for next time...time after that."
"What kind of droid are you...? fighting...babbling like it's a game?"
using a left double hand swing from floor's edge to shoulder, tries to open Luke up from hip to shoulder
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"You've got to stop...before one of use is destroyed!"
"Emotional appeal? old trick...hoary. unworthy."
arm and shoulder curving, the droid attempts a hip strike, only to be blocked
luke uses a shoulder to hip angled block, the droids strength forcing him to use both hands
.
"No fun. no fun at all. best to simply end this-"
gliding past lukes right side dodging his attack
the droid curves and spins, lightsaber raised high
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Luke twists, blocking the high strike coming from directly overhead with both hands
"-now!"
thrown to rest against the near wall for a moment
'I-it nearly did! seems to analyze and adjust constantly to my moves-'
'-and the longer we battle, the better it gets!'
teeth gritted, Luke pushes from the wall, returning to the fight
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'I won't be alive to help Leia...if I don't do something fast!'
beginning with a high head-shoulder strike, blocked by the droid
.
Luke slides past the droids right side using momentum spinning left away from the droid
"A missed stroke! you wouldn't leave yourself open like that unless-"
hesitation, suspicion of deceit, no longer than a heartbeat...
...but long enough for Luke to whirl..and win!
.
the droid dies...
spinning in place, inertia torquing allowing him to swing past the droids blade
the sabre severs the droids head, dropping the droid to the floor
...but the voice which spoke through it still screams on.
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"Impossible! impossible! it's not in the programming for you to win, only if-"
"You're real! you exist! enemies! enemies! enemies in the ship!"
looking around Luke confused after surviving the droid
.
the shrieking sounds throughout the mecho-organic vessel, rising in volume, in sheer hysteria.
"The ship is mine... the ship is me!"
Leia in another room, is pinned to the floor, tendrils on arm, chest, waist and leg
hearing the screaming voice is shocked as she's trying to free herself from the grasping tentacles
.
"No one else belongs! no one! no one!"
a breach opens to the vacuum of space...
wind picks up as the air fron the ship surges out the created breach
.
...sucking out the atmosphere with hurricane fury, and caught within the howling gale...
...Luke is pulled toward the airless void somewhere beyond!
flying backwards Luke flies, pulled by the winds, hands and feet only momentarily in contact
with the floor from moment to moment desperate, trying to get a grip, or catch on anything
even as the droids head bounces next to him, pulled by the airflow
he is not alone.
"Out...out! I am the ship...the ship must survive!"
"w-wind is impossible to fight...!"
Leia is ripped free by the howling gale winds
"Oh, Luke..Luke! where are you."
.
somewhere ahead, plunging toward doom...
Luke dodging the flailing body of the droid spinning and tumbling down the hallway, glances forward
'That column...! if I can angle my body toward it-'
.
bodily Luke slams into the pillar
"aaagh"
its painful, but...it succeeds.
.
'air currents will hold me here as long as I don't move too-'
eyes narrowed aginst the winds shifting pressures, spots motion
'no! behind me-'
.
Flying out of control down the hall, unable to even slow her speed by friction
"-it's Leia!"
.
pushing out both arms, fighting against the winds, Luke reaches with all his strength
"This way princess...twist this way!"
"Then I can grab-"
.
perhaps only the force or luck allowing
"-your hand!"
Leia's left hand slams into Luke's and for the moment holding
.
as Leia's weight and momentum pulls Luke from the pillar wall
"Luke! let go! you'll be pulled along with me!"
his right arm wraps around a equipment pod, as his feet slide trying to keep purchase on the pillar
"I won't let you die...I won't!"
"Please Luke...! save yourself! please!"
desperation written in her wide eyes, as her weight shifted Luke from the pillar
.
"No! I love you. Leia-I can't lose you! I-"
Luke's hand gripping Leia's arm above the wrist
.
"You're slipping!"
slipping from behind the pillar, Luke's arm wrapped around a pod growing from the pillar
"Luke...! I-it's no...use...!"
.
true
outside - the gap in the hull of the ship collapses
inside - leia's wrist slides from Luke's grip
.
except...
outside - the large gap shrinks as holes form and shrink
inside - Leia's palm slides out of Luke's grip
.
...other forces are involved.
outside - smaller holes finally seal and fade as if a tear mends
inside - leia's fingers slip from Luke's dropping away as the winds pull
.
forces strange...and seemingly whimsical.
as the winds stop, Leia drops to the floor six feet from Luke
"Don't believe it...! one moment we're on the verge of death-"
"-the next, everything stops! as if it never happened!"
Luke drops to the floor, the rubbery pod he's holding lowering him to his feet
"Insanity...!"
Luke runs to Leia's side
"'Least it's working in our favor now. but I can't figure why-"
.
"You...care for each other. I had forgotten about such...caring. I've forgotten many things-"
eyes wandering the walls, the two listen to the odd voice
"-perhaps there is good in your reminding me."
the wall opens like some odd combination of flesh and water
.
"Come! this way! we can...talk."
"Yes! talk! I've missed talking... talking with others."
.
the two walk through the arch, Luke keeping his hands on his belted lightsaber
"Here! that's it...don't be afraid!"
"I was ...like you once, once...before I became one with the ship...with the computer..."
"but watch! watch the screen! I...we...the ship...me..."
.
"...we'll show you, show how it...used to be..."
a sad, level stare watching the screen, as Luke and Leia stand behind the pilot
"..when there were many ships like this one. and we...we made...what did we call it? oh, yes.."
"Yes...! it's all there...it comes back. we called it..."
"...war."
"But one by one, the ships destroyed each other..."
the great command screen shows a view of the green podship fighting and winning over a brown mushroom style organic ship
"Until, after one last battle...only my ship survived. the war was over."
.
"My crew and I came home victors. only to find..."
armored troopers march over a barren wasteland of killed vegitation and corpses painted red by the dust in the air
all that lived, was dead
"...as a final gesture, our enemy had released a plague bomb."
.
"There was no one left. families, friends, evey last soul...dead. and the plague was still active."
"It contained corrosive agents which could penetrate space armor. I made it back to the ship in time. no one else did."
"I fled, someone had to survive, otherwise...it all ment nothing. the plague could spread from"
"Planet to planet throughout my galaxy. I had to go beyond...outside, the ship and I...riding...riding through the void..."
the form of the pilot stilled in the memory of what had been
.
"We fused in time...the computer, the ship, and I. my consciousness symbiotically linked to its organic,"
"self-perpetuating control systems. all of us riding...endlessly riding...away from plagues, time is nothing and we have our games, our..."
.
watching the command screen Luke and Leia's eyes brighten with hope
"Luke...on the screen! that's-"
.
"-our galaxy! while he's been talking, we've been traveling back!"
tracking the traces of the cargo ships hyperspace trail, the tracking and targeting system focuses and narrows to a specific region
"Perhaps, perhaps." chants pilot
"or perhaps its an amusement the computer is creating."
"What...?!" breathes Luke
.
"Our games! that's what I thought you two were."
the podship flows through hyperspace with stunning speed, diving toward the local galaxy
"That's what this may be."
Luke focuses on recognizable systems and areas of the galaxy
"No! it's still there as we drop out of hyperdrive. It's real...it's our home!"
Luckily the actual process went smoothly
arrival, not quite so
and home, unfortunately, is where the galactic empire and its agents wait.
command floor of the star destroyer
lit by red lights the command staff of the ship scramble at the consoles
"That's it captain! the huge mass that's had our scanners going wild."
captain moving forward looks over the approaching mass
"Apperaring in nearly the same spot where we lost those rebels earlier...!"
.
as a parent to a child, the podship looms over the star destroyer
"It can't be coincidence!" the capain states, looking over the towering oddity
"This is some monstrous trick of the rebel alliance!"
the second officer shuddering, reports,
"W-we're getting confused life readings, sir. and on the communicator-"
"-there's laughter. insane laughter!"
.
"Leia! that's the imperial cruiser that was pursuing us before!"
"Ship...! you're in danger! get out of here or else-"
fear on the two guests, Luke tries to warn pilot
.
too late.
turbo-lasers fire from the port side of the attacking star destroyer
the star destroyer captain deals with the unknown in the same way in which the empire handles most problems...
.
...violently!
on the podship, the command room of the pilot lights up, lights flare to white,
shuddering from the attack, hard enough to throw Leia and Luke to the floor
as the empires attack slams into the podship
"There! let them laugh about that! and while they're reeling, our attack squadrons will rip them to pieces!"
laser fire from the two TIE fighters rips into the shipskin of the massive vessel causing rippled writhing of the pod tendrils towering them
the ships commander and his second watch the display as sensor techs analyxe and report from the side
"Scanners indicate that thing is some kind of bio-mechanical organism, sir...capable of sealing off damage with fantastic swiftness."
"But with a scattered constant pattern of hits...we can overtax its recovery system."
.
rapid fire shots from the circling and weaving TIE fighters hammer into the massive vessel, dropping Luke and Leia to their knees on the floor
"Pain, computer...I feel pain. no fun in that. you're making it too real...too real!"
debre and organic hull bits scatter from every salvo strike
.
"It is real...you've dropped into the middle of a war! our war!"
Luke shouts his hands holding Leia's shoulders bracing her, Leia shouts to pilot
"Listen to us...! this is an enemy deadly as the ones who released the plague in your galaxy!"
"They won't stop until we're all dead!"
.
"I hear you...it's just...strange. after so many eons...so many games..."
outside, the hull opens and pod like spheres shoot from the breach
"Hard to believe we still aren't playing..."
but what shoots forth from a newly opened fissure...
...are definitely not toys!
like windshifted bubbles they slide along the hull impacting on the circling enemy fighters
the lead fighter explodes from a single podstrike "W-what are those things...?!" gasps Luke
.
the reply of the behemoths pilot
"Anti-matter pods-"
Leia behind him as he moves forward, her face shocked, and eyes wide
.
"When they make contact with matter-"
flowing around the hull the second Tie dies in an explosion four times its size
.
like scattering pollen the remaining pods flow towards the star destroyer
"-there can be only one result-"
in the star destroyers command bridge, terror reigns supreme causing the imperials panic
as pods slide through shields unaffected
.
pilot's monitor flares white as the star desroyer ceases to exist, scattered debre exploding away from the enemy ship
"-instant disintegration." finishes pilots calm explanation
"Over, all over now. you...you can safely resume your journey as we...I...resume mine."
with almost shell shocked calm the duo listen to pilot
"Your ship has been repaired...you should have no further trouble. "
the duo leave the pilot and the command room returning to their ship
turning and looking back in pilots direction, "But what about you...?" Luke inquires
.
"This is a big galaxy, why not stay here?"
Luke asks, climbing the spice freighters ramp with Leia ahead
.
sealed up in their ship, a fissure to space opens and the freighter flies out the center, launched back to open space
"Your galaxy is too real, my friends. It reminds me of another-"
.
"-which I traveled light years to escape. I wish you well...but I see now I belong to the void."
.
"Riding...me, the ship, the computer, our games."
grinning Leia watches the mammoth ship slide away accelerating
.
"May you in time win happiness here! mine...ours...is out there."
shrinking with distance, against the background of stars
.
and laughter rises from the communicator. perhaps mad, perhaps not.
it is difficult to tell...
...for very shortly, it is gone.
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as the great ship slides past spinning debre from the ruined star destroyer
sensors detect energy and pulls the surviving escape pods, contents and debre aboard
"Waste not, want not"
"New toys, for the games."
chants pilot
"Recycling in its most entertaining form."
"Hmm, what was the old zombie chant?"
"recycle, reuse, reanimate"
"That was it!"
"Nanoo-Nanoo"
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"This is going to be quite a story", Luke mutters under his breath
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"Ship is like its nearly brand new, hull panels looking pristine compared to some of the other old worn panels"
"after the repairs, even panels hit by the laser scoring that caused it all to go haywire look new."
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Leia leans against the hull, "Well we escaped a destroyer"
"Watched its destruction,"
"but they will never believe we did it or who did it."
"they just won't believe us, if we tell them."
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"Check the med supplies" Luke points to the cargo and engineeering bay
"If they're ok then we'll just report a successful run" Luke calls to Leia as she slides down the ladder to the cabin
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"Luke we may have greater problems."
Leia calls from the hold yelping
"The power core and shield generator look like some sort of metal crystal sculpture"
a short pause
"and our hyperdrive looks like some form of amber rubics cube under glass"
.
checking under the formerly damaged panels Luke shouts down to his partner
"Leia, the computer and sensors here on the bridge? under the panels"
"they look like some of that goo food you tried to feed me a couple weeks ago"
setting the alarms and autopilot, Luke heads down into the ship
.
"Looks like we have something to back up our story"
"Do you think the cargo of med supplies is in better shape?"
.
you start at this end and I'll work the other
minutes later
"Leia, the crated baccta tank is humming"
the pair remove the side of the oversize crate
revealing an active medical droid, and a running baccta tank with a wounded teen floating in it
the medical droid activates as leia accesses the readout controls on the baccta tank
placing the holocom projector down the med droid activates the emitter, showing a confident figure
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excited "Luke, that's the smuggler who sold us out to the empire."
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the shimmering image speaking
"You are probably intending to ask 'why did you give us a kid?' well..."
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"He was in the imperial supplies from the Geonosis supplies we stole"
"Kid was found on the outer rim world of Ibonihs, somehow staying alive despite the hole through the chest."
"he somehow caught the attention of one of his probes."
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he was being sent it to clone world-Geonosis to be analyzed for duplication/mass production.
the hybernation tank was damaged in the escape, we repaired it, modified it to work as a baccta tank, tossed the kid in to test it
it was added to a cargo of new proto-type material for mass production
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"Hilariously, the captain of the destroyer did not know where the supplies came from."
"Before he set this ambush up."
"The emperor will be most displeased losing one of his latest weapons of war."
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"I don't like being used as bait to lure rebels."
"Thus when the trap was set up, I gave him to you to use/have."
"Better you than the emperor."
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"I just move the goods, have fun."
"See you again some time."
the holo image grins at the watchers
"Trust me, Corsair out."
AUTHORS NOTES
this is to provide/adapt an old star wars comic as a possible story base in fan fiction
was considered canon by star wars fans as was authorized by Lucas Arts
via marvel
living warships
antimatter organic attack missile/pods
nano-metalic walls
pilots linked to ships and ship control systems
nano-living repair systems
enjoy
kudos to emperor Lucas
and his minions the dreamers
that craft his ideas
now,
what will Disney craft?