Star Wars Infinities: The Master
Interlude Profile: Luke Skywalker
By: Christopher W. Blaine
e-mail: darth_yoshi@yahoo.com
DISCLAIMER: All of the characters and situations contained in this story are ©2003 by LucasFilm Ltd. They are used here without permission for fan-related entertainment purposes only. This original story is ©2003 by Christopher W. Blaine.
We know him as the last hope of the Rebellion and the start of the new Jedi order, but in the universe of Star Wars Infinities by Christopher W. Blaine, Luke Skywalker is a cold-hearted, sadistic fiend who is motivated solely by revenge and a desire for power.
His mother is Padme Amidala, the former Darth Deceptra, and his father was the infamous Anakin Skywalker, who died as the Dark Lord Darth Vader just prior to Luke's premature birth. His mother was gravely wounded in the Battle of Koriban and surgeons had to remove her children in order to save her life. Unknown to Amidala, she had been pregnant with twins and Bail Organa, then serving as a general in Palpatine's military, had the female child whisked away to Alderaan. There he named her Leia and raised her as his own.
Luke demonstrated, from an early age, the piloting skills of his father and became a podracer before he reached his teens. He won several important races, bringing glory to the Empire and was undefeated until he raced against Leia Organa. The sting of being defeated by "a lowly pacifist" ate at Luke as he grew older and eventually led to him giving up podracing all together, while Leia went on to become a champion in her own right.
From the time he was ten years old, Luke had been trained in the ways of the Sith by both his mother and the Emperor. By age fourteen, he had been given the formal title of Emperor's Fist and he was routinely used as a tool of assassination for Palpatine. Luke had a great deal of love for his mother, but he also held the Emperor in the highest regard, seeing him as a kindly grandfather figure. All of this started to change once he graduated from the Imperial Academy.
At some point during his formal military training, Luke made "friends" with a hotshot pilot named Han Solo. While Han felt a genuine kinship towards Luke, but the young Sith apprentice only saw Han as a tool for his own personal use. Luke used his own personal influence to get himself and Solo assigned to the 181st TIE Squadron, commanded by the Hero of the Empire Baron Soontir Fel.
On the day Luke completed his training, he was assigned permanently to the 181st but soon discovered that he may have not had as much influence in his assignment as he had thought. His mother, Darth Deceptra, had become enamored with Fel, even going so far as to secretly have his famous wife, an actress from Corellia, murdered so that she could have the pilot for herself. Fel, for his part, found himself not only flattered by the attention he was receiving from Deceptra, but made the decision to pursue a relationship with her. Immediately, Luke made it known he disapproved.
In Luke's view, nobody could replace his fallen father, whom he saw as the ideal Sith warrior. When his mother decided to settle for a common pilot, Luke was infuriated. Regardless, the Emperor wanted Luke to get real military experience under Fel and he grudgingly accepted assignment to the Death Star.
When Grand Moff Tarkin made his bid for power, he had Luke, Han and Fel arrested immediately. The three did escape eventually but not before Solo was killed. On Corellia, Luke and Fel parted ways; Fel made the decision that he could not, in good conscience, desert his homeworld. Luke, on the other hand, felt it was his duty to return to Imperial Center. Secretly, he hoped that Tarkin's forces would kill Fel and put an end to the issue of his mother's desires once and for all.
By the time Luke made it back to Imperial Center, Darth Ravage had assumed control of the Empire and Darth Deceptra had been captured by the Rebellion. Luke also learned that Leia Organa was his twin sister and that Deceptra was seen alive and well in her company. Luke saw this as the ultimate betrayal and decided that the only way to restore honor to the Skywalker name again was to seek revenge on his mother and sister.
Swearing allegiance to Darth Ravage, Luke became the new Dark Apprentice and was immediately placed in charge of Imperial Intelligence. Though he was a Sith Lord, he found that he had to share power with Thrawn, Warlord of the Empire. When he discovered that Thrawn had refused an offer by the New Republic to switch sides, he decided that Thrawn was one of the few people that deserved his respect and as such the internal power struggles that had plagued Palpatine's regime did not affect Ravage's.
Five years after the start of the galactic civil war, Luke found himself not quite sure how to get revenge on his family. His mother was in the custody of the Jedi, awaiting a senate trial and Leia had managed to elude assassins and operatives. Luke was also faced with a serial killer on Imperial Center that was murdering citizens regardless of class, bringing severe charges of inability by the elite of Imperial society against Luke.
Luke, a notorious womanizer, has reportedly started an exclusive relationship with Fresca Isaard, a young officer in the Imperial Intelligence Corps and the daughter of Darth Deceptra's former assistant. Where this relationship will progress to remains to be seen.