The What-if game

[DarthTofu]

Scenario 1: Everyone goes on to live happily ever after and Obi Wan goes on to get a job as a spokesperson for alieve.

Scenario 2: Luke, realizing that he just missed, arms the remaining four torpedos and blows the thing to smitheriens.

[Zer_Teron]

Scenario 1: He gets aboard the Falcon and is blown to smitherens when Tarkin doesnt get restrained by Vader rom killing them.

 

Scenario 2: On his return trip he strays into a Turbolaser volley and the Galaxy is ruled forever by an iron fist.

[AdmiralToguroAni]

1: I agree with Zer. Tarkin would destroy the Falcon, and thus the Rebel Base would be destroyed.

 

2. Considering that one guy (can't remember his name. "Almost there....almost there...." That guy) didn't just re-arm his Y-wing, I'll assume that he has to pull up. Then it becomes a matter of whether Luke can make another run. Either way, Yavin gets destroyed. IF Luke destroys the Death Star then he'd probably receive the "Go to Dagobah" message immediately, go to Dagobah, and without Leia (Han would leave since no one is there to pay him), he would get his full Jedi training, go back, and beat up Vader and Palpy before the 2nd Death Star is complete. At least, thats what I figure would happen.

 

Okay. Empire Strikes Back time.

 

Scenario 1: Luke, in his passionate whines, loses enough emotional control to turn to the Dark Side. REALLY turn, rather than just pretend to turn like in the Protectorate.

 

Scenario 2: Han gets frozen in carbonite, but the process is a failure, and he dies while encased in it. The Stormtroopers announce this, so Han, Leia, Fett, Chewie, etc know.

[Zer_Teron]

Scenario 1: He kills his father and becomes the right hand man of Emperor Palpatine. He captures Han and Leia, and turns Leia to the Dark Side. Without Leia the Rebellion crumbles, but Luke then destroys the Emperor and declares a civil order. The galaxy would then live in peace.

[BadSamaritan]

Scenario 2: Luke's shot misses, and he DOESN'T Blow up the Death Star.

 

Been done in comic books. In the end of it all, Yoda uses the death star to rape the Imperial fleet in orbit of Coruscant, then drops the DS on top of old Palpys' head, thus destroying the Empire.

[Darth_Rob]

Scenario 2: Luke's shot misses, and he DOESN'T Blow up the Death Star.

 

Been done in comic books. In the end of it all, Yoda uses the death star to rape the Imperial fleet in orbit of Coruscant, then drops the DS on top of old Palpys' head, thus destroying the Empire.

 

 

What's been done before? The "what if" of Luke missing, or Yoda using the Death Star against the Empire?

[BadSamaritan]

Scenario 2: Luke's shot misses, and he DOESN'T Blow up the Death Star.

 

Been done in comic books. In the end of it all, Yoda uses the death star to rape the Imperial fleet in orbit of Coruscant, then drops the DS on top of old Palpys' head, thus destroying the Empire.

 

 

What's been done before? The "what if" of Luke missing, or Yoda using the Death Star against the Empire?

 

Luke missing the shot, and the death star doesn't go boom. Yoda going kill happy with the DS was just part of the final result of that scenario.

[DarthTofu]

I believe scenario two would result in scenario one. As for Scenarion two, I think that Luke, having been raised on Tatooine would become a regular Jhorus C'abaoth. he would rule over his own, small area, and stay away from the Empire since he dislikes it. He might try to get Vadar to come over to his side, though I doubt it. The other possibility is that he would form his own Sith Lord faction, build up lots of strong force users, claiming that this was all Jedi training, and not to worry about the fact that all of the targets were alive, thus turning the galactic civil war into a three-way civil war. Luke vs. Empire vs. Rebel Alliance vs. Luke. Everyone is everyone's enemy!

[AdmiralToguroAni]

Yoda dropping the death star on Palpy? Cool. It does seem odd, since that implies that the Death Star can be driven by one person.

[DarthTofu]

Yoda dropping the death star on Palpy? Cool. It does seem odd, since that implies that the Death Star can be driven by one person.

 

Size matters not... That and, since the death Star is in space and weightless, a mere tap could send it flying in the appropriate direction. Add in the almighty power of force and you have a recipe for goodbye palpy... Wonder if that would have resulted with a Dark Side Yoda, though? There's a new What if. What if Yoda became a sith.

[Darth_Rob]

If Yoda was a Sith Lord, then it would have been very easy to turn Luke when he arrived at Dagobah. Then, when Luke was ready, Yoda and Luke would battle Palpy and Vader and take over the Empire.

[DarthTofu]

But then what about Obi? Obi tells Luke that he has to go to Degobah, so if Obi is still a Jedi... Plus Yoda is now really ancient. He dies of old age in ROTJ.

[AdmiralToguroAni]

Hm. In Return of the Jedi...what would happen if

 

1: The Emperor had stayed on Coruscant and had not gone to the Death Star, but merely SAID he was to lure the Rebels.

 

2: Vader threw Palpatine down the shaft, but didn't die.

[Defender_16]

For number 2 above do you mean if Vader didn't die? or if Palpy didn't die? Because there was a Star Wars alternate universe comic book in which Vader didn't die but joins the rebellion. (Palpy escapes, stage left.)

 

Anyways... what if.

 

What if Palpatine never rose to power, and in his place a coaliion of species bent on the destruction humanity rose to prominance. Destroying the Jedi Order, though not quite as effectively as Palpy did. Forcing humans to flee into the depths of space, eventually forming a rebellion to fight back in the name of a new Pro-Human Empire!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

 

*Ahem*

 

Basically a totally inverted Rebellion. Everything's switched arround... maybe the clone wars don't even happen, that would simplify matters. The humans hold out arround the core for awhile then are forced to take their fleets and escape into deep space with as many refugees as possible.

 

Think Battlestar Galactica but with multiple fleets. A handfull of ISD's would have been built before the escape and SFS mostly goes underground suporting the humans.

 

 

"A battered CEC Corvette flees before a Mon Cal cruiser, above the surface of Tatoine..."

[AdmiralToguroAni]

Hm...here's an interesting idea. What if Yoda had actually killed Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith? Would anything be solved? The clones still have orders to kill the Jedi, and the Republic is still technically an Empire, not to mention that the galactic senate's majority seems to believe the Jedi are evil. So, what would happen?

[DarthTofu]

For number 2 above do you mean if Vader didn't die? or if Palpy didn't die? Because there was a Star Wars alternate universe comic book in which Vader didn't die but joins the rebellion. (Palpy escapes, stage left.)

 

Anyways... what if.

 

What if Palpatine never rose to power, and in his place a coaliion of species bent on the destruction humanity rose to prominance. Destroying the Jedi Order, though not quite as effectively as Palpy did. Forcing humans to flee into the depths of space, eventually forming a rebellion to fight back in the name of a new Pro-Human Empire!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

 

Hmm, I'm getting a vague sense of De Ja Vu... There's a species coming to mind... hmm, what could it be? Oh, yes: THE YUZHAN VONG!!!!!!!

Edited January 2, 2006 by DarthTofu

[Zer_Teron]

Yuuzhan Vong