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<blockquote data-quote="Silvercat Moonpaw" data-source="post: 4860798" data-attributes="member: 46652"><p>I had a Star Wars alternate history idea once:</p><p></p><p>I've always been a little confused by an aspect of the Force: the Dark Side is Bad, but some of its components — anger, fear, agression, destruction — are quite natural things, and the Light Side is portrayed as intimately part of the natural world. So why not the Dark Side?</p><p></p><p>Some 100 years before the events of Episode 1 a Force-sensitive from a species that's naturally fearful is turned down for becoming a Jedi because his species is seen as too likely to slip into the Dark Side. However this individual meets a Jedi exiled for advocating touching the Dark Side as well as the Light because they are both part of the larger whole. The rejected alien decides to take this philosophy and founds an order of Force-users that practices this doctrine while eschewing Jedi asceticism (and lightsabers, which are seen as too deadly).</p><p></p><p>So we reach Phantom Menace, and this organization — known as the Greysiders — has grown so as to present a rivalry with the Jedi. Qui-Gon, being the maverick that he is, is friends with one of them and brings the Greysider along on the fateful mission to Naboo. Episode 1 follows as normal, except that when Anakin is rejected the first time by the Jedi Council Qui-Gon allows the Greysiders to train him instead. This leaves Anakin much better equipped to deal with the death of his mother and also to freely take up a relationship with Padme (and doesn't start down the path that leads to his frightening vision of her dying). Sidious/Palpatine does not see him as suitable for corruption.</p><p></p><p>What happens afterwards is hazier: I tend to assume that without Anakin's help Palpatine can't create the Empire as effectively or not at all. Neither, however, does he have the chance to clue the Jedi in to Palpatine being a Sith. I could see this being a good spot to insert the PCs (though they'd know too much): the Clone War is dragging on, and someone has to find out who this mysterious backer of the Separatists is to finally stop them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silvercat Moonpaw, post: 4860798, member: 46652"] I had a Star Wars alternate history idea once: I've always been a little confused by an aspect of the Force: the Dark Side is Bad, but some of its components — anger, fear, agression, destruction — are quite natural things, and the Light Side is portrayed as intimately part of the natural world. So why not the Dark Side? Some 100 years before the events of Episode 1 a Force-sensitive from a species that's naturally fearful is turned down for becoming a Jedi because his species is seen as too likely to slip into the Dark Side. However this individual meets a Jedi exiled for advocating touching the Dark Side as well as the Light because they are both part of the larger whole. The rejected alien decides to take this philosophy and founds an order of Force-users that practices this doctrine while eschewing Jedi asceticism (and lightsabers, which are seen as too deadly). So we reach Phantom Menace, and this organization — known as the Greysiders — has grown so as to present a rivalry with the Jedi. Qui-Gon, being the maverick that he is, is friends with one of them and brings the Greysider along on the fateful mission to Naboo. Episode 1 follows as normal, except that when Anakin is rejected the first time by the Jedi Council Qui-Gon allows the Greysiders to train him instead. This leaves Anakin much better equipped to deal with the death of his mother and also to freely take up a relationship with Padme (and doesn't start down the path that leads to his frightening vision of her dying). Sidious/Palpatine does not see him as suitable for corruption. What happens afterwards is hazier: I tend to assume that without Anakin's help Palpatine can't create the Empire as effectively or not at all. Neither, however, does he have the chance to clue the Jedi in to Palpatine being a Sith. I could see this being a good spot to insert the PCs (though they'd know too much): the Clone War is dragging on, and someone has to find out who this mysterious backer of the Separatists is to finally stop them. [/QUOTE]
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