Stardome/Meta

Meta: ideas, resources, etc. 
"Stardome" character information and meta! Please see also "Pasta".
==Characters==
I've broken up characters and their plot points so i can do things like have an OC pilot the millenium falcon so the owner, Raleigh Becket (who, since the death of his brother, has refused to set foot on a flightdeck) can step onto Cloud City and greet his long-time friend, Tendo Choi
The OC, Jackson, can be rather flail-y under stress, like a certain scoundrel
Princess Leia is played by another OC, Charlotte Kirra, who spends a lot of the original 'verse (ANSK) rolling her eyes at Jackson and being awesome
I've smushed together Vader and the Emperor's roles and have split them up between Stacker and Herc (and Dr Whatshisname), so there're two Vaders, and and that's one of the bigger reveals. 
'Luke' and 'Leia' aren't twins but cousins: 'Luke Skywalker' is Chuck Striker, Herc Striker's son while Charlotte is the daughter of Scott and another slave, Vanessa.
Captain Quarsh Panaka is Allison and will eventually become Mon Mothra. 
===Pentecosts===
Stacker's tale is a mystery for the readers; he's the only survivor of his village/town and is brought to the Academy by the Jedi peacekeepers in the region (they'd escorted Luna and her nigh-limitless potential) a few years earlier). He tries to find out what happened to his town, only to be met by brick walls at every turn.
Luna was selected because of her potential, and at the time Stacker hadn’t been born yet. When he was, Mrs Pentecost learned she wouldn't be able to have more children, and they were told Luna would be allowed to visit but the council dragged their feet whenever the issue came up. The Council realized Stacker's would exceed hers, they tried to convince the Pentecosts to let him go but they refused—Mrs Pentecost wanted to wait a few years before giving him away, if she even went through with it--so the Council had them killed.
Eventually he finds out that the Jedi had asked to bring him to the Academy earlier, but his parents were like, he's a baby. we'd like to have a few years with him, please. The Jedi saw his life and potential as more valuable than that of his village and wiped them out so they could get to him.
He vows to burn them for what they did.
===Mako===
Mako is the daughter of a lightsaber Crystal expert. 
Since the jedi purge happens at night on Coruscant, i couldn't really give her red shoes (she's in her PJs) so i found a nursery rhyme (that needs a bit of tweaking) instead called "Red Shoes" 
===Kirra/Avatars===
Technically Kirra isn't a princess, she’s an 'avatar' but she's not even that because avatars are (supposedly) droids and she's human.
She was adopted by the Naboo royal family and since that changes every few years she outstayed all of them in the palace and they needed some sort of role/status for her. Since she's basically part of the palace, they thought 'avatar of Theed palace' was a good fit--she knows everything there is to know about Theed palace. She's still referred to as a princess, though, and works with the palace's Steward to keep everything running smoothly. 
(basically none of this actually shows up in the main story; it's all 'what exacty happens between episode III and IV?')
====Liu====
The avatars in Stardome are a similar concept to “Andromeda Ascendant"--avatars are kind of an interface for their ship, so instead of going, "computer, tell me X" it's "rommie, tell me x", not unlike Farscape's Pilot.
VV31L (VVEIL? W3IL? WE1L?) is the avatar of the Naboo starship, for instance, and Brawlerette is the avatar of the Jedi council.
GOLD (Chau) and BLKJD (Black Jade, 'Daiyu'; awesome bald woman) are Liu's attachments. GOLD can be a weapon, BLKJD is a shield (in Chinese folk lore, jade darkens as it absorbs negative energy directed at the wearer). Liu can also pass as organic.
They/them/theirs, referred to as 'El'. 
====Dresses====
I ran out of characters for Bail Organa (I'm so sorry, sir!) so I cut out Alderaan. This also means I have to design Naboo almost-royalty dresses. What I thought was a simple fix was not.
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Naboo dresses: I want to use the traveling dress because Kirra is traveling but also because amidala wears it to a funeral and for every day she refuses to tell them where the Rebels are they march her to a large hall, sit her in a fancy-ish chair, ask her again, drag up one of her crew, and execute them, so the funeral dress (with the purple headscarf thingy) is fitting, but Kirra moves around the ship on her own and that dress needs an entourage or it's too big for the space.
The battle dresses are less ... voluminous(?) but Kirra and her crew are delivering the latest in moisture farming equipment to Tatooine and it wouldn't make any sense for her to be dressed like she's going to war.
The yellow traveling dress she wore with Anakin’s from a different system, plus Padmé was traveling under the guise of a refugee. I did think about that one because it's kinda sorta similar to leia's outfit in IV).
Apparently the traveling dress has an overcoat so the thought I had the other day was to switch that overcoat with a shirt similar to that of the peasant disguise. I drew a thing that wasn't immediately rejected; it's the traveling dress but with one bun under the headscarf, the braids behind her shoulders, and white and grey
===Typhoon===
TY-F00N is a three part Jack-of-all-trades droid Vanessa built to help her with her podracer, aka, Cheung, Jin, and Hu of Crimson Typhoon). In the battle with Scunner, Charlotte gives them the Death Star plans and sends them planet ward, eventually ending up in the care of Mako and Chuck, the two teaching assistants at Gottlieb's school for Young Moisture Farmers, run by Chuck's aunt, Vanessa, and her husband, Hermann.
 
The Wei triplets are a trio of semi-transformable droids built by Vanessa from parts she scavenged while on Geonosis for a race circuit. They wind up back on Tatooine with Chuck for fear they may be recognized. They're also back on Tattooine so when Mako arrives they can be her bros like in PR. 
(Do they do the eye sharing thing like the fates in Disney's Hercules?)
To keep with the Jaeger/Avatar parallel: the starship is an import (mentioned in the diary companion novel?) from the same system as Min and Avatars aren't super widespread. They're more a status symbol, really. TY-F00N displays characteristics that are /very avatar-like and was in fact built from broken down avatars. 
===Emperor===
* Jasper Schoenfeld
* Really just interested in research and making stuff than actually being in charge, but the stuff he wants to research is so arcane that the only way to do so without losing his funding is by being in charge
===Empress===
====Story Crafting====
* Angi remarks, 'how did you get here first?' 'you know me, arrive before the crowd, watch the plan unfold
** what's the word for 'unfolding of a plan' ('denoument' isn't it ....) and what's the wording of Min's line that i needed the word for?)
* the assassination attempt takes off an ear, mangles her leg, and leaves her scarred with something that looks a little like a '1'. And her attack and her death are two different events
** do i kill her off when Amidala's decoy dies or is it a random event? 
* when we see the emperor in person, their silouhette is that of the 'future emperor'. on screen, it's Min, they have a cane, and someone speaks for them. >maybe<
* change her title from 'first' >darn TFA ....<
====Red Shoes====
The children's lit thing is a somewhat heavy handed way of foreshadowing who the /actual emperor is--whatshisname is merely a figurehead
There's a Japanese nursery rhyme about a girl with red shoes (who met a guy and left for America) and mako sings it when she's scared or sad and Kirra identifies it and they talk about the legend behind it (a princess disappeared under suspicious circumstances but they said she'd gone to a different planet)
Skip to Episode I, the representative for a system in Naboo's sector is introduced wearing ruby slippers
I've cast Min as her because the characters worked out well for a story tread involving the clone army equivalent
I'm not super sure how all the nursery rhyme fits in, or as to how she gets stacker under her thumb, but >shrug<
====AUs====
Now, in Shatterbucks, my OC, Tang Min, works for the PPDC, and when Reckoner smashes through Hong Kong, she's in a public shelter
Turns out there are three BuenaKai, Armageddon cultists who believe the Kaiju have been sent to cleanse the earth, making them the PPDC's arch nemesis. 
They notice Min and beat the snot out of her until one of them pulls a knife and a couple civilians intervene. She's floored with a nasty punch from a fist with a large signet ring, and then they break her leg quite badly (and then she makes it worse by walking on it), and her ear gets torn (among other injuries). The wound to her cheek ends up scarring a chunk of 'BuenaKai' (in Hanzi). Depending on her blood pressure, it's either a small, purplish splotch on her cheek on a spider web of veins from chin to forehead.
There's an AU where she's late in bringing coffee to KSci (she's the chief coffee slinger for "Shatterbucks") and comes across Newt setting up his drift
Having studied Drift theory (she's a distant cousin to Team Typhoon), and sucking at all things mechanical, unlike Newt, she smacks him with her tray, chews him out, and then, when he protests that he's gotta do this, jams the Pons on her head and does it herself
Since she has no useful JTech knowledge, the Kaiju can't quite figure out what this thing entering their hivemind is (with Newt, he gave them less than the average hound but enough they figured they could check it out later) and send a smaller Kaiju to collect the intrusion while Leatherback place distraction
The smaller Kaiju succeeds in finding Min and whisks her away back to the Breach
Sometimes Min makes it back, sometimes she doesn't.
==Resources==
Stardome's Inspiration; the lengths to which the council will go to secure the chosen one
Leia & Amidala, Leia & Mon Mothra, Leia & Vader
"I Will Train Him" Quigon Jinn & Anakin from ObiWan’s POV
Palpatine's Overconfidence >In Episode 1, does he summon Amidala? In SD, have Liu report the damage to the ship and recommend Tatooine<
Tattooine trained Luke well for being a Jedi (see also (nx), )
Anidala press mayhem: the council marrying the chosen one off to a popular senator
Adoption: the organas love love love their daughter
Neural handshake through the force, flying and gunning a ship is drift compatibility
Force powers, Nature of the Force (it will drown those that don’t respect it)
Manipulating lightsabers with the Force >Episode 6 final showdown, especially< 
RotJ should’ve been Leia’s movie
Leia Skywalker (Mako’s outfit; second is nx)
Anakin thinks Padme’s beautiful because she’s so kind, etc
Princess Leia? More like General Organa. Where was Leia’s Rank? >whenever I describe General Kirra, note her rank bar<
Leia’s pilot gear
Leia is a Grey Force user, Leia and her Force Sensitivity, Levitating Stupid Husbands, Leia’s subtly taught Force techniques, Leia and the Dark Side
Amidala, the Force, & Leia, 
Space Valkeryies
Leia’s crew, Forcing Answers from Leia >see “At the start of our hope”<
Mace Windu fixes the timeline; Long suffering Sergio trying to herd cats amuses the shmoo
Palpatine kills Padme? 
C3PO: Built by a kid for his mom
The Organa family: Breha, Bail, Leia, and two veteran droids
Han Solo and being bribed by a reward to save Princess Leia
ObiWan and Leia and a house on fire >Tamsin and Mako, plus Tamsin may have told Mako stories about Stacker before he took the Sith route<
Chewie: Julie Andrews with a crossbow
Skywalker twins during the Clone Wars >probably doesn’t apply but may be useful<
Bail’s risk taking in Leia >don’t know if this applies<
ObiWan & Half-Truths >does this have the same feel as Tamsin and Chuck?; see also this amazing thing and this other amazing thing (nx)<
Vader saves Luke so he can save Padme
Leia Skywalker, Luke Amidala Organa
Luke’s opportunities >also a note: Owen seemed perfectly willing to let Luke leave for the Academy /until Luke told him about R2 beeping about “some Obi-Wan Kenobi” at which point he was like, oh shit the war’s coming here, and figured it was safer to keep Luke out of the Imperial Academy< (nx)
Darth Binks
Leia in the Rebellion >what Kirra’s trained in<
Organa family & ObiWan Kenobi
Tatooine clothes (rebaggle)
Luke vs Jabba >may not be relevant without Newt<
Biggs Darklighter
5 times Vader sees Padme
Why Luke Skywalker?
Leia with Twins
Luke and Leia: Sith Lords >Mako<
Little Leia, Bail, & Vader
Amidala's deleted scenes
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