Stardome/Episode I

==Episode 1==
The planet Naboo is under siege by the Trade Federation. Two Jedi, Lady Luna and her apprentice, Tamsin, are sent in to help with negotiations. When the ship comes under fire, its avatar, W31, sends out a pair of repair droids.
Vanessa, is a champion pod racer, and then Scott got her pregnant. Their owners squabbled about it and agreed to have the kid brought to term if Scott's owner paid Vanessa's a portion of the winnings Vanessa wouldn't be earning, and then buy the kid when it's born. 
Herc was being groomed for podracing, and Master Pentecost leveraged his win for his 'contract' and the pod, as QuiGon did with Anakin.
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"I'm the only human that can do it."
"What about Miss Nessa?"
">awkward silence from household<"
">TY-PH00N grumps to themselves about something."
"Ah."
(As in Nessa's team had been cheating with TY-PH00N as an easy-to-remove AI in the pod racer for quite some time but it was a jealously guarded secret. She was, however, pretty damn good on her own which is why she was put in such a position in the first place.) 
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"Who was the father?" asks Luna. 
Tess smiles ruefully. "I thought I was--I /knew I was sterile." Sighs. "After Scott, they treated me, and there was no way--" Huffs, eyes bright. "And there was no way I could have gone all these years if I wasn't." 
"And yet." 
"And yet," she agrees. "My little Hercules." 
"The Cytherian God of strength?" 
She nods. "I don't know a lot about any sort of religion, but I knew that much and after what happened ...." Deep breath. "There was an accident, and he was born far too early to survive. The doctors could incubate him, but they can only recover so much time and it wouldn't have been enough."
"What did they do?" 
"Nothing." Tess looks away. 
Luna sips. 
"Our owner at the time didn't think he was worth the treatment. Worth trying to save. Wouldn't survive anyway, they said." Wipes her eyes, chuckles. "My little baby boy didn't survive. He /thrived. He fought and he grew and he never ever gave up." 
>gets rid of the creepiness I always got from Shmi's recounting (like, what if she had been date raped?)<
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Herc wins, Scott tells Vanessa: 
Guess what?" greets Scott. 
"What?" asks Nessa. 
"Herc's leaving."
"Leaving?" 
"He's free. He's fucking free, Nessa."
Nessa's mind whirls--
"And he's going with that Ranger." >unless I'm calling them Jedi<
"This changes everything," she murmurs. 
"Nessa?" 
She brightens, straightens, smiles as best as she can. 
Scott beams back. 
"I am so, so happy for you." 
Scott grins so widely it hurts and he swoops to her side, kisses her stomach. "You hear that, kid? Your cousin's getting off this rock for good."
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Luna doesn't notice as they're being attacked by what appears to be a Sith, but that can't be right, they've been extinct for centuries.
They get to the starship, Luna debriefs the court, and Herc's bag begins to cry. The queen offers to take custody of Charlotte, and the handmaidens are absolutely beside themselves with 'omg so cute!!!!!!!!!' and channel all their nervous energy and stir craziness into childcare. They'll bring her back to Naboo where she's formally adopted by the ruling house which is how Kirra eventually becomes Princess of Naboo, Avatar of Theed Palace. 
The next time Herc sees the baby, she's in a nest of bedding and clothes on the queen's bed, wearing a scrap of [fabric] worth more than his life--except he doesn't have a worth, anymore, he's--he swallows--he's free. (It's supposed to be a twist on Anakin's first few hours on the Naboo cruiser after leaving Tatooine)
Introduce the empress and the future emperor at the same time (episode one; they share the same box as Angi). We meet him when we first meet Palpatine, waiting for Amidala in her quarters in ... the capital and with him is the Crown Princess of a planet I have yet to pick. 
Dr Whatshisname has some political ambition, but it's really only so far as he gets funding and to build nifty stuff (like battle stations!)
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