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Star Wars OT - Obscura: A Balance of Choice

A Star Wars Original Trilogy Fanfiction

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Summary

A 'What If' Lady Adyé Story: What if Vader had sent Athara to retrieve the Death Star Plans from Tatooine? How would things have changed? How would new, unexpected encounters have changed the course of her Fate? A companion story to the Lady Adyé Trilogy and another exciting part of the Series. An AU of an AU.

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So...I was musing over my Rogue One story while I was still writing it and BOOM: what if we do a 'what if' story! *facepalm* As if I don't already have enough stories on the go...

The gist? The plan? The Idea? What if, instead of forbidding Athara to go to Tatooine to retrieve the Death Star Plans, Vader agrees with Athara and sends her to the planet's surface...well, it would change everything, of course...else, you know, it wouldn't be much of an idea, tbh...*le sigh*

Again, we'll see if this ever actually gets off the ground, but considering how much I already seem to have mapped out in my head so far...and jotted down on scraps of paper and written out in my Star Wars notebooks... 

I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this!! Please, someone! Comment and convince me it's a bad idea! My brain is going to explode...

...also, despite trying NOT to think on it...it even has a title...which is always a bad - good? - sign...

I present Lady Obscura: Balance of Choice (unofficially, for the moment, at least)

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Excerpt from Chapter 1

It was all over in the space of a few moments. Athara stood quietly beside her Master as the Tantive IV was disabled and was guided into the Main Landing Bay by tractor beam. It was then that Vader abruptly turned. Athara followed silently, keeping pace behind her Master as they made their way to the ship awaiting them in the Landing Bay.

Compared to the Devastator, the Alderaanian ship was quite small, but to a single person, she was a fairly substantial vessel. By the time Vader and his apprentice made their way to the only open hatch, which had been blasted open, most of the fighting had subsided. Vader didn't hesitate striding onto the smoke-clouded corridor of the captured vessel. But he had a respirator that filtered out the smoke and fumes left over from the boarding party's firefight. Athara had to wait a moment, drawing on the Force to protect her lungs from whatever still hung in the air. Coughing at the smoke was not a dignified thing for a Sith apprentice to do.

Vader was already striding purposefully down the corridor flanked by a number of troopers by the time she cleared the lingering smoke. Stepping over the bodies of the Tantive IV's Crew and Stormtroopers alike, Athara distantly followed Vader, pausing to take reports from troopers and direct the flow of prisoners.

She finally caught up to her Master to find him holding the Tantive IV's Captain by the throat. The Alderaanian's feet hovered a foot off the ground, the man gasping for air. Judging by the change in the Dark Lord's voice when the Captain denied knowledge of the plans, Vader's patience was reaching its end. It wasn't long before Athara heard the faint crunching of the Captain's vertebrae as Vader crushed the man's neck in his grip. As Captain Antilles fell limp, Vader threw the body aside, roaring at the Stormtrooper Commander at his side.

"Tear this ship apart until you find those plans, and bring me the passengers, I want them alive!" The troopers scurried off as Vader strode angrily past the lifeless body of the Captain. His rage was tangible, but Athara managed to keep her face emotionless and stone-like as Vader came directly toward her. The anger radiated off him in waves, putting her even more on edge; pushing her closer to her own limits.