What's your Star Wars Universe?

[Whill]

[jmanski]

First of all- I am NOT defending midichlorines.

Okay- my point is that there needed to be something tangible to show and prove Ani's force potential. Remember episodes 1-3 had to be written for educated and uneducated Star Wars fans alike.
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[Gregorius]

My version of the universe.

Nearly everything from A New Hope, to slightly before the Yuuzhan Vong period, is canon. Only removing a few undesirable things , such as the Yuuzhan Vong themselves. At this point a somewhat "UN-esque" state of affairs comes into being (similar to something mentioned earlier in the thread)the Imperial Remnant under Pellaeon is basically allied with the NR, and while the Sith do try to return, it is more subtle than in the legacy era "official" canon. Midichlorians are a unit of measurement for force sensitivity, rather than the prequel explanation. The Prequels are not canon, and my version of the clone wars has the Old Republic (cobbled together from the info provided from WEG, and various pre-Phantom Menace [in order of creation] sources), is nearly overrun by an army of clones (not quite worked out who is in charge, or why the war happened [not a priority at the moment]).

If anyone has anything they think I missed in this, please let me know

[Whill]

[Barrataria]

[Gregorius]

@Whill,

hmmm... I remember Qui-gon saying that Midi-chlorians were symbiotic lifeforms that produce force sensitivity in their hosts (or something to that affect).

@Barrataria,

I agree with you, that was always my interpretation as well, the name "droid wars" would have been more appropriate for the version shown in Attack of the Clones/Revenge of the Sith.

[Whill]

There were several statements made regarding Midi-chlorians in TPM, but a couple of of them definitely described how Midi-chlorians are a unit of measurement for Force-sensitivity. Anakin was measured to have the greatest count of mid-chlorians of all-time, more than even Yoda. By you stating "...rather than the prequel explanation" that implies that aspect is not a part of the prequel explanation, when that actually is.

I think you mean that in your SW universe, Midi-chlorians are only a unit of measurement for Force-sensitivity, and nothing more. A higher count is a mere by-product of being sensative to the Force, and not any important part of the mystery or power of the Force.

Qui-Gon did also say to Anakin that that they were simbionts living in your cells and "Without Mid-Chlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to you, telling you the will of the Force." That's the part of the prequel explaination that you leave out of your universe, right?
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[Gregorius]

Correct on both counts Whill

[Bobmalooga]

For myself its #3. I use the original trilogy as a starting point and have used aspects of the Thrawn trilogy (He survived but lost the Nhogri), Jedi academy (I had my academy on Tatooine in the greatly expanded Lars homestead...) and a fair chunk of the Marvel Comics. I also used aspects of 'Courtship of Princess Leia' and some of the other novels (the night sisters come to mind...) but for the most part all of that was used strictly for background filler when it came to dealing with the aftermath of ROJ.

I didn't use 'Dark Empire 1 or 2', I didn't use 'Darksaber' and I've never made much use of the prequels either as they don't fit my idea of what happened during the time period. As presented, they're a mess! (personal opinion only...) and my idea of how things happened is a little different but since I'm not planning on running the Jedi Purge as a game, my players will never learn the 'truth' of what happened.

Now I have crossed other sci-fi aspects into my SWRPG just because I felt like I could make it work...some things worked out better than others and being the final decision maker (with the credit stopping with me...) I can chose to ignore a really bad idea after I toss it in there and never refer to it again...But to give you a smattering of things I've made work...Aliens, Predators, Terminators, Daleks (with hilarious results...), aspects of Firefly, races from Star Trek (more specifically Vulcans and Klingons...we even had a Klingon Padawan in one game...LMAO), I created an entire planet patterned around 'Tombstone' with an old west feel, Dark Angel (the premise of which works great in a Star Wars game...), Magnum P.I. and a host of other things.

Things that didn't work? Well a lot of things I'd rather not see the light of day again...LMAO.

The Klingon padawan still takes the cake though...
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[Tusk BloodFlail]

We operate off of #2 for the most part; however each game then expands into #3. If the characters are in the rebellion era, but are playing as Imperials and defeat the rebellion then we go off of that for those characters. Then when we make new characters we generally reset to the EU. That is, unless everyone wishes to continue in our own #3, but that does not usually happen. It has been pretty fun over the years.

I would like to add that I hate the Vong as well, but I whole heartedly except what they did to the Star Wars universe. Just because something happens that you don't like you just cant erase it, you're losing out on some very fun adventures! Our best adventures occurred because we all hated the Vong and ran a campaign in that era. We managed to save Ithor, but not much else.
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[Kemper Boyd]

I firmly believe in the concept of the death of the author. That is, after a work is completed the artist himself has no say into how interpret it.

So I piece together what I like of Star Wars until I get something I like.

Prequel trilogy mostly ignored, since it contradicts the OT in so many places.

[malchya]

When I ran WEG SW back in the early 90's it was set during the Rebellion era, so the (then) non existent prequels and the EU didn't impact my game at all. That was before the dark time, before the Prequels....

I'm setting up a new campaign, my first in some time, for my children (13 & 16 years of age). I'm setting it about half way between episodes III and IV. I like a few aspects of the prequel trilogy, though I found them overall to be heavy handed, poorly written, badly directed, woodenly acted and so stultifyingly overdependent on CGI for impact that they lost any potential character/audience connection. But they are Lucas' backstory for my second favorite Sci Fi universe, so I feel compelled to treat them as "canon"... Sort of.

The Prequels are to the Star Wars Galaxy what "Braveheart" is to British history. The names and events have an authentic ring to them because, for the most part, they have historic parallels. But they are NOT history. They are over dramatized tripe...er, fiction, draped with a vague trapping of fact. William Wallace/Anakin Skywalker existed. The battles named were fought, the rulers ruled and the people suffered; just not at the time or in the way that the movie portrays.

[Barrataria]