Star Wars: A Dark Run by John Erik Ege - HTML preview

Authors note

I wonder how many people appreciate ‘wars’ suck. This is not Star Adventures, but even if it were, like the Poseidon Adventure, lots of people die, and well, tragedy and abuse abound in war. Star Wars movies have a tendency to gloss over just how bad this is, because, let’s face it, how many of us really want to go that dark? (And that’s the real reason ‘Return of the Jedi’ shows Droids being tortured; it absurd to the point of being funny, when torturing a human or an animal would be crossing a line.) We need the darkness to tell the stories about light. I mean, this isn’t Walking Dead, or Game of Thrones, but it so could be. So, though my story touches on the violence and the family drama and the trauma, and certainly a great deal more in your face about the sex part of life, I have still endeavored to keep the characters complex and believable within the context of a Star Wars universe, even if my story is doomed to be relegated to that triple x universe that few people want to discuss in public, but may have actually watched. The difference, hopefully, is that this is not just a porno parody, but has some substance. Then again, I love the movie “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” and it makes you wonder, did Lucas sign off on that? Or maybe Star Wars is now such a strong part of our everyday life, there is no way to ‘tease’ out the sexual component. We are sexual beings. Even before we are sexual beings, that energy is moving us, and things we watched before puberty end of impacting us heavily, and I am quite confident no one saw the Leah BDSM thing becoming ‘the’ thing, or Lucas may have re-thought the thing.

That said, there is a Leah thing in here which kind of parallels the discussion of identity rights. As you know, our love has died. And for a moment, there was a negotiation for her digital image. I am glad that the estate declined the offer. And, strangely sad. I don’t want a new actress to take over the role. Not yet. Maybe 20 years from now when they make a new Star Wars for my grandkids. May I live so long.

What’s up with the Rumi quotes? If you watched the Clone Wars, you will have noticed each episode opening with a maxim. I remember being irritated by them, and as I write this, I can’t think of one that stood out and or that was relevant to the episode; they all sounded trite. But the idea behind it, I liked that. And I wonder, given the number of good writers that are out there, of which I don’t include myself, why weren’t the scripts for the Clone Wars better? Shouldn’t paid professionals do better than some hack writing fan fiction? (And not just me. There are some great fan fiction out there. (I mean, no one saw ‘Fifty Shades of Gray’ going Hollywood, and it isn’t even written all that well! (But I love the fact her fan fiction blew up in the gatekeepers of literature’s faces.))) The whole point of doing a cartoon is the freedom to explore things that might be too hard to capture in live action. And how many times do we have to repeat lines from the original movies? I lost count of how many times someone said, “I have a bad feeling about this.” In Timothy Zahn’s book episode seven, how many times did he write ‘mentally cross their fingers’?! And I like Timothy and endorse his books, and Lord knows my books are replete with mistakes, especially grammar, but these guys, the ‘professionals,’ have editors, and the TV people have committees, right? (Remember the committee the canceled firefly? OMG, who makes these calls, but then lets crap get aired?) Sorry, rambling, but hey, these are my notes!

Where was I? Rumi! You may ask yourself, why start with quotes. (I think they were all Rumi, but if not, tell me. (And if you’re not familiar with Rumi, well read more poetry.) Well, I was thinking of who P G Waycaster should evolve into, and I was thinking mystic is appropriate, and Rumi just struck me as the one. There are even Rumi quote buried into the text. And I know Lucas had a connection to Joseph Campbell, so why has the mystic side of the Force been better thought out? Was the midichlorians just an example of Lucas’ own internal struggle between the mysticism and the science? That might be just human, and forgivable.

PS

Credit and shout out to SW RP “Chaos” for the unsanctioned use of the Samhein-class Stealth Freighter, which is their property, and if this should ever become published, they will certainly need to be compensated or this ship design and name changed… I am merely, at this point, trying to bridge and merge multiple SW concepts.