In the sort of weird coincidence that makes humans believe in something that surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together, Star Wars gaming popped into my head from two different directions over the past couple of weeks. First, Stuart started running a short Star Wars D6 game; I haven't played it since around 1995 and it's been great fun getting back into it. A couple of days later, Jez Gordon asked, on the medias social:
"If you were gonna play in a Star Wars D6 campaign what would be your favorite era and why?"To which I replied:
"Rebellion(ish), after SW but before ESB, in that fertile space where there was no more Star Wars, and anything goes.
(Basically, Marvel Star Wars.)"
The three basic principles are this:
- Only Star Wars itself -- the first film, and maybe its adaptations -- is canon.
- Anything that came after can be used for inspiration, but isn't to be considered a "fact".
- Anything I invent/borrow/steal cannot contradict Star Wars, but I can happily negate anything else.
Let's see what happens...
Live long and prosper!
Sounds like a stellar idea, I'd play!
ReplyDeleteSeen this idea on the blogosphere before but they talked it through a little more. Like it isn't even clear what rank -if any- Vader had within the Empire.
ReplyDeleteSo is he a Sith they are using only in a limited capacity like a bounty hunter? Is the Emperor even a Sith/Force user or more a standard dictator.
It's a very much more open, less force heavy world, less Jedi are everything interpretation. Hahn still thinks the Force is bunkum and that's still a fair enough interpretation.
Yes, that's the sort of thing I'll eventually explore in a follow-up. We really don't get a lot of information in the first film.
DeleteThere's an Emperor, but we don't see him or find out anything about him. Vader certainly has some sort of rank, but the assembled generals openly ridicule him and Cushing orders him about like a lackey. Very different from the second-in-command style figure he becomes later on.