Star Wars Episode VII: A Tainted Legacy

Star Wars Episode VII: A Tainted Legacy is a novel that is being written by Darth Void. It is currently scheduled to be released before May of 2015.

Publisher's summary
The Saga continues! Half a century has passed since the, a new enemy has emerged and threatens to tip the balance of power, bringing the galaxy to the edge of war once again. The heroes of old and new must unite and fight for peace, one last time.

Plot summary
The novel starts off with the Glory in space, suddenly the Antaeus drops out of hyperspace above it and activates its retractor beam, using it to lower Royal Troopers on top of the Glory. The Royal Troopers float down to the hangar bay and use an unidentified tool to cut through the hangar's shield, then make their way inside and retrieve the tool. They then proceed to quickly kill all of the Imperials on board and change into their uniforms.

and  soon arrive on the ship via shuttle, unaware of what transpired. The two are escorted from the shuttle by disguised Royal Troopers, and soon arrive at a corridor to find Darth Vidious waiting. Darth Vidious demands that the Emperor and Empress surrender; both refuse and a between Jaina and Vidious ensues. The duel is swiftly brought to an end when Jaina's lightsaber hilt gets clipped by Vidious' lightsaber, which destroys the focusing lens. Jagged flees at Jaina's behest, which in turn causes Vidious to order the blast doors sealed. Jagged narrowly escapes through the closing blast doors.

Jagged guns down four Royal Troopers that intervene before climbing aboard an escape pod. He launches the pod and crash lands in the middle of Crag Way on. Having calculated the escape pod's trajectory, Commander Fost asks Vidious if a garrison should be dispatched to capture Fel on Yinchorr. Vidious exclaims that the is his target and that the Emperor is of no concern and can be considered out of play as he is in Protectorate territory now.

Jagged dizzily exits the escape pod and wanders through Crag Way. After braving sandstorms that had been conjured up by the planet for hours he hears rumbling, which causes him to look down towards the sand and see movement coming toward him. He climbs onto a rock pile to get out of the way and watches as a Chorr Worm shoots out of the sand poised to attack. He quickly pulls out his blaster and fires off several shots while it charges him, narrowly avoiding the worm's grasp by jumping out of the way, it smashes against the rock pile causing it to get dizzy. While looking for a solution, Jagged notices a mysterious figure watching from a cliff up above, the figure urges Jagged to steady his hand and aim for the brain by shooting through the roof of the Chorr Worm's mouth. Jagged waits for it to turn around and try to swallow him, he fires having his shot bore through the soft tissue in the roof of the Chorr's mouth and into its brain, which kills it instantly.

The mysterious figure makes his way down the cliff and introduces himself as Adrax Tarsus and offers the Emperor shelter, Fel accepts and the duo makes their way to the Lungert Settlement, upon arrival they find everyone at the settlement dead and the buildings ablaze. Adrax catches a glimpse of Royal Troopers in the distance and channels his anger which causes him to let out a that causes the Royal Troopers to disintegrate. Adrax reveals to Fel that there is a Protectorate base nearby that he has infiltrated many times in an attempt to steal the ship in the hangar, but he could never figure out how to pilot it, Emperor Fel promises to get Adrax off Yinchorr if he will sneak them in, Adrax agrees.

Adrax and Jagged arrive at a hole in the wall that closes off the base and crawl through, they move through the compound undetected by using shipping crates as cover and make their way to the base's main door which has a Royal Trooper guarding it. Adrax uses the force to manipulate the guard into opening the door, Adrax asks the guard if their is anything of interest in the base, in response the guard reveals that their is only a single prisoner, an ex by the name of Moon Vao.

Jagged states that a co-pilot couldn't hurt and Adrax agrees, the two visit the Moon Vao which they free after a colorful discussion. A sounds off as soon as the cell opens and the band of three make a run for it with Jag firing back at the pursing troops as he and the group flees. The trio soon find the ship right where Tarsus said it would be, they board it and quickly close the boarding ramp. The Twi'lek activates the turret, manually operates it and opens fire at troopers while Fel launches the ship. Jag fires a missile at the closed hangar doors while Adrax uses the force to guide it to the hangar door's weak spot, the door gives birth to a hole and the ship flies through, quickly exiting orbit and entering.

Darth Vidious is standing on the bridge of the Antaeus when Commander Fost approaches him and informs him that he ordered Royal Troopers to destroy the only known settlement on Yinchorr in an attempt to kill Fel. Darth Vidious expresses disappointment and states that isn't the way the Protectorate does things, he goes as far as to tell Fost that he doesn't understand his methods or what the Protectorate stands for, he then demotes him by ripping his Commander's patch off his uniform and has his Royal Guard remove Fost from the bridge.

,, and  are catching up aboard the  when they receive a transmission from Jagged who states that the Glory was overrun and that Jaina was captured by an individual wielding a lightsaber. Jagged also informs them of Yinchorr and the enemy's presence there. In response Luke messages the and dispatches   and  along with Master  and   to investigate Yinchorr.

The fly in two groups, Jaden and Kyle in the  and Kam and Tionne in two  fighters, both groups are shot down on approach and crash land on Yinchorr. Kam and Tionne crash land close to each other, while Jaden and Kyle miles away. Tionne dies upon impact, Kam senses this, hurriedly exits his downed StealthX and rushes over to his wife's corpse. Due to a fog that was present where the Raven's Claw crashed the Protectorate wasn't able to pinpoint Jaden and Kyle's position, it was able to locate Kam's crash site however. Royal Troopers surround the crash site, in response Kam ignites his lightsaber which he uses to bat away blaster bolts and to get in close and slash apart scores of Royal Troopers while defending the site that contains his wife's body. He eventually succumbs to blaster fire and falls to the ground, he uses the last of his strength to grab his wife's hand before he dies.

Behind the scenes
Conceptualization of Episode VII began on December 10th, 2012 as a result of the Write Your Own Episode VII Star Wars Fanon Wiki project. It wasn't until May 2013 that pen was put to the paper and the writing process had begun, the author decided to publish a plot summary of what was already completed for the purpose of gathering feedback so that he would able to fix things accordingly before pushing out a final version.

The author is grateful that Star Wars Fanon Wiki Users Brandon Rhea and TK-999 have helped guide the direction of the story and have led to major changes, two examples of this is Darth Vidious was originally going to be Palpatine's secret apprentice who was to challenge either Darth Vader or Luke after the Battle of Endor for mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith and another thing that changed was Jagged Fel was to crash land on Tatooine but it was decided that Tatooine was too bland and had been done to death thus the setting changed to Yinchorr.