User blog:Brandon Rhea/CONTENT RELEASE: New short story released, plus updated TCO prologue

So I’ve got a bit of a surprise content release for you today. I had hoped to get the final two chapters of part one of Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One out today, but that simply isn’t happening. If you remember from my blog last week, though, I did mention something about an updated prologue. That is part of what this content release is about.

After thinking it over long and hard, and consulting with some other readers about it, I’ve decided to remove the scene from the prologue where Darth Plagueis is murdered. Despite thinking that the scene was awesome, it didn’t really work with the rest of TCO. Throughout the novel so far, I’ve tried to build up an “are they or aren’t they?” sort of vibe as to whether the Sith are still out there. Of course YOU know they are, but I’m writing this as if you didn’t. Because of that, I thought having the Sith on page 7 or whatever pretty much killed that vibe, so I decided to remove it. Not only that, but it didn’t really connect to the rest of the book as I have it planned.

So now, instead of having Ussej saying that he needed to talk about “an old friend” of his (Plagueis), Ussej begins speaking directly about Annikin. I shamelessly based some of his dialogue from the Star Wars: A Musical Journey DVD from a few years back (not the current traveling show), because Ian McDiarmid’s narration is just insanely awesome. It fits too. Therefore, this is me giving proper credit for that, since I don’t want to try to pass it off solely as my own. That wouldn’t be fair.

Now, you may be asking yourself, “can we still see this Plagueis scene?” Absolutely! That’s the surprise part of this content release. At first, I was just going to release it as a “deleted scene” still marked as ASWS canon. Instead of doing that, I’ve decided to make a short story out of it. This short story is called Star Wars: The Tragedy, and this time it DOES connect with TCO, and it could be viewed as a bit of a prologue, but I still don’t think it fits with the rest of the book, which is why it’s its own story. Here is the story:


 * Star Wars: The Tragedy

As always, comments and feedback are GREATLY appreciated. I hope you enjoy it!

Until next time,

Brandon Rhea  (talk)