Thread:Alexander of Volzhsky/@comment-3298705-20150703193810/@comment-3298705-20150704052101

Maybe it's not so much where a headquarters is, but perhaps they have a meeting place on Coruscant? For instance, Dooku lives on Serenno, but he travels to Coruscant on occasion to meet with Sidious…

I would write my own version of the plot, but I struggle with organizing all my ideas and am very hard on myself creatively, as I suffer from something called obsessive-compulsive disorder, which makes me a perfectionist, among other things, without going into detail. I'm lucky if I ever finish a project when I work alone, mainly because I never deem any of my ideas good enough to put together a cohesive, complete story.

What talking with you has been doing is it has allowed me to think when I'm away from the Wiki and then pitch whatever I come up with upon my return. You've been excellent helping me think of how to put things together. What about this for a starting point:
 * Opening crawl.
 * Rather than the typical pan down to a planet or ship that establishes the first scene of the movie, we fade to black and see snippets of an Empire-caused tragedy that takes place on Nexus Wan's home world when she's a child. In this event, she loses both parents, her only family (as per your "avenge my family" idea). Between a series of snippets and another series of snippets, the film's title appears on screen (*cue audience applause, imaginary theater-goers*).
 * We would then jump ahead several years to the adult Nexus Wan; I actually like your idea of a sort of speeder race/chase for an opening. Or maybe it's ships. I don't know. Something. Perhaps Wan is a lowlife and is in the process of stealing something. Anyways, from here, she'd be caught up in the life-changing events that get her face-to-face with Bix Creo and her having to get off-world with him via Gareth Lorca's ship.

Homages are great when used in moderation. But they cannot drive a plot. Otherwise we may as well see the same movie. To further stress this is the Sequel Saga, set in an unfamiliar time far in the future, just as The Old Republic has explored an unfamiliar time way in the past, almost everything should be foreign and new, yet strangely familiar. Danger from something mystical vs. something technological is also a nice contrast that we could use for our series vs. the first saga.

This may be random, but here is some location concept art from the canceled Darth Maul game to show you the kind of feel I picture the galaxy having in this dystopian-type world that was born of the New Empire's rise to power:
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Also, for more inspiration and to get more of an idea for the look/feel I'm picturing for the world and story, I'm linking to the Old Republic trailers again. I'd like to imagine our "films" looking like these, as well as the scale of the events that would occur and the locations/designs of characters, places, et cetera:
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As an aside, we have multiple missions in telling this story:
 * To tell an epic, multi-part story (something that makes audiences say, "WOW, THAT WAS GREAT!") that is well-developed and planned from its plot to its characters and is well-executed.
 * To capture the joy and thrill of a fan going to see a new Star Wars film for the first time.