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joiedecombatRemember how a bit back I mentioned that I kind of wanted to write a Gundam SEED Star Wars AU?
...yeah, I still really kind of want to do that.
Fortunately I am not yet Seized With Inspiration for it, which is an odd thing to say "fortunately" about, but I have plenty other fannish things to fixate on right now, and I'm still working on "Fortune Favors the Brave," not to mention all those notecards that I've done up in preparation for making serious headway on "With Good Intentions," so it is definitely just as well.
And yet...
The big issue of course is how to graft the basic Gundam SEED storyline into the Star Wars universe, but I really don't want to carbon-copy the plotline of SEED and just paste in some lightsabers, anyway. In point of fact, what I'd really like to do is shift the focus from the teenagers to the adults, essentially making the main characters Murrue, Mwu, Natarle, and Andy instead of Kira, Athrun, Cagalli, and Lacus et al. Conveniently, Klueze's enormous amount of baggage with Mwu means he's still neatly positioned to be the big bad - and would, let's face it, make a fantastic Sith Lord.
Weirdly, this means that the final final showdown is likely to be some form of Jedi Murrue vs. Darth Klueze, which is... kind of wacky. But I'd be lying if I said the prospect did not also please me. This whole idea is pretty wacky to start with, so.
As we can see from the above, between transplanting the characters into the Star Wars universe and shifting the focus from the kids to the adults, the storyline is naturally going to end up quite a bit different. Which frankly is fine, because if people want the Gundam SEED plotline exactly as it appears in the anime, they can, you know, watch the anime. However, I will endeavor to not let myself use this as an excuse to have Mwu not die. I might give him a Force ghost afterwards or something like that, though.
Why are all my grand epic multi-chapter fic ideas lately ending up involving so much politics? Cosmic Era politics really don't neatly transplant into Star Wars, so that's something I'm really going to have to work on. It'll help when I figure out when in the SW timeline I want to set the thing - right now I lean heavily towards somewhere in the vicinity of the KotORs. On the other hand, since I do want to retain the Three Ships Alliance or some analogue thereof, it might be more convenient to place it closer to the events of the films - either before the prequels or between them and the original trilogy - in order to make it easier to put the main characters into a position in which they are obliged to take a third option rather than taking one side or the other.
The best solution will almost certainly be to keep the conflict on essentially the same scale as it's on in Gundam SEED, rather than scaling it up to fit the much broader SW setting - a war between two planets, f'rex - because there's really no way to put the Republic (or the Empire) in the place of either the Earth Alliance or ZAFT, when there is honestly no possible credible counterpart to put in the opposite role, and even if there were, the scale would be far too great for me to manage.
(Of course there's all kinds of EU stuff that I know nothing about no matter what point in SW history I choose to set it in, but I am trying not to get hung up on that. Fortunately the SWverse is incredibly freaking vast.)
There's also the far more interesting question of which characters aside from Murrue to turn into Jedi.
Am I completely insane for even thinking about this?
...yeah, I still really kind of want to do that.
Fortunately I am not yet Seized With Inspiration for it, which is an odd thing to say "fortunately" about, but I have plenty other fannish things to fixate on right now, and I'm still working on "Fortune Favors the Brave," not to mention all those notecards that I've done up in preparation for making serious headway on "With Good Intentions," so it is definitely just as well.
And yet...
The big issue of course is how to graft the basic Gundam SEED storyline into the Star Wars universe, but I really don't want to carbon-copy the plotline of SEED and just paste in some lightsabers, anyway. In point of fact, what I'd really like to do is shift the focus from the teenagers to the adults, essentially making the main characters Murrue, Mwu, Natarle, and Andy instead of Kira, Athrun, Cagalli, and Lacus et al. Conveniently, Klueze's enormous amount of baggage with Mwu means he's still neatly positioned to be the big bad - and would, let's face it, make a fantastic Sith Lord.
Weirdly, this means that the final final showdown is likely to be some form of Jedi Murrue vs. Darth Klueze, which is... kind of wacky. But I'd be lying if I said the prospect did not also please me. This whole idea is pretty wacky to start with, so.
As we can see from the above, between transplanting the characters into the Star Wars universe and shifting the focus from the kids to the adults, the storyline is naturally going to end up quite a bit different. Which frankly is fine, because if people want the Gundam SEED plotline exactly as it appears in the anime, they can, you know, watch the anime. However, I will endeavor to not let myself use this as an excuse to have Mwu not die. I might give him a Force ghost afterwards or something like that, though.
Why are all my grand epic multi-chapter fic ideas lately ending up involving so much politics? Cosmic Era politics really don't neatly transplant into Star Wars, so that's something I'm really going to have to work on. It'll help when I figure out when in the SW timeline I want to set the thing - right now I lean heavily towards somewhere in the vicinity of the KotORs. On the other hand, since I do want to retain the Three Ships Alliance or some analogue thereof, it might be more convenient to place it closer to the events of the films - either before the prequels or between them and the original trilogy - in order to make it easier to put the main characters into a position in which they are obliged to take a third option rather than taking one side or the other.
The best solution will almost certainly be to keep the conflict on essentially the same scale as it's on in Gundam SEED, rather than scaling it up to fit the much broader SW setting - a war between two planets, f'rex - because there's really no way to put the Republic (or the Empire) in the place of either the Earth Alliance or ZAFT, when there is honestly no possible credible counterpart to put in the opposite role, and even if there were, the scale would be far too great for me to manage.
(Of course there's all kinds of EU stuff that I know nothing about no matter what point in SW history I choose to set it in, but I am trying not to get hung up on that. Fortunately the SWverse is incredibly freaking vast.)
There's also the far more interesting question of which characters aside from Murrue to turn into Jedi.
Am I completely insane for even thinking about this?
