Every GM adds their own flavor and lore at their tables to the Star Wars universe, but I thought it would be a cool exercise in world building to take a Star Wars re-imagined picture and have everyone come up with an alternative version of Star Wars based off the image. I figure we could get a few people's takes on one then move on to another image. Anywho, here is the first one, tell me how this would inspire you to re-imagine Star Wars at your table:

From the design and my limited knowledge of the now Legend material i would guess that the Sith and their Mandalorian mercenaries won the last war 2500 years ago. Now the Sith Lords rule with an iron fist, the Mandalorians do what they do best and the Jedis are in hiding/a resistance movement against the Sith Empire.

Always loved this picture. I sometimes wish I went with an 'Empress' when I killed off Palpatine.

However, this doesn't have to be some Empire variant...

We have a united 'scum and villainy' faction, a shadowy Illuminati that takes in the Hutt kadijics, Mandalorians, Corporate Sector, Black Sun, Smugglers' Alliance, etc in a potent but fragile alliance that makes them the equal of the Empire, Alliance or the Jedi. Add in rogue Force adepts, ex-Sith or Jedi and everything else and this might well depict this faction, especially if the PCs mentor has her way...

Hmm, I'd say that Padme survived the birth of her kids and went off the deep end by what Anakin had done. Learning that Palpatine engineered the whole war and played both sides against the other, she rallies the galaxy to her and overthrows the emperor. Since the first galactic empire was already created, the member worlds place her as the new empress and she is now the ruler of the galaxy. What we see here is Luke reporting to his mother about the latest world where he has crushed another upstart rebellion.

All of those are great interruptions! I really like the idea of Sith and Mandalorians winning the war. When I get home, I'll update with a new photo.

Heh, reminds me a little bit of this interesting Star Wars cosplay:

I see Luke reporting to Leia!!!!

This one might be a bit trickier.

The Mandalorians resisted the oppresion of the Empire and are now a main faction in the Rebel alliance. The Death Star decided to destroy Alderaan, after the destroyed Illum and Tatooine.(And by destroying the last one Luke never builds a saber.) By destroying Illum most crystals stop working because it upsets the balance of the force so Jedi and Sith go back to using force swords.

The cyborg Han(?): 'Look, we know you have Figrin D'an's Ltd Edition SRV Strat... just return it and we'll be on our way.'

At the end of the Clone Wars and the near annihilation of the Jedi, the disturbtion of the force was to immens for the kyber-crystals, they lost 90% of they powers.

Therefore the empire found a way to use the remains of the crystals to augment Vibroblades and Exo-Suits.

In particulla the ones for Darth Maul (left) and Darth Vader (middle)

In this alternate Galaxys Vader found out about Sidious former pupil and used him to destroy his Master, but since Anakin/Vader never was the kind of political leader the empire broke down and he took of with the remnants of the fleet and his new found pupil/ partner in crime Maul and becoming more of a warlord than an Emperor, just living to bring havoc to the galaxys.

Since the empire was no more as well as the republic, a lot of fractions build up theire powers and the the galaxys is in an permanent state of civil- and border-War.

one of these Fractions is the Alderaans Freedom Corps, lead by Bail Organa. he united about 15 systems around the alderaanian sector, when he found out that the infamous Warlord Vader has plans to take over some sstems near to his territory with somekind of Superweapon.

To find out more about this the Alderaans Freedom Corps sets out to a undercover mission but is detected and destroyed by the sith-warlords. only a tiny (well known) R2-unit is able to escape just be found on Tatooine, where two farmers (Owen and Beru Lars) had found him and are slaugthered in the process of Vader finding the droid. The leftovers of R2 are rebuild to an table (middle) in the most beloved cantina of the Warlords.

finding out about this the adoptiv son of the Lars, called luke, decides to get his revenge on the Sith, therefore he went to the Alderaans Freedoms Corps (since they also have a lot of grudge against the Warlords) where he finds out about to things: first he is a overly gifted swordsfighter and that his new Squad commander Leia Organa is his twin sibling... (since Bail is still alive he was able to tell them).

Later on they met an correlian freelacer called Solo who had lost two things to Vader: first his jar due to an strike of the vibroblade and second his best friend the wookie chewbacca that tried to save his friend... vader took the wookies fur as trophie of that day. (to be seen right behind vader as the fur is used to soften his seat!!)

The Alpha-team decides to bring vader and Maul finally down and set a trapp in the formerly mentioned cantina, where (from left to right) Han, Luke and Leia engaded the to Sith-Warlord Maul and Vader (sitting on the remains of Chewie and R2).

Since the cantina is not soly used by the Sith (even so the symbols on the celling declaring it as theire territory) we can see a wandering bard... Boba Fett, he decided after the cruelety of the clone Wars he had to see in his childhood that he don´t want to be like his father and rebells by went on with Jizz-Rock musik. Right now he is on an galaxys-wide tournee with an well known Bith-Jizzgroup ^^)

and that is the scene we see here the moment the trap close, and the Sith-Warlord beeing fully aware of it... let the battle commence!

Wow, you guys are amazing at this and I've got to give special mention to Nightone, I love the idea of that being Vader and him sitting in a chair made of Chewbacca's fur! When I get home tonight, I'll look for another one. Also, if anyone else has pictures like this and would like to contribute, by all means feel free to add them.

See what you guys see here:

Darth Tyranus/Count Dooku has stolen the lifeforce of Mother Talzin and all the Nightsisters, and used their Dark Magic plus his own incredible Sith Energy to create a poisonous electrified mist that both shocks and kills all the armored troopers before him.

Meanwhile, his zombie alien army gathers in the background, waiting for the real war to come.

It has been a thousand years since the Jedi Lords and the worlds of the rim sectors declared independence from the Republic and the Jedi Temple in response to the Russan Reformation. The Rim now stands united under the Rim Worlds Alliance currently led by the most successful of the current Jedi Lords Count Dooku. But having mastered the art of creating clone armies the Republic launches a strike team to assassinate Dooku to shatter the Alliance's leadership before launching a full scale invasion. However armed with knowledge of the ancient Ntghtsisters and aided by new allies from the Unknown Regions Dooku repels the assault and what was planned as a crippling strike leading to a swift reconquest of the Rim worlds by the Republic has instead become merely the first blow of what is certain to be a long and bloody war

Her name is Leia Skywalker. The galaxy knows her simply as the Empress.

Like me, she lost her mother before they could form a bond. She never knew her mother's gentle touch, nor suckled on the breast of the woman who gave birth to her. Unlike me, she was raised by her father. She knew his doting attentions, his love, his anger. He taught her all he knew, and when that was no longer enough he took her to the one being who could further her education. Together with his mentor, her father fashioned her into what she is today.

Powerful. Passionate. Absolute. She murdered the Emperor with a single thought, or so say the rumors. Then she took his throne and accepted the fealty of her father, who recognized the extent of her power.

Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, is her father. My father.

Leia Skywalker is my twin sister, and rules the Galactic Empire with an iron fist. But despite her power, despite her authority, she did not know she had a brother until today.

My story is simple. An old Jedi stole me away from my parents and left me in the hands of a moisture farmer and his wife, relatives only by tenuous connection. His intentions were good – after all, my father had fallen to the Dark Side of the Force under the influence of the now-dead Emperor Palpatine – but I grew up without the guidance of my parents, under the watchful eyes of an aging couple who feared me more than they loved me.

They knew my lineage. I still did not.

Fear is a rational response to things we cannot understand. Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru never understood me. They never understood Old Ben Kenobi, either. And when he came to fetch me, pursued by stormtroopers in their white armor, that fear of the unknown, the refusal to join Kenobi and I as we fled the planet, led to their demise.

Kenobi said my father, who had hunted the last of the Jedi to extinction, had finally found him. Found me. I didn't understand, but I was not afraid. Not yet.

We made our escape from Tatooine with the help of a smuggler and his Wookiee companion. Han Solo and Chewbacca ran a tramp freighter known as The Millennium Falcon, an old bucket of bolts on the verge of falling apart. Old Ben promised them an unreasonable number of credits for a no-questions-asked trip to Alderaan, a planet whose government sympathized with supporters of the Old Republic, guerrillas who styled themselves as the Rebel Alliance.

The plan was to meet Bail Organa, First Chairman of Alderaan. We found him dead in the palace throne room. Vader stood over his body, the fiery blade of his lightsaber crackling in the dry air.

Kenobi was no match for Vader. I saw this from the start. Both had aged, and neither were the swordsmen they once were, but Vader – more machine than man – had the advantage of his cybernetics. Still, Old Ben held his own, fighting until Vader swore to steal the old Jedi's apprentice. He meant me.

It was then that Kenobi did the strangest thing. He extinguished his lightsaber and stood erect, hands at his sides. He spoke, and his words rung out, echoing through the throne room.

“Strike me down,” he said. “I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”

Vader ignored the old man's taunt, and with a single swing of his blade he slew the old wizard.

It was then I knew fear and anger and hatred. Vader sensed the emotion stirring in me – what other explanation could their be for why he did not slay me on the spot? – and questioned me, asking my name. I offered him the name I used back on Tosche Station, Luke Lars, but he felt the truth beyond my lie. His mask, his armor, none of it could hide his shock from me. I could feel it, the Force stirring inside me and responding to its power within him.

“You are Luke Skywalker, son of Anakin Skywalker,” he said, and he flinched when he spoke my name. The Dark Lord of the Sith, the murderer of the Jedi, taken aback at the sound of my name coming from his own lips.

I, too, was stunned. Before that day, I had only heard the name of my father from Old Ben, who whispered his name with reverence, and from Uncle Owen, who spoke it with vitriol. How was it this Sith Lord knew my father's name?

He resolved to take me to the Empress.

It was Solo who saved me from that fate, swooping in with blasters firing, distracting Vader while the Wookiee grabbed me and sped off on a speeder bike. But Han Solo wasn't the altruistic sort. No, he sold me to a bounty hunter named Boba Fett to pay off some debt to a Hutt back on Tatooine. Ultimately, the smuggler and his hired gun just turned out to be an intermediary step to what Vader already wanted; Fett contacted a representative of the Empire and was granted audience with the Dark Lord and his Empress.

She knew who I was the moment her guards threw me into her presence. Perhaps before. Had I been trained as well as she, maybe I would have known, too. She called me by name. She told me of our family ties. She swore she could teach me the ways of the Force, so that I might become as powerful as she. Her voice reached my ears, but the intense presence of the Force within her overwhelmed my senses. I knew the truth in what she said.

She claimed the throne belonged not to her alone, but to those bound to her by blood and by the Force. All I had to do was swear my allegiance to her and to the Skywalker legacy.

Her name is Leia Skywalker, and I will follow her until my heart beats no more.

@Simon: Nice! I like that style!

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The timeline we know stops at the moment where the Child Dooku should have been taken in by the Jedi. His Father the former count of Serano, had decided that his son will never be one of this cultis and selfproclaimed peacekeepers!

He wanted his heritage to stand powerfull above all others and get a stronger grip on Serano or even more.

So send the jedi-consuls away when they asked for his son to be trained by the order, since he was so powerfull in the force.

Instead The former count listened to an old mysterios women that came across his thrownroom, declaring to be able to see his future, she made great promises for his son.

"He´ll be once more than just a count, MyLord! He´ll be the ultimate ruler of this real and the realms beyond! he will gather forces beyond imagination and his name will be known by every beeing in this galaxy. He will be loved and feared, yes he´ll be immortal, as his name will be! That is of course, if you let me take the boy to teach him what he has to know. I promise you good fortune while he is away with me and even more once he returns to claim his inheritance!"

The old Count fell for the words, the old woman took the boy and left for good. And she kept her promise... the lord of serano became an even richer man then ever before.

The boys training was harsh. The Old woman was a descandant of the Nightsisters of Dathomir, but even more she had found old scriptures of the long forgotten jee´dai alchemiest, and holocrons of ancient Sith-Lords long dead yet powerfull.

She took him to places of the dark side all across the galaxy, performing old cruel rituals and asking the ghosts of the past for advise.

While the boy grew up, his powers went beyond all her expectations.

When he was 26 he decided that the time has come to get rid of the old hag... during an ritual he grapped her and killed her in cold blood using her flickering lifeforce as sacrifice to fullfil the ritual and open the old Gate of Souls in the depth of Korriban.

He walked through the gate and wasn´t seen for another 50 years...

When the Clone Wars took place thanks to intrigues of Darth Sidious, a very powerfull Sithlord that convinced the Jedi-order to take part in the war without knowing who he was, Dooku reapeared this time on the planet of Geonosis where the Seperatist under there Leader Bail Organa tried to hold of the jedi and theire Clone army.

It was at the verge of the battle, the seperatist had already lost theire fighting spirit, when the gate open in the middst of the battlefield and the old looking man appeared. Feeling his strong force and the waves of the darkside, the jedi where convinced that he has to be the sithlord they were looking for since the Naboo incidence several years befor.

they attacked him with all theire Might... and he repealed the attack, the power of the darkside, the witchery of dathomir, the ancient jee´dai scriptures and teachings of former sithlords as well as the power he obtained in the realm beyond all time made him all powerfull and let him overwhelm the Jedi and theire Clone Amry with ease.

While he fended of the clones he decided ad hoc that he should use an army of his own to conquer this realm as he did with the unknown real beyond time before.

he used the alchemistical power of the acient and the wizardry of dathomir and let them form new life... using the broken corpses of the B1 Battle Droids lieing all around on the field as metal skelettons and ripping of the flesh of fallen, geonosian, clones, and jedi to give a form to his new servants, calling them Dead Lurkers.

After the battle he found out about Sidious that has now proclaimed himself the emperor after the deathof nearly every powerfull jedi-concil member on geonosis (Yoda, Mace, Ani, Obiwan, Plo Koon, Shaak Ti, Kit Fisto, and and and...)

So he went on an march against Couruscant. Taking one planet after another, killing off any oppising forces while increasing his loyal army of Dead Lurkers.

This is what we see on this picture: Dark God Dooku unleashing his powers to destroy the remnants of the great Clonearmy, Palpatine last line of defence. The Fires of War had destroyed the upper floors of Couruscant and only smoke and dust fountains keeping track of the total annihilation of life behind Dooku. While his power sucks out the lifeforce of the last clones the Dead Lurkers grown even stronger... only one Obstacle left to obtain his aim and fullfill the old hags prophecy... Palpatine will die as the last sacrifice for this Dark God of the Force!