A multiverse of Star Wars fanfic.
Well, originally written as a Star Wars fanfic, but pretty immediately departing into original material and world-building. With a bit of rework it could easily stand alone. Marked archived less for abandonment and more for later picking up thus.
Jeira is a storyteller. But more than that, she is the last Keeper of the Stories for her family line. She has a key to the Archives, and a duty to listen, share, translate, pass on, and maintain the oral and written stories of Thabeska. Her grandmother, who raised her, was the Keeper before her. She falls for Beca, a non-binary history student on visit to Thabeska from another small Outer Rim world. They have a daughter, Naema. Upons this comes the Empire, who is much less tolerant of what it sees as deviations from its ideal. They marry in a hurry, to make it harder for the bureaucracy to keep them from each other. As life becomes progressively harder under Imperial oppression, Jeira cannot stay idle and finds a cell of resisters.
Patra is the current Head of the Fardi, outwardly a smuggling clan, but really an integral part of Thabeska, historically its Ruling Family. Fardi have a long tradition and an ancient contract with the people of Thabeska to support, protect, and help them. When the Empire takes over, Patra has to choose between the Family surviving and helping the Thabeskanì people, so he does the only reasonable thing and chooses both. He takes on too much, and he burns out in three months. The Family ralies together and fundamentally transforms itself to support his choice and fight for the future of Thabeska.
Naema is twelve when her parents disappear one day without trace. She survives by herself and dreams of escape, just like everyone else. She talks herself into interesting places despite her age, hangs out with smugglers and bounty hunters and assassins who find "the kid" cute and humour her questions, and learns all she can in hopes of fulfilling her dream.
Hedala is the youngest niece of the Fardi Head. She has uncanny instincts that she trusts even if sometimes she cannot explain to herself what they push her to do. When the Family reconverts itself to better survive the Imperial rule, she gets the opportunity to do something else than training to be a pilot like most of her sisters and cousins, and finds a passion in the complex equations of hyperspace travel.
One day her instincts push her to do the most foolish thing to date: leave behind all she knows and thrust herself into a life of adventure by coercing a young woman to take her with her as she escapes Thabeska by hijacking a Fardi transport Hedala happens to be in.
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Empire Day on Thabeska. A child of Thabeska attends Empire Day. The scene that started it all. Not canon with the main fics now because the timelines and ideas changed.
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In that bright land from which I come. A scene written as world-building for an undeveloped idea. Happens between Episodes VI and VII.
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Chosen Names. Crack, written from a prompt during NaNoWriMo 2017.