Hiii~! It's been a good long while since I've created new stuff for Star Wars, but the Jedi are still so very near and dear to my heart. 💚
This fic ('Carbon') is a major canon-divergence story that veers off-course in season three of The Clone Wars and pulls a group of characters forward in the timeline into the Rebels era!
When the Jedi formed their plan to infiltrate the Citadel to extract Even Piell and his men, in this version of events, Palpatine makes contact with Anakin, and Anakin ends up spilling all the operational details, to include their intentions of freezing the infiltration party in carbonite to sneak past the sensors. Palpatine sees a golden opportunity to rid himself of the nuisance of Obi-Wan Kenobi once and for all and seizes it; he works behind the scenes to get Anakin pulled from the mission at the last minute and sabotages the ship/the droids piloting it. But instead of the ship being fully destroyed like he intended, the explosion only severely damages it, engines dead, droids disabled, left to drift in space with Obi-Wan and the troopers who were accompanying him on the mission (Cody, Rex, Fives, Echo, Charger, Longshot, +2x u/i 501st/212th troopers) all still frozen in carbonite while the final days of the war and the rise of the Empire plays out. Large-scale events happen generally the same as they did in canon, with Palpatine convincing Anakin to choose the dark side and support him in tearing down the Republic to establish his fascist Empire.
Decades later, Kanan and Phoenix Squad find the ship (either through a Force-guided vision or perhaps the Sith holocron leads Ezra/Maul towards it, like when it was used to find Obi-Wan hiding on Tatooine), and the group gets woken/revived into the Rebels era timeline.
I don’t have the full fic plotted out from here, but obviously Obi-Wan and the others join the cause of the Rebellion and support the efforts of Mon Mothma and the other rebels, working to overthrow the Empire, while Obi-Wan and the other men somehow manage to come to grips with everything that was lost while they were helpless and frozen. He finds a small measure of peace in growing close with Kanan and Ezra and helping to teach them more of their heritage.
Fun fact, I never DID decide what I was going to do with Ahsoka in this fic! She stowed away and joined in on the original mission, which I think could be a fun option to stick with… her and Ezra and all the other trouble-makers in Phoenix would make AWESOME chaos-companions, and I’d love to explore a closer training dynamic between her and Obi-Wan… BUT, if I have her extracted out of the mission at the same time Anakin is, we get to have grown up and seasoned Fulcrum!Ahsoka interacting with mid-Clone War-era Obi-Wan, with allllll the delightful emotional baggage THAT would drag along… and *that* would be a *fascinating* dynamic to explore as well.
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Date: 2021-04-30 01:22 am (UTC)This fic ('Carbon') is a major canon-divergence story that veers off-course in season three of The Clone Wars and pulls a group of characters forward in the timeline into the Rebels era!
When the Jedi formed their plan to infiltrate the Citadel to extract Even Piell and his men, in this version of events, Palpatine makes contact with Anakin, and Anakin ends up spilling all the operational details, to include their intentions of freezing the infiltration party in carbonite to sneak past the sensors. Palpatine sees a golden opportunity to rid himself of the nuisance of Obi-Wan Kenobi once and for all and seizes it; he works behind the scenes to get Anakin pulled from the mission at the last minute and sabotages the ship/the droids piloting it. But instead of the ship being fully destroyed like he intended, the explosion only severely damages it, engines dead, droids disabled, left to drift in space with Obi-Wan and the troopers who were accompanying him on the mission (Cody, Rex, Fives, Echo, Charger, Longshot, +2x u/i 501st/212th troopers) all still frozen in carbonite while the final days of the war and the rise of the Empire plays out. Large-scale events happen generally the same as they did in canon, with Palpatine convincing Anakin to choose the dark side and support him in tearing down the Republic to establish his fascist Empire.
Decades later, Kanan and Phoenix Squad find the ship (either through a Force-guided vision or perhaps the Sith holocron leads Ezra/Maul towards it, like when it was used to find Obi-Wan hiding on Tatooine), and the group gets woken/revived into the Rebels era timeline.
I don’t have the full fic plotted out from here, but obviously Obi-Wan and the others join the cause of the Rebellion and support the efforts of Mon Mothma and the other rebels, working to overthrow the Empire, while Obi-Wan and the other men somehow manage to come to grips with everything that was lost while they were helpless and frozen. He finds a small measure of peace in growing close with Kanan and Ezra and helping to teach them more of their heritage.
Fun fact, I never DID decide what I was going to do with Ahsoka in this fic! She stowed away and joined in on the original mission, which I think could be a fun option to stick with… her and Ezra and all the other trouble-makers in Phoenix would make AWESOME chaos-companions, and I’d love to explore a closer training dynamic between her and Obi-Wan… BUT, if I have her extracted out of the mission at the same time Anakin is, we get to have grown up and seasoned Fulcrum!Ahsoka interacting with mid-Clone War-era Obi-Wan, with allllll the delightful emotional baggage THAT would drag along… and *that* would be a *fascinating* dynamic to explore as well.