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[Spokavriel]

Are there any good Star Wars and Ranma 1/2 crossovers that are set Post Vader? No Knights of the Old republic or similar history settings I'm just curious about ones from after the second deathstar is detonated.

[PCHeintz72]

Are there any good Star Wars and Ranma 1/2 crossovers that are set Post Vader? No Knights of the Old republic or similar history settings I'm just curious about ones from after the second deathstar is detonated.

Not of the ones I bother to track.

[frice2000]

The only Ranma/SW story I've ever read that I thought was 'ok' was: Exiled Jedi. First episode in the chain. That if I remember right meets some of your critera...I think. It's been awhile since I read any of it and I found it got really average really fast.

On a does not match your criteria at all note: Heart of Darkness is a really good pure SW fic and for some reason I eventually started hearing Leia's 'voice' in that story as being very Ranma-chanish. So maybe that'll be good for a few chuckles for you...

[Spokavriel]

Does it meet the time frame criteria?

[frice2000]

Time: Ten years before Episode IV

So...no ...Heh...

[Spokavriel]

Do ya think. I know there are stories where Ranma ends up in the Mara Jade role that have him getting inserted after the end of the prequels but I'm really curious if there are any that have him show up after the original trilogy are said and done.

[frice2000]

Ranma as Mara? Interesting Ive never seen one of those. Would ya mind pming me a link to one of those? Sorry will stop clogging your thread.

[Spokavriel]

I lost the link about 5 years ago. Can't remember the authors name and well it was hosted originally in AOL user files. Kinda wish I had kept a copy. It had some fun takes on Palpatine his powers and the responsibilities of the Emperor's hand.

[Shanami]

Unfortunately, the great majority of the ones I can think of predate even Episode IV. There are quite a few where a Jedi gets involved in Ranma's life at some point or another.

The Exiled Jedi thread is set post- Episode III but before and perhaps concurrent w/ Episode IV. It was set after the fall of the Republic, but before the first death star went boom. There was a thread there as well, I think Palpitine's Heir, or something like that, which was also set before the end of the original trilogy (unsure what exact point), but it was definitely not Old Republic, and definitely not post-Episode VI.

[Spokavriel]

Which is a big part of why I can't just look this up with a search engine. Looking for post Return of the Jedi.

The Dark Force Rising books as well as the Jedi Academy series take place later on and were popular enough. Along with most of the Rogue Squadron series.

[Wyrd]

This is beginning to give me an idea for a fic...

After Return of the Jedi, in some of the later books, Luke is wandering the galaxy looking for force sensitive people to rebuild the Jedi order. Wandering through some hole-in-the-wall system near the outer rim, he finds a backwater planet that pulls to him. Following that pull, he finds Earth, a planet so insignificant that the Empire never bothered with it, and is drawn by high powered duels drawing on the force to the district of Nerima...

If the idea develops more into a story, I might try to write it. Only thing I can be certain of right now is that Ryouga would definitely wind up falling to the dark side--or more accurately stumbling, since it is a very short fall for him. The thing with the force, as written in the novels, is that if you don't know about the dark side you can sometimes get away with using things like anger and depression with out being consumed, but the more you learn about the force the more power the dark side has over those who draw on it.

[Spokavriel]

Its not so much a knowledge thing as a case of power corrupting. And in the way you presented the NWC using the force nearly all of the Ki users are on the path to the dark side. Even Ranma. Unless you think there is a way to be consumed by Arrogance and not be somewhat amoral.

It takes someone to guide you away from the temptations and ease in power you can find through the dark side.

[Wyrd]

Actually, I've argued before that the Jedi do not follow the light side of the force. The Sith and the Jedi both preach that all positive emotions are a weakness. The Jedi say they are a weakness because they can lead to dark emotions and thus the dark side, and the Sith say that only aggression and ambition are worthwhile. Confidence might not be completely on the light side, especially since Ranma does take it to the point of arrogance, but the Jedi were rather guilty of arrogance as well, and learning how much more there is out there than he ever imagined could be the first step to guiding Ranma to a healthy relationship with the force.

Both the Jedi and Sith path are corruptions of the philosophy of the open palm and the philosophy of the closed fist. The open palm teaches connection with everything around you and putting others before self, while the closed fist teaches that each individual needs to find their own strength and that weakness, especially in yourself, cannot be tolerated, putting self before others.

Something that never seems to occur to the Jedi is why the force needed to be brought back in balance in the first place. According to the cosmology of the Star Wars Universe(excepting what George Lucas has done to screw with it since he started taking a personal interest in it again), the Jedi and the Sith were once one order that had a split millenia ago over disputes about the place of emotion in the force. The faction that supported use of emotion instead of suppression of it left/was exiled(depending on the telling) and wound up finding the homeworld of the Sith race. They had been practicing an emotion based version of force control for a very long time, but their focus on the strength of the individual and other cultural issues tainted what these former jedi learned from them.

[Karei]

Jedi Knights of Earth: Duel of the Fates, the sequel to Star Wars: Jedi Knights of Earth by bradw316 seems to fit. The first one takes place during, but not involved in, eps IV, V, and VI. The sequel has Ranma and Akane going to the new republic after the empire has fallen.

Sadly they seem to be quite dead.

[Spokavriel]

Do you remember the original trillogy. Back before George Lucas screwed everything up? "A Jedi uses the force for Knowledge and Defense never for Attack" Back then intentions mattered. And being at peace when using the force was important to avoid falling to the easy power of the dark side. In a Ki sense its like the Easy Power of Emotion focused Ki Vs the harder to master but equally powerful pure ki. Intentions and less danger for the user on the light side of Ki mastery. And it makes a lot more sense using it for The rules of The Force when you look at the original trillogy than trying to make it fit the mediclorian no passions BS barfed into the cannon in the prequels.

Edit: Thanks for the link its the closest near miss so far.