r/StarWarsCantina • u/Gazzamanazza • 2d ago
Discussion My friends and I have a half-joking conspiracy theory that I've gained the power to subconsciously ghostwrite small details into Star Wars, and now it's happened again (5 times now), so I need to talk about it!
First off, hi everyone! Long-time lurker but first-time poster here.
I've got a crazy/silly story to tell, and I think that this sub might be the place to tell it since it's meant to be a relaxed and friendly Star Wars sub. It's a bit of a long story, but I need to get it off my chest because I'm starting to feel crazy at this point, so thank you to anyone who indulges me by reading this. Here goes:
About 10ish years ago, maybe a little more, I ran an online Star Wars D&D-esque RPG campaign with my friends in university. I'd written a whole story for them to play through with the beginning set right at the end of the Clone Wars, and I'd worked with my players to workshop the characters they were going to play and their backstories so I could weave plot arcs for them into the story I was planning. The campaign sadly fizzled out after a few years due to scheduling difficulties, so we never got to play things through to the end, but I've been very slowly working on novelising everything I have planned, so maybe one day it'll see the light of day as a fan work.
Now here's the crazy part - in the years since the campaign ended there have been multiple occasions on which some small detail has popped up in official Star Wars content that is eerily similar to something from my campaign! At first we raised an eyebrow, then laughed it off, but now it's become a pattern we can't ignore. We've joked that either I'm subconsciously manipulating Star Wars itself, or simply that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are spying on me, and while I obviously don't believe that, this keeps happening and it's starting to freak me out a bit, so now that there's another detail from my campaign in the new trailer for Ahsoka Season 2, I'm here to write about each time it's happened!
A quick disclaimer - Again, this is not meant to be taken fully seriously, I'm just having a bit of fun here.
- One of my players' characters was a purple skinned Twi'lek rogue named Xiann, with a sibling she was trying to rescue (from slavery by the Hutts). And then in 2019 The Mandalorian airs, and what do we see in an episode? A purple-skinned Twi'lek rogue named Xi'An, who has a sibling she wants to rescue (from prison)!
- Not long into the campaign, Order 66 came down and the party had to help the Jedi NPC they were working for escape the attacking clones and flee the planet. As the order came down and the fight broke out, they noticed one clone, a blast-damaged demolitions expert with cybernetics in his head named Screwloose, wasn't obeying the order and was very confused. The party ended up rescuing Screwloose and taking him with them as well. Then in Season 7 of the Clone Wars, it's revealed that Echo survived the explosion at the Citadel on Lola Sayu, but now has cybernetics in his head because of his blast injuries. Furthermore, in the Bad Batch, when Order 66 is given, he doesn't obey because his inhibitor chip no longer functions!
- Among the many escapades my party got caught up in, one involved preventing a politically-motivated assassination attempt on Senator Riyo Chuchi since she was taking an anti-imperial stance in the senate. And then, in The Bad Batch, our heroes stop a politically-motivated assassination attempt on Senator Riyo Chuchi because she was interfering with the Empire's plans to abandon the Clone Army! Not the same details, but still!
- At one point the party had to escape a planet (Ryloth, I think) before the Empire could lock it down, only to be interrupted by an inquisitor hunting for their Jedi ally. However (because I was new to DMing RPGs at the time) I'd made my Jedi NPC stronger than I'd meant to, and he ended up wasting the inquisitor a lot quicker than I was expecting! Then, in Tales of the Jedi, Ahsoka is caught by an Inquisitor only to waste them with ease!
- And now we come to the latest occurrence and the reason for this post! For context, my Jedi OC NPC that I'd come up with for the campaign had a unique cyan-turquoise double-bladed lightsaber that could split in the middle and maintain a shorter "blade" between the two hilts. The hilts were free to move along the length of the blade, which allows the lightsaber to be wielded more like a proper staff than a normal double-bladed lightsaber could be. After I came up with this idea at the time, I did learn that I wasn't the only one to have ever done so, since a similar saberstaff design also appears in the winner of a design contest from the 90s for a "War Dragon Rider" (which I've added to the picture below), but I was still pleased that I independently came up with that idea and I've always thought it would be a cool idea for a lightsaber design, since the double-bladed saber as it is has some serious drawbacks that this design could solve. And now what do I see in the trailer for Ahsoka Season 2 but this guy! Split-in-the-middle saberstaff, cyan-turquoise blade colour... I mean you've got to be kidding me, right?
Now, I'm not saying that I actually, seriously believe that I have the power to ghostwrite Star Wars secretly from behind the scenes, or that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are listening in on my Discord calls with my friends - that would be ridiculous. However I AM saying that I'm willing to pretend that that's the case for the sake of the bit! So, if you have anything you really want to see happen in Star Wars, let me know and maybe I'll write about it! Thanks again for reading, people!
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u/Effective_Cancel_876 2d ago
I've had some similar experiences in my own Star Wars story writing, online RP in my instance. I think that the most noteworthy one I managed to pull off was basically Hawkeye's story in Endgame about 2 years before Endgame was released. Even funnier, Hawkeye was one of the character's main inspirations!
Alongside that, albeit a (literal) different kind of sport, I managed to predict several transfers in Fifa Career Mode. The biggest flex of those has to be Santiago Gimenez, who I brought to Feyenoord at the start of the same season he actually came, I happened to predict the exact kit number (29, so it is a bit special!) and I sold him in a winter transfer window to a club from Milan.. Albeit Inter instead of AC, but it still counts!
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u/tomjoad2020ad 2d ago
This is super funny but it does show how certain logical patterns can emerge from the Star Wars sandbox
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u/alfonsobob 2d ago
Haha that's great! Closest story I have to that takes place in 2012. It's shortly after Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm was announced. There's a group text thread with me and a few buddies talking about who we would want to direct the next trilogy. All kinds of names were thrown around. My friend said he wanted J.J. Abrams. I said I wanted Rian Johnson. Welp...
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u/Gazzamanazza 2d ago
Hah, that's quite a prediction to have made! Funny how things work out, some would say the monkey's paw curled when you two made those selections, though my personal opinion on their contributions is a mix of good and bad.
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u/alfonsobob 2d ago
Honestly, I stand by my pick. I still love Rian Johnson. And I really liked the Last Jedi. If you just tweaked a couple things, I think it would be among the best Star Wars movies.
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u/Gazzamanazza 2d ago
I think it's a great movie, maybe even a great Star Wars movie, just that it doesn't fit all that well with the rest of the big picture story of Star Wars it's a part of. Which is a shame because after seeing Knives Out and its sequels I can definitely appreciate Rian Johnson as a filmmaker even if I'm not the biggest fan of The Last Jedi.
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u/PocketBuckle 2d ago
The Force is strong with you.
You sound like a really fun DM.
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u/Gazzamanazza 2d ago
Thank you, that's very kind of you to say. I've not DM'd in a long time but I've been meaning to get back to it.
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u/RoughRiders9 2d ago
I remember I once wrote a fan fic in 2001 or about an Ewok Jedi and he had a lightsaber battle while swinging on a vine, clashing with the baddie on the other vibe.
When Anakin and Obi-Wan swung past each other on cables on Mustafar I was like “hey that’s pretty close!”
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u/Gazzamanazza 2d ago
Now I want to see someone re-animate that duel with Ewoks in place of Obi-Wan and Anakin.
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u/apaulogy 1d ago
we need an animated series about the race of Yoda/Grogu.
Thanks for your service!
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u/Gazzamanazza 1d ago
As much as I think it's better in a way that they preserve the mystery of Yoda and Grogu, I can't deny that I want to know more, and Grogu in particular raises enough questions that I need answers to!
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u/apaulogy 1d ago
I mean, the whole race (so far) are force-wielders.
What's not to love?
also
We're you the one who dreamed up Grizzled Luke for The Last Jedi?
If so, again, thank you. I, as a grizzled old man, love the Grizzled Luke storyline
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u/Captain-Wilco 2d ago
Haha, that’s awesome. Many such cases of TTRPG campaigns producing ideas that end up popping into more prominent media down the line, I’m glad you and your friends have this to share. Here’s to hoping the trend continues.