Beginning today, April 2, 2010, my latest short story, Star Wars: The Tragedy, is being showcased as a featured work on Star Wars Fanon, which will last throughout the month of April. The following is the excerpt currently being shown on the wiki’s main page:
“It’s tragic, really, seeing you like this,” the man’s voice called out from behind, one so full of sadness, of regret over what could have been but wasn’t. “It’s not too late, you know. You’re the shatterpoint for everything destiny says is supposed to happen. Do the right thing and fate can be irrevocably changed from this point on.”
Plagueis couldn’t deny that, even if he’d wanted to. His old friend had told him about the coming days so long ago, but he’d dismissed it as a foolish man’s deluded fantasy. Yet over the years, as events began to unfold, he’d come to realize that maybe everyone’s fate was set in stone, that he’d been unknowingly guided down this road by the Force despite what he may have wanted.
And yet even so, part of him felt like he truly did want what was coming to him. Was that the Force playing with his mind, or did he have his own part to play in his ultimate destiny? He felt like he was making decisions, and his own wants and desires seemed to come from within, yet here was a man telling him that someone, or something, had decided that for him, but at the same time he could change it. It was enough to drive a man mad, though he’d already made his choice, even if it was futile.
“Once you start down the dark path,” Plagueis told him, “it will forever dominate your destiny. You can’t stop it from consuming you. My fate is sealed, not because someone wrote it thousands of years ago, but because I want this. I’m tired, and now I’m done.”
Click here for more information about the story, and here to read the story itself. Also be sure to check the Star Wars Fanon main page throughout the month of April to see the story featured there!
