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Ashes and Starlight by XwingDaydream83
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
26 Nov 2025
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Arden Lynn and Wedge Antilles have survived Imperial traps, impossible missions, and the brutal cost of war. But nothing prepares them for the quiet, devastating loss that leaves their bond strained and fragile.
As Grand Admiral Thrawn tightens his grip on the New Republic, Arden throws herself into duty with ruthless precision, desperate to outrun her grief. Wedge clings to hope, searching for a future they can still build together—even as Arden begins to slip beyond his reach.
When Bilbringi erupts into war, their lives divide on the battlefield: Arden fighting from the bridge, calculating the New Republic’s survival; Wedge flying into fire, trying to prove they still have something worth saving. Their hearts collide at the worst possible moment, forcing a choice neither wants to make.
Love endures. Grief lingers. Duty demands everything.
And in a galaxy on the edge, two people who would die for each other must face the truth neither can escape—
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- Part 3 of Thrawn Campaign-A Rebel Retelling
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The Veermok's Eye by polardefoxy
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV)
26 Nov 2025
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The pair of clear blue eyes pierced back into her optics. Mockingly. Offendingly. Brilliantly.
Skywalker was impossibly young. A childlike naivety lingering on a battle-hardened face. His Force sang of passion, of commitment, of raw honesty and acceptance.
Was the fool welcoming his own death?
Mara's hand trembled in frustration. She felt seen. Naked.
Impossible. No one saw her. No one saw the void wrapped in the light. No one saw the Hand of the Emperor.
She was the Emperor's justice. She stood for the sun. The order. The goodness. Without them, Mara Jade was no one.
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When Legends Fall Apart: The Anatomy of Redemption by ScriptumInTenebris
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
26 Nov 2025
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As a cybernetics specialist for the Rebellion, you’re no stranger to the Empire’s casualties flooding your ward. But you never could have imagined that the destruction of the second Death Star and the victory over the emperor would bring your toughest challenge yet- both professionally and personally. Delivered by none other than Luke Skywalker, right into your ward.
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Starborn Silence by XwingDaydream83
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: Hand of Thrawn Duology - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
25 Nov 2025
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As Grand Admiral Thrawn begins his calculated push against the fragile New Republic, pilot Wedge Antilles and tactical officer Arden Lynn are pulled back into the heart of the conflict. Thrawn is brilliant, relentless, and utterly unpredictable—forcing the Republic to rely on every strategist and pilot they have left.
But Arden carries a secret even more dangerous than any Imperial plan: a new life growing inside her. The unexpected pregnancy shakes her confidence, strains her career, and quietly widens the emotional gap between her and Wedge. She’s not hiding it from him out of shame—but because she no longer knows how to speak the language of her own fear.
As the New Republic stumbles through internal sabotage and rising tensions, Arden realizes she may have been moved into position for a reason she doesn’t yet understand.
Duty presses in on every side.
Secrets threaten to break what love once held steady.
And the Battle of Sluis Van will push both Arden and Wedge to their breaking point.Love, war, politics, and fear collide in the first part of an epic retelling of Zahn’s Heir to the Empire
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- Part 1 of Thrawn Campaign-A Rebel Retelling
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Imperial Spin by invalidinthewilds
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole
24 Nov 2025
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Post the NR’s retaking of Coruscant, two of Isard’s operatives find out something interesting about the Chief of New Republic Intelligence and a certain Rebel pilot. They’re all too eager to use it to their advantage.
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Join Our Solitudes by jamiewritesfanfic
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: Rebels
26 Oct 2025
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Rex has been fighting with the Rebellion for three years. He’s found a new purpose, a new squad, a new reason for being. And the best part is, no one knows about what happened … before. Then someone from his past reappears and forces him to confront everything he’s been hiding.
Omega has finally arrived! In the Rebellion! To fight and spy and cruise around in her own shuttle! Then she finds a brother she thought she’d lost forever.
Rex and Omega hadn’t expected to reunite after all this time. But the Rebellion stops for no one, and they must put their differences aside to infiltrate an Outer Rim trading station and prevent an influential family from aligning with the Empire.
Part of a series, but can be read as a standalone.
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- Part 3 of Beginners
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Date Night by YouMynock for Jabberwock33, Sharpiefan
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole, Star Wars - All Media Types
18 Oct 2025
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A slightly different take on Wedge's date night in Solo Command.
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Rogue Gamble (Revamped 2.0) by XwingDaydream83
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Legacy (Comics), Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron (Comics)
09 Oct 2025
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The battle for Coruscant isn't just fought in the skies-it's won in the shadows.
As Rogue Squadron dives into its most dangerous mission yet, infiltrating the heart of Imperial power, Arden Lynn proves her worth not just as a seasoned tactical officer-but as a survivor of shifting identities. With her deep knowledge of underworld networks, Arden slips into the seedy depths of Coruscant, forging uneasy alliances, decoding criminal loyalties, and keeping her squadron alive where blasters can't.
She's more than muscle and strategy-she's a mentor to her team, a guide in the dark, and the unshakable center for Wedge Antilles, who carries the weight of command on his shoulders and the unspoken fear of what it means to lose everything they've built.
Coruscant is a gamble. The stakes are galactic.
But Arden Lynn knows how to play the long game-and how to keep her people standing when the lights go out.*I do not own Star Wars or any of its characters. This is a non-profit fan work created out of love for the universe.
All character rights belong to Lucasfilm and Disney.*Series
- Part 2 of Rogue Retelling: X Wing Series
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- English
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- 22,747
- Chapters:
- 31/31
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Chains in the Dark by XwingDaydream83
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Rebels: Servants of the Empire - Jason Fry, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole, Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando (Video Games), Star Wars (Marvel Comics), Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984), Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
01 Oct 2025
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Tycho’s mission to Coruscant fails, and he is captured by Ysanne Isard, the Empire’s ruthless spymaster. As she manipulates and conditions him, the Republic is rocked by a surprising victory: Cracken’s team rescues Wedge’s sister, Syal Antilles Fel. Wedge is overjoyed at their reunion, though her loyalty to her husband, Fel, complicates matters. Arden and Syal slowly forge respect for one another, with Arden proving her devotion to Wedge even under Syal’s skeptical gaze.
But when Tycho returns, it is not as a hero but as a broken man, scarred and brainwashed by Isard. His fragile recovery shakes Winter, Wedge, and all who love him. Isard emerges from the shadows to reclaim her role as the Republic’s most dangerous enemy, and the New Republic realizes its victory at Endor was only the beginning.
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- Part 2 of Rogues Adrift
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Nameless, on the Edge of Nowhere by Taxonamie
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
30 Sep 2025
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[Title Scrawl]
A Galaxy in Tumult!
Following the presumed death of the evil Emperor and his hulking henchman Darth Vader, the fledging Alliance stands on the verge of victory! But as they press their advantage against a destabilized Empire and manifest from the seeds of Rebel resistance, can this new government survive their own instability?
Among the scattered Imperial forces of the second Death Star, Darth Vader's disapparence is not so final as they would hope. Worse yet, the Rebel Hero Luke Skywalker has gone missing!
Alone and disadvantaged, what will Anakin Skywalker do to find his son? Will he walk the razor's edge of tentative alliance with the Rebel Forces, or succumb to the draw of Imperial power? Free from all Masters, can Anakin Skywalker learn who he wants to be, at last?
Princess Leia Organa must navigate this minefield of clashing obligations and dripping grudges, while attempting to understand a heritage she hates, a brother she loves, and a mysterious mother she cannot understand.
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This is a story about a man who overcomes self-hatred and despair and is in turn compassionately and violently reminded that the real answer is mutual aid and blowing up fascists.Series
- Part 1 of Thusly, I Name Myself
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The Terrors of Echo Base by Velkleyaenjoyer
Fandoms: Andor (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
12 Sep 2025
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five times Cattian was a nuisance + one time he wasn’t
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- Part 3 of Moments of Defiance
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"The Imperial Security Bureau has developed many types of truth serums over the years. Bavo Six is a nasty one, and easy enough for Imperial chemists to produce. I had it used on me when I was captured on Quanton."
—General Airen Cracken, Cracken's Rebel Field GuideA particularly nasty interrogation drug makes Cracken see monsters, and forget what he told them.
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Ashes and Starlight by XwingDaydream83
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
28 Aug 2025
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Star Wars Fanfiction | Post-War • Romance • Legacy • Character Growth
Part Three of the Starborn Silence trilogy.
The war is reaching its final, desperate crescendo. Grand Admiral Thrawn presses the New Republic to the brink. But for Wedge Antilles and Arden Lynn, the greatest battle may already be behind them.After the devastating loss of their pregnancy, Arden and Wedge attempt to return to the lives they knew-soldiers, leaders, lovers-but grief doesn't march in formation. As the campaign rages on, Arden is forced to confront what she truly wants, even as it drifts away from Wedge's path.
Their bond is tested by duty, distance, and the ghosts of what could have been. And as the stars burn with war, two battle-hardened rebels must find their way forward-together, or apart.
This final chapter closes the first era of Arden and Wedge's love story-where being strong means choosing how to survive, and how to let go.
*I do not own Star Wars or any of its characters. This is a non-profit fan work created out of love for the universe.
All character rights belong to Lucasfilm and Disney.*Series
- Part 3 of Starborn Silence
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General Salm’s Memorial by TheonnaQueen
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
03 Aug 2025
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Retired from two wars but never truly at peace, Alys has found her rhythm watching over the next generation. But when General Salm's unexpected death forces her back into a world of old comrades and painful memories, she must navigate the delicate balance between the woman she was and the person she's become. With Iolo's steady presence and the support of found family, can she honor the past while embracing the future?
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- Part 211 of Pilots & Spies
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,111
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Hits:
- 9
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A Perfectly Reasonable Explanation by YouMynock
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole
30 Jul 2025
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One day General Airen Cracken of Alliance Intelligence makes a polite request: would Captain Antilles please explain why his pilots are like this.
Things escalate from there.
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Star Wars: Dark Forces: Bryar Force: Enemy Within II: Jedi Knight 0 [Expansion Pack] by DorkForces2000Xtreme
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Knight/Dark Forces (Video Games), Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear - John Whitman, Star Wars Legends: Galaxies (Video Game), Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Video Games), Star Wars: Rebels
25 Apr 2025
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One year has passed since accused pedophile Crix Madine hung himself in a prison cell on Dathomir... or did he? Rebel agent Kyle Katarn is one of the few who know the truth: that the disgraced SpecOps officer was connected to a shadowy cabal that has penetrated deep into the Rebel Alliance and is willing to kill to keep its secrets. As members of former Alliance Intelligence captain Shaparo's secretive Bryar Force, Kyle and his partner Jan Ors are tasked with hunting down the depraved conspirators who have infested the Rebellion.
With few allies they can trust and their enemy seemingly able to strike from anywhere without warning, the Bryar Force struggles to stay one step ahead in this deadly match. After yet another innocent child is kidnapped, Kyle Katarn and his allies will dive into the black heart of this conspiracy, determined to burn it out of the galaxy for good... or die trying.
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Empire of Ashes: Anger by FPallopides
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Dark Empire (Comics), Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
13 Jan 2025
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After Emperor Palpatine's apparent death at Endor, his empire is falling to pieces. The Emperor's stronghold on Byss reels from a cataclysmic assault, and his last true followers are fighting among themselves trying to carry out his plans in his absence. With the Republic and the warlords carving up the Empire's remaining territories, the former Emperor's Hand Sarcev Quest and Admiral Betl Oxtroe make unlikely allies in a desperate attempt to save the Empire from itself - and from an increasingly deranged Ysanne Isard...
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- Part 2 of Empire of Ashes
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Emperors & Rebels by Fremen_ARC001
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Dune Series - Frank Herbert
23 Dec 2024
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One Emperor already has the source to an extended long life. Another Emperor wants to make an extended long life a reality. Through a quirk of an ion storm, the second Emperor received a report from Intelligence about the interception of a strange communication - a communication from something called a Guild Navigator, a communication regarding something called spice. The Dark Side gave the second emperor the route to the spice. What the Dark Side failed to communicate was that the same communication was also captured by a hidden Rebel Alliance spy ship, giving the Alliance an opportunity to stop the Emperor from this potential windfall. One Emperor does not yet know of the growing threat of rebellion while the other has been embroiled in a civil war. Who will win - Emperors or Rebels?
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what doesn't kill you makes you paranoid by invalidinthewilds
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole
06 Nov 2024
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Wedge Antilles can’t seem to shake the attention of the NRI’s notorious Airen Cracken. He keeps wondering what that means, and how worried he should be.
(Or, essentially, a retelling of the first four X-wing novels if Cracken’s behaviour towards Wedge was interpreted slightly differently.)
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our kind of traitor by evergreen_fields
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types, Andor (TV), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars Original Trilogy
14 Sep 2024
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There are some constants in life of one Alexsandr Kallus. The first is narrowly escaping certain death. The second is getting to witness the inevitable deaths of others, unable to change anything about the outcome. The third is ending up in an interrogation room; it's usually unpleasant, no matter if he’s asking the questions or someone else is. On particularly bad days, some - or all - of these may even coincide.
He shouldn't have expected anything to change just because he switched sides.
(Or, the Rebellion is built on selfless idealists and sensible cynics, and a typical Rebel eventually becomes both).