vader_incarnate
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The Rook by vader_incarnate
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: Dark Empire (Comics), Star Wars Legends: New Jedi Order Series - Various Authors
27 Dec 2025
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He fell, and the galaxy kept turning.
Fifteen years after his fall, Luke Skywalker tends his gardens in a Force-null prison on Myrkr: isolated, monitored, and mostly forgotten by the galaxy he once tried to save.
Then Mara Jade shows up dying from a Vong bioweapon, and suddenly the Republic might have a use for a caged Sith Lord after all.
The question is whether Luke Skywalker can be trusted to save the galaxy – or if letting him out will just give them a different kind of apocalypse.
"When have impossible tasks ever stopped me before?"
Or: I present for your enjoyment: "what if the NR took Dark Empire seriously," combined with "what if the Vong War but you ignore all of the EU after Dark Empire," plus "what if dark-ish! Luke during the NJO." If that sounds fun, you are my people.
(Updates sporadic, writer on parental leave)
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Death, Taxes, and Skywalker Absurdity by vader_incarnate
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
13 Oct 2025
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In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except …
Or: Mara Jade arrives on Yavin IV expecting to discuss Jedi training, not to find Leia Organa on the brink of murdering her brother over tax forms.
What follows: one (1) Jedi feigning financial illiteracy for the bit, one (1) ex-Imperial assassin drafted into explaining basic economics, and one (1) senator armed with wine and righteous fury.
Also featuring: “Luke Middle Name Skywalker,” the audacity of the water cubit argument, and a brief exploration of how the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy became terrifyingly good at weaponizing sincerity.
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Burn With Me by vader_incarnate
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: Dark Empire (Comics)
05 Sep 2025
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A Jedi fell, a Sith rose. Five years after Byss, the man who was Luke Skywalker decided he didn't want to be alone anymore.
"I will withdraw my forces from Coruscant. I will leave Republic space unchallenged. I will abide by the boundaries you set.
"In exchange, Mara Jade will become my wife.”
Or: the Bad Ending. The "AU of an AU forced marriage enemies to lovers slow burn that's mostly an excuse to write pointed L/M banter in this very specific flavor with a bit of plot sprinkled on top."
Sequel to Black Pawn and Black Knight, assumes that Black King doesn't happen.
(Updates paused, writer on parental leave)
Series
- Part 4 of The King's Gambit
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Foxglove and Fig by vader_incarnate
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
05 Sep 2025
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Mara Jade isn’t here to fall in love. She’s in witness protection, smuggling shipping routes past bureaucracy and mid-level tech bros, and trying to avoid entanglements in a town that smells like overpriced oat milk and civic pride. But then she walks into a flower shop - and meets a too-earnest yoga instructor with a tragic matcha habit, a suspiciously sunny disposition, and a family legacy that rivals her classified past.
A slow-burn, soft spy romcom with floral metaphors, minor background espionage, major background checks, and one very determined golden retriever of a man.
Or: a Luke/Mara flower shop AU.
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Black King by vader_incarnate
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Dark Empire (Comics), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
22 Jul 2025
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A Star Wars Legends AU, in which Dark Empire went differently.
Luke Skywalker didn’t come back from Byss the same - and he didn’t stay gone. Now the Outer Rim burns with liberation and legend, the Core reels from an influx of refugees, and the Republic is beginning to fracture under the weight of its own ideals.
Mara Jade needs to rescue the man who once gave her a second chance. Leia Organa is trying to hold a government - and a family - together.
And Luke Skywalker? He’s still falling.
But not without purpose.
Or: the moment you've all been waiting for. Sequel to Black Pawn and Black Knight.
(Updates paused, writer on parental leave)
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- Part 3 of The King's Gambit
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The King's Gambit by vader_incarnate
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Dark Empire (Comics), Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
05 Sep 2025
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- 103,271
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 45
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The Language of Slaves by vader_incarnate
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
12 Jan 2025
- Words:
- 5,077
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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Skyclawer Chronicles by vader_incarnate
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
25 Dec 2022
- Words:
- 4,715
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 46
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The Mistakes of the Past by DragonflyonBreak for vader_incarnate
Fandoms: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
28 Dec 2022
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Luke had naively thought he'd come to know the very worst part of who his father was when he'd been brutalized into a bloody mess and had lost his hand on Bespin. He thought he had made his peace with the man his father was.
He had been wrong.
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Stuff by rthstewart
Fandoms: Star Wars: New Republic Era - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars Legends: Corellian Trilogy - Roger MacBride Allen, Star Wars Legends: New Republic Era - All Media Types
25 Apr 2013
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Luke's in a funk and Mara needs a co-pilot for a trading mission with a search for a missing New Republic agent on the side. What could go wrong?
In which Luke and Mara: take a trip; play drinking games; blow stuff up; go shopping; watch holovids; go out for dinner and dancing; run into old friends; hang out in dive bars and trash dumpsters; place prank calls to 900 numbers; navigate an asteroid field (duh); and exchange tens of thousands of words of innuendo-filled, sexy banter. Also, the adventures of Duke and Tara.
"Mara, you were on Wayland, too. Do you remember this much sex?"
"Being a Jedi Master must count for something besides the ability to levitate really big rocks."Bookmarked by vader_incarnate
10 Nov 2022
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Interregnum by Admiral_Byzantium, DrMckay, Isabelinski
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
30 Aug 2021
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The tide has turned! With the death of Grand Admiral Thrawn, Councilor Leia Organa Solo guides the diplomacy of the battle-tested and confident New Republic as they take the offensive.
The Empire, beset by corruption and divided amongst quarrelsome warlords, tries frantically to hold on to its remaining territory, while the Fringe elements of the galaxy take stock of the new reality. Some have sided with the New Republic, forming the Smugglers’ Alliance, while others plot to gain power by exploiting the tattered vestiges of Imperial might.
On Coruscant, the capital of the New Republic, Luke Skywalker, the galaxy’s only Jedi Knight, and Mara Jade, a former Imperial agent with a troubled past, reunite while subtle foes plot from the safety of the shadows...
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- Part 1 of Interregnum
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 204,976
- Chapters:
- 43/43
- Collections:
- 1
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- 555
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- 731
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- 161
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- 50,218
Bookmarked by vader_incarnate
04 Oct 2022
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The Wise Thing by stranestelle
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
16 Aug 2020
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Padmé Amidala may not be all she seems. Anakin Skywalker wears his heart on his sleeve. People have crushes every day, it’s not the end of the world. Is it?
or, if you will, a sith!Padmé AU
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 90,876
- Chapters:
- 34/34
- Comments:
- 396
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- 531
- Bookmarks:
- 119
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- 23,211
Bookmarked by vader_incarnate
04 Sep 2022
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Like Fire in Our Bones by acuteneurosis
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
01 Jun 2020
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With all of the most important things in the galaxy literally exploding around her, Leia is given the chance to go back and help keep a promise she never personally made.
But then, for Skywalkers, saving the galaxy was always a family matter.
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- Part 1 of Don't Look Back
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 153,130
- Chapters:
- 50/50
- Collections:
- 24
- Comments:
- 2,889
- Kudos:
- 8,920
- Bookmarks:
- 1,664
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- 331,752
Bookmarked by vader_incarnate
03 Sep 2022