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Ok so it's pretty doubtless that the upcoming Star Wars TV Show will be canon. Even moreso than the novels and such due to the scope involved in making it and the number of people who will see it.

The problem here is that since it's set between Episode III and IV whoever our heroes end up being can't really do much about the Empire, they're supposed to remain unchallenged until Episode IV.

We can't really have the Rebels, since they stay completely in the shadows until just before Episode IV.

So what does that leave? Well as people have suspected, people who don't get along with the Empire... At all, but aren't actively attacking it as the Rebels will do in the future. People just living under imperial rule as they adventure through the galaxy in their ship (Hopefully not a Millinium Falcon clone, but something that keeps the same spirit like the Ebon Hawk in KOTOR: See blog image).

So who best fits this? Smugglers and Jedi (come on, do you honestly suspect them to try to do live-action Star Wars without lightsabers?) We get constant allusions to Han's smuggling life in the Original Trilogy but we never really see him do any of it. Mostly because it wasn't needed for the films.

Now we have 100 hours of screentime to fill though, there's plenty of time for some smuggling, mercenary style adventures led by characters not in the films but well known in Expanded Universe, Talon Karrde and the like. Say a crew of 5 smugglers or so? Enough to have some interesting character relationships and development. Star Wars consistantly has (If I had put this in the title it'd be on the popular blog page in about 10 seconds I bet ) hot women. So 1 or 2 of our crew would probably be women or perhaps one of the Jedi.

Indeed like I said, we'd still need the Jedi even if they're supposed to be mostly in hiding. I figure at this point in time a Jedi might be worried about staying in one place to long, so we'd have 1 or 2 that join up with our mercenaries. Think of the possilities there, they'd act as a moral compass of sorts to balance out the pirates (Think about the brief relations we saw between Obi-Wan and Han Solo, endless possiblities), and for those who like that whole lightsaber thing it gives an opprotunity to see them in action when the situation calls for it.

The basic show would start off with our heroes on a job, or going to recieve a job from someone to smuggle, steal, or other various unwholesome activities not sanctioned by our glorious First Galactic Empire. With room for various deviations of course which I won't elaborate on because it could border on fanfiction (fafdiction if you prefer to follow the current trends ).

So it's not Boba Fett like current rumors suggest the show will center around, but do you think you'd watch something based around smugglers defying imperial regulations and doing jobs for Hutt crimelords and the like?

Note: It's a trap!
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