About a year ago, my Star Wars Book Club decided to have some fun and create our own fan treatments of what we would have done with an Episode IX of Star Wars. All of them were different, because we each took widely varied approaches – from “hit similar themes” or even “very slight script doctoring” to “do whatever the hell you want” – but we enjoyed them much more than the often-confusing retcon that was The Rise of Skywalker.

I have not previously shared this treatment outside of the book club, because mine is EXTREMELY inside-baseball, loaded with references to books, series, and games across the Star Wars canon. But given the recent JJ interview in which he admits that “having a plan probably would have been better” (OH REALLY JJ?), I want to show you that it isn’t even necessary to have a trilogy-crossing plan. All it takes is trusting other Star Wars creators and giving their additions the respect they were due.

And if you don’t like my treatment, I bet you would have liked at least one of the others. Or make your own. I bet I’d like it better than JJ’s. Anyway, here we go with the opening crawl:

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