The King's Gambit
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Black Pawn 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 Jul 2022
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She's here to save him. He's not ready to be saved quite yet.
During the events of Dark Empire, Mara infiltrates the Emperor's stronghold on Byss to rescue a Luke Skywalker who doesn't actually want a rescue at all. Because why should he content himself with being a black pawn, when he could be the black king?
Or: your author was bothered by how the EU doesn't really deal with Luke falling to the Dark Side in Dark Empire, and also how Mara wasn't there, so decided to write a missing scene that explains, at least, why he got a new prosthetic hand during the comic.
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- Part 1 of The King's Gambit
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Black Knight 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)
01 Nov 2022
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Everyone knew Luke's face - earnest eyes, easy smile, dimpled cleft on the chin.
Everyone knew Luke's face, and she knew it better than most: the different degrees of his smiles and the set of his jaw when he had decided on a particularly stupid course of action and the way sometimes his eyes crinkled into a smile even though his mouth didn't because he was trying to suppress a laugh.
But even though his face was right, his eyes were wrong. They weren't the pure blue of summer skies, but xanthous gold and rimmed in fiery red. Sith eyes.
Luke Skywalker had Sith eyes.
Sequel to "Black Pawn," in which the author continues her crusade to fix Dark Empire and postulates that Luke Skywalker would, in the singular chance that the Legends canon afforded him, be a competent, terrifying, and powerful Big Bad if given the chance.
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- Part 2 of The King's Gambit
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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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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)
25 Mar 2026
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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 sporadic)
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- Part 4 of The King's Gambit