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onderon order 66 au my beloved

The story itself would only focus on the Onderon bits, rather than the entire scope of the timeline at that moment, but the premise is essentially a rewrite of the season 5 Onderon arc where Rex remains on-planet with Ahsoka to help the rebels. It's a close-to-canon au, enough that I can mess with the timeline but not really changing the end result (save that the emotional resolution isn't at the cost of stupid character choices) of the prequels era story.

The timeline: I'm squishing together the Onderon arc, the season 6 Biochips arc, and Revenge of the Sith. The other arcs from season 5 and 6 are pushed to before this arc, but aren't really relevant to the story. The Wrong Jedi arc, and all of season 7, don't happen at all.

My reasoning for putting these arcs together is that a) the Wrong Jedi arc and season 7 Mandalore arcs primarily get Ahsoka out of the way of Order 66 (among other things, of course), b) Onderon is where the seeds of the Rebellion are first planted at all, and c) this combination of arcs has MAXIMUM potential for angst oh my gods

So far it's still early stages in considering the plot, but aside from the general structure of the Onderon arc as it exists, I've thought of a few scenes I really want to go in there:

Rex teaching combat. I am WEAK for combat instructor Rex and I can be this indulgent in my own indulgent au fic dammit

Steela survives in this one, because star wars has a problem with fridging its female and nonwhite characters and I get to fix that

Ahsoka and Steela bonding over basically being soldiers at their ages (I headcanon Steela to be around 20 to Ahsoka's 17), and having to learn and adapt on the fly due to their initial lack of experience

Onderon cultural worldbuilding perhaps!

Intermittent messages from Obi-Wan and Anakin about Dooku's death, finding Greivous, the state of the war etc., plus Rex, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan's worry about Anakin's state of mind

Rex's chip activating during Order 66 and having to be restrained by Steela and Saw while Ahsoka tries to figure out what's going on, and all the rebels' plans basically going to pieces because what do you mean there's a galactic empire now?

Chip angst right as Fives' message comes in too late to prevent o66, but in time that they can surgically remove it from Rex. O66 angst as Ahsoka realises what happened, and mourns along with Rex that they were too far removed to do anything about it

I'm toying with how I want it to end, but it's probably going to be fairly ambiguous about who did and didn't survive outside Onderon, with a more hands-on understanding on how the larger Rebellion came into contact with the Onderon rebels and grow from its fledgling stage.

Thank you for the ask, anon - I've really wanted to talk about this au for a while so it was a delight answering this! <3

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