Interesting. I would have thought Wedge finding out the existance of his missing sister after so long would be dead keen to get in touch as soon as possible.
And I still would like more please.

Please, I hope this one can be continued. So much to come. The Corellia situation, such as who is behind it and how to resolve it. And how to keep a treaty between Alliance and Empire up, running and lasting. Thrawn, how is he to be used in this story. And not to mention the Luke and Mara Jade dance. How will they get to interact with each other, and then a relationship develop. Vader doesn't like the Solo/Leia pairing, I would think he will really flip when Luke and Mara Jade become a item.
As to the fact you wish Captain Needa was still around for use, perhaps Vader could have been recruiting followers earlier and pulled a Veers with him. After we saw his choke collapse some soldiers pulled the body away. Perhaps he was only made unconsious to be revived later, recruited and given a new identity. After all everybody knows Vader executes people, so it would be easy to choose suitable people. Of course they are dead, Vader killed him, do you want to question him about it?
And in answer to J about killing retreating men, standard tactic. You want to keep harrying retreating soldiers to turn the retreat into a rout. They will just want to get as far away as possible. One of the duties of light cavalry was to keep at them. If you just stop the retreat may then become a withdrawal then a rally, reform and new defensive position taken. Then you have to do another attack with the extra causalities to your own men.
Anyway as I requested, please return to this story please.

I'm loving the sentient Lady!

This is a great fic, I'd love to see it continued, but it's been 2 years since it updated, is it dead? :(

Big and clear difference between Veers and Luke tho. Veers was killing Infantry (including men who were RETREATING with their backs to him!) from an AT-AT, hardly a fair fight. Hence the 'Butcher' title.
Luke on the other hand destroyed a huge superweapon space station that was the aggressor in that fight, had just destoryed a planet (and the Empire calls the Rebels the terrorists? HA!) and was aiming for planet 2. That was an unfair fight, but against the rebels. Everyone on it knew it was called the Death Star, and that it had just destoyed Alderaan, if they were still on it they were complicit.
It's not the numbers, it's the very different situations...

God. I started reading this story so so so long ago. And eventually lost track. For years I’ve been meaning to catch up and now I have! And my god I feel I love with it again when rereading it! It’s 5AM but I’m too happy from this sorry to care!

Also, does vader know R2 is R2D2? Has he made that connection yet?! I wanna see a proper reunion between him and his droids!

I pray this story isn’t dead!

Bwahah, poor Luke! I'm so glad he has Zev, he wouldn't be able to function without intervention lol!

So I first started reading this fic back in … 2015, was it? Back when I first got into Star Wars. And I liked it. And then I sort of forgot about SW and forgot about FFN and forgot about this fic.

Now it’s 2023 and I rewatched the original trilogy and went back to FFN to dig out my old favourite fics to reread. And then I remembered that this one has kept updating over the years even though I wasn’t reading it any more.

So now I’ve caught up. I’ll admit, this story did not go in the direction I at first thought it would, but I do love the direction in which it went! I like how you’ve characterised Vader and his presence in the Force as seen from Luke’s point of view. Black flames. Very good. Also especially the fact that Vader is still very much a Sith lord, even though free from Palpatine’s influence and observance and under Luke’s influence he does seem to become more controlled and, dare I say, benevolent?

Also, Leia is badass. And Piett and Veers Sr. (though we haven’t seen much of them in recent chapters). Also Thrawn. (I’ve never read the original material that invented him, so I haven’t really seen his full villain potential, but even from his small appearance here he does seem like a mind to be reckoned with.)

For some reason I’ve been having a hard time trusting Madine. Not sure why. Maybe I’m subconsciously remembering some other fic I once read where he was a mole? He doesn’t really come off as all too untrustworthy in this fic after all.

Also, Wedge is great and I love him.

I almost don’t want to get my hopes up that this story will ever be finished – or even just updated at all – but if it ever comes to pass, I’ll certainly be reading and following with renewed interest. It’s a very good fic.

And in any case, I hope you are well, at least. Thank you!

Hope to read a new chapter next year

A thought popped into my head about a meantioned character several chapters ago, the arrested , I'm assuming she's a hand, who has a son. Is that son force sensitive and is someone keeping an eye on him as well as his mother.
Luke is still going to want to build a new jedi order later on and if the young son is force sensitive he might be able to be talked into joining and learning.

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Hmmm, I recognize a lot of these lines though, probably because I've read through this story around 8 times by now, but still.

Good stuff. Can't wait for more.

Oh its the latter
It is very much so the latter

Super Good. Thanks for the Chapter.