Star Wars Meets My Little Ponies!!!
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Join Emily as she starts her greatest adventure yet! But it isn't an adventure this time. This time, it really isa dream.
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Winter in Idaho can be rough, and winter starts early in December for Lake Cheridan. There's talk of a snowstorm the Thursday night before the Christmas Break (oh, please excuse that, Winter Break). Emily comes home from a dance at her school, Lakeside Junior High. Falling asleep, Emily enters a whole nother world: Ponyland. But very different from the one she knows. This one is where Princess Leia rules Ponyland, Chewbacca speaks English, and Luke Skywalker teaches the ways of the Jedi Knights at Paradise Estate. And all of them are Ponies. Strange? Not for a dream. Because in dreams, anything, anything, can happen. A fact that Emily has begun to realize all too well. . .
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The SW Tie-Ins ~ What to Know
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In the "expanded universe" of Star Wars novels and comic books that have been published, several plot twists have occurred from what most people that have seen the original trilogy know. I might as well start at the beginning, and give you a brief and short but helpful overview of information vital to the storyline of "Emily's Dream," with the help of one of my Christmas presents, The Star Wars Encyclopedia.
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Right after the destruction of the second Death Star, the New Republic was formed. A few years after, Han Solo and Princess Leia got married. They had twin children, Jacen and Jaina, first. At this time, Luke Skywalker was running around the galaxy trying to learn ways of the Force, and ran into a smuggler named Mara Jade, who worked for the Emperor, secretly known as the Emperor's Hand. She had skills in the Force, and her last assignment was to kill Luke Skywalker. So naturally, he would be turned over to Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn (might know him from TIE Fighter, the blue-skinned guy with red eyes), with the help of a Dark Jedi master named Joruus C'Boath.
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Now, this C'Boath was a clone, not the real C'Boath. Being cloned, his name had another "u" in the pronunciation, being "Joruus" instead of "Jorus." I know this is confusing, but it gets better. Luke, Leia, Jade, Han, and the smuggler Jade worked for named Talon Karrde traveled to where C'Boath would be waiting for Luke and Leia, so he could turn them to the Dark Side. But it wasn't only C'Boath who was waiting for them. So was a clone of Luke, or Luuke Skywalker. Both the clone and C'Boath were eventually killed by Mara Jade, and Thrawn by one of his own guards.
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A year later, Leia had a third child, whom she named Anakin after her father, and Luke was nearly turned to the dark side by one of the two clones of Emperor Palpatine. He was brought back to the light side with Leia's help, and they both destroyed the two clones. Soon after, Luke, now a Jedi Master, started to search for potential Jedi students that he would teach at the Great Temple on Yavin 4, the old Rebel base that was used before the destruction of the first Death Star. One of his students was killed by the spirit of a Sith Lord of the Dark Side named Exar Kun. Another, named Kyp Durron, nearly killed Luke and destroyed a whole star system with the Sun Crusher superweapon. The Sun Crusher was obviously worse than the Death Star; it could cause stars to explode, which would in turn obliterate the planets in its system. Durron had been a prisoner in the Imperial spice mines of Kessel, and had a grudge against the Empire for the death of his parents, and later, his brother. With the combined strengths of his students, Exar Kun was defeated, and the Sun Crusher was destroyed, almost costing Durron's life, that was for a time, lost.
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In the next year, now eight years after Jedi, Luke had an "epic, but unfulfilled" romance with the Jedi Knight Callista. Thirty years before, she had sacrificed her life to stop the battlemoon Eye of Palpatine from annihilating a stronghold of Jedi children and their families. She was brought back to life when one of Luke's students, Cray Mingla, gave her life to finally destroy the battlemoon, but before it could blow up, Cray used her Force abilities to transfer Callista's spirit into her body. But Callista had to pay a price to be with Luke. She could no longer feel the Force, or use it. So, in an attempt to save the Jedi academy from being wiped out by an Imperial admiral with a Super Star Destroyer, she left Yavin 4 in a downed TIE fighter, caused the Destroyer to be pulled into the gas giant Yavin, and escaped barely with her life. However, she did not return to Yavin 4.
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Callista helped Leia out of a jam a whole year after leaving Luke by honing Leia's lightsaber skills, which later made Leia be able to fight a Hutt (the kind of being that big slug thing that kidnapped Han Solo named Jabba) to the death. For the next six years, life was far from uneventful for Skywalker, the Solos, and the New Republic. But, what happened is not relevant to the storyline of E3. The only piece of information that is important, is that fifteen years after Return of the Jedi, seven years after Callista's departure, Luke and the ex-smuggler Mara Jade decided to get married.
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"Emily's Dream" ~ Where the Plot Twists
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Now, what you need to about the version of Ponyland in Emily's dream actually isn't all that complicated, unlike the five-paragraph explanation of what was happened in the SW universe after all this time. This will take just ONE simple paragraph, and nine pictures.
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High Queen Leia Organa Solo reigns Ponyland in the capital of Crystal Castle, far from her brother Luke Skywalker who teaches his students the ways of the Jedi Knights - who kept Ponyland a safe place for thousands of generations and wielded lightsabers - at Paradise Estate; a wandering Unicorn named Callista who has lost all of her powers; and a thickening plot to kidnap Mara Jade, Luke's wife. Storm and Nefaria, two devious and conniving Ponies who absolutely hate Jade and her friends, the wanderers, would just love to get back at her. And they'll stop at nothing to get their revenge.
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The rest of the story will be unfolded as you read along. But to add to your understanding, here are the nine main characters of "Emily's Dream: Knights In Ponyland"©:
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~*Luke Skywalker*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Mara Jade*~
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~*Leia Organa Solo*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Han Solo*~
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~*Callista*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Kyp Durron*~
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~*Nefaria*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Storm*~
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~*Chewbacca*~
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