Okay then! Iām actually going to be precise and select part of a story and gab about what I was thinking when I did it, okay.Ā
So inĀ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu Naboo wgah'nagl fhtagn, or, How Rey and Kylo Ren Saved the GalaxyĀ the Lovecraftian Great Old Ones invade the Star Wars universe, disabling all the strong Force-sensitive people, and they have to figure out how to send them back to wherever they came from.
The story is narrated by Finn, who is himself slightly Force-sensitive; at night when he sleeps, he shares dreams with all the hundreds of thousands (or whatever; I did the math) of the other Force-sensitive people in the galaxy. Essentially they figure that if the Force is strong enough they can push the monsters back. So they need a way to strengthen the Force. And hereās where that particular mystery is finally solved:
It was the Deep Core Conjunction that finally enabled us to push the monsters out. Holdo was the one who realized what was possible. Pretty much everyone else in the galaxy had long ago written astrology off as superstition, but she still followed the practices of Gatalenta and knew quite a lot about the astrological beliefs of other worlds as well, various interpretations of how the alignments of stars and planets increase or decrease the power of the Force. Early on, before the hyperspace lanes were taken over, Holdo met with Rey a couple of times, up on that sunny hill. Rey told her about the Jedi texts that were in the tree on Ahch-to, and Holdo was interested enough to send Snap to go back and get them.
The manuscripts were unreadable for the most part, ancient languages written in unknown scripts, but the diagrams themselves were invaluable. Holdo was able to put together a small team: a group of scholars to trawl through the manuscripts, and a group of scientists to track the movement of planets in relation to the stars. It turned out that among the refugees on DāQar were some of the best minds in the galaxy, which was lucky for us.
As Holdoās team did their work, and we sent out our propaganda, Rey and I kept tabs on the strength of the monsters in the dreams. We depended on reports from individuals on the monsters outside of the dreams, but because of the cults and various other things they were often unreliable. It was hard to tell, because we were dreaming and because there was no rubric to measure against, but it did seem as the days passed and days turned to weeks that the monsters were weakening. But only so much, and never enough that we felt strong enough to more actively push back against them.
So in coming up with this I pulled from a lot of different stuff:
1.Ā Unmarked, an MCU/Lovecraft fic I started writing a few years ago in which the Great Old Ones once ruled Earth. They were successfully pushed out during the Great Conjunction of 1186 (thatās when the other planets in the solar system aligned from the point of view of Earth).Ā
2. Holdo is intersted in astrology in canon
3. The Ancient Jedi Texts - specifically the images of several pages from the TLJ Art Book. These are unequivocally astrological in nature.
So, I combined the idea of a galaxy-wide planetary conjunction, described in the ancient Jedi texts, threw in Holdo as the brains behind the idea (because of astrology), and then tossed in the uncertainty of the dream world and BAM.
Iām pretty happy with how it all came together, in the end.
Thanks for the ask @lovethemfiercely!
