History Fanfic / TheUnabridgedMemoirsOfDarthPlagueisTheWise

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The execution of Nute Gunray's assassination plays out fairly similarly to that of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.

Can be found [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-unabridged-memoirs-of-darth-plagueis-the-wise.409838/ here]] and mirrored for non-AH.com members [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-unabridged-memoirs-of-darth-plagueis-the-wise-star-wars-au.46426/ at Sufficient Velocity]].

Can be found [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-unabridged-memoirs-of-darth-plagueis-the-wise.409838/ here]].

* EvilVsEvil: Plagueis vs [[spoiler: the Yuuzhan Vong scout team]].

* First-PersonSmartass: Darth Plagueis' narration falls into this a lot, especially when Senators or Jedi are nearby.

* DeadManSwitch: Plagueis claims to have one ready to expose [[spoiler: Dooku]]'s corrupt dealings, if the latter tries to eliminate him.

* DatingCatwoman: While her job is to manipulate him for the Sith agenda, Plagueis notes that [[spoiler: Borea]] seems to have developed feelings for Anakin.

* ForWantOfANail: Plagueis stays sober enough just before Palpatine's attempt on his life that he sees it coming and kills him instead.

* TheChessmaster: Plagueis is a skilled one, given that he was the one to plant the clone army idea in Sifo-Dyas' mind so well [[GladYouThoughtOfIt "that even Sifo-Dyas forgets that Plagueis was the one who suggested it."]]

* TheChessmaster: Plagueis is a skilled one, given that he was the one to plant the clone army idea in Sifo-Dyas' mind so well that even Sifo-Dyas forgets that Plagueis was the one who suggested it.

* TheChessmaster: Plagueis is a skilled one.

* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Dooku]] bombs the Senate and implicates the RLF for it, in order to convince the Republic and Jedi to take a harder stance against the rebels. For now, it appears to have failed, as both groups realize that the evidence seems too convenient to be true.

* ForWantOfANail: Plagueis stays sober enough just before Sidious' attempt on his life that he sees it coming and kills him instead.

** Ackbar is also in the RLF, though he's stated to be more of a MyCountryRightOrWrong example.

Written by [=YeahOkayCool=] over on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, ''The Unabridged Memoirs of Darth Plagueis the Wise'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'' alternate timeline.

The point of divergence is simple: At the end of the ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' novel by James Luceno, it is not Darth Plagueis who is killed, but Darth Sidious.

* AssholeVictim: Sidious. Plagueis was genuinely willing to share power, but instead Sidious tried to get him drunk and kill him in his sleep.

Written by [=YeahOkayCool=] over on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, ''The Unabridged Memoirs of Darth Plagueis the Wise'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'' alternate timeline that diverges at the end of the ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' novel by James Luceno.

The point of divergence is simple: It is not Darth Plagueis who is killed, but Darth Sidious. What follows is a rather different story to the one we all know.

Written by [=YeahOkayCool=] over on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom (log-in required), ''The Unabridged Memoirs of Darth Plagueis the Wise'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'' alternate timeline that diverges at the end of the ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' novel by James Luceno.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear in-universe whether the [[spoiler: "Amidala"]] leading the RLF is the real person or a body double who pulled a KillAndReplace. Out of universe, [=YeahOkayCool=] is unwilling to reveal it.

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** [[spoiler: Padme Amidala]] is a leading member of the Rim Liberation Front. Though it's unclear if it's really her or an imposter.

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** Ackbar is also in the Rim Liberation Front, though he's stated to be more of a MyCountryRightOrWrong example.
* TheAgeless: [[spoiler:Plagueis, after conducting extensive experiments in attempt to directly control midi-chlorians]].

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Averted for [[spoiler: Jabitha. While the Embrace of Pain brought her to the brink of madness, it was her rescue by Darth Plagueis that really began her fall to the dark side.]]

* CuteAndPsycho: Jabitha is a sweet, friendly teenage girl who loves plants, starships, and getting into trouble... [[spoiler: who also happens to be Darth Borea, Plagueis' Sith apprentice and a merciless assassin.]]

* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Dooku]] bombs the Senate and implicates the Rim Liberation Front for it, in order to convince the Republic and Jedi to take a harder stance against the rebels. For now, it appears to have failed, as both groups realize that the evidence seems too convenient to be true.

** TheDragon: [[spoiler: Borea]].

** Ackbar is also in the RLF, though he's stated to be more of a MyCountryRightOrWrong example.

* BadassBookworm: In the Legends continuity, Plagueis disappeared for twenty years, holing himself up in his lab and working around the clock to better understand the midi-chlorians. In this story, he puts this knowledge to good use by [[spoiler: figuring out how to influence the midi-chlorian analogues that make up Yuuzhan Vong biotech and escape his torture in the Embrace of Pain.]]
* BastardUnderstudy: [[spoiler:Darth Borea]], like all Sith apprentices.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Borea]] to Plagueis.

* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Dooku]] bombs the Senate and implicates the RLF for it, in order to convince the Republic and Jedi to take a harder stance against the rebels. For now, it appears to have failed, as both groups realize that the evidence seems too convenient to be true.

** BigBad: Darth Plagueis himself.
** TheDragon: [[spoiler: Darth Borea]].
** EvilGenius: 11-4D and Jenna Zan Arbor both fill this role, though Plagueis has elements of this too.

** DarkChick: Jenna Zan Arbor, although [[spoiler: Borea]] has elements of this while befriending Anakin.

* PurpleProse: Darth Plagueis often slips into long, verbose metaphors on Sith philosophy and metaphysics while writing his memoirs.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Plagueis, like most Sith, believes that the strong should rule and the weak exist only at the mercy of the powerful. [[spoiler: Darth Borea takes his lessons to heart and puts them into practice by hunting down and killing a Hutt slaver. Rather than capture his slaves by force, he quietly poisoned a colony's water supply with horribly addictive chemicals and sold the colonists into slavery when they couldn't pay for the "treatments" for their chemical dependency. In Borea's mind, the Hutt never gave his captives a fair chance to prove themselves strong or weak, and therefore deserved to die.]]
* VillainProtagonist: Darth Plagueis, as mentioned above.