Queen Padmé Tales (Star Wars / Star Trek / Real Life Crossover)

Let’s have them all!

Objective

This ambitious series of screenplays breaks a long time taboo of writing Star Wars and Star Trek crossovers, but also aims to make the case for commercial yet free/open (Creative Commons / etc.) fan fiction / crossovers / real person fiction (see e.g: Our mission statement) and screenplays written in easier to write formats than the draconian, finicky, and boring, Hollywood-blessed format.

Abstract

While the birth parents of Queen Padmé Amidala of the Naboo of the Selinaverse (Tiffany Alvord , b. 1992) were killed in a starship crash when she was 1 years old, she was adopted by her aunt, the Archduchess Elizabeth Amidala (Natalie Portman), and her aunt's husband Darth Vader, who volunteered to act as King in effect until Padme's coming of age. As a result, Padmé had a happy childhood until she turned 18 at 2010 and was ready to become the bona fide monarch of Naboo.

Padme already learned enough about managing a planet country by volunteering to help Vader, and he encouraged her to do so. On the surface, she is happy:

  • She is the richest person in Naboo and one of the richest women in the galaxy.

  • She has enough time to contribute on Internet content and code sharing sites.

  • She has many supporting friends, including her boyfriend Anakin Skywalker, a promising Jedi padawan who is about her age, with aspirations for joining the mysterious but revered jedi order of Siths, of which only Vader and Emperor Palpatine are the known extant members.

In practice though, there is the Sword of Damocles:

  • Critics on online publications and social media who are unhappy with every choice she makes.

  • A poorly executed takeover attempt by a "real life" celebrity thought to be flawless.

  • Her boyfriend being so busy with his studies that he becomes awfully laconic even in his emails.

  • Her spirit friends, who are animated characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and other franchises, that everyone can see, hear, photograph, and record, but which many people believe are some kind of trick.

  • And her biggest pet peeve: her bank account which keeps getting larger, despite her many attempts to reduce it.

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Licensing

This work uses some characters and concepts from real life, from other copyrighted works, and from works that are already Public Domain.

All the text in Queen Padmé Tales is original, and as far as I’m concerned can be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence Unported (CC-by) (either version 4.0, or at your option any later version), but like I said, the situation is more complicated than that.