Failure- An Alternate Ending to Return of the Jedi
                    By: Jacen Solo
               jacen__solo@hotmail.com

I do not claim ownership to any of the names or items in
this story, all rights belong George Lucas and the 
genius' at Lucasfilm who I wish long life, prosperity,
and.. oh yeah, just keep on making Star Wars movies.


   "The shields are down," exclaimed Admiral Ackbar," 
all fighters commence the attack on the Death Star!"

   "Red Wing, Gold Wing, Green Wing, Gray Wing, all 
fighters follow me!" Commanded Lando Calrissian, then, 
turning towards his Sullustan copilot, Nien Nunb, 
exclaimed,"I told you they'd do it!" Referring to Han
and the Rebel commandoes mission to destroy the Death 
Star II's shield generator on the forest moon of Endor.
   "Nub, nub," his apprehensive copilot agreed.
   
   As the remaining 6 fighters shot into the conduit that 
led to the reactor core, a squadron of 3 TIE 
Interceptors and 3 TIE Fighters chased them in with 
their guns-a-blazing.  A wild shot from one of the TIE 
Interceptors hit one of the X-Wings, which bounced off a 
pipe and slammed into a Y-Wing, utterly destroying both 
craft.
   The TIE Interceptor pilot, supremely confident in his
own ability, didn't see the construction crane until it 
was too late.
   
   Wedge Antilles looked through the back viewport just 
in time to see a TIE Fighter barrelling down on him. The
TIE Fighter's first 3 shots were wide, but the fourth 
shot hit his third engine and short-circuited his first 
and fourth engines.
   Wedge knew he was going to die, but he was set on 
taking a few of those TIE's with him.  So he cut all
power to his remaining engine and suddenly the TIE 
Fighter behind him was chasing a stationary target!  In
an act of desperation the pilot tried to pull up, and 
almost made it, but, in pulling up, the TIE pilot pulled
straight up into a pipe.  He ricocheted of the pipe and
slammed into a TIE Interceptor, destroying both of them.
   The brilliant flash of the explosion was the last 
thing Wedge saw before his X-Wing hit the bottom of the 
conduit.

    Lando was getting nervous, there were 3 TIE's 
chasing the Falcon and Tycho Celchu's A-Wing.  "Tycho, 
head back to the surface and see if you can draw some of
those TIE's after you," he commanded.
    Tycho pulled and followed a smaller tunnel to the 
surface and the two TIE Fighters peeled off to follow 
him.

    The Falcon shot into the reactor chamber followed 
closely by the remaining TIE Fighter.
    Lando's crew was already starting to celebrate, 
until Lando snapped at them,"We're not outta this yet, 
now strap in and get ready for a bumpy ride!"
    Beneath his grumpy demeanour, Lando was starting to 
relax, the TIE was not yet in firing range and they were
about to destroy the main reactor with torpedoes.  He 
didn't have much chance of missing, but he fired two 
torpedoes, just to be on the safe side.  To his surprise 
and extreme dismay, impenetrable energy shields had 
popped up around the reactor, absorbing the energy of 
the blast.
    Because the Falcon had been rapidly approaching the 
reactor, Lando was unable to pull up before the Falcon 
slammed into the shield protecting the reactor.
    Lando's last words before impact were directed 
towards the Bothan spies who had obtained the Death 
Star II's schematics for the Rebel Alliance.  "Stupid 
idiots," he mumbled, before the Millenium Falcon ceased 
to exist.
 
   
    With the destruction of the Rebel fighters, the 
Rebel fleet was forced to retreat to a hidden world 
called Haloth (known to us as Alpha Centauri) to escape 
the near-invincible Imperial fleet, led by Darth Vader
and Luke Skywalker, who had fallen to the Dark Side 
after turning on and killing the Emperor in his dark 
rage.
    The strike team on Endor recruited some of the 
Imperials who had defected and exiled the others into 
the forest to eke out a living.  They armed the Ewoks 
with energy weapons in exchange for their help in 
modifying the Tyderian to carry the new Rebels and two
Ewoks who had decided to join the Alliance, Wicket W.
Warwick and Teebo.  They wandered the galaxy for months 
until they came upon a small Rebel transit point on Ord 
Mantell used to as a stopover point for stragglers on 
their way to Haloth.
     Meanwhile Luke and Vader scour the galaxy for the 
Rebel fleet, destroying everything in their way, 
including Calamari and Chandrila, the homeworlds of the 
two leaders of the Alliance, Admiral Ackbar and Mon 
Mothma.  Unknowingly, they are getting closer 
everyday.....

                 TO BE CONTINUED......