Note: This universe which I so dearly love is Lucas's, and his alone. However, I do believe it our right to have our own take on what might have been.
Foreword:
What Might Have Been
This is the power of chance:Chance is the most fickle thing known. Sometimes, it is a mere 50-50 odds bet. Other times, it is the rolling of a loaded red-and-blue dice to see what slave will be freed. But chance has the power of throwing a wild card in the deck; a Jedi that rolls the dice just right to beat the load and make it come up blue. And in this way, fate, through chance, can be altered by outside factors, be they Jedi, the force placed into the coin-flip...or an idea.
An idea is such a small, simple thing. It is a mere electrical spark in the mind-some illumination or fantasy that is of the owner's design. But such a small, simple thing can have such far-reaching, awesome consequences.
As the event occurs, something happens. It is not recognizable or noticeable. But it is there. It is so small that it would evade all those who searched for it, but in time, it shall become so great that, as far as it is known, it has always been there.
It is a shift in the field of reality. Some small change that causes incredible change from the planned course of time. A nudge in a different direction. A twist from the universe that they dwell in into one of the multiverse parallel to them.
The multiverse is an idea of quantum physics. It is the idea that every event, no matter how big or small, spawns from chance. For example, one universe where Yoda and Luke meet. Another where they do not.
One universe where Anakin falls to the Dark Side. Another where he does not.
One where Han Solo scratches an itch on his backside. One where he does not.
Any chance-big or small. But in this multiverse, anything becomes possible. Even taking an idea, implementing it, and in so doing, deviating from the world that we know.
And the idea is no longer just an idea, but instead, reality.
This is the power of chance.
Author's Note: Out of the following chapters, most of them have borrowed, heavily at times, from both Matthew Stover and souderwan-an author on this site.