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✫ Padmé Amidala at Starfall Palace

Rani Zakhem, Couture Spring 2018

What If… Anakin Skywalker hadn’t been accepted by the Jedi order. While staying on Naboo while deciding what to do next, Anakin finds his answer while working on a damaged Naboo starfighter, the improvements he made on the starfighter draw the attention the Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps as well as one of their partners the Nubian Design Collective. And Anakin instantly realizes he might have found a way to fulfill his promise to his mother after all, one that doesn’t require him becoming a Jedi at all.

Eight years later at the age of eighteen, Anakin Skywalker is the owner, CEO and head designer/mechanic of Wind Runner Enterprises, a billion credit conglomerate with ties to various planets and companies. Moreover Anakin has decided it’s time to fulfill his dreams and free all slaves on Tatooine by essentially buying the planet from the Hutts. A year later, Tatooine joins the Republic with the planet’s Senatorial Delegation led by Senator Shmi Skywalker Lars, Representative Kitser Chanichani Banai and Senatorial Aides Beru Whitsun and Melee…

It might not be Varykino but Padmé did have the same fondness for Starfall as she had for her family’s Lake Retreat. Their was certainly tranquility that both their apartments on Coruscant lacked. Perhaps Kitser hadn’t been entirely wrong when he said both Anakin and herself were unable to leave their work on the doorstep. Still Kitser’s words had been part of the reason reason she decided to take a short leave and accompany Anakin to Tatooine where her fiancé would unveiled a moisture harvester he’d designed in three standard days.

She hadn’t bothered to take many clothes with her for the trip. Anakin often presented her with clothing he commissioned from the local seamstresses. The golden gown she was wearing now was no exception. It reminded her of the yellow gowns her handmaidens had worn back in the days she’d been queen.