Last night, I accidentally loaded up a garbled version of episode 3.17 rather than 3.18.

It was a few hours before I noticed the pile of emails alerting me that something had

gone wrong.

In the meantime, a group of dismayed listeners decided to take control of the comment

thread on the episode and make up their own version of a story to pass the time.

So here now is that story by listeners Jeremy, David, B. Minich, Steve SC, and Jim Silk.

Please to enjoy.

Hello and welcome to Revolutions.

In June of 1791, Emperor Palpatine I fled the capital of Coruscant, Family in To.

With the Jedi Council and the Senate firmly aligned in their opposition, Palpatine was

friendless and forced to disguise his family as build stroids to escape the planet.

They hitched a ride aboard a Vogueon destroyer, but as Vogueons are notoriously unsympathetic

to hitch hikers, when the Stoweways were inevitably discovered, they found themselves promptly

returned to Coruscant, and Palpatine had a lot of awkward questions to answer.

Like, did I forget my towel again?

At this point, Palpatine discovered that his options were very limited.

He wasn't very well liked and had completely vacillated on the question of whether or not

to allow clones into the very broken army.

This in turn had turned the Vorelons against him, because they had a stake in who the

clones claimed they were, which they could not prove if they were, you know, left on the

sidelines.

General Kenobi was looking like he was in a great position.

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