Plot
With the exception that the series will not star main characters from the films, statements by George Lucas and Rick McCallum about the plot remained vague and apparently changeful until Lucas' 2011 revelation that 50 scripts had been completed. In an interview shortly after, McCallum revealed the series revolves around "the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy" and a "group of underground bosses" who live on Coruscant and control drugs and prostitution. Entertainment Weekly expanded on this, stating the series tells "the story of rival families struggling over the control of the seedy underside of the Star Wars universe and the people who live within the subterranean level and air shafts of the Empire’s urban-sprawl-covered home planet." The article's statement that "a bounty hunter may be the main character" recalls a reference by McCallum to bounty hunters and circumstances surrounding the cancellation of a book by Karen Traviss, which lend credence to the notion that Boba Fett is one of the characters to be featured.
McCallum cited Deadwood as an important inspiration, and re-imagined Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore was revealed to be one of the writers who contributed scripts under a non-disclosure agreement. McCallum said about the show that it is complex, dark and adult, and called it the most "daring material we have ever done." "I think, thematically, in terms of characters and what they go through, it will be… if we can ever get it together and George really wants to pursue it, it’ll be the most awesome part of the whole franchise It’s Empire on steroids."
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“Trade and the streets ensnare us,
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And we despoil the unborn.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—John Ashbery (b. 1927)