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// Closing Comments 
// Story: Jedi Exile 
// by makey101 
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I feel that it is time to hang up my Lightsabers and not string anyone along with this story any longer. I could, out of sheer ego, or misplaced sense of pride, continue to write this story simply because it is popular. Well, more popular than most. For quite a while this story was one of the best Star Wars crossovers out there. Boy I padded my ego with that one. I want to, instead, talk a bit about the meta of FimFiction (at least my take on it) and dissect why this story is as popular as it became. It may come across as deleterious towards my own story, but I am doing it because I honestly like my story and want to see more like it in the future.

Allow me to tell you the most important reason why my story did so well: I didn't do anything. That is to say, I didn't f**k it up. This story had potential and that was it. There was a void and I filled it. There was enough mystery to give the promise of an interesting plot. The character was flawed enough to bring about interesting situations. I made a story for fans of Star Wars and My Little Pony without changing either to a large extent. THAT is the key to a good crossover.

Too many times I see a crossover where there is some galactic threat and Equestria is the battleground. From the beginning of this Crossover, I had the choice to bring Star Wars to MLP, or bring MLP to Star Wars. Merging the two and describing how the Jedi Council merge with the Equestrian Diarchy and magic powered pony-battle droids is a great way to destroy each part of the crossover. Instead I tried to use the One Big Lie to just add Star Wars as an accent to MLP.

As to why I decided to stop, I can honestly say that I had no Idea what I was going to do. The story would have devolved into a Jedi Academy in the Everfree and maybe a few Jedi from the Order coming to hunt Warden down. I had a plan to have one of those Jedi be an old friend (childhood friend...I've read too much manga...) and have her stay in the academy to be the kind of foil to the moral ambiguity to Warden. However, I started introducing children into the story. That was a mistake. They bring responsibility and personalities that I am simply horrible at creating. There would have been exploration into the moral ambiguity of Warden as expressed in these children (I would have brought in a griffon next by the way) but I had no arcs to be my backdrop.

I may be a bit mean to my story, but I believe that this story was only going to get worse. I have changed the scope of the story so many times that I am unsure I could continue to give the story the attention it deserves. I know a lot of people are fans of this story, and I know a lot of people do not want this to end this way, but it is better to have a story thought of as crappy than to type it and prove it.

All In all, this has been a great experience, and I am regrettably starting to move in a different direction than writing fics. I have many ideas on a few other stories, but I will not be writing any more. All things go in their time, and it is time for me to put away my pen.

Thank you all for reading.