Star Wars alternate timelines may not be canon, but some official elseworlds stories offer up some of the best moments from the galaxy far, far away – from good guy Vader to brand new Empire.

Most recently, a treasure trove of concept artwork for the early development of the vaporware Star Wars: Battlefront 4 was released on the Internet. Given that a third game in the original run had never released, this was alone a surprise, but what really stood out was the content: Battlefront IV could have been set in a series of alternate timelines, where the sides and histories of the major players of the Star Wars saga had changed. Had it been released, Battlefront 4 could have presented a reality where a redeemed Anakin Skywalker faced his corrupted daughter Leia, now the chief assassin of the Emperor Kenobi, or a Count Dooku who never fell to darkness, allied with a non-cyborg General Grievous, to save the galaxy from a corrupted Jedi Council. The possibilities were virtually endless and mind-bending.