Creating high-level characters in a level-based game is time-consuming, if not outright difficult. Star Wars Saga edition, though, makes the task easier by streamlining the process and making the timeline of the character generally irrelevant. It doesn't matter when an ability score was increased or which class came when (with the exception of the very first class).
To demonstrate this, I created a 20th-level character for Saga Edition, even pulling in some elements from the Starships of the Galaxy supplement. I have also provided stats for the character's starfighter. All told, the stats (for both character and starship) took me less than an hour.
Following his exposure as the Sith lord Darth Sidious, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was charged with treason by members of the Jedi Council. Sidious resisted arrest, killing three of his accusers, and Jedi Master Mace Windu was forced to kill Palpatine in self-defense. Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker was witness and testified to the necessity of Windu's actions before the Galactic Senate.
To maintain order, the Jedi Council assumed control of the Republic, but too many Senators refused their authority, citing the obvious extent of Palpatine's corruption. Thousands of star systems flocked to the banned of the Confederacy of Independent systems, and within a year, the Jedi Council found itself the steward of a mere handful of worlds. The Galactic Republic was dead.
The galaxy now fell under the authority of the Confederacy, but with its greatest leaders killed in the final days of the Clone Wars, the various founding member squabbled among themselves. Eventually, power was consolidated in the hands of a few wealthy star systems and various interstellar consortia. The CIS ossified, with the poorer systems serving as de facto (and in some cases, actual) slaves to the wealthy. Under the tyranny of the Confederacy, rebellion festered. Soon, terrorist attacks rocked hundreds of worlds, and pirates menaced the trade routes.
After the collapse of the Republic, the Jedi Order waned, finding no home within the CIS. Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, disgusted by the death of the Republic and the decline of the Jedi, drew inward, convinced that he was fated for a different destiny than to watch the institutions he loved die. He believed he should have had the power to save the Republic; instead, he had failed to uncover Palpatine's treachery in time.
Skywalker's struggle distanced him from his wife, former Senator Padme Amidala, mother of Skywalker's twin children, Luke and Leia. Eventually, Padme took the children and left Anakin, driving the young man further into despair. Finally, Skywalker resigned his knighthood and disappeared into the unknown reaches of the galaxy to seek his destiny.
His children came of age among the corruption of the Confederacy. Her homeworld having been conquered by the Trade Federation, Padme found refuge with her old friend Bail Organa of Alderaan. Luke and Leia were raised in the palace, but they were too aware of the travails of the less fortunate. Luke trained with the Alderaanian Defense Force from the day he was strong enough to lift a rifle. His sister Leia, on the other hand, was charming and had an intuitive understanding of people, making her a natural diplomat.
By the time the twins were adults, the rebellion against the Confederacy had reached a peak. Leia's diplomatic overtures had drawn dozens of systems away from the CIS with promises of economic freedom, while Luke's prowess in battle both on the ground and in the cockpit lead to several major victories. The Skywalker twins soon found themselves at the core of a growing alliance - the Alliance to Restore the Republic.
The beginning of the Confederacy's end came when they unveiled their ultimate weapon: the planet-destroying Death Star. The Death Star's first test came at the twins' homeworld of Alderaan. While their mother was safely off-world at a secret Alliance base, their "uncle" Bail Organa and billions of other Alderaanians died in a single shot. Luke led the assault on the Death Star personally. With a single, almost preternaturally placed torpedo, he destroyed the station and with it the last hopes of the Confederacy.
It would take much more work to dismantle the CIS, but before the Alliance could start on the task, a new threat appeared from the edge of space. A vanguard of armored, Force-trained warriors flooded into the Alliance and Confederacy both, seeking out the Jedi, long ignored by the rest of the galaxy. Their numbers had dwindled to only a few thousand since the fall of the Republic, and this assault threatened quickly to destroy the Order forever.
The Jedi came to the Skywalkers and begged the Alliance for asylum from their attacker, the masked figure they knew only as the Starkiller. Moved by their plight, Luke and Leia agreed, and General Skywalker took his fleet to meet the invaders in the Endor system, where they had established a base on a forest moon.
The Starkiller met General Skywalker in a clearing on the forest moon, and when the tall figure removed his ceremonial helmet, Luke immediately recognized the face of his father, a man he hadn't seen for nearly 15 years. Anakin explained what he had found in the unknown reaches: the resting place of Revan, a Jedi who 4,000 years before had fallen to the dark side and been redeemed. The spirit of Revan, alive in the Force, had instructed Anakin in the ways of both Jedi and Sith, teaching him what the ancient master called "the middle path."
Anakin finally understood his destiny. The Force sought balance in both its aspects, and the Jedi and the Sith were expressions of this desire. But neither order could accept equilibrium, and one would always seek to destroy the other. The only way the Force could be balanced, Anakin decided, was if both the Jedi and Sith were destroyed.
To that end, Anakin had returned secretly to civilized space and recruited a secretive order of Force users called the Jensaarai, a group which also sought a middle ground between light side and dark. The Jensaarai became his army, the weapon with which he would destroy the Jedi and bring balance to the Force.
Luke pleaded with his father to put aside his vendetta and settle in the Alliance in peace. Anakin said he would gladly order his follower to set down their weapons - once the last Jedi was dead or converted to the middle path.
The two returned to their fleets, and the Alliance ships departed the Endor system. But Luke knew it was only a matter of time before he would face his father on the field of battle. The galaxy holds its breath as its fate is decided in the struggle between father and son.
General Luke Skywalker, Hero of the Alliance (CL 20)
Male Human Soldier 8/Ace Pilot 6/Officer 6
Destiny 3; Force 6; Strong in the Force
Init +19; Senses Perception +15
Languages Basic, Binary, Jawa Trade Language
Defense Ref 37, Fort 37, Will 36; +2 equipment
hp 202; Threshold 37
Speed 6 squares
Ranged heavy blaster rifle +22 (3d8+12)
Base Atk +18; Grp +18
Atk Options Assault Tactics, Battle Analysis, Born Leader, Cover Fire, Far Shot, Point Blank Shot, Sniper
Special Actions Tough as Nails
Starship Maneuvers Known (Pilot +23): afterburn, attack formation zeta nine, Corellian slip, counter, I have you now (2), overwhelming assault, Skywalker loop, strike formation
Abilities Str 11, Dex 17, Con 16, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 10
Talents Armored Defense, Assault Tactics, Battle Analysis, Born Leader, Cover Fire, Expert Gunner, Keep it Together, System Hit, Tough as Nails, Vehicular Evasion, Weapon Specialization (rifles)
Feats Armor Proficiency (light, medium), Careful Shot, Far Shot, Point Blank Shot, Skill Focus (Pilot), Sniper, Starship Maneuvers (3), Strong in the Force, Toughness, Vehicular Combat, Weapon Focus (rifles), Weapon Proficiency (pistols, rifles, simple weapons)
Skills Initiative +19, Knowledge (tactics) +17, Mechanics +17, Perception +15, Pilot +23
Possessions armored flight suit, heavy blaster rifle, advanced Incom T-65B X-wing starfighter
Advanced Incom T-65B X-wing Starfighter
Gargantuan starfighter
Init +19; Senses Perception +15
Defense Ref 35, Fort 29; +7 armor, Vehicular Combat
hp 150; DR 10; SR 25; Threshold 49
Speed fly 16 squares (max. velocity 1050 km/h), fly 4 squares (starship scale)
Ranged laser cannons +24 (see below) or
Ranged proton torpedoes +24 (see below)
Fighting Space 4x4 or 1 square (starship scale); Cover total (crew), +5 (astromech droid)
Base Atk +18; Grp +52
Atk Options autofire (laser cannons), fire-link (proton torpedoes)
Abilities Str 48, Dex 30, Con -, Int 20
Skills Initiative +19, Knowledge (tactics) +17, Mechanics +17, Perception +15, Pilot +18
Crew 1 plus astromech droid; Passengers none
Cargo 110 kg; Consumables 1 week; Carried Craft none
Payload 6 proton torpedoes
Hyperdrive x1, 10-jump memory (astromech droid)
Availability Military; Cost 1,500,000 (650,000 used)
Laser Cannons (pilot)
Atk +24 (+17 autofire), Dmg 7d10x2
Proton Torpedoes (pilot)
Atk +24, Dmg 10d10x2, 4-square splash