Comments | km_515: A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

km_515

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

Jan 03, 2011 10:59

Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III

[I originally wrote this piece in 2005 and a friend posted it on his website. That site has recently gone down, so I'm reposting it here, as it still gets a lot of interest.]

If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon (as it seems we must) then a lot that happens in the original films has ( Read more... )

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anonymous January 8 2011, 19:18:00 UTC

I remember reading this way back then. I can't believe that you re-posted this just when a friend of mine said something that reminded me of it. Uncanny.

I like it anonymous February 10 2011, 23:32:21 UTC

While there are some places that seem to me to take a small logical 'leap of faith' the scenario you've constructed seems rather sound. Very well thought out, I enjoyed reading it!

anonymous February 17 2011, 09:10:43 UTC

Odd, the same thing happened to me. I was about to go looking for it so I could send it to a buddy but decided to browse reddit for a bit first and found the post about the new link. Thanks

anonymous February 13 2011, 18:14:16 UTC

An interesting model you have constructed here.A couple of things you might wish to consider concerning the relationship with the Falcon and HAN CHEWIE and LANDO.It is canon that lando first owned the falcon. It is canon that Han rescued chewie from imperial slavery.Aside from those salient points i beleave you have hit it on the head.

km_515 February 14 2011, 18:11:55 UTC

In the time since I first wrote this, the Han/Chewie history has had more comments than any other part of "A New Sith". But when I was writing it I deliberately didn't consider anything that didn't appear in the six films themselves.

Though the rescued slave/life debt angle has a long history in the Extended Universe (appearing as it does in some of the earliest spinoff materials) it wasn't on screen, so I treated it as speculation rather than canon.

For anyone who feels differently, feel free to ignore that line or find your own workaround for it.

Keith

sequel? anonymous July 21 2011, 00:05:08 UTC

was there ever an article composed on the sequels on how it ties together to the last two films?

anonymous December 16 2011, 13:57:50 UTC

As has been pointed out earlier in the comments, the rescue of Chewie by Han happens a fair bit in the past.

Sure Chewie was captured and enslaved, but once he was rescued (which is well in advance of A New Hope) he would have seen this as a great cover, gotten back in contact with the other rebels, and contacted Lando, who would have been looking after the falcon while chewie was enslaved.

It's even conceivable that people in places of influence with the empire (but ostensibly part of the rebellion) arranged for an adventure-seeking, slightly idealistic young officer to witness the treatment of the wookies in the hopes that his better nature would lead him to do the right thing.

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slayerjenn February 16 2011, 19:01:52 UTC

Wow! Very interesting, the next time I watch the movies they will seem completely new since I will be looking for the clues that piece this together.

anonymous February 16 2011, 19:13:00 UTC

While I loved this piece of work there were some flaws, one being your information on the Millennium Falcon. First, It was a stock freighter produced on an assembly line, so there were many like it in the galaxy during the time of Revenge, so that ship that was seen, wasn't it. It was owned by a series of smugglers, who made modifications to it when it was there, the .5 past light speed hyperdrive, the second fastest hyperdrive that ever existed, being one of them. Han Solo eventually won it from Lando Calrissian in a city sabacc tourament, a common card gambling game in the galaxy.

theweaselking February 17 2011, 02:54:09 UTC

Who's to say Lando didn't deliberately lose it?

Regardless, the Falcon is the fastest ship of it's kind in the universe. There are faster ships, but none have a hyperdrive. There are stronger and better-armed ships, but none can keep up. The Falcon is the Bugatti Veryon of it's setting.

anonymous February 17 2011, 16:02:11 UTC

actually that is the Millenium Falcon you see in episode 3. read Millenium Falcon by James Luceno for more info. Now in episode two there are two YT 1300's in one scene. Those are NOT th Millenium Falson

reply anonymous January 4 2012, 22:50:55 UTC

Lucas confirmed the falcon was present in episode 3 and the ship "that was seen" was indeed it.

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anonymous February 16 2011, 19:20:31 UTC

This is great, but chewie Was captured on Kashyyk when the empire was formed and used as slave labor until one imperial pilot named Han Solo rescued him, and began a life of smuggling.