This page is for people who don't know about Star Wars. So they get the idea.
In Case some of you who read this do not know about this internationally known Star Wars Saga by George Lucas, I will tell you about the episodes. There are six episodes in all and I will be useing the character's real names instead of the ones we gave to our Webkinz. By the way if you ever want to watch Star Wars start with number four. I did try to make these short, but it's vertually impossible. So I made them long.
In episode one (The Phantom Menace) Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan (apprentice) Obi-Wan Kenobi, are going to the planet of Naboo as ambassadors to reason with the Trade Federation, who have set up a blockade of ships around the planet in order to stop all shipments to the small planet. What they don't know, is that the Trade Federation leader Nute Gunray has been ordered by a mysterious man named Darth Sidious to take over Naboo; and this blockade is only the start. (Jedi Knights are the guardians of peace and justice throughout the galaxy. They keep the peace between other star systems, and use a power called the Force. It's kind of an energy field that created all living things. It surrounded them, it penetrates them, it binds the galaxy together. Jedi use it to defend themselves in fights, see into the future and past, and sometimes contact fellow Jedi from across star systems telepathically. That is if their strong enough. The Sith are the opposite. There can be only two at once, a Master and an Apprentice, and they use the Dark Side of the Force for attack. Bascially, they're evil.) The Trade Federation has blocked off all supplies to the planet of Naboo, which is why Qui-gon and Obi-wan are going there, in order to settle things. Once they get there, however, the leaders of the Trade Federation are told by the evil Sith, Darth Sideous, via hologram to kill the Jedi. But after escaping from a poison gas filled room, fighting their way between a squad of droids (a droid is like a robot), they go down to Naboo by secretly stowing away in the ships of a large, droid invasion army. It isn't long before the Trade Federation send the ships down to invade Naboo. They capture young Queen Amidala and put her people in camps. Qui-Gon and Obi-wan, with the help of a local Gungan (an alien really, after all this is all taking place "long long ago in a galaxy far far away"), Jar-Jar Binks, rescue the Queen and try to take her and a few of her handimaidens to Courscant. But, when they try to get past the blockade, their ship gets damaged and its only with the help of the brave little astromech driod, R2-D2, they're able to escape. They have to make an emergency landing on the desert planet of Tatooine in order to repair their ship. While Obi-wan stays behind with the pilot and the queen, Qui-gon, Jar Jar, R2-D2, and one of the queen's handimaidens, Padme, go into the town to find a new part for their ship. Without it, they won't be able to leave. They come to a shop that's run by a Toydarian named Watto. While Qui-Gon leaves with him to look over parts, he leaves the others in the building with the young slave boy, Anakin Skywalker. While he's gone, Padme and Anakin get aquainted with one another while Jar Jar looks around the shop. Anakin thinks Padme is beautiful and calls her an "Angel." (which is kind of an odd thing for a nine or ten year old boy to say). Meanwhile, Qui-Gon has found the right parts, but Watto won't take Republic Credits, so the Jedi has to come up with something. So they leave the shop, and, while they head through the town, Jar Jar gets in trouble with a Doug named Sebulba. Anakin helps Jar-Jar and then meets Qui-Gon. Since there's a sandstorm coming, Anakin invites the group to his house and meet his mother, Shmi Skywalker. While there, Qui-Gon discovers that Anakin is a fine pilot and has the amazing capabilities to become a Jedi. The problem is, he's too old to train (they start of kinda young) and Anakin is a slave, meaning he's owned. Anakin tells them that there's a big Podrace coming up and that he's built his own Podracer. That gives Qui-Gon the idea to use the Podrace to free Anakin by betting Watto that, if Anakin wins, he'll get to go with Qui-Gon; but, if Anakin loses, Watto will get Qui-Gon's ship. Amazingly, Anakin wins the Podrace and is freed. He's sad to leave his mother, but Qui-Gon was unable to free her. On the way back to the ship, Qui-Gon has a little run-in with the Sith apprentice Darth Maul, who was sent by Darth Sidious to capture the queen, by any means necissary. They escape from him, however, and travel to Courscant, the Capitol of the Republic. There, Queen Amidala tries to get help for her people, but to no avail, and she ends up directing a vote of "no confidence" in Supreme Chancellor Valorem's leadership. (which means, technically, she just got him fired from his office.) Senator Palpatine of Naboo takes over the position. Anakin, meanwhile, gets tested at the Jedi Temple. It turns out, he does have the promisings of a powerful Jedi and is possibly the prophisied Chosen One who will bring balance to the Force. Unfortunately, Masters Yoda and Mace Windu think him too old to train. (the reason for that will take too long to explain, so I'll just say that, since Anakin's like ten, they think he's too "matured" to begin training. Meaning, since he already knows anger and fear, he's more suceptible to the Dark Side of the Force.) Qui-Gon, despite their protests, takes Anakin as his Padawan learner, meaning Obi-Wan is ready to take the trials as a full fledged Jedi Knight. The Council is reluctant but their final decision is inturrupted at the news that Queen Amidala is planning to return to Naboo. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are then given the assignment of protecting her. When they reach Naboo, Queen Amidala gets help from the Gungans (Jar-Jar's people) and sets up a plan. But, as it turns out, it's Padme who's the Queen of Naboo. She had been using a decoy named Sabe every since the invasion began. With the help of the Gungans and Anakin (who accidentally destroys the Trade Federation's Droid Control ship), the battle is won and Naboo is freed. But at a heavey cost. For many have died, including Qui-Gon Jinn. When entering the palace, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan ran into Darth Maul who, with his double-sided lightsaber, kills Qui-Gon. And, in return for that, Obi-Wan kills him. Anyway, to make a long story short (which I'm kind of failing at), Anakin becomes allowed to train as a Jedi, (although Master Yoda senses danger in his future) and Obi-Wan is assigned to be his Master. And so things seem peaceful.....at least until episode two. Go figure.
In episode two (Attack of the Clones) Anakin is all grown up and stronger in the Force. He is assigned to protect Senator Padme Amidala (once the queen of Naboo) from assasins. (she's being hunted because several star systems are leaving the Republic and becoming Seperatists, thanks to a former Jedi named Count Dooku (now Darth Tyranus). The Republic wants to create a Clone army and Padme is against that, meaning that she's become a threat to those who really want a Clone army.) Two assasinations have already been made on her life: The first was when she arrived at Courscant for the vote of whether to have the army or not. Her ship exploded as soon as it landed. Thankfully, she had been using a decoy again, this time a girl called Corde, and she herself had been in one of the escort ships, meaning she was far away when the explosion happened. (unfortunately, her decoy and everyone else on the ship died.) The second attempt on her life was by a Bounty Hunter named Zam Wesell, a Changeling, who put deadly kouhuns in her room. (they're like big grubs with multiple legs, and very poisonous.) Anakin and Obi-Wan stop her, but, before she can tell them who hired her, she's killed by a mysterious dart. The Jedi Council then decide that Padme should go back to her home planet Naboo in order to secure her safety. They tell Anakin to accompany her. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, takes the dart to a Besalisk informant friend of his, Dexter Jettster. The alien tells the Jedi that the dart is a Kamino Saberdart and that their made at the planet of Kamino. He gives Obi-Wan instructions to where it's located, but, when he checks in the Jedi Archives, there's no record of the planet anywhere. Obi-Wan goes to Master Yoda for advice and finds the ancient Jedi training younglings in the ways of the Force. It's actually the younglings who suggest that Kamino has been erased from the Archive's memory. Obi-Wan then decides to go to the coordinates that Dexter has given him, and see if he can find Kamino. Anakin and Padme meanwhile have traveled to Naboo under the guise of Refugees. Padme, of course, wasn't happy about leaving Courscant and not being able to particapate in the vote about the army, but she knows it's for the best. They arrive at Naboo and go to a little island Padme had been once in her childhood. It's safe and secluded there. It's also a very beautiful place. While there, Anakin falls in love with Padme. He even suggests that they get married. Padme argues, saying that, since he's a Jedi, he's forbidden to marry, and, when he suggests that they could keep it a secret, she says that they would be living a lie and that it would destroy them. After a while, Anakin understands and doesn't bring up the subject again. But, that night, he has a horrible dream about his mother. The dream is so real and so terrible that he decides to go to Tatooine. Padme and R2-D2 go with him. They find Watto, Anakin's old owner, back when he was a slave, and the Toydarian tells them that he sold Shmi Skywalker to a man named Cliegg Lars. In fact, Cliegg, when he bought her, freed her and married her. Watto gives them directions to Cliegg's house. There they meet Owen Lars and his girlfriend Beru. Cliegg tells Anakin that, several days ago, Shmi was kidnapped by a tribe of Tusken Raiders and was still missing. (he would be looking for her, but the Raiders took his leg.) Anakin immediately leaves the farm, leaving Padme with them, and soon finds the Raiders and his mother. She dies several minutes later in his arms. Filled with anger and pain, Anakin destroys the entire camp of Tusken Raiders. He is, of course, terribly sorry for it afterwards. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, has found Kamino and, on a Cloning Facility, discovers that an order for a Clone army had been issued by a Jedi named Sifo-Dyas, who had died ten years ago! A Bounty Hunter by the name of Jango Fett had been giving the main Cloner, Lama Su, the proper.....uh....shall we say "meterial" to make the Clones. Obi-Wan contacts the Jedi Council for advice on what to do. They tell him to capture Jango and they will question him. Obi-Wan tries but the Bounty Hunter escapes with his son, Boba Fett, who is, actually, one of the Clones that Jango's raising as a son. (weird right?) Obi-Wan places a tracking device on their ship, Slave 1, and follows them to the planet Geonosis. There, he discovers that a droid army is being made by the Sepratists, the former Jedi, Count Dooku, is running the whole operation, and he's planning to attack the Republic and turn it into a Democracy. Unfortunately, as Obi-Wan is transmitting a message to Anakin, he is discovered and captured. Anakin, who recieved the message right after his mother's funeral, transmits Obi-Wan's message to Courscant. Mace Windu tells him to stay where he is and continue to protect Padme. Padme, on the other hand, has different ideas. She wants to go help Obi-Wan and tells Anakin that, since he's been told to protect her, he'll just have to come along since she's going. (they're not exactly good medicine for one another, at least in my opinion.) Anyway, Obi-Wan's, while being held in a forcefield prison, is visited by Count Dooku. The Sith gives him stunning news: that the Republic is actually in the control of the Dark Lord of the Sith: Darth Sidious! He using this information to try to get Obi-Wan to join his cause. Only that way, he says, they can destroy the Sith. Obi-Wan, of course, doesn't belive him and refuses to join the Seperatists. Meanwhile, Anakin, Padme, R2-D2 and a prodical droid named C-3PO, who Anakin built back when he was a slave on Tatooine. Unfortunately, they all end up captured. (except for R2 and 3PO, they evaded capture.) Anakin, Padme and Obi-Wan are then set up for execution by wild animal in an arena. Basically, their all chained to posts and then three savage creatures are let out to kill them. (not exactly a fair fight, in my opinion.) But, before Anakin and Padme are taken out to the arena, Padme, thinking that their going to die, tells Anakin that she loves him. Then they're taken out and chained to the posts. But, Padme pickes her lock with a pin she had taken from her sleeve and climed to the top of her post. Anakin and Obi-Wan have a plan of their own. The three creatures in the arena are a Reek (which looks like a mix between an anchilosarous and a rinoserous), a Nexu (snow tiger, rat and dog) and an Acklay (crab, praying mantis and venus fly trap.) With supurb cunning with her chain, Padme fends off the Nexu. When the Reek charges at Anakin, he jumps up onto it's back and the creature snaps the chain off the post. Obi-Wan, to me, has the toughest one of them all. When the Acklay jabs at him with one of its giant claws, he ducks, and the claw breaks the chain. Now Anakin's riding the Reek, he uses the Force to controll it. He kills the Nexu, giving Padme clearance to jump behind him. Obi-Wan soon joins them, but, by this time, the onlookers have figured out what's happening and Count Dooku sends out dozens of droid out into the arena. The three of them are soon hopelessly surrounded. But then, out of nowhere, Mace Windu and about a hundred Jedi appear. A fight between the droids and the Jedi begin. During the fight, Jango Fett is killed. But more and more droids come, killing many of the Jedi and hopelessly outnumbering them. But then, out of nowhere, Master Yoda appears with the Clone army. During all this, Chancellor Palpatine had been given emergency powers over the entire Republic, and he the allowed the use of Clones. Only just now have they been fetched. The droids, now outnumbered by the Clones, are defeated. But, during the commotion, Count Dooku escapes with the plans to an ultimate weapon called the DEATH STAR. Anakin and Obi-Wan give chase and soon overtake Count Dooku in a hanger where he had been preparing to leave Geonosis. A lightsaber duel follows. (Lightsabers are the weapons of both Jedi and Sith. They're like bars of laser energy in a metal handle. They can be ignited and shut off by a switch on the handle. They're like swords, but much more powerful, being able to cut through anything. The blade, for the Sith, comes in red while, for the Jedi, they come in blue and green. Except for Mace Windu's, his is purple. And I think they can also come in orange and yellow, but I've never seen one that color). Anyway, during the fight, Obi-Wan is injured his his shoulder and leg. Anakin gets the worst of it, his right arm being cut off at the elbow. Before Count Dooku can finish them off, Master Yoda appears. The two of them fight but Count Dooku gets away. He travels to Courscant with the plans and presents them before his Master: Darth Sidious. Meanwhile, the Clone War begins and it appears as if it will go one for many years. Obi-Wan and Anakin have recovered from their injuries, although Anakin must now wear a mechanical arm as a replacement for his old one. (he's the first Jedi ever to have a mechanical limb). He accompanies Padme back to Naboo and there, on the seculded island, they get married. The only witnesses are R2-D2 and C-3PO. And so, as the sun sets, everything seems perfect. But how long will it last?
In episode three (Revenge of the Sith) the Clone Wars has raged on for several years. During that time, Anakin has been made a Jedi Knight and Obi-Wan has become a Jedi Master. Things take a turn for the worst when Chancellor Palpatine is captured by a Seperatist called General Grievous: part machine, pure evil. (In other words, he's a cyborg with an evil mind of his own. Actually, he was once a human, but he was injured in some kind of speeder crash. Count Dooku has taught him the arts of lightsaber fighting, and he has several lightsabers he took from past Jedi victims. Not a guy to be trifled with.) Anyway, with a little difficulty, Anakin and Obi-Wan enter Grievous's ship. There they find Chancellor Palpatine strapped to an energy chair. That's the good news. The bad news? Count Dooku shows up. There's a fight and Obi-Wan is thrown off a staircase, which collapses on him, which knocks him out. Anakin isn't doing so well either. That is, until Chancellor Palpatine tells him to let all of his control him. This puts Anakin in quite a perdicament. He knows that's the path towards the Dark Side, and he doesn't want to go down that path. On the other hand, it might be the only way to save the Chancellor and Obi-Wan. So, he does it...and kills Count Dooku. They all then try to make a quick escape...and run into General Grievous. He captures them and holds them captive...for about five minutes. (ha ha) Anyway, the cyborg escapes and Anakin has to drive the damaged ship into a crash landing on Courscant. Right after they get out of the burning ship, unharmed, amazingly, Anakin meets with his wife, Padme, who he hasn't seen in five months. It's a happy reunion (kind of mushy), and Padme has exciting news: she's pregnant! After that, Anakin and Padme have to be extra careful, or the secret of their marrige will get out. The days pass and Anakin begins to have more disturbing dreams...about Padme. He dreams she dies in childbirth. Padme just shruggs it off, but Anakin is still haunted by his mother's death. He wants to find a way to make himself so powerful so that he can save Padme from her upcoming doom. He soon becomes close to Chancellor Palpatine, who tells him of this legendary Sith called Darth Plagueis who, supposedly, had the power to keep people from dying. Anakin become curious and tries to learn more. About two days later, Anakin is made a Jedi Master, the youngest ever to be nominated. But he becomes angry when he finds out that, even though he is on the Council, he will not be given the title of "Master." Chancellor Palpatine sympathizes with him, which makes Anakin feel better.....until he finds out that the Chancellor himself is Darth Sidieous! Sidieous tells Anakin that, if he becomes his apprentice, he shall teach him how Darth Plagueis became so strong in the Dark Side. Anakin begins to feel torn. He knows it's wrong to give in to the Sith......yet he wants to save Padme. He tells Mace Windu and the other Jedi about the Chancellor, and Windu takes several Jedi to arrest the Sidious. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan has been sent to the planet of Utapau with a sqadron of clones to hunt down General Grievous. Other Jedi have been sent to surrounding planets, mostly to take down Seperatist outposts, with their own squadrons of clones. Obi-Wan finds Grievous, and they fight. Only by a perfectly placed blaster shot (Obi-Wan lost his lightsaber) does General Grievous die. While all that is happening, Anakin is still battling with his will. In a burst of desperation for Padme's life, he goes to Sidious....only to find him locked in a lightsaber duel with Mace Windu. All the other Jedi who had accompinied the Master have been killed. Sidious uses this opportunity and tells Anakin that the Jedi have planned this betrayal all along, and that Anakin should kill Windu. Windu on the other hand denies Sidious's accusations, and tells Anakin to kill Sidious. (Needless to say, Anakin is very confused now.) But, only when Windu prepares to deal the final stroke that would end Sidious's life, does Anakin intervene. He blockes Mace's stroke.....and this gives Sidious enough time to use a Dark Force power called Force Lightening to shoot Mace Windu out of the giant window and let him fall to his death. Anakin agrees to become Sidious's apprentice and aquires a Sith name.....Darth Vader. Anakin leaves the Chancellor's office with an assignment to kill all the Jedi in the Jedi Temple. Meanwhile, Sidious declares himself Emperor and sends out an order he calls "Order 66" to every squadron of clones under the order of a Jedi captain. Immediately, all the clones turn on their Jedi commanders, destroying them. Obi-Wan barely manages to escape his own squad, and leaves for Courscant. There, he meets a dismayed senator, Bail Organa of Alderaan. They also meet Master Yoda at the ruined Jedi Temple. A hologram of the Temple's security camera reveals to them what Anakin has done to the Jedi. Yoda goes to deal with the Darth Sidious while Obi-Wan must do the hardest thing he has had to do in his life: kill Anakin. Anakin meanwhile, has been given a new assignment. To go to the lava planet of Mustafar and destroy every single member of the Trade Federation. That night, Obi-Wan goes to Padme and breaks the horrible news to her. Padme is in denial and, accidentally, makes her pregnancy known. (of course Obi-Wan could guess who the father was). Obi-Wan leaves her, and Padme immediately takes a transport to Mustafar, unaware that Obi-Wan has stowed away in her ship. Yoda, meanwhile, has found the Emperor. A fight follows, a pretty long one if I might add. Even though Yoda is one of the most powerful of all Jedi, he is unable to defeat the Dark Lord of the Sith. So, he escapes and leaves Courscant with Bail Organa. They immediately send out a signal, warning all Jedi to stay away from Courscant. Meanwhile, by the time Padme arrives at Mustafar, Anakin has finished his....uh....to put it tactfully, 'assignment.' She tries to get him to turn away from Darth Sidious but, when he sees Obi-Wan coming towards them, Anakin begins to think that Padme has betrayed him. So he makes her pass out by Force Choking her. (It's not actually called Force Choking, it has this long, complicated name, but I don't feel like typing it out, much less spelling it.) After that, Anakin and Obi-Wan start fighting one another. And---wait. Fighting in a lava planet among the ruins of a sinking building!? Whoa. You can pretty much guess what will happen next. (In case you can't, I might as well tell you anyway.) During the fight, Obi-Wan jumps up to this high ledge, overlooking the lava. Anakin follows him and, while he's still in midair, Obi-Wan uses his lightsaber to....uh....decapitate both of Anakin's legs and his non-mechanical arm. Anakin's lightsaber lands at Obi-Wan's feet, and Anakin falls onto a section of rock dangerously close to the lava. Too close actually. His clothes catch fire, and he's become engulfed in flames. Obi-Wan then leaves, taking his friend's lightsaber with him. When he makes it back to the ship, he's surprised to find Bail Organa and Master Yoda waiting for him. They join him in leaving Mustafar. As they travel through space, a midwife droid, who had been examining Padme, says that, although she can't find anything wrong with her, Padme's dying. She's carrying twins, so they need to make an emergency extraction of them. It isn't long before Padme gives birth to a boy, who she names Luke, and a girl, who she names Leia. Before she loses conciousness, Padme tells Obi-Wan that she's certain that there's still good left in Anakin. Then she dies. Meanwhile, Darth Sidious has found Anakin's body, burned almost beyond recognition. Amazingly, he's still alive. So, taking him back into the building, he has medical droids give him a new mechanical body. When Anakin wakes up the first thing he asks about is Padme. The Emperor, feigning sympathy, tells him that, in his anger, Anakin killed her. Anakin becomes enraged with grief and begin to destroy the room, sealing him, forever, into the clutches of the Dark Side. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan and Yoda, the last of the Jedi, discuss the future of the twins, who are the galaxy's only hope now. Bail Organa decides to adopt the girl. Him and his wife Breha, the queen of Alderann, have been wanting to adopt a girl for a long time. Obi-Wan takes the boy to Owen and Beru Lars, newly weds who were related to Anakin only because his mother, Shmi Skywalker, married Owen's father. Mostly by pursiasion on Beru's part, Owen agrees to adopt the boy. Obi-Wan then travels deep into the desert, to live and watch out for the boy, until the time comes for him to bring order back to the Galaxy.
In episode four (A New Hope), Senators Bail Organa and Mon Mothma have gathered beings all over the galaxy together, creating a Rebel Alliance against the Empire, trying to bring back the Republic. After several years, they finally get their first break. The Empire has built an ulitmante weapon called the Death Star, an armored space station that can destroy an entire planet. Rebel spies have been able to interscept the plans of the weapon. Princess Leia, daughter of Bail and Breha Organa, races to bring the stolen plans back to Alderaan in hopes that they can study them and possibly find a weakness in the Death Star so that they can destroy it. But, on her way, her ship is attacked by an Imperial Star Destroyer (a type of space ship) and is boarded by an squad of Stormtroopers and their leader: the Sith Lord, Darth Vader. She is captured but, right before the ship is boarded, Leia hides the plans in her faithful droid, R2-D2, along with a message, and sends him, and a protocal droid named C-3PO, down to the planet of Tatooine in an escape pod. The droids land and begin to travel the desert turrain. The two of them soon argue about which way to go: R2 wants to go towards some canyons while 3PO wants to stay in easier, non-rocky ground. Finally, 3PO goes his way and R2 goes his own way. As the two suns of Tatooine are setting, R2 reaches the canyons and is soon traveling among them. But he runs into a type of beings called Jawas, who capture him and put him in a Sandcrawler along with many other droids they had captured. Amazingly, 3PO is one of those droids! (what are the odds?) The Jawas take the droids to a moisture farm owned by Owen Lars. The farmer buys 3PO and R2, so that they can help him with the work around the farm. (amazingly, he doesn't recognize them -_- C'mon Owen!) Luke Skywalker, Owen's nephew, cleans them up and, in the process, stumbles across Princess Leia's message. Unfortunately, the message just loops to a certain part again and again, so the only words that get out are "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." R2, cleverly, tricks Luke into taking off his restraining bolt, saying that he'll be able to play back the entire recording if he does. Before Luke can make R2 replay the message, he's called in for dinner. Owen is disinterested at the recording Luke finds, and only tells him to, in the morning, take the droid to Ancorhead and have its memory erased. He also tells Luke to just forget the whole thing. Luke, however, begins to wonder if this 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' is related to a man named Ben Kenobi who lives out in the Dune Sea. He asked Owen about it, but all Owen says is that Ben is just a crazy old man and that Obi-Wan died around the same time as Luke's father. That, of course, gets Luke even more curious, for he doesn't know much about his father, only that he died before Luke was born. Later on, as Luke is closing things down for the night, he discovers, from a frightened C-3PO, that R2, having his restraining bolt removed, has run away. In the morning Luke, not wanting to get in trouble, heads out after the droid, taking 3PO with him. They soon find R2 in a canyon close to the Dune Sea, but, before they can leave, R2 warns them of a tribe of Sand People (or Tusken Raiders) coming close. Luke, curious, goes out to investigate. (I guess he never heard the saying 'curiosity kills the cat.' -_-) Anyway, he goes and gets himself seen, and the Raiders attack, knocking Luke unconcious and 3PO off a cliff. (thankfully, it was a small cliff.) Anyway, R2 has (wisely) hidden himself in a small cave. As the Sand People rummage through Luke's ship, a terrifying roar echoes throughout the canyon, scaring the Raiders away, and a hooded figure comes into view. When Luke revives, he immediately identifies his rescuer as Ben Kenobi, who, he finds out, is actually Obi-Wan Kenobi, the one the recording was talking about. Ben, wisely, takes Luke, R2 and 3PO (who lost an arm his his fall) to his house. There, Luke repairs 3PO's arm while Ben askes him questions about what he knows about his father. What Owen had always told Luke was that his father had been a navigator on a spice frighter. Ben, however, tells a different story. He says that Luke's father (Anakin) was actually a Jedi Knight who fought in the Clone Wars. Ben then gives Luke Anakin's lightsaber. Luke, curious, asks Ben how Anakin died. Ben his hesitant about the subject and merely says that a young Jedi named Darth Vader (an apprentice of Ben's) betrayed and murdered Anakin, along with many other Jedi, which is why they're are all but extinct. He then explains the Force to Luke, what it is, how it plays in a Jedi's life, and about the Dark Side. Their conversation is cut short when R2 decides it's time to get back to the reason they came. He plays the whole recording. Princess Leia's hologram message explaines their dire predicament, how her father, Bail Organa, wishes Ben to join him in the battle against the Empire. And about the plans she has hidden in R2, why they're so important, and why they must be delivered safely to Alderaan. When the message ends, Ben asks Luke to come with him to Alderaan. Luke is hesitant. He doesn't want to leave his Aunt and Uncle, and yet he doesn't want to stay either. While all this is going on, Princess Leia has been taken to the Death Star and imprisoned there. Darth Vader tries to get her to tell him the location of the Rebel Base so that he can destroy it. He even brings an Intterigator (or torture) droid to try and 'extract' the information from her. Even when she almost dies from the pain, Leia refuses to reveal anything. Then the head commander of the Death Star, Grand Moff Tarkin, threatens to use the destructive power of the space station on Leia's home planet, Alderaan. Leia, cleverly, gives him a false location, saying that the base is located on Dantooine. But, even then, Tarkin destroys Alderaan, killing millions, including Bail Organa and his wife. Meanwhile, Ben, Luke and the droids have come across the wreckage of a Sand Crawler and dead Jawas (the same group who sold R2 and 3PO to Owen). The deed was made to look as if Tusken Raiders did it, but Ben blames the wreckage on Imperial Stormtroopers. (He's right, in fact. A squad had been sent down by Darth Vader to look for the droids.) Luke realizes this as well. He also realizes that, if the Stormtroopers had traced the droids to the Jawas, they most certainly have figured out who the creatures sold them to....which would lead them right to the moisture farm! Afraid for his Aunt and Uncle, Luke races home, only to find the familar farm ruined and Owen and Beru Lars dead. He then decides, since there's nothing to hold him back now, to go with Ben to Alderaan, learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like his father. Ben and Luke travel to Mos Eisley, a space port in Tatooine, in order to hire a ride to Alderaan. They come to the Cantina (which is a lot like a bar). After a slight run-in with some people looking to make trouble, Ben finally hires a smuggler, Han Solo, and his Wookie sidekick Chewbacca (Chewie for short), to take them to Alderaan on their ship the Milennium Falcon. What they don't know is that Han is actually a smuggler for the Crime Lord, Jabba the Hutt, and that he'll use the money he makes off them in order to pay off an old debt. What Luke and Ben also don't know is that, on their way to the ship's hanger, they're followed by an Imperial Spy, who raidos them in to a nearby group of Stormtroopers. Han and Chewie have to blast their way out of Mos Eisley, but enter lightspeed with no problem. On their way to Alderaan, Luke practices tuning himself into the Force. He uses his lightsaber to deflect harmless laser beams a remote contolled droid. While he's doing that, Obi-Wan senses the deaths of all the people of Alderaan. Right after that, they finally arrive. Only to find no trace of the planet. Obi-Wan knows that it has been destroyed by the Empire. Then they catch sight of a TIE fighter flying away from Alderaan's remains and follow it. They suddenly come across the Death Star and pulled in by a tractor beam. Thankfully, Han has secret compartments in the floor of the Millenium Falcon and they hide in them. When the Imperials search the ship, they don't find anyone. When they leave the compartments, Han and Luke take down two stormtroopers and disguise themselves in the uniforms. They then sneak into the control room (well, actually, no they didn't really sneak since they had to like kill the three control room workers, but still, you know what I mean!) There, R2 plugs himself into the main computer to figure out how they can free their ship from the tractorbeam. R2 soon finds the information and Obi-Wan leaves to shut of the generators, leaving Luke, Han and Chewie to guard the droids. However, soon after he leaves, R2 finds out that Princess Leia is being held in the detention level. Not only that, but she's schedualed to be terminated for passing on false information. (Grand Moff Tarkin ordered that because she lied when she said the Rebel Base was on Dantooine). Luke immediately comes up with a plan to rescue her, but Han, on the other hand, refuses to leave the control room. Luke finally has to point out that the princess is rich and would most likely reward him for his efforts if he helped with the rescuing. (That gets his attention). So, using their stormtrooper disguises, Han and Luke, using Chewie as a cover, head up to the detention level. When they get there, there's a heated blaster fight, but Han, Luke and Chewie win and, by perusing the computers, find out that Princess Leia is being held in cell 2187. While Luke goes to fetch her, Han tries to save some time by talking with the suspicious captain on the microphone. But he gets nervous and then just ends up destroying the mic. (that part's kind of funny xD) Anyway, Luke manages to get Leia out of her cell, but they all get attacked by stormtroopers and have to make a quick escape down a garbage chute. There they meet with a few minor problems, like a garbage monster with a healthy appetite and the fact that walls start moving in, meaning that they are actually in a garbage compactor (okay so not very minor) but, hey, 3PO and R2 manage to get them out alright. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan has managed to shut down the tractorbeam, but, on his way back, he runs into Darth Vader. A lightsaber duel issues. While all this is going on, Luke, Han, Leia, Chewie and the droids manage to reach the Mellenium Falcon, but get there at about the same time and Vader and Obi-Wan, who are still fighting. Unfortunately, Obi-Wan gets cut down by the Sith. Luke shoots hs blaster into the door's controls, blocking Vader so he, and a squad of stormtroopers, can't get to them. Then they all make a quick exit in the Mellenium Falcon. With help from Leia, they all manage to reach the Rebel Base on one of the moons of Yavin, where Luke meets his friend, Biggs Darklighter. Unfortunately, what they all don't know, is that the Imperials had put a tracking device on their ship, so now the Death Star is zeroing in on them. Luke, having been given a job as an X-Wing pilot, is assigned with others to try and stop it. What they have to do is get close enough to it and fire proton torpedoes into an exauste pipe, where it will travel to the Death Star's core and cause a chain reaction, destroying it.
In episode one (The Phantom Menace) Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan (apprentice) Obi-Wan Kenobi, are going to the planet of Naboo as ambassadors to reason with the Trade Federation, who have set up a blockade of ships around the planet in order to stop all shipments to the small planet. What they don't know, is that the Trade Federation leader Nute Gunray has been ordered by a mysterious man named Darth Sidious to take over Naboo; and this blockade is only the start. (Jedi Knights are the guardians of peace and justice throughout the galaxy. They keep the peace between other star systems, and use a power called the Force. It's kind of an energy field that created all living things. It surrounded them, it penetrates them, it binds the galaxy together. Jedi use it to defend themselves in fights, see into the future and past, and sometimes contact fellow Jedi from across star systems telepathically. That is if their strong enough. The Sith are the opposite. There can be only two at once, a Master and an Apprentice, and they use the Dark Side of the Force for attack. Bascially, they're evil.) The Trade Federation has blocked off all supplies to the planet of Naboo, which is why Qui-gon and Obi-wan are going there, in order to settle things. Once they get there, however, the leaders of the Trade Federation are told by the evil Sith, Darth Sideous, via hologram to kill the Jedi. But after escaping from a poison gas filled room, fighting their way between a squad of droids (a droid is like a robot), they go down to Naboo by secretly stowing away in the ships of a large, droid invasion army. It isn't long before the Trade Federation send the ships down to invade Naboo. They capture young Queen Amidala and put her people in camps. Qui-Gon and Obi-wan, with the help of a local Gungan (an alien really, after all this is all taking place "long long ago in a galaxy far far away"), Jar-Jar Binks, rescue the Queen and try to take her and a few of her handimaidens to Courscant. But, when they try to get past the blockade, their ship gets damaged and its only with the help of the brave little astromech driod, R2-D2, they're able to escape. They have to make an emergency landing on the desert planet of Tatooine in order to repair their ship. While Obi-wan stays behind with the pilot and the queen, Qui-gon, Jar Jar, R2-D2, and one of the queen's handimaidens, Padme, go into the town to find a new part for their ship. Without it, they won't be able to leave. They come to a shop that's run by a Toydarian named Watto. While Qui-Gon leaves with him to look over parts, he leaves the others in the building with the young slave boy, Anakin Skywalker. While he's gone, Padme and Anakin get aquainted with one another while Jar Jar looks around the shop. Anakin thinks Padme is beautiful and calls her an "Angel." (which is kind of an odd thing for a nine or ten year old boy to say). Meanwhile, Qui-Gon has found the right parts, but Watto won't take Republic Credits, so the Jedi has to come up with something. So they leave the shop, and, while they head through the town, Jar Jar gets in trouble with a Doug named Sebulba. Anakin helps Jar-Jar and then meets Qui-Gon. Since there's a sandstorm coming, Anakin invites the group to his house and meet his mother, Shmi Skywalker. While there, Qui-Gon discovers that Anakin is a fine pilot and has the amazing capabilities to become a Jedi. The problem is, he's too old to train (they start of kinda young) and Anakin is a slave, meaning he's owned. Anakin tells them that there's a big Podrace coming up and that he's built his own Podracer. That gives Qui-Gon the idea to use the Podrace to free Anakin by betting Watto that, if Anakin wins, he'll get to go with Qui-Gon; but, if Anakin loses, Watto will get Qui-Gon's ship. Amazingly, Anakin wins the Podrace and is freed. He's sad to leave his mother, but Qui-Gon was unable to free her. On the way back to the ship, Qui-Gon has a little run-in with the Sith apprentice Darth Maul, who was sent by Darth Sidious to capture the queen, by any means necissary. They escape from him, however, and travel to Courscant, the Capitol of the Republic. There, Queen Amidala tries to get help for her people, but to no avail, and she ends up directing a vote of "no confidence" in Supreme Chancellor Valorem's leadership. (which means, technically, she just got him fired from his office.) Senator Palpatine of Naboo takes over the position. Anakin, meanwhile, gets tested at the Jedi Temple. It turns out, he does have the promisings of a powerful Jedi and is possibly the prophisied Chosen One who will bring balance to the Force. Unfortunately, Masters Yoda and Mace Windu think him too old to train. (the reason for that will take too long to explain, so I'll just say that, since Anakin's like ten, they think he's too "matured" to begin training. Meaning, since he already knows anger and fear, he's more suceptible to the Dark Side of the Force.) Qui-Gon, despite their protests, takes Anakin as his Padawan learner, meaning Obi-Wan is ready to take the trials as a full fledged Jedi Knight. The Council is reluctant but their final decision is inturrupted at the news that Queen Amidala is planning to return to Naboo. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are then given the assignment of protecting her. When they reach Naboo, Queen Amidala gets help from the Gungans (Jar-Jar's people) and sets up a plan. But, as it turns out, it's Padme who's the Queen of Naboo. She had been using a decoy named Sabe every since the invasion began. With the help of the Gungans and Anakin (who accidentally destroys the Trade Federation's Droid Control ship), the battle is won and Naboo is freed. But at a heavey cost. For many have died, including Qui-Gon Jinn. When entering the palace, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan ran into Darth Maul who, with his double-sided lightsaber, kills Qui-Gon. And, in return for that, Obi-Wan kills him. Anyway, to make a long story short (which I'm kind of failing at), Anakin becomes allowed to train as a Jedi, (although Master Yoda senses danger in his future) and Obi-Wan is assigned to be his Master. And so things seem peaceful.....at least until episode two. Go figure.
In episode two (Attack of the Clones) Anakin is all grown up and stronger in the Force. He is assigned to protect Senator Padme Amidala (once the queen of Naboo) from assasins. (she's being hunted because several star systems are leaving the Republic and becoming Seperatists, thanks to a former Jedi named Count Dooku (now Darth Tyranus). The Republic wants to create a Clone army and Padme is against that, meaning that she's become a threat to those who really want a Clone army.) Two assasinations have already been made on her life: The first was when she arrived at Courscant for the vote of whether to have the army or not. Her ship exploded as soon as it landed. Thankfully, she had been using a decoy again, this time a girl called Corde, and she herself had been in one of the escort ships, meaning she was far away when the explosion happened. (unfortunately, her decoy and everyone else on the ship died.) The second attempt on her life was by a Bounty Hunter named Zam Wesell, a Changeling, who put deadly kouhuns in her room. (they're like big grubs with multiple legs, and very poisonous.) Anakin and Obi-Wan stop her, but, before she can tell them who hired her, she's killed by a mysterious dart. The Jedi Council then decide that Padme should go back to her home planet Naboo in order to secure her safety. They tell Anakin to accompany her. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, takes the dart to a Besalisk informant friend of his, Dexter Jettster. The alien tells the Jedi that the dart is a Kamino Saberdart and that their made at the planet of Kamino. He gives Obi-Wan instructions to where it's located, but, when he checks in the Jedi Archives, there's no record of the planet anywhere. Obi-Wan goes to Master Yoda for advice and finds the ancient Jedi training younglings in the ways of the Force. It's actually the younglings who suggest that Kamino has been erased from the Archive's memory. Obi-Wan then decides to go to the coordinates that Dexter has given him, and see if he can find Kamino. Anakin and Padme meanwhile have traveled to Naboo under the guise of Refugees. Padme, of course, wasn't happy about leaving Courscant and not being able to particapate in the vote about the army, but she knows it's for the best. They arrive at Naboo and go to a little island Padme had been once in her childhood. It's safe and secluded there. It's also a very beautiful place. While there, Anakin falls in love with Padme. He even suggests that they get married. Padme argues, saying that, since he's a Jedi, he's forbidden to marry, and, when he suggests that they could keep it a secret, she says that they would be living a lie and that it would destroy them. After a while, Anakin understands and doesn't bring up the subject again. But, that night, he has a horrible dream about his mother. The dream is so real and so terrible that he decides to go to Tatooine. Padme and R2-D2 go with him. They find Watto, Anakin's old owner, back when he was a slave, and the Toydarian tells them that he sold Shmi Skywalker to a man named Cliegg Lars. In fact, Cliegg, when he bought her, freed her and married her. Watto gives them directions to Cliegg's house. There they meet Owen Lars and his girlfriend Beru. Cliegg tells Anakin that, several days ago, Shmi was kidnapped by a tribe of Tusken Raiders and was still missing. (he would be looking for her, but the Raiders took his leg.) Anakin immediately leaves the farm, leaving Padme with them, and soon finds the Raiders and his mother. She dies several minutes later in his arms. Filled with anger and pain, Anakin destroys the entire camp of Tusken Raiders. He is, of course, terribly sorry for it afterwards. Obi-Wan, meanwhile, has found Kamino and, on a Cloning Facility, discovers that an order for a Clone army had been issued by a Jedi named Sifo-Dyas, who had died ten years ago! A Bounty Hunter by the name of Jango Fett had been giving the main Cloner, Lama Su, the proper.....uh....shall we say "meterial" to make the Clones. Obi-Wan contacts the Jedi Council for advice on what to do. They tell him to capture Jango and they will question him. Obi-Wan tries but the Bounty Hunter escapes with his son, Boba Fett, who is, actually, one of the Clones that Jango's raising as a son. (weird right?) Obi-Wan places a tracking device on their ship, Slave 1, and follows them to the planet Geonosis. There, he discovers that a droid army is being made by the Sepratists, the former Jedi, Count Dooku, is running the whole operation, and he's planning to attack the Republic and turn it into a Democracy. Unfortunately, as Obi-Wan is transmitting a message to Anakin, he is discovered and captured. Anakin, who recieved the message right after his mother's funeral, transmits Obi-Wan's message to Courscant. Mace Windu tells him to stay where he is and continue to protect Padme. Padme, on the other hand, has different ideas. She wants to go help Obi-Wan and tells Anakin that, since he's been told to protect her, he'll just have to come along since she's going. (they're not exactly good medicine for one another, at least in my opinion.) Anyway, Obi-Wan's, while being held in a forcefield prison, is visited by Count Dooku. The Sith gives him stunning news: that the Republic is actually in the control of the Dark Lord of the Sith: Darth Sidious! He using this information to try to get Obi-Wan to join his cause. Only that way, he says, they can destroy the Sith. Obi-Wan, of course, doesn't belive him and refuses to join the Seperatists. Meanwhile, Anakin, Padme, R2-D2 and a prodical droid named C-3PO, who Anakin built back when he was a slave on Tatooine. Unfortunately, they all end up captured. (except for R2 and 3PO, they evaded capture.) Anakin, Padme and Obi-Wan are then set up for execution by wild animal in an arena. Basically, their all chained to posts and then three savage creatures are let out to kill them. (not exactly a fair fight, in my opinion.) But, before Anakin and Padme are taken out to the arena, Padme, thinking that their going to die, tells Anakin that she loves him. Then they're taken out and chained to the posts. But, Padme pickes her lock with a pin she had taken from her sleeve and climed to the top of her post. Anakin and Obi-Wan have a plan of their own. The three creatures in the arena are a Reek (which looks like a mix between an anchilosarous and a rinoserous), a Nexu (snow tiger, rat and dog) and an Acklay (crab, praying mantis and venus fly trap.) With supurb cunning with her chain, Padme fends off the Nexu. When the Reek charges at Anakin, he jumps up onto it's back and the creature snaps the chain off the post. Obi-Wan, to me, has the toughest one of them all. When the Acklay jabs at him with one of its giant claws, he ducks, and the claw breaks the chain. Now Anakin's riding the Reek, he uses the Force to controll it. He kills the Nexu, giving Padme clearance to jump behind him. Obi-Wan soon joins them, but, by this time, the onlookers have figured out what's happening and Count Dooku sends out dozens of droid out into the arena. The three of them are soon hopelessly surrounded. But then, out of nowhere, Mace Windu and about a hundred Jedi appear. A fight between the droids and the Jedi begin. During the fight, Jango Fett is killed. But more and more droids come, killing many of the Jedi and hopelessly outnumbering them. But then, out of nowhere, Master Yoda appears with the Clone army. During all this, Chancellor Palpatine had been given emergency powers over the entire Republic, and he the allowed the use of Clones. Only just now have they been fetched. The droids, now outnumbered by the Clones, are defeated. But, during the commotion, Count Dooku escapes with the plans to an ultimate weapon called the DEATH STAR. Anakin and Obi-Wan give chase and soon overtake Count Dooku in a hanger where he had been preparing to leave Geonosis. A lightsaber duel follows. (Lightsabers are the weapons of both Jedi and Sith. They're like bars of laser energy in a metal handle. They can be ignited and shut off by a switch on the handle. They're like swords, but much more powerful, being able to cut through anything. The blade, for the Sith, comes in red while, for the Jedi, they come in blue and green. Except for Mace Windu's, his is purple. And I think they can also come in orange and yellow, but I've never seen one that color). Anyway, during the fight, Obi-Wan is injured his his shoulder and leg. Anakin gets the worst of it, his right arm being cut off at the elbow. Before Count Dooku can finish them off, Master Yoda appears. The two of them fight but Count Dooku gets away. He travels to Courscant with the plans and presents them before his Master: Darth Sidious. Meanwhile, the Clone War begins and it appears as if it will go one for many years. Obi-Wan and Anakin have recovered from their injuries, although Anakin must now wear a mechanical arm as a replacement for his old one. (he's the first Jedi ever to have a mechanical limb). He accompanies Padme back to Naboo and there, on the seculded island, they get married. The only witnesses are R2-D2 and C-3PO. And so, as the sun sets, everything seems perfect. But how long will it last?
In episode three (Revenge of the Sith) the Clone Wars has raged on for several years. During that time, Anakin has been made a Jedi Knight and Obi-Wan has become a Jedi Master. Things take a turn for the worst when Chancellor Palpatine is captured by a Seperatist called General Grievous: part machine, pure evil. (In other words, he's a cyborg with an evil mind of his own. Actually, he was once a human, but he was injured in some kind of speeder crash. Count Dooku has taught him the arts of lightsaber fighting, and he has several lightsabers he took from past Jedi victims. Not a guy to be trifled with.) Anyway, with a little difficulty, Anakin and Obi-Wan enter Grievous's ship. There they find Chancellor Palpatine strapped to an energy chair. That's the good news. The bad news? Count Dooku shows up. There's a fight and Obi-Wan is thrown off a staircase, which collapses on him, which knocks him out. Anakin isn't doing so well either. That is, until Chancellor Palpatine tells him to let all of his control him. This puts Anakin in quite a perdicament. He knows that's the path towards the Dark Side, and he doesn't want to go down that path. On the other hand, it might be the only way to save the Chancellor and Obi-Wan. So, he does it...and kills Count Dooku. They all then try to make a quick escape...and run into General Grievous. He captures them and holds them captive...for about five minutes. (ha ha) Anyway, the cyborg escapes and Anakin has to drive the damaged ship into a crash landing on Courscant. Right after they get out of the burning ship, unharmed, amazingly, Anakin meets with his wife, Padme, who he hasn't seen in five months. It's a happy reunion (kind of mushy), and Padme has exciting news: she's pregnant! After that, Anakin and Padme have to be extra careful, or the secret of their marrige will get out. The days pass and Anakin begins to have more disturbing dreams...about Padme. He dreams she dies in childbirth. Padme just shruggs it off, but Anakin is still haunted by his mother's death. He wants to find a way to make himself so powerful so that he can save Padme from her upcoming doom. He soon becomes close to Chancellor Palpatine, who tells him of this legendary Sith called Darth Plagueis who, supposedly, had the power to keep people from dying. Anakin become curious and tries to learn more. About two days later, Anakin is made a Jedi Master, the youngest ever to be nominated. But he becomes angry when he finds out that, even though he is on the Council, he will not be given the title of "Master." Chancellor Palpatine sympathizes with him, which makes Anakin feel better.....until he finds out that the Chancellor himself is Darth Sidieous! Sidieous tells Anakin that, if he becomes his apprentice, he shall teach him how Darth Plagueis became so strong in the Dark Side. Anakin begins to feel torn. He knows it's wrong to give in to the Sith......yet he wants to save Padme. He tells Mace Windu and the other Jedi about the Chancellor, and Windu takes several Jedi to arrest the Sidious. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan has been sent to the planet of Utapau with a sqadron of clones to hunt down General Grievous. Other Jedi have been sent to surrounding planets, mostly to take down Seperatist outposts, with their own squadrons of clones. Obi-Wan finds Grievous, and they fight. Only by a perfectly placed blaster shot (Obi-Wan lost his lightsaber) does General Grievous die. While all that is happening, Anakin is still battling with his will. In a burst of desperation for Padme's life, he goes to Sidious....only to find him locked in a lightsaber duel with Mace Windu. All the other Jedi who had accompinied the Master have been killed. Sidious uses this opportunity and tells Anakin that the Jedi have planned this betrayal all along, and that Anakin should kill Windu. Windu on the other hand denies Sidious's accusations, and tells Anakin to kill Sidious. (Needless to say, Anakin is very confused now.) But, only when Windu prepares to deal the final stroke that would end Sidious's life, does Anakin intervene. He blockes Mace's stroke.....and this gives Sidious enough time to use a Dark Force power called Force Lightening to shoot Mace Windu out of the giant window and let him fall to his death. Anakin agrees to become Sidious's apprentice and aquires a Sith name.....Darth Vader. Anakin leaves the Chancellor's office with an assignment to kill all the Jedi in the Jedi Temple. Meanwhile, Sidious declares himself Emperor and sends out an order he calls "Order 66" to every squadron of clones under the order of a Jedi captain. Immediately, all the clones turn on their Jedi commanders, destroying them. Obi-Wan barely manages to escape his own squad, and leaves for Courscant. There, he meets a dismayed senator, Bail Organa of Alderaan. They also meet Master Yoda at the ruined Jedi Temple. A hologram of the Temple's security camera reveals to them what Anakin has done to the Jedi. Yoda goes to deal with the Darth Sidious while Obi-Wan must do the hardest thing he has had to do in his life: kill Anakin. Anakin meanwhile, has been given a new assignment. To go to the lava planet of Mustafar and destroy every single member of the Trade Federation. That night, Obi-Wan goes to Padme and breaks the horrible news to her. Padme is in denial and, accidentally, makes her pregnancy known. (of course Obi-Wan could guess who the father was). Obi-Wan leaves her, and Padme immediately takes a transport to Mustafar, unaware that Obi-Wan has stowed away in her ship. Yoda, meanwhile, has found the Emperor. A fight follows, a pretty long one if I might add. Even though Yoda is one of the most powerful of all Jedi, he is unable to defeat the Dark Lord of the Sith. So, he escapes and leaves Courscant with Bail Organa. They immediately send out a signal, warning all Jedi to stay away from Courscant. Meanwhile, by the time Padme arrives at Mustafar, Anakin has finished his....uh....to put it tactfully, 'assignment.' She tries to get him to turn away from Darth Sidious but, when he sees Obi-Wan coming towards them, Anakin begins to think that Padme has betrayed him. So he makes her pass out by Force Choking her. (It's not actually called Force Choking, it has this long, complicated name, but I don't feel like typing it out, much less spelling it.) After that, Anakin and Obi-Wan start fighting one another. And---wait. Fighting in a lava planet among the ruins of a sinking building!? Whoa. You can pretty much guess what will happen next. (In case you can't, I might as well tell you anyway.) During the fight, Obi-Wan jumps up to this high ledge, overlooking the lava. Anakin follows him and, while he's still in midair, Obi-Wan uses his lightsaber to....uh....decapitate both of Anakin's legs and his non-mechanical arm. Anakin's lightsaber lands at Obi-Wan's feet, and Anakin falls onto a section of rock dangerously close to the lava. Too close actually. His clothes catch fire, and he's become engulfed in flames. Obi-Wan then leaves, taking his friend's lightsaber with him. When he makes it back to the ship, he's surprised to find Bail Organa and Master Yoda waiting for him. They join him in leaving Mustafar. As they travel through space, a midwife droid, who had been examining Padme, says that, although she can't find anything wrong with her, Padme's dying. She's carrying twins, so they need to make an emergency extraction of them. It isn't long before Padme gives birth to a boy, who she names Luke, and a girl, who she names Leia. Before she loses conciousness, Padme tells Obi-Wan that she's certain that there's still good left in Anakin. Then she dies. Meanwhile, Darth Sidious has found Anakin's body, burned almost beyond recognition. Amazingly, he's still alive. So, taking him back into the building, he has medical droids give him a new mechanical body. When Anakin wakes up the first thing he asks about is Padme. The Emperor, feigning sympathy, tells him that, in his anger, Anakin killed her. Anakin becomes enraged with grief and begin to destroy the room, sealing him, forever, into the clutches of the Dark Side. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan and Yoda, the last of the Jedi, discuss the future of the twins, who are the galaxy's only hope now. Bail Organa decides to adopt the girl. Him and his wife Breha, the queen of Alderann, have been wanting to adopt a girl for a long time. Obi-Wan takes the boy to Owen and Beru Lars, newly weds who were related to Anakin only because his mother, Shmi Skywalker, married Owen's father. Mostly by pursiasion on Beru's part, Owen agrees to adopt the boy. Obi-Wan then travels deep into the desert, to live and watch out for the boy, until the time comes for him to bring order back to the Galaxy.
In episode four (A New Hope), Senators Bail Organa and Mon Mothma have gathered beings all over the galaxy together, creating a Rebel Alliance against the Empire, trying to bring back the Republic. After several years, they finally get their first break. The Empire has built an ulitmante weapon called the Death Star, an armored space station that can destroy an entire planet. Rebel spies have been able to interscept the plans of the weapon. Princess Leia, daughter of Bail and Breha Organa, races to bring the stolen plans back to Alderaan in hopes that they can study them and possibly find a weakness in the Death Star so that they can destroy it. But, on her way, her ship is attacked by an Imperial Star Destroyer (a type of space ship) and is boarded by an squad of Stormtroopers and their leader: the Sith Lord, Darth Vader. She is captured but, right before the ship is boarded, Leia hides the plans in her faithful droid, R2-D2, along with a message, and sends him, and a protocal droid named C-3PO, down to the planet of Tatooine in an escape pod. The droids land and begin to travel the desert turrain. The two of them soon argue about which way to go: R2 wants to go towards some canyons while 3PO wants to stay in easier, non-rocky ground. Finally, 3PO goes his way and R2 goes his own way. As the two suns of Tatooine are setting, R2 reaches the canyons and is soon traveling among them. But he runs into a type of beings called Jawas, who capture him and put him in a Sandcrawler along with many other droids they had captured. Amazingly, 3PO is one of those droids! (what are the odds?) The Jawas take the droids to a moisture farm owned by Owen Lars. The farmer buys 3PO and R2, so that they can help him with the work around the farm. (amazingly, he doesn't recognize them -_- C'mon Owen!) Luke Skywalker, Owen's nephew, cleans them up and, in the process, stumbles across Princess Leia's message. Unfortunately, the message just loops to a certain part again and again, so the only words that get out are "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." R2, cleverly, tricks Luke into taking off his restraining bolt, saying that he'll be able to play back the entire recording if he does. Before Luke can make R2 replay the message, he's called in for dinner. Owen is disinterested at the recording Luke finds, and only tells him to, in the morning, take the droid to Ancorhead and have its memory erased. He also tells Luke to just forget the whole thing. Luke, however, begins to wonder if this 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' is related to a man named Ben Kenobi who lives out in the Dune Sea. He asked Owen about it, but all Owen says is that Ben is just a crazy old man and that Obi-Wan died around the same time as Luke's father. That, of course, gets Luke even more curious, for he doesn't know much about his father, only that he died before Luke was born. Later on, as Luke is closing things down for the night, he discovers, from a frightened C-3PO, that R2, having his restraining bolt removed, has run away. In the morning Luke, not wanting to get in trouble, heads out after the droid, taking 3PO with him. They soon find R2 in a canyon close to the Dune Sea, but, before they can leave, R2 warns them of a tribe of Sand People (or Tusken Raiders) coming close. Luke, curious, goes out to investigate. (I guess he never heard the saying 'curiosity kills the cat.' -_-) Anyway, he goes and gets himself seen, and the Raiders attack, knocking Luke unconcious and 3PO off a cliff. (thankfully, it was a small cliff.) Anyway, R2 has (wisely) hidden himself in a small cave. As the Sand People rummage through Luke's ship, a terrifying roar echoes throughout the canyon, scaring the Raiders away, and a hooded figure comes into view. When Luke revives, he immediately identifies his rescuer as Ben Kenobi, who, he finds out, is actually Obi-Wan Kenobi, the one the recording was talking about. Ben, wisely, takes Luke, R2 and 3PO (who lost an arm his his fall) to his house. There, Luke repairs 3PO's arm while Ben askes him questions about what he knows about his father. What Owen had always told Luke was that his father had been a navigator on a spice frighter. Ben, however, tells a different story. He says that Luke's father (Anakin) was actually a Jedi Knight who fought in the Clone Wars. Ben then gives Luke Anakin's lightsaber. Luke, curious, asks Ben how Anakin died. Ben his hesitant about the subject and merely says that a young Jedi named Darth Vader (an apprentice of Ben's) betrayed and murdered Anakin, along with many other Jedi, which is why they're are all but extinct. He then explains the Force to Luke, what it is, how it plays in a Jedi's life, and about the Dark Side. Their conversation is cut short when R2 decides it's time to get back to the reason they came. He plays the whole recording. Princess Leia's hologram message explaines their dire predicament, how her father, Bail Organa, wishes Ben to join him in the battle against the Empire. And about the plans she has hidden in R2, why they're so important, and why they must be delivered safely to Alderaan. When the message ends, Ben asks Luke to come with him to Alderaan. Luke is hesitant. He doesn't want to leave his Aunt and Uncle, and yet he doesn't want to stay either. While all this is going on, Princess Leia has been taken to the Death Star and imprisoned there. Darth Vader tries to get her to tell him the location of the Rebel Base so that he can destroy it. He even brings an Intterigator (or torture) droid to try and 'extract' the information from her. Even when she almost dies from the pain, Leia refuses to reveal anything. Then the head commander of the Death Star, Grand Moff Tarkin, threatens to use the destructive power of the space station on Leia's home planet, Alderaan. Leia, cleverly, gives him a false location, saying that the base is located on Dantooine. But, even then, Tarkin destroys Alderaan, killing millions, including Bail Organa and his wife. Meanwhile, Ben, Luke and the droids have come across the wreckage of a Sand Crawler and dead Jawas (the same group who sold R2 and 3PO to Owen). The deed was made to look as if Tusken Raiders did it, but Ben blames the wreckage on Imperial Stormtroopers. (He's right, in fact. A squad had been sent down by Darth Vader to look for the droids.) Luke realizes this as well. He also realizes that, if the Stormtroopers had traced the droids to the Jawas, they most certainly have figured out who the creatures sold them to....which would lead them right to the moisture farm! Afraid for his Aunt and Uncle, Luke races home, only to find the familar farm ruined and Owen and Beru Lars dead. He then decides, since there's nothing to hold him back now, to go with Ben to Alderaan, learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like his father. Ben and Luke travel to Mos Eisley, a space port in Tatooine, in order to hire a ride to Alderaan. They come to the Cantina (which is a lot like a bar). After a slight run-in with some people looking to make trouble, Ben finally hires a smuggler, Han Solo, and his Wookie sidekick Chewbacca (Chewie for short), to take them to Alderaan on their ship the Milennium Falcon. What they don't know is that Han is actually a smuggler for the Crime Lord, Jabba the Hutt, and that he'll use the money he makes off them in order to pay off an old debt. What Luke and Ben also don't know is that, on their way to the ship's hanger, they're followed by an Imperial Spy, who raidos them in to a nearby group of Stormtroopers. Han and Chewie have to blast their way out of Mos Eisley, but enter lightspeed with no problem. On their way to Alderaan, Luke practices tuning himself into the Force. He uses his lightsaber to deflect harmless laser beams a remote contolled droid. While he's doing that, Obi-Wan senses the deaths of all the people of Alderaan. Right after that, they finally arrive. Only to find no trace of the planet. Obi-Wan knows that it has been destroyed by the Empire. Then they catch sight of a TIE fighter flying away from Alderaan's remains and follow it. They suddenly come across the Death Star and pulled in by a tractor beam. Thankfully, Han has secret compartments in the floor of the Millenium Falcon and they hide in them. When the Imperials search the ship, they don't find anyone. When they leave the compartments, Han and Luke take down two stormtroopers and disguise themselves in the uniforms. They then sneak into the control room (well, actually, no they didn't really sneak since they had to like kill the three control room workers, but still, you know what I mean!) There, R2 plugs himself into the main computer to figure out how they can free their ship from the tractorbeam. R2 soon finds the information and Obi-Wan leaves to shut of the generators, leaving Luke, Han and Chewie to guard the droids. However, soon after he leaves, R2 finds out that Princess Leia is being held in the detention level. Not only that, but she's schedualed to be terminated for passing on false information. (Grand Moff Tarkin ordered that because she lied when she said the Rebel Base was on Dantooine). Luke immediately comes up with a plan to rescue her, but Han, on the other hand, refuses to leave the control room. Luke finally has to point out that the princess is rich and would most likely reward him for his efforts if he helped with the rescuing. (That gets his attention). So, using their stormtrooper disguises, Han and Luke, using Chewie as a cover, head up to the detention level. When they get there, there's a heated blaster fight, but Han, Luke and Chewie win and, by perusing the computers, find out that Princess Leia is being held in cell 2187. While Luke goes to fetch her, Han tries to save some time by talking with the suspicious captain on the microphone. But he gets nervous and then just ends up destroying the mic. (that part's kind of funny xD) Anyway, Luke manages to get Leia out of her cell, but they all get attacked by stormtroopers and have to make a quick escape down a garbage chute. There they meet with a few minor problems, like a garbage monster with a healthy appetite and the fact that walls start moving in, meaning that they are actually in a garbage compactor (okay so not very minor) but, hey, 3PO and R2 manage to get them out alright. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan has managed to shut down the tractorbeam, but, on his way back, he runs into Darth Vader. A lightsaber duel issues. While all this is going on, Luke, Han, Leia, Chewie and the droids manage to reach the Mellenium Falcon, but get there at about the same time and Vader and Obi-Wan, who are still fighting. Unfortunately, Obi-Wan gets cut down by the Sith. Luke shoots hs blaster into the door's controls, blocking Vader so he, and a squad of stormtroopers, can't get to them. Then they all make a quick exit in the Mellenium Falcon. With help from Leia, they all manage to reach the Rebel Base on one of the moons of Yavin, where Luke meets his friend, Biggs Darklighter. Unfortunately, what they all don't know, is that the Imperials had put a tracking device on their ship, so now the Death Star is zeroing in on them. Luke, having been given a job as an X-Wing pilot, is assigned with others to try and stop it. What they have to do is get close enough to it and fire proton torpedoes into an exauste pipe, where it will travel to the Death Star's core and cause a chain reaction, destroying it.