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"Samantha" is Padmé's undercover name

Note 1
To the lady that registered me (Shmi),

You probably don’t remember me, but my name is Luke Skywalker. There isn’t any problem with my registration is there? You looked at me weirdly a couple times. I wanted to make sure my registration was still good. I know of had an accident with someone important in the Rebellion…some Queen. That doesn’t effect anything does, does it? I just needed to be sure you didn’t change your mind.

Luke Skywalker
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Note 2
Luke Skywalker,

No, no, there was nothing wrong with your registration. I was just shocked that you were a Skywalker, and were from Tatooine. You see I have a history about knowing Skywalkers from Tatooine, and I do not wish to share that story. When you told me you were a Skywalker and from Tatooine, I remembered what happened and did not know how to act, so I acted, what you said 'weirdly'. Please, believe me, there is nothing wrong with your name, home planet, or registration, it's just something about my past.

So, you spilt Samantha's coffee on her dress. I must warn you, she's not too happy about that. You should do something about it.


Shmi
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Note 3
Shmi,

Okay, thanks for the reassurances about my registration. I was just a little worried because I’ve never been a part of something this big before. It was a total accident that I got involved with this in the first place.

Why was it so shocking that I am a Skywalker? I mean it IS the most common last name in the galaxy. There were over 50 of them that went to my school.

As for being from Tatooine…uh….I guess it could be shocking that someone from such a boring planet would be part of the Rebellion. Um I don’t know everyone that lives on Tatooine, and although I don’t know of any other Skywalker families, I’m sure there are some. The population of that planet has changed a lot, even in my life time, so yeah….it’s possible that maybe I could have known the family you’re talking about at one time.

If you don’t want to share your history of knowing Skywalkers from Tatooine, that’s fine. Whatever it is that happened must have really had a huge impact on you.

Yes…so you found out who I bumped into. I didn’t tell you so you must have figured it out on your own. Is she important to the Rebellion? I feel bad about what happened and I’m going to see if I can get some solution from my aunt to try and get it out. I wrote here and tried apologizing to her, but I don’t think she accepted my apology. I hope I can get the stain out. Hopefully I can get it out quickly because there are some solutions that I’m allergic to. It’s nothing bad…it just causes an irritation on my skin and sometimes those kinds of things make my hands bleed a little bit. They don’t bleed that much…just cracks in my skin…so I shouldn’t get blood on her dress….if I did, I would really feel bad.

Well thanks once again.


Luke Skywalker
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Note 4
Luke,

I would rather not tell you about my history with Skywalkers if you don't mind, it is not pleasant and it changed my life forever.

Yes, that lady you bumped into is a very good friend of mine, named Samantha Jedi, and yes she is VERY important to the Rebellion. She was once Queen of Naboo and Coruscant, so yes she is important and I'm sorry you bumped into her.

I hope you don't start to bleed or anything, and I hope you get that stain out of Samantha's dress. It's VERY important to her it was a gift from her husband before they got married and he was killed, and it was the last gift he ever gave her, so you can gues how important it is.


Shmi
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Note 5
Shmi,

I might be able to guess your history with the Skywalkers. I’m from Tatooine, remember…and I do know a lot of the people with bad reputations. Might I guess that the person you are referring to is someone that everyone knows as Mr. Whatever? He’s a known convict who is very stupid and goes around and collects crumbs and tries to sell them in his shop. Whenever anyone comes in he tries to steal valuables from shoppers. I always feel sorry for the people that aren’t from Tatooine who go inside his shop just to see what his crumb store is. Mr. Whatever is the rudest person I have ever met. Once when I was like 7 he kidnapped me and I couldn’t go anywhere because he had me on the floor…because I couldn’t walk (long story) and my uncle had to go find me and pay a ransom on me to get me back. I found out how strange Mr. Whatever was during that experience, he started making flames for the crumbs that he had not sold that day. And he said he was going to cook me! I was so scared. If my uncle wouldn’t have come and hadn’t gone looking for me, I would have been dead. He has killed children before…he eats his human prisoners, but no one has ever caught him in the act…so he couldn’t be punished. I know that he has even killed adults before. No one seems to know what his last name is…so seeing how “Skywalker” is the most common last name in the galaxy, he is probably the person you were talking about. I can see where he might have done something that you might not like to repeat.

Hmmm…well that Samantha Jedi person seems to have a lot of friends. I personally don’t see how she could have so many friends. She was rather rude to me when I tried to apologize. Wow….I……I…didn’t know that she was once Queen of Naboo or CORUSCANT. I’ve never heard of Naboo, but I certainly know what Coruscant is. I can’t believe I bumped into someone so important. I don’t know what I expected. I expected her to be all nice about it….but people of royalty are known for their snobbishness, so I can see why she acted that way towards me. I hope she doesn’t decide to kick me out of the Rebellion. Do you think she will? I didn’t mean to bump into her…honest…and if I could go back in time and not bump into her, I would.

Well, I guess I went overboard about the hands bleeding. They do get raw and have little openings in my skin, but they don’t technically bleed. I mean they don’t have a stream of blood coming out of them…they just get score spots. Like openings in my skin that bleed a tiny bit, but not enough for any blood to actually go anywhere. And….I tried my very best to get the stain out, but I had to leave before I could finish it. I hope that Samantha can get the stain out, otherwise….I’m just going to feel terrible. My hands did get a few score spots (as almost always happens when I try to wash clothes by hand or get stains out) and I have a few bumps on my hands. It’s just because I’m allergic to a lot of it, but it doesn’t really matter. The bumps and score spots will go away in a couple days.

Let me know if she gets the stain out or not. I hate doing that because I probably prevented her from watching the battle, but I did try. I had no idea that that dress had such a great sentimental value to her. I had no idea that it was a gift from her former husband, and believe me, if I had known that I would NOT have bumped into her. She never told me that it was a gift from her husband. That was the last gift her husband gave her? Oh……I feel REALLY, really bad now. I already felt bad about it because I don’t like to get on anyone’s bad side…but I feel just awful now. I wish I could do something for her, but I know that nothing will replace the memory of her husband’s last gift to her. I do hope she can get that stain out. Do you think I could do ANYTHING for her that she might be appreciative of? I mean I would like to make it up to her. I want her to know that I’m not a careless, inconsiderate kid.

Well that is…if I survive this battle. It’s been tough because it’s the first time I’ve ever flown in my life. We were doing fine until these three TIE fighters showed up, and I think the leading one is Darth Vader’s because it looks different from the other TIEs and I’ve heard rumors that he had a TIE. It’s so scary…I’ve done all right so far. I’ve been shooting at towers and things, but the Imperials keep killing us off. I’ve seen and heard through the radio a lot of people’s deaths. The Squadron before us almost made the shot, but something happened and the shot wasn’t direct. I tried to figure out why he would have missed, and I think I might know why. I think the targeting computer is off a little bit…it’s off enough that any shot that is aimed using it is going to be off.

I’m making our attack run now…there are only three fighters left in my squadron, and I realize we’re the only hope for the Rebellion because I know that the Death Star will have Yavin in range in any second. My friends Biggs Darklighter (from Tatooine and my best friend) and Wedge Antilles are the only ones besides me that are left. Even though I’m the least experienced of the 3 of us, I took the lead and the others listened. I have a plan…that maybe if we accelerate all the way to the spot we should be able to get to the point before the Death Star has Yavin in range…it’s really pushing it….but I’m confident that even with that speed we can pull out in time. My friends and I used to go out in landspeeders all the time…….just for the fun of it and race each other. It was kind of fun…I know it was dangerous. I got badly hurt once, but I was okay, and I know that Biggs and my other friends got hurt a few times too. We used to challenge each other and pretend we were in space battles and pretend womp rats were enemies. It was so fun! We used to have fun with Beggar’s Canyon. I don’t know how familiar you are with Tatooine landmarks, but it’s this really narrow canyon thing…well my friends and I used to go race each other in that thing, which was REALLY dangerous, because so many people have gotten killed doing the same thing….racing landspeeders with their friends. Hey, Tatooine is so boring…..it’s the only thing we could do for fun. At any rate, we used to go so fast, and we used to pull out at the exact right moment…and it was close before. A lot of times we came close to hitting rocks and things, but it was still fun. My uncle used to get on me about that all the time…he’d yell at me and try to tell me how stupid I was for doing that, but he didn’t understand that it was the only form of entertainment we had.

Anyway, I said that it would be just like Beggar’s Canyon when Biggs asked me if I thought we could pull out in time at that speed.

I’m a little scared right now because I have all this pressure on me, and the TIE’s have already shot at us several times. Vader has been on me TIGHT for a while now, and it scares me because I’ve seen him destroy so many other people’s ships instantly. I’m surprised he didn’t kill me like that….his weapons systems must be failing or something because he keeps missing.

Well I have to go because Vader’s already hit me twice…One shot damaged the ship slightly and the other one hit my droid…I just know that I can’t keep this up forever and I know it’s only a matter of time before he kills me.


Luke
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Note 6
Luke,

Please be careful, and try to win this battle. That is the ONLY thing I can think of that would 'replace' Samantha's dress. Of course nothing will ever replace the dress, but saving her people and friends would be something she would like. That is what you need to do.

Of course you didn't know that the dress was her husband's gift to her, or the last gift from him to her. No one made it a point that you knew, and she didn't put a sigh on her dress saying *a gift from my husband, DO NOT SPILL ANYTHING ON IT!!!* now did she? I think not, so you knew not. She also didn't have a sign in front of her saying *I am the former Queen of Naboo and Coruscant* on it, so you didn't know.

You know Mr. Whatever? He's STILL alive??? I kno...knew him, and I'm so glad that I'm here and not on Tatooine. That man drives me NUTS!!! Do you know a man by the name 'Nobody'? My husband knew him, but I don't know what happened to him (not like I ever wondered).

No, Mr. Whatever is not the reason of Tatooine in my past being so terrible. Your guess is FAR from it.

Don't worry about preventing Samantha from watching the battle. She wasn't going to anyway, because it reminds her of her former husband. She's with me in my office, because I don't want to watch it either. Though, I don't think she got the stain out of her important dress.

Please, you and your friends be careful. You're our only hope.


Shmi
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Note 7
Shmi,

Well….the battle’s over, and I came out alive. I guess I did all right; I don’t know. The Death Star was blown up, so what more could I have asked for?

LOL, you have a sense of humor, you know that? What you said about the signs on her back were funny. Thanks for being positive about the whole thing IN THAT PART OF THE LETTER.

Yes, unfortunately I know Mr. Whatever, and yes, he’s still alive. Yeah….Nobody and Mr. Whatever are always seen together. I think they do the kidnapping and killings together. You mean that they didn’t know each other back when you were on Tatooine? That must have been a LONG time ago, because they’re always seen together. Many Tatooine residents think they are long lost brothers, but that’s never been confirmed.

All right, so Mr. Whatever is not the reason that Tatooine brings back so many bad memories. You know the funny thing? I seem to be good at getting people to bring back bad memories…..because Samantha told me that she had a history with Tatooine that was bad too. She said she met her former husband there. I never thought that Tatooine would bring up so many bad memories for people. Well I’ll leave you alone about my guessing since I know you don’t want to talk about it, and I was FAR from it.

How come in the top part of the letter you tried to make me feel better about me bumping into Samantha, and then at the bottom of the letter you stressed how bad it was that I bumped into her? So you don’t think she got the stain out of her important dress? I really don’t know what else to say. I’ve tried to apologize to her numerous times, and I even wrote her apologizes and everything….and I tried to get the stain out myself. What else can I do? It’s not as if I could go back and erase the past. I would if I could.

Well my best friend, Biggs Darklighter, died in the battle. Vader shot him down…..

Do you know where the new Rebel Base will be?

Well I don’t know what else to say. You almost sounded as if you were as upset about Samantha’s dress as she was. Did you know her husband or something?

By the way, I was wondering what your last name was. A person who helped me on Tatooine wanted to know what your last name was.

Oh just for the fun of it, I found out that Darth Vader’s name was Nigel Reklaw. Don’t you think that’s funny?


Luke
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Note 8
Luke,

All right, about you bumping into Samantha and ruining her dress, I do feel bad about it, because that was like a wedding gift to Samantha from her husband, as I already told you it was also the last gift from her husband.

Yes, I knew her husband quite well, and that's another reason I'm upset that you ruined the dress. Samantha, her husband and I were close friends (Samantha and I are still close friends) and I know how much that dress means to Sammy, and she's still upset about the how thing. Yes, I'm sure you wish to go back in time and fix it, but look at it this way...you'll have to do the WHOLE battle ALL OVER AGAIN!!!! I don't think you want to do that, because you may not live through it if you do.

I'm sure that Samantha is grateful that you blow up the Death Star and saved Yavin (and the Rebellion) from being blown to pieces. You're a brave boy to do that, and I'm thankful you where able to do what you did.

Oh, so, Nobody and Mr. Whatever are always together? That's weird, because long, LONG ago my ex-husband and I thought that they would SURELY kill each other if they met. Well, it's too bad that they didn't. Yeah, everyone back then wondered if Mr. Whatever was related to Nobody, but like it is now, no one knows.

I'm sorry to hear about your friend. It's terrible that young people (as your friend) have to die in battles. I hate battles, and will NEVER grow to like them.

Next base is on Hoth, or from what I've heard, it's on Hoth.

My last name is Skywalker. Why do you ask?

Vader's name, Nigel Reklaw, I would have NEVER guessed!!! That's funny.

Well, have to get back to work.


Shmi
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Note 9
First Luke and Shmi Note written after AOTC came out


Shmi,

You’re not going to let me forget that I bumped into and ruined Mon Mothma’s dress, are you? As I said before….I WISH I could do something about it…I wish I could fix it and erase that moment….believe me…but I can’t. There’s nothing more I can do about it. I REALLY feel bad about it, but there is nothing I can do. I’m sorry that I made you feel bad by ruining her dress.

It seems like mostly bad stuff happens to me (well except in the Death Star battle…and I have no idea how I survived that and was able to make that shot…considering how I usually mess stuff up.)

So you knew Mon Mothma’s husband? Really? That’s interesting because Leia just told me that he was Anakin Skywalker. It’s kind of funny…I got into this whole Rebellion thing because of him…because of this report I had to do on him for school. I asked my uncle if he had heard of Anakin Skywalker, and my uncle said he had never heard of him, so then I went to my friend Biggs and asked him if he had any idea who might have heard of Anakin Skywalker…..and he suggested that I go to Old Ben and ask him. (Old Ben is Obi-Wan by the way). So I started writing Ben…and then my aunt and I went to Anuvuin to go make a delivery and I found Leia in an old factory…and then we found the droids with the Death Star plans in them, and then I went home and Vader showed up and questioned me about the plans. I lied to him and he believed me…and THEN my uncle told me to go to Obi-Wan’s and take the plans to the Rebellion. So…that’s part of the story of how I got here. (I also got stuck on the Death Star and had to get off of it. That’s a long story in itself.)

Anyway the point I was trying to make was I had to do a report on this Anakin Skywalker guy…and then I found out that he was Mon Mothma’s husband. That was weird. Anyway, I’ve heard a lot of great things about him and he seemed like he was a really great guy. I kind of wish I could have known him…there’s so many people that I would have liked to have known. After I found out who Mon Mothma’s husband was, the whole dress incident made me feel worse because I really do know that her husband was a great man.

So you were close friends with Mon Mothma and Anakin? Wow that must have been awesome. I heard that he was a really great Jedi Knight…and that he had been a slave or something and won his freedom by winning some kind of race that I’d never heard of. I don’t know too, too much about him besides that…I just know enough to write a small report. Jira…this lady that I ran into (I’ll explain that later) gave me some pictures of Anakin so that I could use them for my project. Oh yeah…I also learned that he was good at building things, and that he had built this cooling unit thing she had in her shop.

I’m sorry that Mon Mothma’s still upset with me. Like I said, I wish I could fix the whole situation, but I can’t. What’s been done has been done.

LOL, no I wouldn’t want to do that whole battle again. I don’t know if I COULD do it again. I don’t even know how I was able to blow up the Death Star. It was the strangest thing. Uh thanks for the compliments. I guess I am brave…I never even thought of it.

It is too bad that Nobody and Mr. Whatever didn’t kill people…but they are friends to the Sandpeople and sometimes they encourage them to go attack moisture farmers and kill people and stuff like that. I don’t like either one of them. I told you what they tried to do to me when I was little…about killing me.

Battles aren’t the best thing…but I did kind of get a pleasure out of flying in the battle. I just wish that people didn’t have to die in them.

Yes, Hoth is cold. I am quickly finding that out. Han and I went outside to check for life forms, and I’m still outside. I saw some kind of meteorite and I’m going to check it out. Han already started to head back. It won’t take me long to check it out…at most 5 minutes, and then I’ll be heading back to the base too. The only thing is my Tauntaun is starting to act strangely. I don’t like this. The sooner I get back the sooner I can get warm and relax.

So your last name is Skywalker too? I should have guessed that…seeing how popular the name is. You know there are like 50 people in my school who have the last name Skywalker. The reason why I asked is because someone else that I have been writing asked me. The other person is also from Tatooine (Jira) and I told her about you being upset with me at registration, and I told her your first name was Shmi, and then she asked what your last name was. I don’t know this Jira person too well…in fact I just met her. See Obi-Wan and I were going to the cantina in Mos Eisely, and on our way a sandstorm came up. I got really sick (asthma) and I stayed at her shop for a little while until I felt better…and she gave me the pictures for my project and stuff. So that’s why I asked. I hope you don’t mind.

Yes, Vader’s real name is Nigel Reklaw (and he was the one who made fun of me when I said my name was Andrew Smith.) If you ask me, Nigel Reklaw is a stupider name.

Well I have to get going because of how my Tauntaun is acting.


Luke


PS I’ve just received Jira’s reply. She told me that someone named Shmi Skywalker was Anakin’s mother. So is that you? If so, I understand why you were so upset about the dress, and why you wanted to make sure that I felt bad about ruining it. Now it all makes sense. How come you didn’t just tell me? I feel REALLY bad about the whole situation now. I hope I wasn’t rude to you or anything. I didn’t know you were his mother. I didn’t know it was the last gift that your son gave to his wife. I’m VERY sorry about the whole thing, and I wish that I could fix the dress…or that I hadn’t even mentioned Anakin Skywalker to you because I know how much it must have hurt you. I would have stopped talking about it if you had told me that he was your son.
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Note 10
Luke,

Yes, he is my son. It still hurts, but not enough for you to feel badly about it. It was a very long time ago.

Skywalker is a popular name, more popular than I would have imagined after you said that. You remind me that I have not ventured far, have I? Or do I not observe what is around me? Either way, you have shown me that I know so little. Though you prove that that is quite easy to do.

I wish you luck in the Rebellion.


~Shmi
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Note 11
Shmi,

Thank you for telling me that Anakin was your son. I didn’t know for sure, and I could only guess. I’m glad that his death does not hurt you as much as it did when it first happened. I know a LITTLE bit about his death; Obi-Wan told me. He told me that Anakin was killed in some kind of duel that he had with Darth Vader. Umm…I was thinking…since I’m done with my project, I really have no further need of the pictures that I bought from Jira. Since you were Anakin’s mother, I was wondering if you would like them? I already offered them to Mon Mothma, but she told me she didn’t want them. Since I have no connection to the guy, and you were his mother, I thought that maybe you would like the pictures?

Just to sympathize with you, I lost some of my family thanks to Darth Vader too. (But I don’t think there are very many families in the galaxy who haven’t.) My parents were killed by Darth Vader too. Apparently Darth Vader wanted information from my parents that they didn’t have, and when Vader questioned them, they of course couldn’t give him any information. For this reason, he killed them. Luckily I wasn’t killed too…because my aunt and uncle were baby-sitting me at the time, and I escaped death. My aunt and uncle adopted me after my parents death, and they’ve raised me since I was a baby. I never even knew my parents, and I have no memory of them. So…I am in a little different position than you are in…you gave birth and raised your son…..so you lost something far dearer to you than I did. If I had known my parents, it would have been different. I don’t even know what my parents looked like; I’ve never seen their pictures.

Besides my parents death, Darth Vader has also succeeded in killing my best friend, in kidnapping both my grandfather and uncle (and sentencing them to die), and do the same thing to my friend Leia. (Leia’s Bail Organa’s daughter. Do you know her?)

I don’t understand how Vader can be so cruel! He claims to be human, but he acts in so unjust ways! Obi-Wan, Leia, and I were discussing the possibility that Emperor Palpatine probably raised him! Mon Mothma got me these darts and a picture of Darth Vader. Would you like to drop by my room sometime, and together we can throw darts at Vader’s picture?

Yes, Skywalker certainly is a popular name :) You say you have not ventured far? Hmmm….I heard from Obi-Wan that Anakin was raised as a slave, so I suppose you were a slave at one point in your life? Is that the reason that you made that statement?

If you think you know so little, I could teach you stuff. Hey, I’m almost 20 (my birthday’s coming up), and you look like you’re much older than me, but maybe we can learn from each other. I have always held a high respect for those that are older than I…and I do have a few things in common…I grew up on Tatooine (and you once lived there), and I know a little about Anakin because of my report. I wouldn’t mind talking with you and getting to know you better. Mon Mothma, who is also much older than I am, has proven to be a good friend.

Thank you. I certainly need luck right now. I don’t know if you heard what happened to me, so I’ll tell you. Remember in my last letter when I told you I was going to look for life forms, and that I’d be back soon…well this is what happened:

Bail Organa asked for volunteers to go on shifts to ride out into the cold to make sure we were alone on Hoth…meaning no Imperial presence or anything like that. Han and I signed up for the last shift on that day.

Just as we were finishing up our rounds and getting ready to head back in, I saw something fall out of the sky. It looked like it might have been a meteorite or something. (Remember, that’s one of the last things I said in my last letter.) I had just checked in with Han, and as I prepared to get my Tauntaun moving again, my Tauntaun started acting very strange. I didn’t know what could be bothering it, and as I was looking around, a Wampa ice creature knocked me off of my Tauntaun, and I went unconscious. It dragged me to it’s cave (I still don’t know how far away the cave was from the base.)

When I woke up I found myself hanging upside down on the cave ceiling. My feet were frozen to the ceiling, and I couldn’t move them at all. I looked over to my side and I saw this ugly wampa ice creature chewing on bones from it’s last meal. It saw that I had started to move, and it got up to go after me.

When the creature stuck me to the ceiling, something fell out of my utility belt, and I thought that it might help me escape. I managed to get it in my hand, and I freed myself. I landed on the ground just as the creature started coming for me. I cut off the creature’s arm and took off running.

I wouldn’t have gone outside in the cold normally, because by that time it WAS storming, but I had no choice. I hadn’t killed that wampa creature, and it would have been mad at me for cutting off it’s arm, so if I would have stayed, it would have killed me.

I don’t know about you, but have you ever come close up to a wampa ice creature? That thing was scary! And have you ever become close to being it’s next meal? There was no way I was going to risk it, so I just had to leave. I knew I had to keep going for as long as I could.

To be honest, I was SCARED. I’ve never been that scared in my life. I was panicking a little because I didn’t know what direction the base was, and I knew that if I stayed out in the cold very long, I would freeze.

Luckily, Han went out and searched for me……and found me. He saved my life. He told me he put me inside a dead Tauntaun. I don’t remember that because I was barely alive.

The next thing I knew I was inside a bacta tank, and then lying in a bed in the med center. I almost froze to death, and I came so close to dying…….sigh…but I’m all right. I have pneumonia, though. It’s so boring lying in bed all day, but at least the darts that Mon Mothma gave me help to occupy my time.

Was there an Imperial probe droid found? I thought I heard some talk about that…wait a second…yes…there was an Imperial probe droid! Oh great, that means the Empire will be able to find our new base.

And I’ve just received a letter from Darth Vader. He’s acting VERY strange now…before he found out that I was the one that blew up the Death Star, he was bragging about his intelligence and force sensitivity, and how he hated me and wanted me dead….and he would insult me. On his most recent note he suddenly changed attitude and seems to have some kind of affectionate respect for me. I don’t know if this is for real or if he is just trying to play with my mind for some twisted reason…but here’s a copy of his most recent letter. Tell me what you think. Does he do this stuff to other people? (You’ve been in the Rebellion far longer than I have.)

Luke,
I don't think, I know. You would be wise to follow your own advice and not make any assumptions about me.
I knew "Andrew Smith" was a fake name, which is why I called it dumb. It was a ruse to make you come clean with your real name. I have spies throughout the empire, so I know a lot of things that you wouldn't imagine me knowing! For instance, my coming out of hyperspace was NOT a dumb idea,as you called it. It was my way of determining the extent of your rebellion's detection system and battle strength. I hate to admit it, but I am impressed with the quick response.
I also knew about your illness. I am sorry to hear that, and hope that you will recover soon. You have proved a worthy opponent when you destroyed the Death Star and eluded me. It is a great detriment to me and the Empire that you are not on our side.
I even know about the Wampa ice creature that attacked you. My collegues saw to it that creature won't harm you again.
As for my ambitions, that is for me to know and you to find out, if you dare. I do care about my name, and I am very proud of my heritage. You should be proud of yours, for it is all you have when you were born.
Do get plenty of rest and get well. I would love to have another opportunity to croos sabers with you.

For the Empire!
Darth Vader


And I have been getting nightmares about Darth Vader. He would kill me if he knew that my father was a Jedi, Obi-Wan has told me that much. I’m scared that he wants me dead…he seems to have taken an interest in me, and I don’ t like that. Whenever I fall asleep, I always have a nightmare where Vader comes after me and tries to kill me.

Those probes…I heard that thousands of them have been reported to be going through the galaxy. The most likely conclusion would be that Vader is looking for our base…but in the dreams, he’s always looking for ME. I had a dream where he sent those probes out just to find ME.

I know that’s silly. Vader would not send an entire fleet of ships out to find me, but the nightmares just bother me.

Well the medical personal are giving me nasty looks, so I need to conclude this letter. I hope you’re having a better day than I am.


Luke
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Luke,

That is very sweet of you to offer me the pictures. I would love to have them (because I always want to remember my little boy.) Yes, that's how he died... but I don't really want to talk about it. It's too painful.

That's terrible about your parents. And not knowing them doesn't make it any less sad! I'm sure your aunt and uncle loved you.

Vader is a horrible "person." I use quotations, because I'm not sure that he really is a real person. How someone could be so cruel, I don't know. Maybe he was abused as a child. Sometimes that can cause people to be violent when they are adults. However, that doesn't make him anymore likable. Sure, let's throw darts at his picture!

Yes, I was once a slave. But I don't really like to talk about that either... sorry, I know it sounds like I don't want to talk about anything, but I need to live in the present and not be sad about the past.

Sure, if you think you can teach me anything, that'd be great. I'm glad you and Mon Mothma are friends now.

Luke! That's terrible! I had heard you were sick, but I didn't know the whole story until you just told me about it. I'm so sorry! Are you going to be alright?

Yes, the Empire should be here soon. AGH! At least we get to leave this cold planet...

UGH! That is so WEIRD! Why does Vader want to write you a letter like that? It's almost like he wants to act like a father figure or something... maybe you should just stop writing him and pretend you don't get his letters!

Aw, Luke. I'm sure he's not going to come and kill you... even if you did destroy the Death Star, and your father is a Jedi.. I mean, he's a really busy guy. Why would he take the time to hunt you down and come for you? You're just one person! Even if I think you're a very nice young man, I don't think there's any need to worry.

I hope you feel a lot better, Luke.

Shmi
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Shmi,

All right, I have enclosed the pictures of Anakin Skywalker with this letter. If you don’t want to talk about his death, I understand. I promise I will try not to bring it up unless you do first.

My aunt and uncle do love me very much, although my aunt has abused me. I come from a poor family, so we never had much, but I could always tell that they loved me.

LOL, I wasn’t sure Vader was a real person either…but Ben and Vader assure me that he is human. His actions are not very human-like, though. I have no idea how he could be so cruel, but Ben told me that that’s what happens to a person when they join the Dark Side. I don’t fully understand it. I was abused as a child, but that did not make me be a terrible person. I guess people handle stuff differently.

Stop by my room then, and you can throw darts at his picture with me. It’s really kills time. Spending time in bed is incredibly boring, and I would much rather do other stuff.

I’m sorry to hear that you were once a slave. That must have been terrible. Since you’d rather not talk about that either, I’ll shut-up. I won’t bring that subject up either. I don’t want you to be sad, and the last thing I want you to do is make another person feel bad.

LOL…yeah…it was hard. I mean, I ruined her dress…but she still was nice to me. I don’t know…I guess she just wanted to be nice to me.

And you don’t need to worry about me. I’ll be fine. I am very sick right now…though. I’ve had pneumonia before…I think this is my fourth time for having it. I know you’re thinking that’s weird because I come from a warm planet. Let me explain: I had it when I was 7 (I caught it while on vacation), I had it when I was 3 (I’m not sure how I got it then. I think maybe I was exposed to someone who had it), and I had it when I was a baby (my uncle said it was a little after my aunt and uncle started taking care of me. Maybe like a month after. I don’t even know how old I was then. I was probably a few months old…I don’t know.)

It’s not fun getting stuck outside in freezing cold whether, and then getting really sick. I’ll live, though.

I’ll be glad to leave this planet too.

I heard rumors about some Imperial fleet spotted in the Hoth system. I’m going to participate in the battle…there’s sure to be one. I think I’ll be well enough to fight in it. I’m getting better already.

I have come to the conclusion that either Vader is insane…or that his letters are trying to sweet talk me into joining the Imperial Navy. Regardless of the reasons for his letters, I am NOT joining the Empire. You’re right…it seems like Vader is trying to act like a father figure to me. It must be his way of recruiting people to the Navy. It’s NOT going to work with me. I’d love to just stop writing him, but if I did that, it would deprive me of the joy of insulting him.

I hope you’re right about Vader not wanting to come and kill me. Those dreams must have been a result of my fever…it’s quite high. You’re right…my dreams were illogical. Vader would never come for just one person.

Han, Leia, Wedge, and Chewie, R2-D2, and C-3PO just came in to visit me. I was asleep when they came in, and they were in the middle of talking about their birthdays. I guess Leia and Wedge found out they have the same birthday as each other. I didn’t catch the date (because I was asleep), and then Wedge left. Han and Leia then started talking about some South Passage thing, and how Han had feelings for her. Leia denied it and called him a scruffy looking nerf herder. (Han’s a little full of himself too.) Leia told him he didn’t know anything about women. She came up to ME and KISSED me!!!! That’s the first time anyone has ever kissed me. Han got annoyed and left. Leia stayed with me a little and I talked to her. I don’t know…we had fun laughing and talking about the Rebellion. Then she had to go, and Ben came in to talk to me. Ben said he was leaving, but he told me that I am supposed to go to Dagobah and find this guy named Yoda so that I can be trained to be a Jedi. That was a little weird. But okay….if that’s what he says, I’ll go there. I DO want to become a Jedi, mostly because of my father. I never knew my father, but I would want to make him proud of me. I’m just a little scared about it because I don’t want Vader or Palpatine to find out. I’m afraid they’d kill me.

I’m really tired now. Maybe I’ll see you sometime. You haven’t come to see me. My uncle, my aunt, my cousins, and my other friends have come.

A tired person,
Luke
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Luke,

Thanks so much for the pictures of Anakin. They really do mean a lot to me. Maybe someday I will be able to talk about him.

I don't understand... what do you mean, your aunt abused you? Is this something you can talk about?

Okay, I'll come visit you (and throw darts.) That does sound like a lot of fun, and a great way to relieve stress.

Awww, I wasn't trying to make you feel guilty. I guess when you've lived a lot of life there are a lot of things you don't want to revisit... but I have some stories I could tell you! If you think of something you want to know, ask me, okay? I may not know a lot, but I have been around for a while.

Wow, I didn't know you could get pneumonia more than once! I guess I'll have to take better care of myself. (Since I had it before, a long time ago.) Well, if you think you're ready to fight, you should! Becuase we sure need you. But really, don't push yourself too hard!

Um, wow. Yeah, definetly don't join the Imperial Navy. Besides the fact that they're cruel and they want to dominate all life, I hear they don't pay very well. ;-)

See, it does make sense! Why would Vader want to target just one person that he had a problem with. Much better use of his energy to come after a whole group. So, you should still be careful, but not terrified!

Wow, was that your first kiss?? How cute!! My only advice is to try not to get caught in the middle of Han and Leia, if that makes any sense. They need to work out whatever feelings they have for each other, and you don't want them mad at you!

Dagobah, hmm? I think I've heard of that planet before... A Jedi? Still alive? I'm so sorry I haven't visited you yet! I thought you wouldn't be up to it! But I'll come right away. (and we can still throw those darts!)


Shmi
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Shmi,

Hey, guess what today is. It’s my birthday…and I’m 20. Just don’t tell anyone, please. I don’t want everyone to know about it. I’m just in a good mood and just had to tell someone.

You are very welcome for the pictures of Anakin. I’m glad that you appreciate them. Like I said, they weren’t doing me any more good. I already finished my project, and although Anakin sounds like he was a wonderful person, he has not relationship to me, so I thought I’d give them to you. I’m really glad you have benefited from them. Well if you are ever able to talk about him, I’d be interested in learning more. But I understand how delicate the subject is for you, so I’ll leave it at that.

Well…I meant just what I said when I told you my aunt abused me. She used to beat me up, hit, kick, say mean things to me. She liked to make my life miserable. But what I really didn’t like was when she messed with my allergies, because I can’t defend myself against that. Sometimes she washed my clothes in stuff she knew I was allergic to because then I would break out horribly. At least she didn’t do that with my underwear. I’m not sure why she did that. She’s been better to me recently, though. Now that my uncle knows about it (I recently told him), she’s getting some help. She mentioned to me that she planned on going to some sort of counseling sessions here…if the Rebellion offers them. Do you know if there are any? And yes, I can talk about it. I wasn’t always able to…but then I didn’t have very many people that I could tell that to. I only had a few friends back home…and at school everyone used to make fun of me, so there wasn’t really very many people that would ever talk to me. I don’t mind telling you. You don’t know my family, so what could it hurt? I’ve really appreciated the fact that several older members of the Rebellion have been so nice to me. I hope I’m not a burden on you. But I like talking to people, and since you’re willing to talk to me…you have no idea how nice it is to have people to talk to.

Thank you for stopping to see me when I was sick. That meant a lot to me. Did you have fun throwing the darts?

All right. I’ll keep that in mind. Off the top of my head I can’t think of anything that I want to know…any stories or anything. I’ll let you know if I think of something.

Yes, you can get pneumonia more than once (don’t I know.) One of my friends had it three times, (I told you I’ve had it 4 times), one of my teachers had it twice, and another of my friends had it three times. It’s not like the chicken pox or some other diseases that you can only get once.

Were you able to get away from the base in one of those transports all right? I hope so. I know the Empire has taken some prisoners during the battle. I hope they are not treated too badly.

Nope, I CERTAINLY do not want to join the Imperial Navy now. It’s hard to imagine that I ever wanted to. But I didn’t know what the Empire like back then. Although Tatooine is part of the Empire, it’s kind of remote, and it’s not like we’re living in the center of it. Yeah, the laws still apply, and we have Imperial presence…stormtroopers stationed…but I never discovered the true nature of the Empire until recently. You don’t ever have to worry about me switching sides on you.

Vader seems to want to recruit me. He’s not going to get me on the Empire, no matter how much he tries. To tell you the truth, I think he’s jealous that I’m on the Rebel side, and that I was able to blow up his Death Star, LOL. I was overreacting, probably because I was sick. I’m not terrified of Vader anymore. I won’t give him that pleasure.

Um…actually Leia kissed me when I was on the Death Star. You’re probably thinking, “what was he doing on the Death Star.” That’s a long story, but I accidentally got pulled into the Death Star’s tractor beam when I was trying to take the droids to Yavin. I ended up rescuing Leia…and during our escape she kissed me “for luck.” That kiss was only on the check. She kissed me on the check again before I got into my X-Wing before the Death Star battle. But that was the first time anyone has ever kissed me on the lips. You think that Han and Leia might have feelings for each other. Sigh…and to think that I actually thought for once that a girl liked me back. The last thing that I would want to do would be to hurt their feelings…but…I really like her. I want her to know that. I suppose you’re right, though. I need to give them time to work out their own feelings.

Yeah…Dagobah. I’m supposed to go there. In fact that’s where I’ll be heading very shortly. I’m not going to the rendezvous point. Yes, a Jedi is still alive…in fact two are. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda are both alive. Obi-Wan is the one that told me about the Force. Have you ever heard of him? He was on Yavin, but he told me he left for Dagobah before the Hoth battle. He’s going to help with my training, I think.

Well anyway, I’m out of the med section now, as you probably already knew. I did participate in that battle. We went out in snowspeeders, to meet the Imperial Walkers. Those things are huge! Dack was in the other end of my snowspeeder…he was a little younger than me. He was in charge of firing the weapons, while I controlled where we were going.

Well early on in the battle I figured out that the blaster’s weren’t working…so I knew we had to come up with another plan. I decided to try using the tow cables and tying up the Walker’s legs so that we could trip them, and then destroy them. I figured they were bulky enough, and that the people controlling them wouldn’t notice until it was too late. My ship was able to take one down.

We came into some heavy fire, and one of the blasts killed Dack. That was REALLY scary…looking back and seeing him dead. I felt so bad…like it was my fault. Well I couldn’t fire the tow cable from my section of the snowspeeder, so I contacted Wedge. I asked him to follow me on the next pass. Wedge did, and he and his person in his ship successfully downed several of them by following me.

Then Wedge and his person went after the fallen Walkers and destroyed them. Wedge certainly can do good work!

Then I encountered some more fire, and it damaged my snowspeeder so badly that I could barely control it. I knew that I needed to crash land it. I tried to do it as gently as possible, but the landing was still rough.

There was this huge Walker coming towards me, and I got another idea. I grabbed some thermal detantors from the snowspeeder, and I jumped out just as the Walker was about to smash it. It did smash it…another near death experience. I seem to be good at getting in near death situations. Well anyway, I knew I wouldn’t survive long on the ground, so I through this grappling hook on the underside of the Walker. That pulled me up. I cut some insides of the Walker out…small holes, and through the detanoators in. I grabbed the grappling hook and jumped. Because of the long fall, and the cold, the fall made me go unconscious, but uninjured. I woke up a few minutes later…when the battle was over, and made a run back for the base.

That’s basically what happened in the battle. I hope to see you sometime soon. I must go and do my pre-flight checks on my X-Wing.

Have a wonderful rest of the day. You ARE having a good day, right? No one is allowed to have a bad day today, because I won’t allow it.


Your friend,
Luke


PS I have just received a letter from Vader. That man makes no sense, and he is scaring me. In his most recent letter he has suddenly had a change of attitude towards me. In all his letters before the Death Star was destroyed he was talking about how he hated me, he insulted me, and he was always saying how much better he is than me. Now that he’s learned that I was the one that destroyed the Death Star, he suddenly has a lot of respect for me. He told me how he regretted that I did not work for the Empire. I don’t know what his intentions are with acting like this…I don’t know if he’s secretly plotting my death, or if he is genuine in his letter. When I read it I get this warm feeling that he does respect and care about me…but how could he? He killed my parents! He killed all the Jedi, and he’s pure evil. I just don’t know what to think. Does he do stuff like this to people? To make them think that he has a high respect on someone? You’ve been working in the Rebellion far longer than I have. Have you ever encountered this before?

Here are a couple lines from the letter:
“ I also knew about your illness (pneumonia). I am sorry to hear that, and hope that you will recover soon. You have proved a worthy opponent when you destroyed the Death Star and eluded me. It is a great detriment to me and the Empire that you are not on our side. I even know about the Wampa ice creature that attacked you. My collegues saw to it that creature won't harm you again. Do get plenty of rest and get well. I would love to have another opportunity to croos sabers with you.”

Don’t you think his comments are strange?
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Note 16
Luke—

Hurray! Happy Birthday! I wish I could bake you a cake or something..but I’m a terrible cook. :-) I’m glad you entrusted me with your secret! I won’t tell anyone!

I can talk a little about Anakin…actually, having these pictures make me remember so much more. Just ask me anything you might like to know, and I’ll let you know if I can talk about it.

I’m so sorry to hear about your aunt. That sounds like it was horrible for you growing up. And no, you are not a burden to me. I enjoy talking to you (it makes me feel younger). I wish there was something I could do for you, though. Counseling? Now that’s something I don’t know about…Mon Mothma knows a lot, maybe you could ask her.

I had a wonderful time throwing darts…although I wasn’t very good, was I?

Ugh…that’s awful. I thought you could only get it one time.

Yes, they deemed me “fragile” and put me on one of the first transports. (glower) Honestly, just because I’m not as young as some people doesn’t mean they have to treat me like a daisy!

I wasn’t worried you’d switch sides. You’re too good. There’s not any evil in you that would desire power and darkness and hatred and all the things Vader has to offer.

Awww, that’s so sweet! Well…I don’t know them well enough to be able to tell you how she feels, but like I said…it takes time. And getting involved right now could get you hurt.

Hmmm, I think I’ve heard of Yoda. I didn’t know he was still alive, though. He must be very old! (Not that that’s a bad thing ;-))

WOW! That’s an amazing battle story! You’re so intuitive! Now, don’t feel like it was your fault, because it wasn’t. Bad things happen sometimes and if we blamed ourselves for everything we’d be in serious depression all the time. (Trust me, this is the voice of experience.) Just learn to let life happen and act upon the consequences instead of feeling bad about them.

I’m having a great day now that I got your letter! Happy Birthday again!!!

That letter from Vader is SO weird. I know you want to keep talking to him so that you can insult him but…that’s so strange. Maybe he does want you to join the Empire, because you’re such a good pilot. Whatever you do, don’t go to him! Don’t let him bait you into fighting him! And don’t let him know where you are!


Your pal Shmi
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Note 17
Shmi,

Thank you. My birthday went pretty well…not your typical birthday, considering I fought in a battle and everything, but it went fine. Don’t worry about it. My aunt used to fix me a cake for my birthdays, and she made me one this year too. So my cake was covered this year J. I’ve never actually had a birthday party, though. You know something strange? I found out that Wedge Antilles and Leia Organa both have the same birthday as me, but I didn’t tell either one of them. Mon Mothma took them out for some cake and ice cream. Thanks for not telling anyone that it was my birthday.

As for you being a terrible cook…I’ve never eaten anything that you’ve fixed, but you couldn’t be that bad. I mean, you were Anakin’s mother…you and he had to survive off of food that you fixed. I mean considering you were both slaves, it couldn’t have been a very good situation, and I’m sure your master didn’t prepare the food for you.

I don’t want to hurt you by making you talk about Anakin. Actually, there is one thing I would like to know about him. Do you remember any of his friends? I realize it must have been a long time ago, but Obi-Wan told me that my father (his name was Alex) was really good friends with Anakin. I was just going to see if you remembered my father, because I barely know anything about him, since my uncle and grandfather don’t like talking about him much. I think the memory of him hurts them too much. I was just wondering.

My aunt might have abused me, but I know she still loved me. I also love her. She’s the only mother I’ve ever known. Our relationship has been improving, and she’s trying to start over with me. It’s a little hard, but I do love her too. I think everything will work out fine. It wasn’t fun getting abused growing up, but I turned out all right, and think it made me stronger having to deal with that. I’m glad I’m not a burden to you…just let me know if I ever am, all right? Oh, so I make you feel younger? Really? :) Don’t worry about me. The most you could do for me is to continue talking to me. I like having friends. My aunt was able to find a counseling session here, and she went.

I have to admit, you weren’t that good at throwing darts, but since you were the only one in my room at the time, it didn’t really matter. You could practice, and then we could have a contest. It doesn’t really matter how good at it you are…just as long as you have fun.

How is everything back at the fleet? My aunt told me that they tried out some new food in the cafeteria, but they didn’t ask people if they were allergic to stuff and a bunch of people ended up getting sick. Anything else happening? You a daisy? You sound like you’re pretty tough to me. That makes sense, though. Anyone that went through what you did and survived had to be pretty tough. (I’m talking about your life as a slave, and about how your son died.)

There may be no evil in me, but Obi-Wan keeps stressing that even though I think I would never turn, the Dark Side is always a temptation…even the most seemingly unlikely people can become evil if they let the wrong emotions control them. I don’t think I’d ever even be a little bit evil, but what Obi-Wan said is a reminder that I need to be constantly aware.

You’re right…getting involved with Leia right now could get me hurt if she and Han like each other. I suppose I’ll have to wait until my training’s over before I can have a good talk with Leia. I’ve always thought that if I didn’t try to get involved with a person when I liked them, that person would never know how I felt, and I’d never have a chance with them.

You’ve heard of Yoda? Do you know where he might live? Or what he might look like? There’s this swamp creature that says he can take me to Yoda, but I think it’s a simple minded creature that doesn’t know what’s going on. I wouldn’t know how old Yoda would be, since I don’t even know what he looks like. But I suppose it would depend on your definition of old. I don’t know much about this Yoda person, except that Obi-Wan said that he was the Jedi instructor who once instructed him…..and Obi-Wan told me he was 55, so he’s GOT to be pretty old. I don’t know how old Obi-Wan was when he trained under Yoda, but oh well.

You say that I’m “so intuitive.” Obi-Wan told me that comes from being Force Sensitive. I guess all Jedi had that. Your son must have too. Anyway, I’m glad you found my battle story amazing. Maybe it gives us Rebels some hope. I don’t blame myself for what happened to Dack, but I do have a right to be a little upset about his death. If I felt nothing for a guy in the same speeder as me died, I would no longer have human feelings.

I’m glad you had a great day, since it was my birthday and you received my letter. :)

Yeah…now you know why I say that Vader is weird. I’ve given up trying to understand that evil thing. I would love to go after Vader…because he thinks no one will ever take him down…but he’s done so much wrong in this galaxy. He has killed so many people. I know I couldn’t go off to fight him now, because I have next to no Jedi training, but once I’m trained, he’d better look out. As for baiting me into fighting with him…I don’t know how he’d accomplish that. If it was through this letter, you can bet that that wouldn’t work. I didn’t tell him where I was, but he must have found out through another source.

Now I need to tell you about Dagobah…..so here goes:

I set the course for Dagobah, the ship indicated that it actually did exist, even though I had never heard of it before…the flight was good.

Finally, when I got there, I encountered a lot of swamp fog and trees. I had trouble landing…I couldn’t see anything because of the fog and trees. I ended up crashing into a When I got out, I started to unload the ship. Dagobah sure is weird. It gave me a strange feeling…almost like there was something familiar about it…but that’s stupid. I had never heard of it in my entire life.

Not long after I landed, R2 and I met this little green troll like creature. He started getting into all our stuff, so I got annoyed.

He talks really strangely. He asked me why I was there. I told him I was looking for a great Jedi master, although I couldn’t see why a Jedi Master would want to live on Dagobah. It was so swampy. I had my doubts that Yoda even existed, but the creature seemed to know who Yoda was, or maybe he just was being stupid.

The creature told me he could take me to Yoda, but that we had to eat. So as I write this, I’m on my way to the funny looking green troll’s house.

Well I gotta go. The green guy wants me to follow him.



Luke
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Note 18
Luke,

You’re right, I did have to cook a lot when I was a slave, but what I mean to say is that I’m not a good baker—I can cook dinner and stuff but I’m a terrible baker.

Alex? I don’t remember an Alex…Anakin had a lot of friends, though. Maybe he was friends with someone named Alex…I think I would remember if it was an especially good friend.

Well, it’s good that you’re trying to improve your relationship with your aunt. Trust me, I understand that sometimes you do things to people that you love that aren’t nice, and it’s not because you don’t love them, sometimes it’s just that you have problems that you need to work out.

Hmm, I should practice playing darts. That’d be really fun for me to do.

Heh heh, I guess I am a little hardcore. I dunno….I feel different everyday. Today I just feel tired.

Yeah, they tried out this thing called “Potato and Spinich Casserole,” but everyone who had it got really sick. Luckily for me I decided to skip dinner so that I could finish up some extra projects.

It’s always a good idea to be careful. Obi-Wan is right about that. And I suppose it’s true that sometimes you’re doing what you never thought you would. So…be cautious but don’t worry too much.

Good point about waiting to talk to Leia. Besides, you’ll probably need to focus a lot on your training.

Do I know where Yoda lives? Sorry…I thought he was dead. :-)

Wow, so your intuitiveness has to do with your having the Force? I guess that makes sense…my son had this habit of being able to know what would happen before it did. One time I was cooking (ha ha) and he came in the kitchen and grabbed a bowl right as I dropped it. I didn’t even see it coming, but he just caught it.

You have to make your own decision about Vader, but the whole thing just sounds fishy to me.

Little man, huh? He sounds pretty harmless. Maybe you should follow him!


Shmi
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Shmi,

Like I said, I’ve never eaten anything you’ve ever fixed, but I’m sure your baking is just fine. Maybe you can fix me something sometime and I’ll let you know what I think of it. I’m sure your over exaggerating how “terrible” your baking is. A lot of people say they’re worse cookers than they really are.

Okay…so you don’t remember my father Alex then? I have to admit I’m a little disappointed. I was hoping you’d be able to tell me a little something, but that’s okay. My father’s always going to be a mystery to me, and I need to stop hoping that I’ll learn more about him. But it WAS a long time ago…probably around 30 years ago because that’s how long ago your son was freed, and Obi-Wan said that he knew that my father was friends with Anakin when they were slaves. Maybe Obi-Wan overemphasized how good friends they were…just to make me feel better or something.

Yeah…I am glad that I am improving my relationship with my aunt too. I wouldn’t want to leave my aunt and uncle without having a good relationship with my aunt. I would always feel there was something missing in my life otherwise. My uncle said something happened in the past…I guess they had children of their own that I never knew about, and something happened to them. I don’t want to put my aunt and uncle at unease by asking them more about it…but whatever it was it really affected my aunt terribly.

Well let me know…maybe you can get a dart board and darts from Mon Mothma, and you can practice while I’m gone…then maybe we could have a tournament once I come back. J Although, according to Mon Mothma’s letter she went to Tatooine to take care of something very important to her. I shouldn’t tell you what it is because I don’t want to hurt her. She trusted me with something very precious and I don’t want to break her trust.

I hope that you are feeling less tired today. Have you been having trouble sleeping lately or something? In one of my classes at school my teacher taught us how to do this relaxation technique. I could explain it to you if you would like.

To be honest, that food that they tried out in the cafeteria doesn’t sound so bad to me. I like fresh spinach. Honestly, I do. I think it has more flavor than lettuce. It must have been something they added to the Potato and spinach casserole…and I didn’t know there were very many people allergic to spinach or potatoes. That’s what I’m trying to tell you.

You mentioned that you skipped dinner so that you could finish up some extra projects. What kind of projects have you been working on?

I know…I am usually careful…or at least I try to be most of the time. I do need to focus on my training…but Leia does sometimes enter my thoughts. I cannot wait for my training to be over so that I can talk with her again.

Oh…about Yoda…wait until I explain that………..

Yes, my intuitiveness had to do with having the Force. I didn’t have any idea about that until I met Obi-Wan…before that I thought it was normal. Whenever I tried to talk about it everyone kept giving me these weird looks…so I thought I just couldn’t handle normal stuff like everyone else could. I struggled with it for a long time, and then it kind of became a part of me. I still don’t know what’s normal and what’s not. A lot of times I know what’s going to happen before it does…but like I said before I thought everyone was like that. I’ve caught stuff that people dropped before.

I don’t know…Vader just confuses me. I do know that he IS trying to get me to work for the Imperial navy. His plan is not going to work, though.

And about that little guy……let me explain what has happened in my life since my last letter to you.

Well, his last letter was a LITTLE better, but he’s still acting weird. At least he didn’t make any statements about recruiting me or anything like that. He wants to fight with me, because he seems to like challenges. I’ll quote him: “It gladdens me to know you'd love to cross sabers with me. I well look forward to it. Just be sure you are up to it, for I expect you to be as worthy an opponent as I suspect you are.”

Okay now to tell you what’s been going on in my life since the last time I wrote you. You’ll never guess this, but the little green guy I was telling you about IS Yoda…can you believe that?

I followed him to his little house. He already knew who I was…Ben must have told him to watch for me. After I got inside, he offered me some food. It wasn’t what I was used to, but it was still good. He asked me why I wanted to become a Jedi. I told him that it was mostly because of my father. Yoda must also know who my father was because he said that he was a powerful Jedi. That annoyed me because I didn’t think that he really did know my father, and was just saying that. Then I got a tad annoyed with him…because I didn’t know he was Yoda yet, and I wanted to see Yoda right away. He kept telling me to wait…and that I’d see Yoda soon. Finally I couldn’t stand it anymore and I demanded to see him. When I did that, I bumped my head on the ceiling. That hurt, and it gave me a tiny headache. The ceiling was so low in there!

Then Yoda started talking to someone besides me. I was confused at first. Then I heard Ben’s voice. I turned around and saw him in a corner of the room that had been hidden from my view when I first came inside. Ben arrived before I did!

They got into this big argument about whether to train me or not. Ben was for me, and Yoda was against me. Yoda said I was too old…and impatient, and angry…and other weird stuff. Finally Ben convinced him by saying that I was their only hope, whatever that means.

Yoda seems so against me…(even now) and I don’t understand it. He asked me if I would finish what I begin…and I told him I wouldn’t fail him. Finally Yoda agreed…but I could tell he wasn’t happy about his decision. It was mostly because of Ben.

So the training started the next day. He got me up early in the morning, and he started teaching me things. He made me do all these physical exercises, and mind exercises too. The first couple of days I had a hard time with some of it because of my asthma, but I’ve learned to use the force more, and that makes things so easy.

Although I think I’m getting better with everything…relying on the Force, and using it…every time I think I’m doing well, I always mess up with something. I don’t think that Yoda thinks I am force sensitive enough to train or something, because he keeps making me do new things, and I keep failing. He hardly ever praises me for anything. About the only thing he’s said that’s been a praise has been, “Stronger do you grow.” And that’s it.

He led me to this strange cave thing that was strong with the Dark Side…and against his suggestion, I brought my weapons inside. After I got deep inside the cave, I imagined seeing Darth Vader…and fighting him…cutting off his head. The thing was when I cut it off, his helmet came off and I saw my face instead of his. That was a little scary.

The Jedi Training is a lot of work, but I actually think it’s fun. Yoda’s been telling me old Jedi Stories too. He’s a good story teller…and he’s lived a long time. He’s almost 900 years old! He was the head of some Jedi Council a long time ago, strange, huh?

The thing that really amazed me…while I was practicing lifting things with the force while standing on my head, my X-wing was sinking further into the swamp. I lost my concentration because R2 beeped at me. Yoda was sitting on my feet, so when I fell, he fell too. I hope he wasn’t hurt. Anyway, Yoda tried to tell me that I could use the force to move the ship to the land. I thought he was crazy. I mean a ship…that’s huge, and it ways a lot. Yoda urged me to do it…so I tried…I was able to get it up a little…but I lost my concentration and it fell back into the swamp. I went back to him…I was tired…it took everything out of me to attempt at moving it. I told Yoda it was impossible. Yes, I was a little annoyed with him.

While I walked angrily away, Yoda was using the force to my the ship himself. R2 started beeping wildly, so I walked back over to Yoda…I was amazed at what I saw! Yoda brought my ship all the way back to the land. Yoda wasn’t even sweating! He hardly put any effort into it.

Well, that’s as far as I am with my training right now. Sorry that I haven’t written in a couple days. Yoda’s kept me on a pretty tight schedule, and this was the first chance I’ve had to write anyone. I can give you more details from my training, if you’d like…but I figured you’d know pretty much what it was about, since you obviously knew a lot of Jedi. Your son was a Jedi…so I didn’t want to bore you.

I have to go train some more.
I gotta go.


Luke
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Note 20
Luke,

Okay, try this—once, I was trying to make a cake from a mix, and I didn’t even catch on that you needed other ingredients. I admit I was a little surprised when I poured the mix out into the man…I didn’t think cake batter was supposed to look like that, but I tried anyway. I wouldn’t even know that that’s what I did wrong except I told Anakin about it and he told me. He was a really good cook, and he cooked a lot of meals for us (even when he was a little boy).

30 years is a long time ago…I mean, Obi-Wan could be right about your father and Anakin being friends. I just don’t remember any Alex. I’ve attached 2 pictures I have of Anakin with his friends—I found them recently in a pile of old papers. These are copies that I made for you. They were taken when Anakin was about seven or eight, and a lot of his friends are in them.

That’s really too bad about your aunt. I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten…is she part of the rebellion? Maybe I could befriend her.

It’s okay, you don’t have to tell me about Mon Mothma. I’ll find her when she gets back.

I am having trouble sleeping. I’d love to learn a relaxation technique.

Maybe the person who prepared the casserole did it incorrectly. I promise I had nothing to do with it! (wink)

Well, I think I mentioned going through those papers and finding Anakin’s picture. That’s what I’m working on right now—I’m trying to organize all my things. Not to be pessimistic…but what if we lose this war? Every part of my life would be lost. So I’m trying to store everything on file so that maybe someday, somehow if something did happen someone would find it and I wouldn’t feel that everything had been wasted.

Okay, so let me get this straight: Your intuitiveness comes from the Force. That makes since…so often Anakin knew what was going to happen before it did. Oh, and Vader wants to fight you? What a weirdo!

Whoa, the little green guy is Yoda? Wow. I would have thought a Jedi Master would be really strong and powerful. But you say you had an imaginary fight with Vader? That whole thing sounds really creepy. And then Yoda pulled your X-Wing out of the swamp? That sounds like he is really powerful in the Force.

Well, take care of yourself.


-Shmi
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Note 21
Shmi,

You were trying to make a cake from a mix…but then it came from a box or container of some sort. Didn’t it have directions on it? Hmm…I’ve always wondered what just plain mix would taste like…I guess you got to find out. So Anakin was a good cook? Hmmm…that’s interesting. It’s too late to add that to my paper now. I already sent it in…but that’s neat that he was willing to do that. He must have been such a nice little boy. I haven’t cooked much, and I don’t really like to, but I guess I’m all right, as long as I can follow a recipe.

Thanks for the pictures of Anakin with his friends. I’m sorry to say, but I don’t know what my father would have looked like, so I have no idea whether any of the people in the picture was my father or not…but I picked out one of the little boys in the picture. I’ll just pretend that it was my father…that I actually have a picture of my father. I don’t know…maybe Obi-Wan just made that up so that I would think that my father knew someone famous. Oh well…I guess it really doesn’t matter now, and there would be no way for us to find out. After all both your son and my father are dead, so we can’t ask either one of them.

I don’t think I ever told you if my aunt was part of the rebellion or not. But yes, she is. Even if I told you her name, you’d have trouble finding her. There are so many people in the Rebellion. She told me in her last letter that she made it on the transport along with my uncle. I know they’re safe. They’re at the rendezvous point, but I wouldn’t know where they were at this very moment, since I’m not there myself. When I get back to the fleet maybe I could introduce my aunt and uncle to you, as long as you’re not too busy. But things are a lot better between us now. She’s getting counseling, and we’ve had some good conversations recently. I think everything between us is going to be okay.

Okay…if you hear anything about Mon Mothma, let me know. She told me she hasn’t had much luck with what she was looking for, so she seemed to be kind of down about that. I’m not sure when she’ll be back.

Hmm…well I’ll try to describe to you what I learned about the relaxation technique. What you do is try to work every muscle starting with your toes and work up to your face. You can do it while standing up or sitting down or whatever. You just move your muscles a little, and keep going up. It really does work. I’ve tried it before. I usually have no problems sleeping…but occasionally I do. When I’m back at the rendezvous point, I’d be glad to show you.

Well…did you prepare that casserole? Or are you not going to tell me, LOL?

Good luck with putting everything in files. From the way you made it sound, that’s a lot of stuff!

I know…I know the Rebellion doesn’t have that good of a chance of winning this war…I mean, think about it…but our members have a lot of determination. We have something we’re fighting for….freedom. The Empire has nothing they’re fighting for, except to crush us. As long as we keep at it, I think we still have a chance. I don’t want to think about what if we don’t win. We’ve got to focus everything on doing what we set out to do…otherwise we probably won’t make it. I don’t believe that evil can rule forever. I believe that good always prevails over evil…and if we don’t win the war…hopefully we can give other people hope that they might overthrow the Empire.

Wedge told me that the Rebellion has learned that the Empire is building a new Death Star, but that you don’t have much information on it. Is that true?

The way I understood it from Obi-Wan, yes my intuitiveness comes from being Force Sensitive. I don’t fully understand it…but that’s what he said, and he was a Jedi Knight. Yoda seemed to confirm what he told me. That must be the way it is with all Force Sensitive people…I mean about know what was going to happen before it did.

Yes, Vader wants to fight me. I hope I can kick his butt. He thinks no one could ever take him down…but I hope to prove him wrong.

Yes…the little green guy is Yoda. Yoda may be little, but his appearance is very deceiving. He is VERY strong and powerful. I think what Yoda was trying to do with the imaginary fight with Vader was to teach me a lesson. It sure worked too. :) Yes, he pulled my X-Wing out of the swamp, and I’m glad he did. I can leave now. Oh yeah…is he POWERFUL in the Force.

Thanks. You take care of yourself too.

I totally despise Vader!! He is a no good, very bad, horrible, loser, and a big creep!!!! I can’t stand him. You’ll understand why after I tell you what happened over at Cloud City.

Okay, now to tell you about what’s been going on recently. Well I got sick yesterday…like it was the flu or something, so Yoda let me stay in bed. He pretty much left me alone, but he did come in to feed me a couple times, and clean up some barf. Sadly, I miss my aunt… Yoda’s okay, but my aunt’s better at taking care of a sick human…than a troll. Well anyway, I was feeling better in the afternoon, so Yoda made me get up and do some training.

Yoda had me do the head stand again, but this time he didn’t make me move anything…he had me try to see things through the force…he had me focus on my friends…I thought of Han and Leia right away. As soon as I got a clear image…I saw a City in the Clouds…Yoda said it’s Bespin…and Han and Leia were there. They were together, but they weren’t safe. They were in a lot of pain and suffering. I actually felt their pain…Han’s pain hurt me some, but Leia’s pain REALLY hurt me, and I couldn’t take it, so I fell over. Yoda told me that it was the future that I saw. That really scared me. I feel that they’re in danger…probably because of the Empire. Stupid Vader’s probably the cause of it…

How dare he hurt my friends? Especially Leia…she’s a woman…and I felt that she was in more pain than Han. What kind of living thing would hurt a female more than a guy. Oh I’m just so mad at the Empire right now!

I asked Yoda if they would die. I don’t want my friends to die. I feel that I MUST go after them and rescue them.

Yoda called Ben…(Ben had been staying on the other side of the planet) and they both tried to convince me not to go. I told them that I had to.

Ben and Yoda are afraid that the Emperor wants me for my powers, but I’m not going to turn to the Dark Side. I tried assuring them that I wouldn’t turn. I don’t think they were convinced. They kept on trying and trying…and Ben told me that if I chose to face Vader, I have to do it alone…that he can’t interfere. I promised them that I would come back to finish my training after I had rescued Han and Leia…they still didn’t look convinced. It was almost defeat that I saw in their faces.

You wouldn’t believe this, but Leia and Han’s pain is so intense that it is making me physically sick. I have to go and help them. And to top it off…I just received a letter from Leia. (This was after that vision thingy), Leia wrote to me and told me that Lando betrayed them to Vader and other Imperials. Apparently Vader put a bounty on them after they “lost” the Millennium Falcon, and Boba Fett took the job. He located the Millennium Falcon and notified Vader where the Millennium Falcon was going. Because the Imperials had working hyperdrives, they arrived before Han and Leia…so the Imperials hid. Leia and Han then showed up and Lando pretended like nothing was going on. Then he invited them to this banquet, and Vader was the host!!!!! He captured them and has tortured them extensively. Leia said that Vader hasn’t even asked them any questions. She doesn’t understand why Vader is doing this. I don’t understand it either.

I only hope that when I get to Cloud City I’m not too late. I don’t want them to die; they are my best and closest friends. How can Vader be like that?????? It’s pure cruelty. Why doesn’t he just kill them since he seems to want them dead so much. What pleasure could he possibly get from watching people suffer?

Well I’m getting ready to head off to Cloud City…so I must end this letter now.

In a few moments I’ll be taking off…see you later.


Luke
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Note 22
Luke,

Yes, Anakin was a very nice little boy. I miss him terribly. I wish Palpatine had never come into power.

Awww, I’m sorry you can’t recognize your father. Doesn’t Obi-Wan have any pictures of him?

Really, your aunt is part of the Rebellion? Well, I would like to meet her when you get back. Maybe we can all have dinner or something. Since you sound like you’re a better cook than I am (you can actually follow a recipe), you can cool. :-)

I haven’t seen Mon Mothma in a while. She’s pretty busy with some top secret information they’ve found.

Wow. Your relaxation technique worked SO well. It put me right to sleep. Thanks.

I did NOT prepare that casserole. :-)

Yes…I do have a lot of stuff to put in files. I usually save everything.

Yes, you’re right. The Rebellion does have a lot of determination. And you’re right again—at least we can show others that the Empire isn’t in control of everything. Even if we lose, someone else can try again.

A new Death Star?? I hadn’t heard anything about it. That must be the top secret information that Mon Mothma is mulling over. Interesting. I wonder if we’re going to have a meeting about it soon.

You’re going to fight Vader??? You really need to be careful, he’s pretty powerful.

Yeah, it does sound like Yoda is very powerful. I’m glad you’re learning a lot from him.

What happened on Cloud City??

Wow…you sure do sound pretty sick. But you’re better now?

What?!?! Vader has captured Han and Leia? Ugh, that’s awful! I can’t believe him! He really is a creep.

Hey, just because Leia is a woman doesn’t mean she feels more pain. I mean, I’m a woman and I don’t think that I suffer more pain than men.

So you’re going to fight Vader when you rescue Han and Leia? Like I said, he’s really powerful.

Wow. I can’t believe Vader tricked them like that. That’s awful.

Please, please be careful.


Shmi
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Note 23
Shmi,

I wish that Palpatine had never come into power too. The galaxy would be in a lot better place right now if he hadn’t. Well of course you would miss your son. I hope that it isn’t too painful for you to think about. He sounds like a good person to have known. Too bad that he and the other Jedi like him died. I’m sure he would have been a wonderful and interesting person to have met.

I asked Obi-Wan, and he said he didn’t have any pictures of my father. That didn’t really surprise me. I’m used to having my past hidden from me.

Yes, my aunt is part of the Rebellion…so are some of my other relatives, even my grandfather. (my cousins, aunts, uncles, and my grandfather are ALL in the Rebellion.) Hmmm…well I’ll see about introducing my aunt to you as soon as I get to the rendezvous point. Right now, I’m in the middle of a fight, so it’s kind of hard for me to introduce you to her, LOL. A dinner sounds nice….I suppose I could try to cook. I should warn you, though…it’s not really something I enjoy doing that much.

Yeah…Mon Mothma said she was going to Tatooine and then Blue Waters to accept something that happened in her past. I probably shouldn’t really tell you any more, because I don’t think she would want the entire Rebellion to know. It’s something she confided in me, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to tell you about it too. I do know that she is not with the fleet right now. She’s been writing me, telling me about it.

Good! I’m glad my relaxation technique worked for you. Sure…any time. If I have information or knowledge that would help another person, I use it!

Oh, okay, so you did not prepare that casserole :)

You save everything? I do too…it can be a bad habit of mine.

Yeah….Vader’s been bragging about some new Death Star. I heard that the Emperor was supposed to be personally overseeing the completion of it…and that means that if the Rebellion can take down the Death Star, we can also take down the Emperor! This is a huge mistake on his part. We might have a chance at destroying the Empire forever!

Yes, I’m going to fight Vader. In fact, I’m fighting him right now. The fight isn’t over, but I’ve been beat up quite a bit. I know he’s powerful. For some reason I thought that just because I was a new Jedi that I could take him down. It looks like I’m wrong.

Yeah…but I had to postpone my training in order to rescue Han and Leia from Vader’s evil hands.

I have a lot to tell you about what has happened on Cloud City so far. You must bear with me, because I want to first finish answering your letter before I give you updates.

Yeah…I’m much better now, thank you. I was sick, but I’m fine now. I just hope that I didn’t give whatever it was that I had to Yoda. That would not be good.

And yes, Vader captured Han and Leia…and now I found out why. I can’t stand Vader; he’s a disgusting idiot head no good very bad creep!

I meant no disrespect to you. I wasn’t trying to imply that just because Leia is a woman that that means she feels more pain than Han. I was just telling you what it felt like through the Force. It FELT as if Leia could feel more pain then Han could for whatever reason. I’m not sure if it was because she was female or not…but that’s just how it came to me.

I wouldn’t put anything beneath Vader. He is a horrible, cold, ruthless person. So torturing Han and Leia…that’s probably what he normally does in a day.

Well…I’ve made it to Cloud City…and um…things aren’t turning out the way I expected them to. I thought Vader was hurting them for his pleasure…but actually he used Leia and Han as bait to get me to come to Bespin. He tried telling me, “Your destiny lies with me, Skywalker. Obi-Wan knew this to be true.” He’s trying to take me to the Emperor so that I will turn to the Dark Side. What a creep. Why does he think I’d turn?

I can’t believe that he has gone to so much trouble to get to me. That’s probably the whole reason he went after the Millennium Falcon…because he thought I was on it. But why does he want me so badly? Aren’t there other Force Sensitive people he could try to hunt for? I know Force Sensitive people are kind of rare. Why doesn’t he just kill me off instead of trying to corrupt me? He killed off all the Jedi Knights, so why is he trying to get ME on the Dark Side.

Anyway, nothing in the galaxy would have stopped me from going to save my friends. He probably would have continued to hurt them until I came, so I hope I helped them in some small way…though I didn’t get to rescue them. I hope they’re all right.

Yes, both Obi-Wan and Yoda begged me not to go. Somehow they both knew Vader wanted me for the Dark Side, and that’s why they were trying to keep me from going. I don’t think they wanted harm to come to Leia and Han…but I guess they didn’t think I’d be able to handle Vader…and thought that I’d turn. You want to know what I said to them before I left?

Yoda said, “Luke, you must not go.”

I said, “And sacrifice Han and Leia?”

Yoda said after a moment, “If you honor what they fight for, then yes. If you go now, if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did, help them you could, but you would sacrifice all for which they fight for.”

Both Obi-Wan and Yoda were convinced that if I went to go help them, I would turn to the Dark Side. That made (and still makes) no sense to me. Absolutely none.

Yeah…Vader was torturing them extensively without asking any questions. I guess the reason for that was that he knew I’d feel their pain through the Force, so it was his nasty way of getting me to Bespin. What did you mean when you said, “How can this be happening? After all these years…never mind. I’ll contact Obi-Wan about this immediately.”

Okay, I’m kind of annoyed right now. I felt that I had to write someone…and I don’t know where Han and Leia are right now. You listen to me, and we’ve shared a lot of deep things, so I immediately thought of you as the person to write.

I’m in the middle of a fight right now. I hope Vader can’t find me. Before I went to Cloud City, I was all for fighting Vader…now it’s different…now I want out!!! I suppose I should tell you what happened to me as soon as I got to Bespin.

All right, here goes:
Well I arrived at Cloud City fine. I landed with no problem. The minute I got out of my ship I knew that there was something wrong…the place was too quiet. I went into the main building, and again, everything was all quiet. I didn’t see anyone for a long time. I kept going further into the building…and then I saw Leia and Chewie and C-3PO being led by Imperials. I tried to stay out of view, but some of the Imperials saw me and started shooting at me.

The Imperials were dragging a table like thing…I couldn’t see what it was…I started to follow them. I couldn’t see Han. Eventually Leia saw me and tried yelling at me not to follow…that it was a trap. Being the stupid person that I was, I didn’t listen. I followed after her. I wanted to rescue her…but when I got to the hall that they had rounded, the door they went in was locked, and I had no choice but to continue down another hall.

As soon as I stepped into it, the door shut behind me. That was a little scary, but I didn’t have much time to think because I heard the breathing of Darth Vader. I looked around and saw him on the top of these stairs. I went over to him. I ignited my lightsaber…and he ignited his. We started fighting. To be honest, I thought fighting Darth Vader would be really easy. Oh was I wrong! He’s tough!!! He was too hard for me.

He pushed me backwards…and I fell down the steps. Then he jumped down…he tried jumping on top of me, but I got up and moved away quickly. We locked lightsabers again, but he pushed me backwards again. This trap door opened up and I fell in. The second I landed, I knew I was in danger, so I flipped out of the pit with the force. Vader didn’t realize that until after he shut the chamber. He made a comment about me not being as powerful as the Emperor thought. I made a comment to him, and I guess he was impressed that I had jumped out of the pit.

We started fighting again. The room started filling up with this gas, so Vader took the fight to another place. He jumped down to another hallway. I followed. I can’t believe how stupid I was…I would have tried running away…but no I had to go LOOK for him. I really wanted him to pay for all of his crimes against the galaxy…especially the one where he killed off all the Jedi.

I heard his breathing down the hallway, so I followed it. I found myself in a room with a large circular window. I ignited my lightsaber again…like I was going to fight…and Vader did too…except that he raised his lightsaber and started using the force to throw things at me. He threw large pieces of equipment at me…really fast too. I tried my best to deflect them, but objects came from all directions. I started getting all these bruises and cuts and things…that was the worst fight I’ve ever had. ( Okay, so it was the only fight I’ve ever had…but still) I think he enjoys hurting other people. Well, one of the large pieces of equipment broke the window, and this violent wind came through…it pulled me out of the room. I somehow managed to grab onto something on the side of Cloud City…so I was okay. Another near death experience.

That’s where I am right now. Vader’s probably looking for me. I want out of this fight now! I didn’t know it would be like this. I wonder if this is how my father died…with Vader beating him up during the fight. Vader could have killed me by now…and I know it. I think he’s just playing around. He seems to like to do that.

I’m afraid that if Vader finds me right now…that he’s going to kill me. If anything happens to me, let Leia and Han and Wedge all know that I was thinking about them before I died. If by some miracle that I escape…then I’m never going to want to fight Darth Vader again.

I’ve been good at escaping near death experiences so far…but this is pushing it. I had no idea how powerful Vader was. Obviously, he’s more powerful than I am. Vader was trained as a Sith…probably for a long time. I’ve only been training as a Jedi for a few days. Why couldn’t I have listened to Ben, and Yoda?

Okay, I’m back from some more fighting with Vader.

All right, now you’re probably wondering what happened, right. Okay, here goes. Just after I finished writing you the last time, Vader showed up and we started fighting again. He still controlled the fight, and he took the fight to this long narrow platform. Soon after we were on that platform, I slashed at Vader…and caught him unprotected…I hit him in the shoulder with my lightsaber. That angered him…a lot…and it probably hurt him because he said ow…and screamed in pain for a second. Because of his suit, it didn’t hurt him much. It probably got to his skin, but not enough to do any real damage. He was angry with me for being caught off guard though…so he tried to distract me by having this piece of equipment fall. I turned to look, but when I did, I lost my balance.

I fell off that platform and landed hard…and wrong on my arm. It happened so quickly…but if I hadn’t fallen, Vader would have tried cutting off my arm…his lightsaber was almost touching my arm when I fell…his lightsaber was so close that it burned my arm a little.

Anyway, when I fell, I dropped my father’s lightsaber. My arm broke…it was a long fall, but I was okay. It was my right arm too…and I’m right handed…so it’s harder for me to write you. I hope you can read this.

Well before I could get up, Vader jumped down to my platform. Obviously I couldn’t fight anymore because I was hurt. Vader then did something that made me MAD. He grabbed my father’s lightsaber from the ground and hooked it onto his belt. That was my FATHER’S lightsaber…the only thing I have of my father’s, and he took it! What a creep! I tried to ask him to stop fighting…because I was hurt, and asked for my lightsaber back. He asked why…and I told him why…that it was my only connection to my father that I had. He laughed at me, but refused to give it back. There was nothing I could do about it.

So, the fight’s not over yet, but that is everything that has happened so far.


I better get going. Vader’s going after me again.


Luke
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