read this in a comics magazine. Maybe it's right, maybe it's old news, maybe it's a wild hoax. Take it with as many grains of salt as may help the flavor.
Allegedly, this is part of the opening "crawl."
STAR WARS
Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.
Hoping to resolve the matter with the blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo....
Posted by LB4747 on :
It's real. Lucas revealed it in the Feb. 1999 issue of Vanity Fair (the one with the cast and Lucas on the cover).
------------------ Lawrence Boucher "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."--Albert Einstein
Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :
curses! That's what I get for avoiding magazines that don't have fold-outs!