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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE] Actually, it's Bail Organa [/QUOTE]Doh! Even I get confused sometimes. ;) [QUOTE] They were. The problem is that there's a whole lot of semi-established "canon" which Lucas is going directly against, leading to contradictions within the SW universe and a very ugly mess for us fanboys to clean up. [/QUOTE]The films have, on the whole been fairly consistent with one another (with the possible exception of the age of the Republic) anything else like novels or comic books are just supplements and are not really important to the Star Wars saga. If you treat all the materials as being based on historical documents then you can put down any inconsistencies between the books and the films as being the same story told from different points of view, with some facts confused or fabricated, as is often the nature with written histories. In regards to how much of a backstory Lucas had planned, here is a passage taken from the original novelisation of Star Wars: [QUOTE]PROLOGUE Another galaxy, another time. The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that...it was [i]the[/i] Republic. Once under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match. So it was with the Republic at it's height. Like the greatest of trees, able to withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was not visible from outside. Aided and abetted by restless, power hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic. Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears. Having exterminated through treachery and deception the Jedi Knights, guardians of justice in the galaxy, the Imperial governors and bureaucrats prepared to institute a reign of terror among the disheartened worlds of the galaxy. Many used the imperial forces and the name of the increasingly isolated Emperor to further their own personal ambitions. But a small number of systems rebelled at these new outrages. Declaring themselves opposed to the New Order they began the great battle to restore the Old Republic. From the beginning they were vastly out numbered by the systems held in thrall by the Emperor. In those first dark days it seamed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples... From the First Saga [i]Journal of the Whills[/i][/QUOTE]He seams to have stuck to most of it, although the bit about the Emperor being controlled by his assistants doesn't seam right. On the other hand we never really learnt exactly who those "Imperial Dignitaries" (whom appeared in some scenes in RotJ) were or what their function was. In the RotJ book there are some more detailed references to Leia's "real" mother (apparantly the fact that she was adopted was never a secret). There are references to [i]"-distorted visions of running...a beautiful woman...hiding in a trunk..."[/i] and [i]"parting embraces, flesh being torn from flesh"[/i]. Which may or may not give some insight to the fate of Padme and the circumstances of her giving up Leia. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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