hi all just thought i'd ask about this, because as a youngster, i always thought the academy luke asks uncle owen about was where the rebels were trained. obviously now, to me there is no way that the empire would allow such a thing. so what actually is the academy? i've seen some test footage that seemed to be filmed in a car park with some unknown (to me) actors playing luke and biggs, and biggs is talking about sneaking off from the academy to join the rebellion. which leads me to ask-
did luke nearly become an imperial pilot at some sort of imperial training academy?