I’ve always been a big EU fan, and I was aware that a lot of stuff had happened before the original trilogy. When the prequels came around, I was interested by Lucas’s general lack of explanation as to what the background was for the “revenge” of the Sith. He has Maul discuss “revenge” with Sideous in TPM, but the viewer is never told what the revenge is for. I sat down for a few hours a while back and looked up the actual history, according to the EU. The result is a short, text-based prequel, explaining the events leading up to the prequel trilogy.

I know it might be a bit tedious to read a lot of text, but I did my best to time it all to the opening music of RotJ to keep it interesting. I made two versions:

A full, HD version: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=754Y5YRQ

and a smaller, low-quality version, with larger text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wA5fU3Wo2c

All comments are appreciated. I thought this would be the place, if any, to see what people thought. I’ve always thought of this vid as being placed directly before the “A long time ago…” in TPM (or related fan film).

Thanks for watching.