xhonzi said:

Nice ideas, TheoOdo... 1 quick question while I digest the other things you wrote: Why Tatooine? I always thought it was a big mistake to put any of the Prequels there... it's already a little hard to swallow that they would "hide" Luke under his father's actual surname... if they also hid him from his father on his father's home planet...

I've thought long about that one myself, and I'd still start the story on Tatooine.

One of my goals is to make Obi as little of a liar as possible. The lies he tells to Luke in "Star Wars" are to spare the boy's feelings, and he probably means to tell him the whole truth when the current crisis is over.

Im wokring that Anakin, his sister Beru, and her husband Owen are settlers (a nice Western-movie trope) who fled to Tatooine to find oppurtunities as the endless civil war of the collapsing Republic have made oppurtunities scarce. Owen and Beru are farmers, and Anakin flies supply runs. So it's not really Vader's home planet.

(also, I'm planning that Vader never even knows he had kids or that his lady was preggers, so another reason it works to hide Luke so carelessly)