RicOlie_2 said:

I kind of think that way too. My personal canon includes the basic story-line, so it is not specific enough that Adywan's edit and the SE contradict each other.

What I consider to be my "canon" for ANH is that a farmer boy on a desert planet acquires two robots who are carrying technical readouts for a battle station constructed by an evil galactic empire. The empire tracks down the robots and kills the boy's family (the boy is away with the droids at the time). A friend of the boy who was once a famous Jedi and is now in hiding decides to take the boy with him to deliver the droids to a rebel base when he discovers that the droids are carrying the plans. They hire a smuggler to fly them to the base, but when they arrive, the planet on which the base was located and has been destroyed by the battle station. Their ship is captured, but they manage to exit the ship in disguise. The Jedi goes to disable the tractor beam holding the ship in place, and the boy and the smuggler end up rescuing a key leader of the rebellion who is on the station. The Jedi disables the tractor beam, but is killed, and the rest of them escape on their ship. They travel to another rebel base and form a plan to disable the battle station. The battle station arrives to destroy the rebel base, but is destroyed. I don't consider anything more detailed than that outline to be definite canon.

Cool way of looking at it, Ric! Leaves plenty of room for ambiguity.