I don't get it, was this stuff actually in the early drafts or are you just making it all up?

On that note, is there any actual synopsis of the early drafts available anywhere or do I have to find the scripts online and read them from start to finish? All I know is that some magazine from the 80s had a rundown of Lucas' original plans for the first film and they actually sounded better than what we got. That is unless the writer of the article was making it all up. Anyway, there were more characters in it and the galaxy seemed a lot bigger than what we ended up with.