Wow… He really did have some good ideas here. I’m shocked how many of these backstories I actually really love! Like, pretty much all of them except for the way the force works…
Yeah, there’s a lot of really cool ideas here, I especially like Threepio’s backstory as I think it adds more to his personality/character than the whole Anakin-made-him-thing that we’re now stuck with.
I’m not too sure about “space gypsies” though. But I’m sure that idea could have worked provided they got a better name.
I also think that the people who insist that Lucas had the whole saga planned from the beginning should read this.