That's what your uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals; thought he should have
and not gotten involved.
come from Tatooine. Mea culpa. I went through the script and picked out lines that I felt were pertinent to any attempts to create a credible PT. I found it a very refreshing exercise, particularly because I discovered that it contained the (still!) excised scene on Tatooine with Biggs. Not bad for a freebie from Empire magazine! My favourite line from that scene:
Your uncle could hold off a whole colony of Sand People with one blaster.
Also, from the scene replaced in the SE between Luke, Biggs and Red Leader (has anyone ever named this character?) before the BOY, Red Leader says:
I met your father once, when I was just a boy. He was a great pilot. You'll do alright. If you've got half of your father's skill, you'll do better than alright.
There is an extended line that I find very valuable in this enterprise, said to Princess Leia by the Rebel Commander that meets them when they arrive at the Massassi Outpost:
When we heard about Alderaan we were afraid that you were... lost along with your father.
Combine this with the recording placed in R2:
General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to bring you to Alderan has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!
It suddenly made me think: Leia got over the shock of Alderaan being destroyed, with her adoptive family on it, rather easily, don't you think? Anyway, it means that any true PT would have to show the importance of Bail Organa. He was clearly a military leader of Republican forces in the Clone Wars and is a major player in the Rebel Alliance after the Clone Wars have been lost. Tarkin would obviously want Organa out of the way. Vader reveals to Leia at the start of ANH that the Empire knows she's part of the Rebel Alliance. It's a cinch that they know Bail Organa's in on it too.
This would be one of the reasons why Tarkin proceeds with the destruction of Alderaan. It is a populous world, it was, perhaps, one of the last worlds to hold out against the Empire at the close of the Clone Wars and it is home to an active Rebel leader. What a perfect first victim for the Death Star. What a signal to send to the Rebel Alliance. And, it being an important planet, the news is sure to spread fast. If Dantooine had been destroyed, the news may not have been so sensational. I was lead to consider this line from Tarkin:
Dantooine is too remote to make an effective demonstration.
I had always thought that he was referring to the Alliance when he was talking about making a demonstration, as in the rebels making a demonstration against the Empire. I now consider him to be referring to an effective demonstration of the Death Star.
For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old Republic. Before the dark times... before the Empire.
