Vader-you guessed it-dies in his son’s arms. Luke, Maul, and the Emperor all survive them.) Vader redeems himself by throwing the Emperor down a reactor shaft to his death…or is it?!? (Generally speaking, never trust shaft-related deaths in Star Wars. The Emperor tortures Luke with Force Lightning, his evil power of choice. Meanwhile, the Emperor tries to turn Luke to the Dark Side, and Luke fights Vader, then the Emperor. The Rebel forces, and specifically Admiral Ackbar, discover that the Empire has laid a trap for them. Luke surrenders to Imperial troops to reach Vader, and tries to convince his father to reject the Dark Side. (Death Stars seem to be the only weapon the Empire knows how to build.) Han, Luke, Leia, and Chewbacca travel to the forest moon Endor to destroy the new Death Star and meet a bunch of cuddly bear-like creatures called the Ewoks they will inspire generations of Star Wars characters designed to later be sold as stuffed animals. The Empire is constructing a second Death Star. Read More: Billie Lourd on Becoming the Keeper of Princess Leia Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 3 ABY Leia awards Luke and Han medals for heroism, though not Chewbacca, which is just rude. Han and Chewbacca unexpectedly return to knock Vader’s ship off course before Vader can kill Luke, and Luke is able to channel the Force to destroy the Death Star. Luke joins the rebel’s X-wing squadron in their mission to destroy the Death Star. Han-always the rogue-abandons the Rebels after collecting his reward for retrieving Leia. Onboard the Death Star, Obi-Wan sacrifices himself in a lightsaber duel against Vader, allowing Luke, Han, and Leia to escape. Luke persuades Han to help him save Leia and the love triangle commences. Before the Millennium Falcon can reach the planet, Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing) destroys the all of Alderaan as a tactic in his interrogation of Leia-proving that the Empire is very evil. Imperial stormtroopers murder Luke’s aunt and uncle while searching for R2-D2, and Luke and Obi-Wan hire Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) to transport them to Leia’s home of Alderaan. Read More: Rogue One Rewinds-and Rewrites-the Star Wars Legacy Episode IV: A New Hope 0 ABY (After the Battle of Yavin) Princess Leia gets ahold of the Death Star plans and escapes Vader. Vader boards the Rebel command ship and kills dozens of rebel troops in arguably his most epic fight scene in any of the movies. The two die holding each other as the Death Star destroys the beach of Scarif-seemingly wrapping up their story…until Disney+ announced a prequel TV series called Andor. One by one, each of the Rogue One crew dies, but not before Cassian and Jyn are able to complete the transmission of the plans to the Rebel Alliance. Jyn and Cassian defy orders and lead a small group who dub themselves Rogue One to the planet Scarif to take the schematics. (See: The “parent dying in child’s arms” motif.) Jyn lobbies the Rebel Alliance to steal the Death Star schematics, but the rebels have given up on victory. Jyn and Cassian find Galen at an Empire facility about to be destroyed by the rebels, and Galen dies in Jyn’s arms. The message reveals that Galen has built a vulnerability in the Death Star and somehow nobody in the Empire noticed. Obi-Wan and Yoda hide the birth of the twins from Vader and separate them, sending Leia with Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits) to his home world of Alderaan, and Luke with his step-uncle Owen to Tatooine. Palpatine tells Vader that Padme is dead, and Vader yells, “Noooooooooo” in an extremely meme-able manner. A medical droid tells Obi-Wan she was physically fine but died of a broken heart, which…sure. Padme gives birth to twins named Luke and Leia and dies soon after. Palpatine rescues Vader and sticks him in the iconic Vader suit. The rest of Vader’s body then catches on fire. But Vader tries to jump over Obi-Wan anyway, and Obi-Wan cuts off both of Vader’s legs and his one remaining non-mechanical arm. Obi-Wan gets the high ground and warns Vader not to try to fight him. Obi-Wan and Vader duel in what’s basically an active volcano. Vader at this point turns into a jealous maniac and assumes that Obi-Wan and Padme are having an affair. Obi-Wan tells Padme that her husband is a child murderer. Darth Vader, no stranger to mass murder at this point, kills a bunch of doe-eyed children training to be Jedi. Palpatine issues Order 66, commanding his clone army to kill all the Jedi.
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