rsterling78 posted:I guess there's some logic -- although questionable logic it is -- hiding Luke on Tatooine with Owen and Beru Lars. I doubt Darth Vader was planning on coming home for the holidays, or anything like that. But it still seems strange that Luke was told his last name is Skywalker. While it's not very likely that the Emperor or Vader would hear about anyone name Skywalker living on a rural moisture farm, in the unlikely they did hear about it, it would certainly lead to Luke and the Lars being taken into custody, Luke's relationship to Vader being established, and Luke being trained in the Sith arts. That's not what was done with Leia. She was given the name Organa after Bail and his wife. I know, I know: the Alderaanian royal family is much higher profile than a farmer on Tatooine. "Princess Skywalker" wouldn't have made it into toddlerhood without being picked up by the Empire. But why take the chance with Luke? The same goes for Ben Kenobi. Having someone with the apparently uncommon name of Skywalker living with Vader's closest living relatives on Vader's home planet in close proximity to a man named Kenobi is not exactly my idea of keeping a low profile. I hope these folks at least took the precaution of having unlisted phone numbers and addresses, or whatever the GFFA equivalent of that would be. It just seems like using aliases would have been a very easy and much safer thing to do.
Darthbane2007 posted:Okay, say Luke was able to go to the Imperial Academy and put Luke Skywalker on his application. What would hve happened to him then?
Arawn_Fenn posted:Darthbane2007 posted:Okay, say Luke was able to go to the Imperial Academy and put Luke Skywalker on his application. What would hve happened to him then? He would have gotten a legacy scholarship?
celera posted:I always wondered why George decided to reveal that Leia was Force-sensitive in ESB when he didn't know at the time that she was Luke's sister. What other possibilities for her did he have in mind other than being a Skywalker?
Arawn_Fenn posted:Apparently there are a lot of people named Jax Pavan.
jedimasterbac posted:celera posted:I always wondered why George decided to reveal that Leia was Force-sensitive in ESB when he didn't know at the time that she was Luke's sister. What other possibilities for her did he have in mind other than being a Skywalker? I don't know if that was a revelation of Leia being Force sensitive. They may have just been suggesting that a Force user can reach out to the minds of anyone, including non-Force users. We never actually say Leia communicate back, after all.