Discussions Did the Galaxy learn about Luke and Leia's parentage?

Hi, I'm SkyJade114. Newbie.

I have a question to all the hardcore EU/Legends fans. After ROTJ, did the fact that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia's father become public knowledge? If so, how did the galaxy react?

 

I was just wondering, because of what happened in the Canon novel Bloodline.

 

What did you mean by trying to reconcile the two SW timelines? Are you writing fanfiction or making up your own Star Wars universe?

 

Sinre is working his own project. An admirable effort called One Canon.

In Disney Canon, yes, the Galaxy finds out in Bloodlines that Anakin Skywalker is Vader and the father of Luke and Leia.

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I know what happened in Bloodline, but I was talking about the Legends EU.

 

There's some question about that. Some Imperials know as early as The Jedi Academy Trilogy (and perhaps earlier if you consider certain Star Wars books that include the Prophets of the Dark Side or the Glove of Darth Vader "canon" re: Legends). At the very least, some of the Imperials knew around 11 ABY. That was one of the remarks that Ambassador Furgan made to his troops when they were about to kidnap Anakin Solo, counting on the fact that Anakin was the grandson of Darth Vader.

And later, as Sinre mentioned, Senator Praget knew about it in the Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy, and made a big deal of it, trying to compare Leia to her father.

 

In the ANH novel Red Leader immediately deduces Luke was Anakin's son, from his name, after Biggs describes his talents: "I knew your father when I was a boy - he was a great pilot".

I could see Luke being very open about it in the OT era, and, as such, that filtering out to the population after ROTJ.

Prince Xizor's a good example of a pre-RoTJ villain that knew Vader was Anakin and so that Luke was Vader's son, from overhearing that Vader & Palpatine TESB conversation.

In TTT, it seems widely known that Luke & Leia are siblings.

 

Yep, but not about the truth of their parentage, or Thrawn wouldn't have risked using the Noghri.

 

Yup. Maybe even Thrawn doesn't know - being not in Palpatine's inner circle?

 

That may be a question of when did Palpatine know? Obviously, he knew by TESB, and Thrawn kept being shuffled back and forth between the Unknown Regions and the main part of the galaxy. I suppose Palpatine saw it as a "need to know" for Thrawn, and at that point, Thrawn didn't need to know.

 

The old EU, but also NEU, have a major problem with the lack of Padme. Luke and Leia only found out who their mother was in the Dark Nest Trilogy (c. 35 ABY). I don't recall if this became public later on, though Leia did get to meet up with her cousin Pooja, who also served as Naboo's senator.

As for Anakin, it's hard to believe people wouldn't remember Anakin Skywalker, a hero of the Clone Wars. The name could have been connected to Luke. However, as Sinrebirth said, fewer would probably knew about the Anakin=Vader part.

 

By the time of Bloodline, in the NEU, Leia knows about Padme being her mother (if I remember correctly).

 

Indeed, but that is kind of just glossed over. So neither EU nor NEU expolored the influence of that side of Luke&Leia parentage.