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   From: jill-marie@NOSPAMatt.net   
      
   Have you seen the new promos for the new SW novel coming out?   
      
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   Stranded in a B'omarr monastery on Teth and cut off from his troops,   
   Anakin Skywalker looks to a neighboring spire for a means of escape and   
   finds it in an unlikely clunker of a starship, the /Twilight/. Ahsoka   
   Tano makes short work of the enemy droids loading the ship, and the Jedi   
   heroes soon blast off to continue their mission in the feature film,   
   /Star Wars: The Clone Wars/.   
      
   Although we witness the ship ditch on Tatooine, we have not seen the   
   last of the /Twilight/. Anakin presumably scares off the overzealous   
   Jawas and reclaims the ship, and it becomes something of a hobby for him   
   throughout /The Clone Wars/ television series, an unofficial,   
   unaffiliated ship he can use on "errands" not part of his Republic orders.   
      
   Fans have speculated on the /Twilight/'s origins since images of the   
   ship first appeared at 2007's Celebration IV convention. Its folding   
   lower foil and lateral crossbeam remind many of a B-wing fighter. Its   
   behind-the-scenes design origins, however, only stretch back to Episode   
   III. Director Dave Filoni describes the /Twilight/ as being taken from   
   abandoned Erik Tiemens designs for a Coruscant firefighting ship.   
      
   There is an older connection the /Twilight/ holds that dates back all   
   the way to 1977, to the original /A New Hope/. As a beat up old spice   
   freighter, the /Twilight/ is the kernel of truth to Uncle Owen's lie   
   about Anakin. Luke Skywalker's father was indeed a navigator on a spice   
   freighter... from a certain point of view.   
      
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   So, indeed, this is the second time we see Anakin/Vader going back to   
   Tatooine.  So, we can assume that Anakin is not adverse to going back to   
   his "home" planet after all.   
   Which begs the question, why didn't he find out about Luke?  All this   
   vistitation back home when he was Anakin, and it stopped when he was Vader?   
      
   A whole book/series on one line?  I know it's happened before....but   
   I've had it.  Really, I've had it.  I own *all* the novels.  All of   
   them.....hardback if they came out in hardback.   
      
   Rape my childhood and all that.   
      
   ~~jm   
   leaving in a huff... ;-)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)