Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Dir. Irvin Kershner | May 21, 1980

Anakin Skywalker // Sheev Palpatine // Hego Damask

Darth Vader // Darth Sidious // Darth Plagueis

Text from Darth Plagueis by James Luceno

“There is a moment- just one moment,” McDiarmid remembers. “It’s after Anakin’s been almost destroyed and he’s got little life in him. Palpatine has sent for the medical team and he’s waiting for them to arrive- and he just gently touches Anakin’s forehead. Sidious doesn’t have any qualities we normally associate with humanity, except he does have a master-servant relationship with Anakin. Anakin means something to him.”

THE MAKING OF STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH By J. W. Rinzler

Imagine you’re some pod racing enthusiast watching the Boonta Eve Classic and some literal child enters with the shittiest scrap pod you’ve ever seen. He built it himself. He then proceeds to absolutely demolish every other professional racer. The kid never enters a race again but his legacy lives on in the hearts of the pod racing community.

About 10 years later, you tune into a news stream to catch some news about the Clone War. The announcer is talking about a particularly pivotal battle, saying something about “Jedi General Anakin Skywalker”

YOU MEAN THAT KID FROM THE BOONTA EVE CLASSIC???

Asajj Ventress has been a slave, a Jedi, a Sith, a Nightsister, a bounty hunter, a fugitive, and an airport security guard too apparently

This is Ghorman reaching for any open channel that can hear me. If you can... If you can hear me... If you believe in truth, if you have any faith left in truth, please, please mark this message and pass it forward.

ANDOR 2.08 | Who Are You?

Even if Anakin was never found by Qui-Gon, remained as a slave, stayed on Tatooine, etc etc… none of Palpatine's plans relied on him.

Palpatine was already senator of Naboo and had manipulated (if not outright caused) the situation between the Trade Federation and Naboo before he ever met Anakin. The Sith were already at the heart of the Republic.

"Light it up."

ANDOR (2022-2025) // ROGUE ONE (2016)

It’s Andor day!!

Bonus: concept sketch

«I used to bring Qui-Gon here as a boy. He was fascinated with this tree, having been born here on Coruscant, a planet of steel and stone. He knew nothing like it».