Star Wars-A Little help here Star Wars Fans!

[Victoria Brighton]

So yeshly...anyone want to explain to me all about Star Wars? ;D Saw the movie in theaters, the Sith one, and about half of the one before that with Hayden C. and Natalie P., but I'm a bit lost on the whole general storyline ^.^ I've got a clue, sure, but still! Needing help from the experts!

[Larissa]

Okay, what can I say, but that you are crazy, Ava! LOL

Here is a link to a basic thingy of Star Wars: www.starwars.com/episode-iii/bts/production/f20050126/indexp2.html

Now, if you would ask specific questions, that would be nice.. hehe. I'm not going to explain because that would take ages telling each and every detail.. So ask away, missy!

[Emma Hawkins/Rick MacKinnon]

The whole....basic...thing?:dies:Bloody Hell,mate...aaagh...prequels or original?Narrow it down a bit for me,or I'll go on for pages....

[Victoria Brighton]

LOL well I don't understand the whole general outline of it! Like, I saw a few minutes of one of the older movies-they were like in a ship or something being crushed because they were in the garbage thingy? And the white suited people were running about being ebil. BUT, the white suited people are good until the ending of the newer movie! Whyfore is that? See there's one question!

[Rymonlinéa]

Hehe Tobbsy, I fell asleep during Episodes 5 and 6 XD. So..I should watch those before I see the new one XD.

[Emma Hawkins/Rick MacKinnon]

Y-you...fell asleep during Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi?:dies:

Oookay....so Tobbsey saw,like,five minutes of New Hope...:sweatdrop:

A LONG TIME AGO,IN A GALAXY FAR,FAR AWAY

There were these really kick-arse people called Jedi.The Jedi Order was a group of people who harnessed the ability to use something called the Force,which flows through all life forms,holding them together.These Jedi Knights,noble and awesome and all around spiffy,protected and,to an extent,enforced the will of,the Galactic Senate.They were the peacekeepers of the entire galaxy,in short.

The first of the prequels (as far as I can remember,didn't watch them nearly as much as the originals) opens with two jedi-Qui-Gon Jinn,the master,and Obi-Wan Kenobi,the apprentice,on a diplomatic mission.The Trade Federation has had their ships surround the planet of Naboo in hopes of forcing its young queen Amidala into an all-around bad deal.Jinn and Kenobi are locked in their quarters and foil an attempted assassination,and wind up fleeing to the planet.They find that the Federation has created a gigantic army of battle droids (droids->androids->robots) to take over the planet.After some plot-irrelevant adventures,and picking up the most irritating sidekick in history,they get to the capital and manage to rescue the Queen,breaking through the enemy lines in their spaceship and making the jump to hyperspace (hyperspace is their term for the faster-than-light overdrive with which all long-range journeys are made).However,the ship is damaged,and they land on the middle-of-nowhere desert planet of Tatooine.While looking for replacement parts,they meet a slave woman and her young son,a boy named Anakin Skywalker.He is all cute and blond and fluffy,and likes building machines and playing a sport that is,essentially,drag-racing with hovercar-thingies.He also likes Padme,the maidservant Amidala sent to accompany the two Jedi into the spaceport.A lot.

Qui-Gon,who has seen that Anakin is exceptionally receptive to the Force,makes a bet with the boy's owner:If Anakin wins the large,forthcoming race,he will be set free,and the ship will be repaired free of charge.

The day of the race comes,it's exciting,yadda yadda,Anakin wins.They take him back on their spaceship to the galactic capital of Coruscant,an entire planet's worth of city.There's a bunch of boring political stuff,and the Republic winds up sending troops to help the natives of Naboo.Qui-Gon takes Anakin to the Jedi Council,who say that he cannot take the boy in to teach him the ways of the Force,because he is too old for such training and Qui Gon already has an apprentice.He replies that the boy is even stronger in the Force than the most respected of the council's elders,Yoda (the cute little green dude....),and that he may be the chosen one refered to in ancient prophecy,destined to bring balance to the Force.Besides,his own apprentice is,he feels,ready to take the trials and become a Knight himself,making either of them eligible to train the boy.The council still refuses,saying Anakin has too many strong emotions,and not enough control over them;this will tempt him to be swayed to the dark side.

The whole group,Anakin included,since Qui-Gon decided to go against the council's will,goes back to Naboo for the impending battle.Amidala takes the others to meet with the leader of the Gungans,the other species populating the planet,and ask for his help.During the conversation,it is revealed that "Amidala" is only a body double,and Padme is in truth Queen Padme Amidala,ruler of Naboo.The Gungans agree to fight,there's a huge battle,and Anakin hijacks a one-man fighter ship and blows up the ship controlling the droid army.Meanwhile,a scary ebil bad guy named Darth Maul is facing down our two happy ickle Jedis.Obi-Wan gets cut off from his master and their adversary,and Qui-Gon is killed.Obi-Wan,in desperation and rage,slays Maul to avenge his master.The day is saved,but at the cost of one thoroughly kick-arse dude,and Obi-Wan becomes a Jedi Knight and takes Anakin as his apprentice.

Yay!I got through a whole movie's worth of stuff!I think I can consolidate 2 more,because half of it was icky,sappy goo between Padme and Anakin...Who,when this begins,is in his late teens...Since Queen is apparently an elected position on Naboo,with a limit to terms,Padme is no longer queen and now a senator.Obi-Wan and Anakin are sent to protect her on Coruscant,and wind up chasing down a bounty hunter in the underground...as they are about to question her,she's killed by another bounty hunter,who flies off with his jetpack,and despite their best efforts,escapes off-planet.

Obi-Wan traces his ammunition,and,through much research,finds the planet he's likely to be hiding on.He goes alone,and,oddly enough,the natives seem to be expecting him.They tell him that the clone army the Republic ordered bred is coming along magnificently.

No one in the Republic has heard about this...

Nonetheless,they take advantage of what is dropped right into their laps-free,mindlessly obedient troops are always good,right?

The man from whom these clones were made,a bounty hunter named Jango Fett,is on planet,so Obi pays him a visit.Besides his liberal payment,he requested only one thing of the natives-an unaltered clone,to raise as his son.Boba Fett is really adorable,for a homicidal lunatic....

Some of Obi-Wan's questions hit too close to home,so Jango tries to kill him before he can finish sending his reports back to the Council.Attempt fails miserably,so he and his son follow Obi-Wan's ship to the next planet,damned if I remember why he's going there,and try to blow him up,failing once more.Anakin,meanwhile,has gone back to Tatooine,and found out that his mother was sold,freed,and married her second owner.However,she was kidnapped by a local tribe of Sand People.Anakin chases them down,and finds his mother,who dies in his arms.Overcome by angst,he kills them all.Whee,random killing!

When he gets back to his ship,he sees Obi-Wan's distress signal,so he follows him to the planet with Padme.Their seperate attempts to infiltrate fail,and the three of them wind up in a gladiatorial arena,with lots of big,nasty,hungry things.Oh,yeah,and they're chained to poles.However,since they're the main protaganists,they manage to trick the beasts into breaking the chains,and lots of fighting ensues.When things start to look bad,the people in charge simply order them shot.Then,a few hundred Jedi in the crowd turn on their lightsabers,and a ship full of clone trooper reinforcements shows up.Huge battle scene ensues.There's this other evil dude who's only in one episode,Count Dooku.He was messing with Obi's head earlier...he is,apparently,an ex-Jedi who turned to the Dark side and joined the Sith (Ebil Jedi).As he tries to escape,who should show up but Yoda!And so the Lord of Darkness in Training gets his arse royally whooped by an elderly muppet.Obi-Wan and Anakin follow as well,and Dooku cuts off Anakin's hand,then escapes.Then Anakin and Padme get married,because they had to make this movie all gooey.

Movie 3!You saw it,fit in the pieces...^^;

A New Hope!Yay!A movie I know well!So...there's this chick on a spaceship,Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan...you may remember her as the wailing baby from episode 3...her ship is being taken over by stormtroopers (ex-clone troops) at the beck and call of the Empire (formerly the republic,now in every way sucky.This seems to be a very important battle,as Darth Vader (remember him?) himself is there to oversee it.Before she is captured,Leia records a call for help and the stolen files the ship was carrying on a maintenance droid (R2-D2....you should remember him,too.He's small and cute and talks in beeps and whistles.).The droid,and his companion C-3PO,get into an escape pod and head for the nearby planet of...Tatooine!We'll deal with them later.

Leia is captured,and sent by Vader himself to the Empire's new space station,the Death Star,for detention and interrogation as to her involvement with the Rebellion.Meanwhile,on Tatooine,Luke Skywalker (the other screaming baby) is bored out of his mind;he's been stuck as a farmer for his whole life,despite a desperate yearning for adventure-he's an amateue pilot,and wants to join the Rebellion against the Empire.One day on the farm,some Jawas (a race of second-hand droid salesmen/repairmen) come by.His uncle,who raised him,buys an interpreter droid-C-3PO,and an R2 unit to help with his machines.However,the red R2 unit breaks before the Jawas leave,and C-3PO convinces him to take R2-D2 instead.

While cleaning up the droids in his workshop,Luke comes across part of a file.A hologram manifests before him of a pretty young woman.The file is looped,and she can say only one thing:"Help me,Obi-Wan Kenobi...You're my only hope."Luke demands that R2 play the rest of the file,and 3PO translates the reply-that the restaining bolt is jamming his transmitters.Luke,feeling that such a small,compliant droid couldn't run away on him,takes off the bolt,and the image disappears.Before he can react,Luke is called to dinner.He reflects that perhaps this "Obi-Wan" the woman was talking about is old Ben Kenobi,a hermit from the nearby hills.He argues with his uncle about leaving the farm,then leaves to go back to the workshop.As he goes,his aunt comments to his uncle,"You can't keep him here forever...he's got too much of his father in him."The uncle replies,"That's what I'm afraid of..."

Luke returns to the workshop to find R2 gone,but can't follow until morning because the area is too dangerous.He and 3PO take the speeder to look for him.They find him,but are ambushed by Sand People.Luke is nearly killed,but is saved by old Ben,who reveals himself as Obi-Wan Kenobi.R2 plays back the whole message back at Obi-Wan's house,and Obi-Wan tells Luke about the Force,his father (though not entirely truthfully),and the now-dead Jedi Order...


....And it's late,so I'll write more later,if you require it,Tobbs!

[Evelyn]

*prepares to explain and blinks* WOW....Emma that's like a whole ickle guid for the way the whole series is organized. :-P lol...great job! *pats proudly* NOw I know if I ever have questions about the whole Star Wars series I can come here, but I think I get everything that's going on. LOVE the Empire and this latest one. I almost cried when those bastards were killing the Jedi in Episode three...*sniffles* bastards...*mutters*

[Victoria Brighton]

WOAW...go Emma! I actually totally understood all that you said! YAY! hehe ^.^ *cant wait for the rest and rubs hands together excitedly*

And I hated the jedi killing part too *sniffles* although, couldn't resist sir Anakin acting all bad*ss *swOoOns just to do it and act all fan gurly*

[Emma Hawkins/Rick MacKinnon]

:smiles slightly:Thank you...and yeah,Star Wars is one of my primary geekhoods...^^;

So!Left off midway through episode 4!

Obi-Wan entreats Luke to come with him and help,but Luke says he can't,his uncle will never let him go.They are on the way back to the farm,and come across the Jawa transport that sold them the ships.Everyone aboard was slaughtered.Panicking,Luke takes the speeder home,but he's too late.His aunt and uncle are dead.Returning to Obi-Wan,he agrees to go with him,because there's nothing to tie him down-and now,he's thirsty for revenge on the Empire,who killed his only family.

They head to Mos Eisley spaceport,sort of like Tortuga with spaceships.On their way,some Empirial stormtroopers try to stop them,but Obi-Wan uses his Jedi powers to hypnotize them,and they get in without incident.In a sleazy bar,they find just the people they need-a cocky smuggler named Han Solo,and his copilot Chewbacca (He's the big furry guy who helped the little green guy escape.)For a substantial sum of money to be paid on delivery,Solo agrees to fly them to Alderaan.When they leave,he nearly collapses with relief-this job will earn him enough money to pay off the debt that caused a crime lord to place a price on his head,and let him live his life a bit more safely.Even as he's leaving the bar,a bounty hunter comes for his head,but he dispatches the creature and goes to tell Jabba the Hutt that his money is coming.

They all meet up at Solo's ship,the Millenium Falcon.As they're lifting off,the stormtroopers spot them and open fire,but they escape into hyperspace.

Back on the Empire's space station,Leia is taken from her cell to an observation deck.Conventional interrogation seems to have failed,so Governor Taarken seems to have a new plan.The space station,called the Death Star,which is the size of a small moon,is orbiting Leia's home planet-Alderaan.He demands that she reveal the Rebel base's location,or the planet will be destroyed.Leia begins to panic."Alderaan is a peaceful planet,"she protests,"We have no weapons!"

He responds that if she feels that the station's target should be a military one,by all means she can name one.There is a slight pause,then Leia replies that the base is on Dantooine (she's bluffing,but we don't know that...) The Governor smiles,gloating to Darth Vader that he has achieved through subtlety what Vader could not through force,then orders the planet destroyed.

And within a minute,all that is left of Alderaan is a giant asteroid field.

Back on the Falcon,Luke is training with his new lightsaber,when Obi-Wan has to sit down.He says that he felt a disturbance in the Force-a great many voices crying out as one,and then silence.Solo replies by mocking his ancient,dead "religion",and commenting that they're almost there.But when they emerge from hyperspace,there is no sign of a planet,just rocks hurtling outward as though from an explosion.While they're trying to figure out what happened,an Emperial fighter ship appears.Obi-Wan says there has to be a planet nearby,because the ship isn't suited for long-range flights.Knowing that it has seen them,they decide to follow.The ship heads for what appears to be a nearby moon.And then they realize...it's not a moon.It's a space station.

Before they have the chance to flee,they are caught in the station's tractor beam and pulled in.When soldiers come aboard to investigate,Luke and Han knock them out and take their uniforms,thus enabling themselves to sneak in.They all make it to a tech station,and lock the doors to give themselves a chance to regroup.R2 plugs in to the station's main system,trying to find out whatever he can,then exclaims (as translated by 3PO) "I've found her!She's here!"Luke demands to know what he's talking about,and 3PO replies,"The Princess."Obi-Wan says that he has his own tasks to take care of,and takes his leave of the others.Luke convinces Han and Chewbacca to help him save the Princess,mainly by telling him that.as a princess,she'll have plenty of money to reward him with...giving the droids a walkie-talkie-thing,they head for the detention level.

Han puts a pair of handcuffs-unfastened-on his copilot,and when they get to the lobby of the detention center,they pretend he's breaking away from them and use it as cover to shoot the guards.Han stays to handle any questions while Luke goes to rescue the Princess.This proves to be a bad idea;Han,after making up some very bad excuses,gets frustrated and shoots the intercom.Grabbing the Princess from her cell,our heroes try to flee and find themselves trapped in a hallway with men shooting at them from either side.Leia rolls her eyes at their lack of planning,then shoots a hole in the grate covering the garbage chute,and jumps in.Which is how they got in the situation you saw.The trash compactor is set to go off,and they just barely manage to get R2 to shut it down and open the doors in time.

Darth Vader is in a meeting with his officers.Dantooine,they say,had the ruins of a long-abandoned base and nothing else.On the up-and-up (for them),the last remnant of the old government has been swept away.Vader seems less than happy.There is a prescence here,he says,that he has not felt for a long time-that of his old master.He will go to find him himself.

Obi-Wan,meanwhile,has slipped past the guards and turned off the tractor beams.As he heads back to the ship,Vader confronts him.This time,Vader states, he is the master.The two fight for a long time,then Obi Wan says quietly that if Vader strikes him down,he will return more powerful than he can imagine.The fight lasts a little while longer,until Obi-Wan sees his friends reach their ship.Then he holds his sword in a position of surrendur.

And Vader chops him in half.

It is important to note that there was no body;it disappeared before it hit the ground.Luke sees this,and his friends have to drag him back onto the ship.

They shoot down the ships that follow them,then go into hyperspace and head for the real Rebel base,on Yavin 4.Leia is sure they're being tracked.They make it without incident,and hand over the stolen plans.Their top tactitian finds that the defenses are built for large ships,and a one-man fighter should be able to slip through.Just then,the death star comes out of Hyperspace near the planet.Their plan is put into action,Luke saves the day,and the Death Star is no more!Vader,however,escapes in his personal fighter.

Yaaaay!One more down!Tobbs,you should really just see the movies ^^

I'll do another tomorrow...

[Eric Jackson]

Lol Emma, you and your Star Wars pride ^_^ *pats and hands a light saber* My brother is a huuuge Star Wars fan. I bought him one of those really fancy light up light sabers that are motion sensitive and make the swishy noises....he has a blue and red one. They're uberly expensive! And we saw the movie at the midnight showing which was all kinds of fun since people were dressed up and we all had light sabers and candy and pop and pizza ^_^ Even though we got there four hours early (and my bros friends were obsessed with me) *glares at them and mutters* It was pretteh fun.

I don't like the original three so much....Episodes 4-6... I just can't get into them. *Hides from the wrath of Emma* But I LOVE the new three, especially the third one, revenge of the sith. I cried all through it...poor ickle younglings. *Fan girl drools with Tobbs over Anakin* lol.

Ooooh and my brother came up with a theory emma, maybe you can tell me if its right or not. Okay so Anakin came out of no where basically cause he wasn't created the "usual way" He was created by the midicloriens or whatever they're called. Now Palpatine talks about this infamous Dark Lord who learned how to create life by screwing with those midicloriens......was that life he created Anakin? And was the prophesy right only it wasn't for the Jedi that Anakin would do all this great stuff, it was for the Sith/Empire?

[Captain Morgan Barbossa]

*Nearly passes out* Wow... O__O *bows down in respect/awe to Emma* Hehe, Yoda=elderly muppet? Niiice... XD

[Victoria Brighton]

*is following Bossa around on site...blinks...ish overloaded with info again and huggles Emma to bits*