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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Star Wars is a whole generation. A lot of people have grown up with these films. Children played, making swords, imagined that they had power, and they were able to command it, they chose whether they belong to the dark or light side of the force. " Star Wars"- a cult that has always attracted people with its universe and its mysteries.

To the day star wars”, which is celebrated on May 25, website prepared for you 30 interesting facts about the most recognizable film in the world:

1. "Vader" is Dutch for "father".
2. In Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader is played by three people at once - David Prowse was his body (in armor), his voice was James Earl Jones, and his face was Sebastian Shaw.
3. According to research, the sound of a TIE fighter is combined from the roar of a young elephant and the sound of a car speeding down a wet highway.

1. The most famous quote from the movie "Star Wars" - "May the Force be with you" - in English sounds like "May the Force be with you." This pun can also be understood as “May the 4th be with you” (“May 4th with you”). That is why Star Wars Day is celebrated by Star Wars fans on May 4th.
2. It was difficult for Lucas to get funding for this film, most studios assumed no one would want to watch it.
3. The Millennium Falcon was conceived by Lucas at a diner: an olive hamburger seemed like a good model for building a spaceship.

1. The word "Jedi" comes from the Japanese "Jidai Geki", which means "historical drama" in Japan, which was the name of the television series about the times of the samurai warriors in Japan.
2. Initially, Sissy Spacek was cast as Princess Leia, but when Carrie Fisher refused to appear nude in Carrie (1976), they switched roles. Another candidate for the role of Princess Leia was Jodie Foster.
3. Initially, Burt Reynolds was invited to play Han Solo, but he dropped out of the competition; Nick Nolte and Christopher Walken were also nominated.
4. Each actor, whose hero in the film was supposed to have a lightsaber, had the right to choose the color of the sword himself. Basically they took blue, like Anakin Skywalker, green, like Yoda, or red, like Darth Vader. Only Mace Windu has the Sword of the Unusual purple. Actor Samuel L. Jackson felt that such a lightsaber would look funny.

1. The episode number and the subtitle "A New Hope" were not in the original version of the film. They were added later on the film's re-release to mark the sequence between the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
2. One of the songs the Ewoks sing is "Det luktar flingor har". In Swedish, it means "I smell porridge in here."
3. "Padme" is translated from Sanskrit as "Lotus"
4. Lucas at the first Star Wars press conference said: “Gentlemen, I am well aware that in a vacuum you can’t hear explosions and gunshots, now ask your questions”
5. Qui-Gon Jinn's Comlink negotiation device was "copied" from a Gillete Sensor Excel women's razor.

1. The character of Luke Skywalker went through many changes before becoming what he is. At first, George Lucas wanted to make him a girl. Then he thought about Luke being a dwarf. According to the director's next version, Skywalker could become a 60-year-old general.
2. Peter Mayhew, who worked at the hospital as an orderly, got the role of Chewbacca due to his huge growth - 2 m 18 cm. George Lucas was inspired to create the image of Chewbacca from Star Wars by his dog sitting in the front seat of the car. And the name Chewbacca itself was coined on the basis of the Russian word for "dog".

1. For about 22 years, Peter Mayhew (who played Chewbacca) had to wait for his return to wide screens. That is how much time separates the last parts of the trilogies ("Revenge of the Sith" and "Return of the Jedi").
2. To cover up the shocking ending in Episode 5, Lucas told the actor dressed as Darth Vader, David Prowse, to say "Obi-Wan Kenobi killed your father!" who spoke for Vader - James Earl Jones, and changed to "I am your father!".
3. And the sound of the opening door of Darth Vader's shuttle is the clang of the bars of the Alcatraz prison cell.
4. The Darth Vader costume is actually worn by Hayden Christensen, not some abstract stunt double. At Christensen's request, Darth Vader's costume was redesigned to suit the actor's body structure.

1. The name "Jar-Jar" was coined by the son of Lucas.
2. In most scenes with Harrison Ford, Kerry Fisher stands on a special stand so that the difference in height is not so noticeable: Kerry is about thirty centimeters shorter than Ford, which would make their kissing funny.
3. The character of Han Solo Uncle Lucas "copied" from his friend, director Francis Ford Coppola, according to Lucas' initial idea, Han Solo was supposed to be a green alien monster without a nose and with gills.
4. You can see the number 1138 in many Star Wars shots, this is a reference to the movie THX 1138 (1970) directed by George Lucas

1. In the episode 5 asteroid scene, one of the asteroids was actually a boot. Rumor has it that George Lucas had the effects team redo this scene so many times that they got mad and added a boot.
2. The scene where Han Solo is frozen by Imperial stormtroopers was very long and complex, and it took many times to shoot it. Near the very end, Leia says to Han, "I love you." Harrison Ford had heard this phrase so many times that he changed the scripted line "I love you too" to "I know." Lucas did not want to reshoot this scene, rightly judging that it was even much better this way.

1. Makeup artist Stuart Freeborn created all the characters in the original Star Wars trilogy. To model the Master Yoda doll, Freeborn crossed two faces: taking his appearance as a basis, he added the characteristic wrinkles of Albert Einstein to it.
2. The Phantom Menace is the only Star Wars film to feature the unique ability of the Jedi to accelerate.
3. After scrolling through all the credits at the end of the film, the sinister breathing of Darth Vader is heard. (The Phantom Menace)

...A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Are you listening to me, young Padawan? Oh, you people are all so restless. Stop fidgeting and fidgeting, be patient and listen to your mentor. What? Yes, if need be, we'll sit here forever. Yes, and you will listen to my teachings. Enough.

... Well, now listen and remember. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away...

Infinite Empire

This story began in those distant times, when the secret of the hyperdrive was not yet known to the inhabitants of our galaxy. Yes, yes, padawan, there were such dense times in the history of the universe ... Each race considered itself the first and only one in the entire galaxy, because the inhabitants of other worlds isolated planets did not even guess. And everything would have remained unchanged if not for the first interstellar conquerors.

The Rakata race, which came from the world of Lehon, was generally the first in everything ... The Rakata were the first to invent a way to travel between the stars, equipping ships with a hyperdrive. They were the first to consciously turn to the Force. And what is significant - the first adepts of the Force from the Rakata race worshiped the dark side. However, they are hardly responsible for this. In those primeval times, only the dark Force could find a place for itself in the souls of the conquerors. Ignorance, militancy, rudeness of morals - in a word, about other values, except for power and power, then they did not even know.

In its hubris, the Infinite Empire (as the Rakata humbly called their interstellar state) went so far as to experiment with genetics and terraforming. Those who have been in the burning sands of Tatooine and the poisonous swamps of Kashyyyk and survived can already consider themselves lucky. But both planets were before the arrival of the rak'ah paradise gardens. Yes, this is the work of the masters of the Infinite Empire, testing weapons (wither, Tatooine!) and genetically "modified" life forms (fester, Kashyyyk!) on virgin planets. Against this backdrop, brutal slavery and despotism were child's play.

The reasons for the power of the Infinite Empire lay in its technology. Most greatest achievements rakata were created using machines working in symbiosis with dark Force. It is not known, however, who used whom - they are the Force or their Force.

Star Forge

The Rakata have ruled the galaxy for millennia. Compared to the era of the Infinite Empire, the entire history of the Old and New Republic Yes, a moment. Despots ruled over hundreds of worlds, goading billions of slaves and breathing the Force into more and more new machines. And the Dark Side allowed itself to be controlled, like a devoted snake around the neck. You, Padawan, know that snakes are not devotees. One day they sting...

The beginning of the end was the construction of the Star Forge, a planet-sized space shipyard capable of endlessly turning out untold streams of machines. A living fusion of the Force and technology, the Forge embodied all the vanity of its creators. She sucked matter and energy like a leech from a star, and hid from prying eyes in the shadow of the asteroid belt.

No wonder there is a proverb among the Hutts: “If a blaster hangs on the stage, then the third act promises to be fun!” An endless source of war machines is a temptation in itself, and even more so for warlike rakats. And one day the Forge found a use for itself. War broke out among the rak'ah.

It was then that the snake showed its fangs. When the civil war was in full swing, the dark Force simply took it and refused to obey its masters. And, as if that weren't enough, it took the form of a disease that mowed down the rulers of the Infinite Empire, but did not touch the slaves. The collapse was swift and striking.

The rakat empire is gone. The old squabbles were forgotten, everything was forgotten... The remnants of the conquerors fell into barbarism, keeping their secrets on a war-ravaged planet. The descendants of former slaves mastered the generous heritage inherited from former owners. With the help of a hyperdrive, the first ships went to the stars (no one thought about the danger of colliding with a star or a planet in a hyperjump, so the first researchers died in ignorance). And the Star Forge went into the shadows...

Birth of the Republic

The galaxy was slowly coming to its senses. The first states appeared former slaves Infinite Empire. The criminal oligarchy of the Hutts, a race of worm-like invertebrates, spread its influence. The influence of the Tion Hegemony, a totalitarian state under the control of the now forgotten Xim Despot, grew. And on the planets of the galactic core, a force was already maturing, which would soon be reborn into the Republic, a huge confederation, the center of which would be the planet Coruscant.

I'll start from afar... Long ago, Coruscant was inhabited by two sentient species of sentient beings - humans and taungs. Usually natural selection decides which of the two evolutionary branches to live and which to cease. This did not happen on Coruscant. The planet, of course, turned out to be too close for two intelligent races, and the thousand-year war between people and taungs became a logical continuation of malicious neighborly relations. Legends say (believe it or not...) that during one of the biggest battles of this war, a volcanic eruption almost finished off the human army, but apparently the taungs suffered no less, because they did not take advantage of the opportunity to end the war. . Volcanic ash covered the skies for many years, and the Taungs adopted the poetic self-name "da-uerda-verda" - "warriors of the shadow" - which is not surprising, militancy is in their blood. And after some time, people finally recovered from the disaster and defeated the newly-minted "shadow warriors" to smithereens. It is not known what would have become of the Taungs (and ultimately the entire galaxy), if at that very time the technology of space navigation had not developed by leaps and bounds. In general, the remnants of the taungs fled their home planet to find a new home on the nearby world of Rune. But their role didn't end there. We will return to the shadow warriors. In fact, they'll be back...

And the humanity of Coruscant really flourished after the final victory. Despite the onset of the ice age caused by the release of ash into the atmosphere, people over a hundred thousand years turned the entire surface of the planet into one huge city, the lower tiers of which were no longer seen. sunlight. Slavery in the shackles of the Rakata Infinite Empire has passed like a bad dream, and the time has come for the unification of the galaxy. Planetary civilizations coming to their senses mastered deep space and entered into inevitable conflicts with each other. The inhabitants of the galaxy wanted, if not peace, then stability. Therefore, the emergence of the Republic, a giant confederation of planets, has become a pattern. Peoples joined the alliance one by one, only a few were against the union. Wars with aggressive opponents of the unification were called the Unification Wars. These conflicts ended very indicative - the Republicans set the main separatists, the Tion hegemony, the Hutt trade cartels on the main separatists. And you would know what courage wakes up in a Hutt when big money is at stake. So, the Hutts fought with the Tions for very big money. Soon the reign of Xim the Despot ended, and the Hutts finally set about dividing the booty, without preventing the Republic from self-determination. There was practically no competition for the title of capital of the Republic. The metropolis planet, Coruscant, has become the unspoken center of the galaxy.

Coming of the Force

Such an entity as the Force has been known to the races of the galaxy for a long time. It was thanks to her that the machines of the Infinite Empire worked. It is through sensitivity to the Force that humans have become the dominant race in the galaxy. But first, let's figure out, padawan, what it is.

So, the Force is the energy created by all living and existing things in this galaxy. I know it sounds strange and vague, but no one can say for sure. It just needs to be felt. It is believed that either special particles or creatures - midi-chlorians carry the power. They are everywhere and nowhere, they cannot be accumulated or caught unless they themselves choose you as the vessel of their concentration. Sometimes it even seems that the Force is alive and chooses when to obediently fall into the hands of others, and when to sting deadly.

You should know, Padawan, that there are four kinds of Force. Two of them are always heard, they are probably known to you. The light side, also known as Ashla, is the sensory backbone of all living beings in the galaxy. This is a quiet harmony and unity with existence. It lies in peacefulness, nobility, reverence and tranquility. The dark side, Bogan, is unbridled emotions, impulses, impulses. Something that makes blood flow through the veins or gush from wounds, and hearts - to beat faster or not at all.

The other two aspects rarely show themselves, and many do not even get the honor of knowing about them. The so-called Potentium, or the Force of Unity, is not only a manifestation of the Force, but also a whole doctrine. Its essence lies in contemplation and detachment. To switch off from the outside world means to see it from the outside as it is. To follow the Potentium, one does not need to achieve peacefulness, as do the followers of the light side, or impulsiveness, like the followers of the dark. You just need to feel yourself ... somewhere from the outside.

The last manifestation is the Life-Giving Power. It passes through everything that exists, making it breathe and bloom. It is the very source from which all life begins. The Life-Giving Force causes the plant to stretch its leaves towards the light, and the caterpillar to be reborn into a butterfly.

So, as I said, the Force has been used since ancient times, but before the birth of the Republic, only the Rakata truly systematized this knowledge. Finally, on the planet Tethon, there was a meeting of the most revered adepts of the Force, the Jedi. The planet was not chosen by chance - the concentration of midi-chlorians on it reached anomalous values. Council and exploratory expedition ended completely in an unexpected way. Some of the adherents of the Force professed the dark side. You already know, padawan, that dark side- this is not evil, but passion, but the council of sages thought otherwise. I wonder what the acolytes of Ashla hoped for when they called on the adepts of the dark side to renounce their path? Sure enough, the quick-witted Dark Jedi broke away from the council and started a conflict. The planet at that time was almost uninhabited, and the unexpected war between the two sects was reminiscent of a battle for a desert island - only lightning flashes and swords shine. The so-called War of Power ended with Bogan's acolytes leaving the planet, naming their organization the Legions of Lettow. Followers of the light side responded by founding the Jedi Order, which became the unofficial church of the Republic. The First Great Schism took place.

Thousand years of calm

However, the defeat of the original Dark Jedi in the Force War broke the Legions of Lettow. After some time, this organization was lost in the chronicles. This is not surprising - the Dark Jedi practiced a custom according to which an apprentice must sooner or later throw a deadly challenge to his mentor. Thus, you see, only the strongest should be selected. Their pedantry killed them. The apprentice challenged the mentor, then it was the turn of the apprentice of the apprentice, then the apprentice of the apprentice of the apprentice ... In general, the Lettow Legion, expelled to the gates of the galaxy, apparently at one fine moment faced a shortage of personnel. True, this does not mean that the adherents of Bogan have disappeared - there have been and are a myriad of cults of the dark side throughout the galaxy, just none of them are strong enough to represent a serious galactic force. However, the time of Darkness will come...

In the meantime, the Republic was able to distract from external threats and plunge headlong into internal ones. After several relatively quiet millennia, the first war broke out in an incredibly long series of so-called Alsakan conflicts. The green planet of Alsakan was once inhabited by human colonists from Coruscant and has since grown into one gigantic metropolis like Coruscant itself. The success and power of the Alsakan colony led to a dangerous confrontation: both Coruscant and Alsakan wanted to be the capital of the Republic. When the diplomatic smiles were over, it was time for the cuffs. In the senatorial fight, the representative of Coruscant won (the Alsakan envoy later justified himself: "It's not fair, this unwashed Coruscant tarantek called droids for help!"). Without taking such an insult (how low it is to turn a noble squabble into a battle of droids!), Alsakan declared war on Coruscant. And with such enthusiasm, as if preparing for this for a long time.

It makes no sense to describe all seventeen wars between two superplanets. Coruscant won each of them, although at least eight times Alsakan came very close to victory.

However, while the conflicts between the two contenders for the title of the capital went on and ended in their own way (and this, by the way, is a period of 14 thousand years), the Republic managed to survive one short, but very significant period. It is associated with the cult "Pius Dea" - "Faithful to God" - and its founder, the Supreme Chancellor Contispex. The fact is that the chancellor for the first time in the history of the Republic carried out the transformation of a confederation into a totalitarian empire. Can you hear what I'm getting at, padawan? That's right, after ten thousand years, Emperor Palpatine-Sidious will try out about the same scheme ... Well, okay, we'll return to this scoundrel. And then the dominance of "Pius Dea" lasted almost a thousand years, during which there were many crusades on the planets of the Outer Rim. However, in the end, the cult chancellors could not stand the pressure of the Jedi Order and gave up their positions. It seemed that now the novices of Ashla would not lose the religious primacy in the Republic...

In vain it seemed. Do you hear the knock, padawan? These are passionate hearts. The dark side has resurfaced in the Jedi Order.

Hundred year darkness

Ayunta Pall was one of the most learned Jedi of his day. It just so happened that the followers of Ashla (not only the Jedi, but also members of other cults) often replace scholarship with wisdom. Pal was not like that. He was considered one of the best geneticists in the galaxy, but this passion for science hindered his advancement in the Jedi Order. Apparently, the adherents of the light side believed that learning is the enemy of wisdom. And as you know, ambition is the same passion. It led Pall to the dark side of the Force.

By that time, too many in the Order were leaning towards Bogan's teachings. Apparently, without an external enemy, which used to be the Lettow Legion, the Jedi teachings turned the wrong way.

So, nothing is known for sure about those times, the Jedi do not like to remember it, and the followers of the dark side speak mostly in riddles and legends. One thing is known - the Dark Jedi, led by Ayunta Pall, struck first. Pall did his best to make this blow brutal and vengeful. You didn't like my scholarship, Jedi sages? See what you can achieve with it...

The Dark Jedi used the creations of Ayunta Palla, all kinds of artificially bred monsters. When a giant leviathan steps on you, it's hard not to remember what could have created such only person in the galaxy, the same one that sat with you on the Jedi Council in the chair next to you.

The Second Great Schism was the impetus for the Hundred Years' War. However, historians have given this confrontation a more poetic name - the Hundred-Year Darkness. The battle for Korbos put an end to this turmoil. Pall and his followers were defeated, but the Jedi, in their nobility, did not execute their dark brethren, but sent the remnants of the rebels into exile in the outskirts of the galaxy. Perhaps this is the time, padawan, when even I would regret that the Jedi were so merciful.

Sith

The path of the exiles led them to the planet Ziost. Was it an accident, or did Bogan's acolytes feel the source of the dark Power?

The planet Korriban has long been inhabited by a race of red-skinned humanoids, the Sith. This people was very sensitive to the Force, and cruel customs and militancy made the Sith one of the most talented adepts of the dark side. When the Rakata armies came to Korriban, the Sith fought back fiercely - led by King Adas, perhaps one of the greatest adepts of the dark side in history. However, savages are savages - after the death of Adas in the final battle of that war, the Sith kingdom collapsed like an unfinished anthill. In courage after the victory over the army of the Infinite Empire, the Sith began to sort things out with each other, so much so that they almost killed themselves. In the end, the remnants of their race (you see, the only tribe that survived this massacre) left Korriban, leaving there the monumental tomb of the glorious king Adas and entire fields of unburied corpses of their relatives. The Sith went to the planet Ziost, covered with a gloomy cold forest that attracted dark power like a magnet. How, after all this, not to think about the fact that the Force beckons to itself when it wants to surrender strong hosts?

And now, thousands of years after the exodus of the Sith, the ships of the Jedi exiles arrive on Ziost. The Dark Force is here, they feel it by the pleasant warmth that flows through their veins. They see natives worshiping cruel spirits - and they understand that not everything is over for them yet. The Dark Acolytes are here to establish their own realm away from the gaze of the Jedi masters. To the gullible Sith, they became divine and lauded rulers for centuries to come.

After two thousand years, the very distinction between the Dark Jedi and the inhabitants of the Sith Empire was erased. The word "Sith" has become synonymous with every Bogan adept. By this point, the descendants of the exiles had not only the desire to take revenge on their longtime offenders - the Jedi Order and the Republic - but also the opportunity to do so. A powerful state prospering under the harsh and cruel laws of the dark lords has been discovered by Republican researchers...

Brother and sister

On Mount Republic, the Sith Empire was brought out of isolation by two explorers, Gav and Jori Daragon, brother and sister. The landing of the pioneer ship on Ziost coincided with the death of one of the legendary Sith rulers, Marka Ragnos. There was turmoil among the Sith: two respected leaders at once - Ludo Kresh and Naga Sadow - claimed leadership in the empire, so it is not surprising that suspicious aliens (for a Sith, a person is an alien, isn't it?) were instantly captured and taken to the council of rulers.

Ludo Kresh, not the best intriguer, but an ambitious and impulsive sorcerer, without much hesitation proposed to enslave the strangers. "You have no right! We are citizens of the Republic!” - indignant younger sister, Jory, stamping her foot. A sigh of hostile surprise rippled through the council of rulers, and as silence settled in the chambers, Woof realized that his sister had said something wrong. Of course, how was she to know that a few thousand years ago, exiled Jedi told the Sith about the Republic that since then they have been scaring children with this word. Jori, meanwhile, nudged her brother in the side and said with some vigor: "Well, Gav, and you said that these redskins do not understand Coruscant ... Look how they reacted to the word "Republic" ... "- "Oh!" resounded through the hall. "Jori, maybe don't..." Gav remarked, smiling awkwardly and looking at the blues from the wrath of the Sith. "What? No, look, they understand us. Republic!" - "Ah!" - "Republic!" - "Ah!" “Republic, republic, republic!” - “An khurdash dugub! [Burn that witch!]"

Perhaps this would have been the end of the adventures of the Daragon brother and sister, if Kresh's rival for leadership in the Sith council of rulers, Naga Sadow, had not stood up for them. Cunning, power-hungry, smart (and a rare favorite of Fortuna), Sadow craved conquest and quickly realized that it was not so easy to persuade reclusive Sith to go to war with the Republic. Therefore... we need to set the Republic on the Sith, and only then go on the counteroffensive.

Naga Sadow played his gambit perfectly. In his fortress, he managed to earn respect among the captives, even telling them something about serving Bogan. Soon, as Sadow predicted, Ludo Kresh turned against him. At that moment, the cunning Sith simply... allowed the Coruscant prisoners to escape. “Save yourself, this war concerns only us! May the dark force be with you! he shouted at them in the end, using all his acting skills.

The ploy worked. Jori fled to warn the Republic of the threat of the Sith, and Gav, admiring Sadow's nobility, did not leave him in trouble and returned to Ziost. When Kresh's troops were finished off, Gav Daragon was already entangled in Naga's nets, becoming his apprentice. It wasn't long before the war...

Great Hyperspace War

The Republic soon went to war. Its beginning turned out to be victorious for the Sith. Naga Sadow, entering into meditation, mentally led his armies, and Gav Daragon led the armies of Massassi warriors in attacks on the position of the Republicans. And if not for the development family drama, then I swear, Padawan, the face of the galaxy could be different now.

The break happened suddenly. During what was to be a decisive battle, Gav led his warriors to board the Republic flagship, captained by Aarrba the Hutt, an old friend of the Daragon family and almost the only one among the Hutts. honest dealer. Unbeknownst to Gav, Sister Jori was also on board with Aarrba. And then the climax came - Gav broke into the captain's bridge to demand immediate surrender, and found Aarrba ... killed by his own Hutt subordinates. And everything would be fine, but at that very moment Jori entered the wheelhouse. She was never famous for her prudence in decision-making, and when she saw her traitor brother bending over the body of "Uncle Aarrba", she did not find anything better than to rush at him with a sword. Probably, her life would have ended there (the Massassi guards and not such fighters were put in their place), but Gav's brotherly feelings saved Jori, and with her the entire Republican fleet. In dismay, Gav left the ship along with the soldiers, after which he completely left the battle with his flagship. The Sith fleet lost the decisive battle...

It would be a mistake to say that this was a Sith war with the Republic. No, it was a war of one person - Naga Sadow - against everyone. Still, there was something ingenious in this sorcerer and intriguer (may Ashla forgive me such words). When the Republic's best squadrons hit the remnants of the Sith fleet, Sadow decided to deal with the enemy fleet in one blow, blowing up the star near which the battle was fought. The plan worked with a small tweak. Gav Daragon, learning too late that Sadow was about to sacrifice him and the fleet for the sake of victory, sent a signal to the Republicans with the coordinates of Naga's ship. Of course, this dying revenge could no longer prevent the death of both fleets (and Gav himself). Yes, and Sadow once again found a way to sneak away.

In truth, the Sith still had a chance to win. The best forces of the Republican fleet were destroyed, and the Republic could not quickly bring up new squadrons. And if not for another accident, Sadow could rightfully say that he won the war alone.

And this accident was ... Ludo Kresh. Surely someone, and this grumbler, Naga definitely did not expect to meet on his way at that moment. Kresh even personally confessed to Naga that he arranged his imaginary death on purpose so that Sadow would lose his vigilance. True, Naga was not so stupid as to believe in these inventions of the wounded Kresh (and we, Padawans, will follow his example). One way or another, but the Coruscant squadron arrived in time just in the midst of civil strife. It was then that Sadow realized that this was the end of the war and the ambitions of the Sith Empire. Cursing at the fool Kresh, Naga sacrificed the remnants of the fleet in order to withdraw his flagship from the battle. Yes, yes, he escaped undefeated ...

The ruler of the Sith was transported to the planet Yavin. On that planet's fourth moon, he and his warriors founded a temple where Naga Sadow himself fell asleep in meditative stasis for thousands of years.

Heroes of the dark side

It is difficult to argue with historians who call Naga Sadow one of central characters galactic history. It was he who rediscovered the dark side of power for the Republic - for good or not. The Jedi, unaware of Bogan's temptations for thousands of years, were increasingly tempted dark side.

Sadow's heir was one of the fallen Jedi, Freedon Nadd. Having destroyed the mortal shell of his teacher in the temple on Yavin IV (although Naga's spiritual essence remained in the temple and, according to rumors, seduced more than a dozen Jedi), Nadd went to Onderon, where ... followed the teacher's example and fell into stasis . Probably waiting for the right student.

Thunderclouds began to gather from seemingly insignificant events. Jedi Knight Ulik Quel-Droma arrived on Onderon to investigate the plans of a secret society of adepts. dark force. Nadd liked the talented Jedi, but Ulic proved to be a tough nut to crack. When persuasion and subterfuge failed, Nadd could only promise that he would bring Ulic to his side one way or another. Later, this acrimonious promise (carefully disguised as a prophecy by Nadd) will come true: the krathi, the very cultists that Quel-Droma hunted, will wound him with an enchanted projectile. At least that's what Quel-Droma himself would later say.

Some time after Ulic Quel-Droma's departure from Onderon, the forgotten Freedon Nadd had a reason to grumble: “Why are you so frequent!” On the surface of the planet Dhun, a Jedi blazing with righteous anger (as well as wounded pride and ambition) landed. Freedon Nadd did not believe his luck. “I recognize myself in my youth. Surely the guy ran away from his teacher to prove to him that he deserves more. Didn't find anything better than breaking into the tomb of a Sith ruler. Now he will turn on his lightsaber and say: "Freedon Nadd, I will destroy you!"

- Freedon Nadd, I will destroy you! came the young man's voice.

How lovely, thought the Sith.

A few minutes later, the wounded Jedi was already lying on the cold floor of the temple.

- AT last time I suggest: become my student. - With a ghostly echo, Freedon Nadd persuaded the stubborn one.

- Never! coughing up blood, the Jedi fumed with youthful courage.

- How do you know...

Sand fell from the ceiling of the temple, then large cobblestones ... and now the columns began to fall on the side, and after them the roof collapsed.

- Stop! I agree! yelled the Jedi. A huge slab hung in the air directly above him.

And was it worth it to make me ruin everything? - Nadd shook his head, - What is your name, my newly minted student?

“Exar Kun… Just me… er…”

- Now like me! Ha ha ha!

Return of the crusaders

The meeting of two ambitious fallen Jedi - Ulic Quel-Droma and Exar Kun - was inevitable. However, the old ghost rulers did not want to give the newly minted Sith much freedom - they would fight and kill each other. Maybe the ghosts of the Sith rulers decided to play their last game, who knows... Anyway, the duel between Ulic and Exar was without bloodshed. This time it was not Sadow or Nadd who played the part; Marka Ragnos himself acted as peacemaker. The old Sith ghost simply forced Ulik to become Exar's apprentice. Appeals? There was no such word in the Sith language.

Ulik Quel-Droma's path now lay on Quar, one of the worlds that had been conquered thousands of years ago by fugitives from Coruscant, the taungs. Remember, padawan, I said that they were destined to return? So, the hour of the “shadow warriors” has come when the legendary leader Mandalore the Indomitable took over the scattered tribes. Mandalore was the first to unite the ever-scattered da uerda verda clans and make the taung believe in themselves again. So great was Mandalore's unquestioned authority that the Taungs even began to call themselves "Mando-ade", the sons and daughters of Mandalore (later the Coruscans would call them Mandalorians).

Landing on Rune, Quel-Droma realized that he had found the most reliable assistants in the revival of the Sith empire. In the legends of the taungs, he recognized the old Coruscant tale of the expulsion of the "warriors of the shadow." It remained only to lure the wayward taungs to their side. Mandalore himself helped him in this. Quel-Droma, who studied the traditions of the Mando-Ade well, only challenged him, realizing that without knowledge of the dark power, Mandalore would hardly be able to win. As the slain chieftain was about to die, Ulik "showed generosity" and at the same time made an impassioned speech, telling the reclusive taungs about the intergalactic successes of their sworn enemies, the people. It didn't take long to persuade. Soon Mandalore the Indomitable and his neo-Crusaders went to war that marked the beginning of the bloody Mandalorian Crusades.

But Exar Kun wasted no time either. Gathered across the galaxy were those who had old scores to settle with the Republic. He struck the first blows in the new war not on industrial planets, not on space shipyards. Instead, raids were made on Jedi academies whose students were turned to the dark side of the Force. The Republic, still at war with the Sith Empire and Sadow himself, was barely holding on, squeezed on one side by the fanatical Mandalorian neo-Crusaders and on the other by the resurgent Sith Order.

Imaginary victory

The Mandalorian and Sith attack on Coruscant soon followed. Ulic Quel-Droma, who led this army, obviously did not calculate his strength, his army was surrounded, and he himself was captured by the Republic. True, the Republic soon had to pay for the maintenance of such a valuable prisoner. An enraged Exar Kun with a hand-picked army literally cut a path through the Republican armies all the way to Coruscant. Not only did the Sith ruler liberate Quel Droma, but he also dealt with his former mentor and even the Republican Chancellor himself. It seemed that the war was taking on a victorious character for the Order of the Sith.

But the forces were clearly unequal. The Mandalorians, who proved to be excellent soldiers, were eventually stopped. The resources of the Sith Empire were running out, and there was practically nowhere to look for new students for the Order of the Sith. Last chance Ulic Quel-Droma himself missed the victory. Having dealt with his own brother Kai in cold blood, Ulik could not do the same with his beloved Nomi. Quel-Droma did not justify the hopes of the rulers of the Sith, for which he paid with his connection with the Force - his beloved "helped" him in this. Morally broken, he surrendered to the mercy of the Republicans, leaving the army without a commander.

For Exar Kun, this was a terrible blow. Yesterday he was preparing to receive his elite army from the hands of Ulik, and today he is informed that this weakling has broken down, and the army has been defeated. When the defeat of the Sith Order became inevitable, Kun adopted the old, tried and tested Sith method of "retirement". He simply performed the ritual of liberation of his spiritual shell.

— Exar Kun? Why are you all transparent, my boy? asked Freedon Nadd like a father, sensing something was wrong. “You... uh...

“Now how are you, you old bastard!”

Knights of the Old Republic

The Republic no longer had the strength to finish off the enemies. Secretive cults of the dark side of the Force scattered across the galaxy, the Sith Empire remained intact beyond the Outer Rim, and the Mandalorian Crusaders terrorized the peaceful Republic planets time after time. The fight against the hated "sons and daughters of Mandalore the Indomitable" was led by two young and energetic Jedi - Revan and Malak (isn't it, the plot is as old as the galaxy itself?). Not satisfied with driving the Mandalorians and Sith out of Republic-controlled space, they sent their ships far beyond the Outer Rim. Soon, information about them ceased to arrive.

Forgetting about caution in the pursuit and rightly believing in their naval talent, Revan and Malak led the flotilla between systems whose inhabitants lived with different values ​​and goals than the Republic. There are many legends about how friends fell under the influence of the dark side (one is more incredible than the other, I must say), but I, Padawan, see a simple explanation - both of them met with completely different views of the world and, apparently, imbued with them. It is said that Revan believed that the power of emotions, not meditation, could give him the long-awaited victory over the Mandalorians and the Sith, so he turned to the dark side with good intentions ... and bad consequences. On the outskirts of the galaxy, he found the legendary Star Forge, the creation of the Infinite Empire. The temptation to launch the machine of destruction - for the good of the Republic, in the name of defeating the Sith and the Mandalorians - was too great ...

Many years later, the victorious fleets of Revan and Malak returned to the Inner Rim. But it was a different fleet, and it was led by other commanders - Darth Revan and his student Darth Malak (the prefix "dart" means "ruler" in Sith). Their goal was to keep the Republic safe from all threats by leading it down the path of the dark side.

Of course, few people wanted the blessing to be brought at the tips of lightsabers. The Republic fleet has lost battles over and over again. If the final defeat could be avoided, it was only thanks to the abilities of Bastila Shan, who was able to enter the so-called combat meditation, spreading a special protective aura to the allies. But it was impossible to endlessly rely on the abilities of the young Jedi. And the Jedi Order took a desperate step.

During one of the battles, a squad of Jedi teleported to Revan's ship. A barely alive Sith was captured - to the delight of Malak, who proclaimed himself the sole ruler of the Sith armies. He had no idea that this was the beginning of his end.

The Jedi knew they had only one chance to stop the endless fleets, and that chance was Revan. By bringing him back from the dead and erasing his memory, the Jedi Council hoped to get on their side the only one who could lead them to the source of the power of the Sith Order.

Revan turned out to be a magnificent puppet of the Republic - as humiliating as it was for him. Unaware of his past, the former Sith led Bastila Shan and eight of his followers on planets that were scattered with the remains of a star map - holographic complexes indicating the location of the Star Forge. The details of his wanderings are not known to anyone, rumors often contradict each other. Only one thing can be said for sure - Bastila was captured by Malak and went over to the side of the Sith. Shortly before battling her on Lehon, the homeworld of the wild rakats, Revan learned his past. Further legends diverge; The Sith claim that Revan has returned to the dark side, taking his revenge on Darth Malak already aboard the Star Forge. The Jedi say the opposite - they say, Revan returned Bastila to the light side and helped the Republicans inflict one lightning strike on the Rakata shipyard, eliminating his former comrade and student. But everyone agrees on one thing - shortly after the death of Malak and the Star Forge, Revan and his followers disappeared without a trace in their wanderings. Probably for the better. Because even after them there was someone to continue the civil war.

Triumvirate and Exile

Even the collapse of the army of Darth Malak and the disappearance of the former Darth Revan did not allow the Republic to breathe freely. Scattered Sith sects began to exterminate each other in an effort to gain supremacy among the adherents of the dark side, but with no less appetite, these same sects tore piece after piece from the Republic. The neo-crusaders of the taungs continued their endless war, albeit without the former unity.

Among all the Sith leaders, three stood out - Darth Nihilus, Darth Sion and Darth Traya. Forming a triumvirate and getting rid of rivals, they took over the remnants of the Sith Order. Barely a few years later, the triumvirate took advantage of the weakness of the Republic by launching the Great Jedi Purge. It was the time of the real hunt for the Jedi, when the Sith assassins became the scourge of all who did not swear allegiance to the trinity. From civil strife and anarchy, the Republic was saved by a woman, from whom no one had expected anything for a long time.

The history of the one who would later become known as the Exile (her true name has long been forgotten) began during the years when Revan and Malak waged their war on the Mandalorians on the outskirts of the Inner Rim. During the decisive battle, she, being a Jedi, showed an initiative unusual for the adherents of Ashla - she launched the so-called "mass shadow generator", a device that destroyed the Mandalorian squadron, but caused the death of many Republican ships. Such a strange act turned into dangerous consequences for the Jedi. So that the Force would not drive her crazy or stop her heart in response to such an act alien to Ashla, the future Exile was forced to cut off her connection with her.

But it is no coincidence that the Wookiees say - there is no silver lining. former follower Ashla was the only member of Revan's fleet not to be tempted by the dark side while traveling beyond Outer Rim. She came alone to the Jedi Council in repentance after the return of the fallen Revan and Malak. Of course, she did not receive forgiveness, but it was not in the tradition of the Jedi to punish the repentant.

However, the Exile was not destined to retire peacefully. Fateful was the meeting with a certain Kreia, an elderly woman who considered herself entitled to instruct the fallen Jedi. Unbeknownst to the exile, Kreia had once been the same Jedi mentor, many of whose students - including Revan himself - had fallen to the dark side. Kreia was then suspected of distorting the teachings of Ashla and ... yes, that's right, they were expelled, like the heroine of our story. However, forced to devote herself to Bogan and adopt the pseudonym "Darth Traya" (yes, she became one of the Sith triumvirs), Kreia did not give up hope of "healing" the Jedi Order from the quarrelsomeness and myopia that prevented the Jedi from confronting the Sith. And her "medicine" and student was to be the Exile.

Indeed, the Exile was only a tool. When the assassins sent by Nihilus and Sion repeatedly attacked the Exile and her retinue, she did not even suspect that the assassins were hunting Kreia, who decided to leave the Triumvirate. When the Exile searched for the last surviving Jedi Masters (the same ones who had once rejected them both), she had no idea that she was helping Kreia to take revenge and purge the Order of the weak.

The outcome of this story was exactly what Darth Traya was waiting for. When the "grateful" Jedi Masters tried to finally cut off the Exile from the Force, Kreia simply incinerated them. A little later, Nihilus and Sion fell at the hands of the Exile. And the final link in the chain was the duel with Kreia herself - according to all the traditions of the Sith, the Exile had to challenge the one who was her mentor.

Voice behind the scene: as you know, in the games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, the player can create a character of his choice (gender, worldview - to choose from). But in role-playing literature, dedicated to the description of the Star Wars universe, the story of Revan is told on the basis of the fact that he was a man who switched to the light side, and an exiled Jedi was a woman who chose the path of the dark side.

The old Sith Wars were coming to an end. The devastated Republic and the bloodless Jedi Order were reborn from the ashes, the Sith cults lost their former strength for many years. The era of the Old Republic ended...

Star Wars is known for some of the most epic plot stunts of all time. This, of course, is about the scene from the episode "The Empire Strikes Back" in which Darth Vader tells Luke that he is his father. To imagine the effect this had on contemporary viewers, you can look at. This script was on The Simpsons and has carved out its place in pop culture. A month and a half before the premiere of the seventh episode, a fan theory appeared that could blow your mind no less: it proves in the most convincing way that the worthless character of Jar Jar Binks is actually the most important in the first trilogy. George Lucas may not be a great dialogue master like Quentin Tarantino (and his heroine at the decisive moment will say without much fiction: "Anakin, I'm pregnant"), but the careful tying of all the knots is not questioned even by critics. Many, including writer Sergey Lukyanenko, are over the flaws in Lucas' plots, but given the fact that Lucas's universe is carefully constructed, has a huge budget, and nothing happens in it by chance, then many things should be considered with particular care. Here are 10 of the most compelling fan theories.

Jar Jar Binks - Sith High

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Jar Jar Binks is probably the most hated character in Star Wars history. Many memes and jokes are devoted to him, and they all emphasize his insignificance. Any true Star Wars fan is bound to hate the clown they think was introduced into the Star Wars script as an unfortunate prank and lure for younger school audiences. Too stupid, too pointless, too Disney-like. An awkward idiot who gets comically lucky all the time in every fight and mess. It's amazing how readily fans have written this gungan into the category of plot nonsense that should just be tolerated.

First of all, let's take a look at his abilities, the first of which is him after the appearance on the screen. What about ? If anyone else had done this, we would have signed him up as a Jedi right away - but not Jar Jar Binks, because he cannot be taken seriously. Now, in which Jar Jar, along with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn, attack the droids that captured Princess Amidala. Gungan again shows himself to be a fool, at the decisive moment of the attack caught on the balcony. Curiously, when it lands in a completely different place, the droid still fires where it should have hung. Luke used in the sixth episode, when Jabba decided to execute him. But that is a clever Jedi, and here is a stupid Ja-Ja - and the viewer again does not pay attention. Okay, then here's to you. Jar Jar kills two droids with a blaster held by a third droid attached to his leg. Yes, you read that line right. But he's kind of like a dunce, which means it's an accident, right? By the way, why was such a clumsy, in principle, made a general (!) Before the battle? You will laugh, but everything was enough in the direction of General Bombad. In exactly the same way, Ja-Ja convinced the Galactic Senate to end democracy and transfer all power to the emperor. Such manipulation of consciousness can only be carried out by the Jedi - or the Sith.

In the third episode, when the Jedi have already irrevocably quarreled with the Empire, Jar Jar is still, but this is such a worthless character that no one is surprised that he is the right hand of the main villain (or main villain- his right hand). Jar Jar serves Palpatine's interests in every possible way, but no one cares about that. Watch the first three episodes, pay attention to the behavior of Jar Jar, who in every way humiliates the Jedi exclusively behind their backs, and moments like when he is, and you will have to look at his figure in a new way. Apparently, Jar Jar has the Force and knows how to use it perfectly, and his appearance in the script cannot be attributed to Lucas's miscalculation. For the first time, such a suspicion appeared with Seth Green, who jokingly beat the theory. This is impossible to imagine at first glance, but all the facts are convincing: Jar Jar is the Supreme Sith, an analogue of Yoda on the dark side, evidence of which we will see, if not in the seventh, then in one of the subsequent episodes.

Qui-Gon Jinn is actually a Sith

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Initially, Qui-Gon Jinn (played by Liam Neeson) appears as a kind of version of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the first three episodes: a wise, kind, adult mentor, who at some point courageously dies in a fight with a tough villain, so that the youth can get out on their own. He's so flawless that Star Wars fans just had to grope for his dark side, which they did, operating on quite convincing arguments from the script. For starters, it is known that Qui-Gon Jinn is a student of Count Dooku (but most viewers do not even wonder how it happened and what it means). It is he who, bypassing the Jedi Council and the Republic, makes a decisive contribution to the creation of the clone army, which later - a surprise! - defeats the Jedi and becomes the power base of the Galactic Empire. But his main miss (or achievement?) is Anakin Skywalker: Qui-Gon Jinn knew better than anyone else how much fear and hatred in the soul of the future Darth Vader, but still managed to make him a Jedi (who is completely expected to go to the dark side). There are other examples that even if Qui-Gon Jinn was a Jedi, then somehow too short-sighted. His path of the Living Force also seems strange, which no Jedi has followed before (but which, at his suggestion, Yoda, Obi-Wan and Anakin). So either he is a useless strategist, or a Sith, which is easier to believe. At a minimum, this is the so-called Gray Jedi, that is, a Jedi who has not officially turned to the dark side, but rushes between the two forces in his own interests (just like Count Dooku was a gray Sith) and certainly does not act in the interests of the Jedi Council.

Han Solo has the Force

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Han Solo is by default presented as an ordinary person, a cunning adventurer who is skeptical about all sorts of Jedi tricks. He does not have a lightsaber, and he does not fit into the disassembly of the Jedi and Sith, but in other conflicts he demonstrates inhuman dexterity and. In the art of piloting a starship, Han is so strong that he could boldly go to the Death Star ventilation shaft instead of Luke Skywalker: robot translator C-3P0 warns that mathematical chance flying through an asteroid field is 3720 to 1, but Han Solo just brushes it off and calmly guides the Millennium Falcon through the deadly zone (bonus tricks seem to be included).

One could assume that the hero of Harrison Ford is just a damn lucky son of a bitch, but Obi-Wan Kenobi has a program phrase prepared for this: "My experience says that". At the same time, it is known that Han Solo does not believe in any "Force" and looks like a kind of atheist against the background of believing (and in fact - knowing) Jedi. His opinion on this matter is in the episode "A New Hope", in response to which he receives a condescendingly ironic look from Obi-Wan Kenobi, who clearly knows more than we do. Most likely, Khan, one of the most wanted characters in the universe, used the Force all his life without even thinking about it. He's got midi-chlorians, but he's not trained. Star Wars fans agree on calling him "force-sensitive", which is not the same as a Jedi, but somehow explains his amazing luck.

Tatooine is the perfect hideout for Luke Skywalker

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Any viewer should have a logical question: what's the point of hiding Anakin Skywalker's son under the same last name on the same sandy planet where his father was born? This seems like a crazy idea that can be safely attributed to a script flaw, but at the very beginning of the fourth episode, this illogicality is shown again: the most important droids in the galaxy, one of which contains the secret plans of the rebels, are catapulted by Princess Leia to Tatooine. But, instead of chasing them and digging through the nearby planet, Vader sends his stormtroopers there and prefers to quietly extort data from his daughter (he, however, does not yet know about the latter).

Obviously, he avoids the planet Tatooine in every possible way, and the key to the phobia lies in the dialogue from the second episode, in which Anakin, in between Padmé's case, hates sand. On Tatooine, he grew up in slavery, where his mother died at the hands of the sand people, and Anakin himself took the first step towards the dark side, recklessly slaughtering the entire tribe along with the children in revenge. Tatooine is associated with the most traumatic childhood experiences of Darth Vader, and the transition to the dark side means the way least resistance. No wonder he doesn't want to fight his fears and return to this planet. Obi-Wan knows about this, so he first sends the newborn Luke's new family there, and then he himself settles there as a hermit.

The action actually takes place in our Galaxy

At the beginning of each episode, we see a disclaimer: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." It seems that few people take this line seriously, and why would they? The proposed visual images (especially in the modern trilogy) are completely futuristic in nature, and half of the characters look and behave like the most ordinary homo sapiens - a species that originated on Earth. But the first is subjective, but the location of the Star Wars universe in Milky Way also supported by references from other science fiction works. For example, the action of "Star Trek" takes place in our Galaxy, and in two episodes it mentions the home planet of Princess Leia Alderaan, in the film " Star Trek: First Contact, Han Solo's Millennium Falcon flies by by chance, and R2-D2 can be seen in Star Trek: Retribution. The Galactic Encyclopedia, containing the basics of knowledge about our Galaxy, links together the cycle of Isaac Asimov's Foundation, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and the Star Wars universe (albeit at the level of official spin-offs).

There are also hints of galaxy affinity in video games and comics, but the most compelling evidence is Spielberg's E.T. In the 1982 film, he sees a man in a Yoda costume on the street of a suburb of Los Angeles: “Home! House!" 17 years later, in the episode "The Phantom Menace", Lucas sends his regards back: in the Galactic Senate. In the Star Wars universe, this species is called grebleips, and it is enough to read English word backwards to see why. Either Grelipps are the only species that has learned to travel between different galaxies, or it all happens in ours.

Luke's adoptive parents weren't killed by stormtroopers from the clone army.

We all remember this one: Luke returns home and discovers that the enemies have burned his own hut and incinerated the bodies of his adoptive parents ... Stop. There are a lot of cruel things going on in the Star Wars universe, but in general, the clone army stormtroopers (who, as it were, did this in the process of finding the droids they needed) are not sophisticated sadists. These are just simple soldiers who kill with blaster shots. The version of the involvement of the sand people is rejected by Obi-Wan himself. Here is the professional work of a ruthless killer with powerful weapons, and you don’t have to go far for an example: in the 1997 remaster of the fourth episode, that the mercenary Boba Fett is also on Tatooine at this time. The scene in which Darth Vader looks intently at Fett and formulates the following order: take only alive, . The situation is so obvious that there can be no doubt about the identity of the killer of Luke's parents. The only question is why we should not know that mercenaries are becoming an important tool of the Empire.

Ewoks - a tribe of evil cannibals

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It's impossible not to love the cute bears from the wooded moon of Endor. Even when they try to fry Han, Luke and Chewbacca without understanding, we attribute it to the infantile stupidity of furry creatures who revered C-3PO for a deity. And when one of them begins to mourn the fallen brother during the battle, the heart of the viewer finally melts. The Ewoks bravely fight alongside the rebels and celebrate victory together. During the feast, one of them drums out the drum roll on the helmets of stormtroopers in the most amusing way. In the euphoria of a happy ending, we don’t even think about what actually happened to the previous owners of these helmets and what exactly do the Ewoks celebrate? Their level of development hardly suggests that their goal was to cooperate with the rebels in order to destroy the Death Star (how can they even understand what kind of object it is if the robot is mistaken for a god?). But the victory brought the bears an unprecedented amount of human meat. One can only hope that Luke and company were eating something else at this banquet.

R2-D2 has the Force

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By default, it is assumed that the Force comes from midi-chlorians in a biological organism, which means that only living beings can possess it. However, the example of the Living Force is enough to understand: the Force is not tied to biology at all. Now let's look at R2-D2. Definitely, Naboo's royal engineers managed to make the most powerful droid in the universe. He is the only one who participates in all the battles of all six episodes and, I must say, is very well preserved.

Often it is his actions that become a key contribution to victory. Young Anakin wins his first race on a car built with the participation of R2-D2. Repair the ship open space at great speed? Hack any system? Take off and set fire to opponents, in the end? It's hard to say what R2-D2 can't do. He always finds himself in the middle of nowhere, in a starfighter on a mission, next to the most powerful Jedi. He participates in Luke's Jedi training. It stores the most important information that no one else can be trusted with. Take him mentally out of the movie and you'll find that without R2-D2 nothing sticks together at all. The fact that he made it through all six episodes unscathed is another example of incredible luck. But luck doesn't exist, which is why the hottest heads of Star Wars fans believe that Luke's father's Force is stored in it. This, however, is too much of a convoluted theory, so we'll just assume that the main droid of the saga is also Force sensitive.

Chewbacca - Rebel Agent

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A representative of the Wookiee race, who cannot connect two words, we first meet in the episode "A New Hope" as a kind of skillful pet of Han Solo. Together with the owner, he begins to play on the side of the rebels and, despite his emphasized absurdity, makes a huge contribution to their victory. But if Han Solo himself appeared out of nowhere in the plot of episode IV, then Chewbacca has a background: in the prequels, he is actively friends with Master Yoda and helps him elude the clones. In the company of Han, Luke and Leia, he is actually the most knowledgeable being and sole member past battles, but behaves as if he was born yesterday. It is likely that in fact, in a pair of Han Solo - Chewbacca, the first is the follower, and Chewbacca leads him to the goal, fulfilling the will of Yoda. It seems to us that Chewbacca joined the rebels in the fourth episode, but he has always been one of them. This is the real agent who pushed Khan to befriend Luke Skywalker and save Princess Leia, and therefore to destroy the Death Star.

The Jedi are not the main enemies of the Empire at all.

There are many theories explaining that the true evil in Star Wars is not the Sith at all, but the Jedi, but it is obvious that this is already a perversion of the ideas of George Lucas. We must start from the original premise: the dark side is evil. However, this is not necessarily the main evil. It is naive to think that Palpatine built a megalomaniac superweapon like the Death Star to destroy the Jedi - he almost coped with this task without a gun the size of a planet. Critics and lovers strong hand» rightly point out that the Jedi at least did not improve the state of affairs in the Republic; their inaction led to corruption, bureaucracy, social inequality and the complete decline of defense. Palpatine did not seize power for the pleasure of pacing alone in front of a window overlooking space. He did not receive any bonuses that one can fantasize about in such a situation, although it would seem that he can afford anything. But he professes complete asceticism. Russian officials would definitely not understand him. The emperor had the highest goal: To protect the Empire from external attack, which was incredibly easy under the Jedi. The main contender for the role of an external enemy is the powerful Yuuzhan Vong tribe, which appears in spin-offs and positions itself as a chosen race from another galaxy.

Today we will tell you a few amazing facts about "Star Wars", which, perhaps, for the first time even the most notorious fans of this saga will hear. So, may the facts be with you!

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1. What do R2-D2 and the Energizer Bunny have in common?

Grant Imahara, a robotic engineer and co-host of The MythBusters, created R2-D2 for the first and second episodes of Star Wars and the Energizer rabbit for the commercial.

2. Bravo Sir Alec

Alec Guinness, the actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, didn't have a very high opinion of Star Wars. He even called the film "fabulous bullshit". Nevertheless, Mr. Guinness was one of the few participants in the filming who believed that the film would be a hit, and negotiated for himself 2% of the royalties received by George Lucas. Thus he became a very rich man.

3. Fu-fu-fu, isn't this sexism?

Carrie Fisher didn't wear underwear in Star Wars. George Lucas convinced her that "underwear is not worn in space."

4. About unobtrusiveness

Carrie Fisher made George Lucas give her a copy of Star Wars. Festive Edition. Now she plays the movie at the end of parties, when she is already tired and wants everyone to leave.

This creation is little known to our viewers, so let’s explain: The Holiday Special was filmed with the financial support of General Motors in 1978, when Episode IV had just come out and no one knew yet whether Star Wars would become a hit or not. The plot follows Chewbacca trying to get home to celebrate with his family. National holiday. The family at this time watches various TV shows, musicals and suffers harassment from the Imperials (and it is not known which is worse). At the end of the film, Carrie Fisher sings.

In general, the space opera turned into a drama. George Lucas, seeking to wash away the shameful stain from his reputation, repeatedly attempted to buy and destroy all available copies of the special issue, so Fisher's request was a separate test for him.

If you're still not completely clear on why Fisher's method of getting rid of guests works flawlessly, just check out the special masterpiece for yourself.

While filming the episode "The Empire Strikes Back", the actor who played Darth Vader was told to say "Obi-Wan killed your father" instead of "I am your father" so that even the actors would not know how it would end.

6. Damn brave

While working on the fourth episode of Star Wars, George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors Guild in order to circumvent the Guild's requirement for standard credits. The subtitle "Episode IV: A New Hope" did not appear until 1981, four years after the film's release. Yes, these are two facts in one.

7. Oh, Yuen<3

During the filming of the action scenes in The Phantom Menace, Ewan McGregor constantly imitated the sound of laser swords cutting through the air. George Lucas explained to the actor many times that the special effects specialists would then add the sound. Yuen replied: "Sorry, got carried away again."

8. Comes in handy when the word "shotgun" sounds too boring

In the Star Wars universe, there are conventional firearms. It's called a slugthrower. These weapons are favored by bounty hunters for their superiority over blasters.

9. Topher, do me a montage

Topher Grace, star of That '70s Show, edited the first three episodes into one film that fans of the saga have recognized as better than the original.

10. Successful bet

George Lucas was confident that Close Encounters of the Third Kind would do more than Star Wars at the box office, so he offered Close Encounters director Steven Spielberg an exchange of 2.5% of the box office profits. Spielberg gets his 2.5% to this day (watch him smile).

11. Fox definitely regrets it

Fox gave all rights to the original trilogy merchandise to George Lucas in order to keep his salary low, as managers didn't expect Star Wars to become such a big deal.

12. Star Wars can change a person's life

After watching Star Wars in 1977, James Cameron gave up his career as a truck driver and took over the film industry. Conquered: "Terminator", "Alien", "Terminator 2", "Titanic", "Avatar".

13. "Synchronous" cameo

George Lucas let the members of 'N Sync make cameo appearances in Attack of the Clones to please his daughters. The episode was cut from the final version of the film.

14. What's in a name

George Lucas proved himself to be a fan of the "speaking names" literary device. Vader means "father" in Dutch. The name Yoda is translated from Sanskrit as "fighter".

15. And it's true

In the Brazilian version of Star Wars, Count Dooku's name had to be changed to "Dukan" because in Portuguese, the word dooku means "from the ass" or even "I give it to the ass."

16. In what order should I watch all the episodes at once?

Alright Machete, supposedly the best for watching the saga. The intrigue begins in episodes IV and V, then there are prequels as flashbacks (except for episode I, which can be skipped), and episode VI ties the story together. The order was suggested by Rod Hilton on his blog. Rod is a developer, programming in Ruby and Java, so it's hard to blame him for the lack of logic.

17. Altruist smuggler

Burt Reynolds, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Jack Nicholson auditioned for the role of Han Solo, but Harrison Ford ended up playing the charismatic smuggler. For filming A New Hope, he received only $10,000. Solo was originally conceived as a swamp from the planet Dagoba, so this whole parade of stars might not have taken place.