Death Star: episode #64 Luke’s Registration
Previously: Han and Luke had a little talk about me while Ben talked to me. Our ship landed on Yavin, the Rebel Base. Ben and Owen left our party, leaving it with just Luke, Han, Chewie, the 2 droids, and me.
I say, “You’re right.” So the two droids go off after me as Luke and Han approach Shmi at the registration tables. Chewie follows along. Shmi looks up. “Hello, can I help you?” Luke replies, “Yes, we would like to register with the Rebellion.” “Well it looks like you’ve come to the right place,” she says with a smile. Here, I need to question you.” Han says, “make it fast…hey…what am I doing? Come on Chewie, we only rescued the princess. We need our reward, then we’re leaving.” Luke stares at Han. “After all kid, I’ve got a life to live.” Han and Chewie walk away, leaving Luke alone with Shmi. Shmi says, “Why don’t you sit down.” Luke gladly does. “Your name please?” “Luke…Luke Skywalker.” Shmi kind of gives him a long look, but says nothing. There are a lot of Skywalker's around, and she had already registered Rhun’s family. Whenever someone gave the last name of Skywalker, it caused her some pain and hope at the same time. She had hoped to see Anakin again, but Owen had recently told her that he had died, so she threw that idea away. She had loved Anakin a lot…it hurt her that he had died and didn’t even know what happened to him. Luke had noticed the look. “Is something wrong?” “No, sorry, I was just thinking.” “Where are you from?” “Tatooine.” This caused another glance at himself. “You’re form Tatooine?” “Yeah,” Luke said a little unsure of him. He was starting to get nervous form the way this was going. Shmi didn’t say anything more about that as she went onto the next question on the registration form, “How old are you?” “18.” “Okay, and when’s your birthday?” “September 30, 1982.” Shmi says, “there are several people in the rebellion with the same birthday as you.” Luke, not really knowing what to say because he’s so nervous, and just wants this questioning to end, just says, “really?” “Yes, at least 2, maybe a few others. Anyway, onto the next question. Are you healthy?” Luke starts to answer, “Yes…no wait…I have asthma, does that count? It’s not bad.” Shmi nods, “and that’s the only thing that makes you unhealthy?” Luke nods, “I’m fine other than that.” She writes it down as she has all his other answers. “And were you ever part of an Imperial organization or service?” “No.” “Would you ever betray the Rebellion if you were in a desperate situation?” “No…they, the Empire, killed my parents. Darth Vader killed my father. I would never give them any information whatsoever.” Right away Luke knew he shouldn’t have mentioned his father because now he was sure they’d ask questions about it. “Are your parents members of the Rebellion?” “No, I already told you, they’re dead.” “How long have they been dead?” “My entire life.” “So you don’t know if your parents were ever connected to Emperor Palpatine?” “If they were killed by the Empire, then what do you think?” “And what could you do for the Rebellion? Could you fly in X-wings or y-wings.” “I don’t know how to fly, but I’d be willing to learn. Ben seems to think I could do it.” “Ben?” “A friend of mine.” “IF you have never flown, I’ll sign you up for the X-wing Squadron.” “Fine.” “Welcome to the Rebellion, sir. You’re all registered now. You belong to Blue Squadron…. Blue Five.” Luke turns to go, glad to get out of the seat. He turns back around at a sudden thought. “I’ve piloted landspeeders, though. Not that that’s much of anything but…” Shmi says, “I really don’t know if that’ll help. Blue Leader’s over there, he’ll meet you.” Luke says, “Oh okay, thanks.” Luke leaves Shmi and sees Han and me in the distance. “Blue Leader can wait,” he says as he heads over to us. While Luke was being resisted, I went and found my father Bail Organa. “It’s good to have you back,” he says. And then I gave him the sword. He says, “Good, the sword is safe at last. This is a very important sword, Leia. The Maurders had it twice, but now you have brought it back to us.” “Oh, I forgot about those papers you wanted me to get. Owen and I were captured by the Empire before we got there.” Bail turns around to look right at me, “you two were captured by the Empire? Did they know who you were…that you were my daughter?” “Yes, and they seemed to enjoy questioning me about you.” “It was just an Imperial ship, wasn’t it?” “No, we were taken to the Death Star, and I need to warn you they’re on their way here thy tracked us.” “That doesn’t give us much time. Do you remember who any of the officers were?” “Yes, Tarkin and Darth Vader. But anyway, here are the droids with the plans.” Bail was going to question me further, but knew he was short on time. He connected R2-D2 to a computer and gave a full layout of the plans. After I have him the droid, I saw Han and Chewie walking towards me. I hurried up to meet them, and then we saw Luke coming towards us in the distance.
Until next time!
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Death Star: episode #64 Luke’s Registration