Species:
Human
Male
Sex:
Blond
Hair Color:
Blue
Eye Color:
1.72 meters
Height:
Tatooine
Homeworld:
Political Affiliation:
Rebel Alliance/New Republic
Galactic history is full of heroic Jedi Knights, but perhaps none have been as influential as Luke Skywalker, a young Tatooine farm boy heir to a legacy of darkness and light.
In the time after the Clone Wars, the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi asked his brother and sister-in-law, Owen and Beru Lars of Tatooine, to raise Luke, the son of Kenobi's Jedi student who had been seduced by the dark side of the Force.
Moister farmers in the barren desserts of a twin-sunned world, Owen and Beru raised Luke as if they were his aunt and uncle. When he asked about his father, they lied to him, telling him only that his father had been a great pilot, and later, a navigator on a spice freighter. They were good parents, but feared Luke's potential destiny.
Kenobi watched over Luke from afar, hiding his own home in the barren and treacherous Jundland Wastes. Growing up, Luke only saw the "crazy hermit" -- as his uncle called Ben Kenobi-- a few times, including once when Luke and a friend crashed a skyhopper in Beggar's Canyon. Ben helped save them, but Owen ran him off the property, telling him never to return.
Luke had a tremendous aptitude for flying repulsorlift vehicles such as skyhoppers and landspeeders. He became good friends with another hotshot, Biggs Darklighter, as well as a crowd of kids at the nearby Anchorhead settlement: the jealous Fixer, the sexy Camie, and tag alongs Deak and Windy. Sometimes they were joined by Tank, another hopeful pilot. Fixer and his friends nicknamed Luke "Wormy."
Luke and Biggs developed a fast friendship. They raced their landspeeders and skyhoppers through Beggar's Canyon in the Jundland Wastes, "tagging" womp rats. They both planned to enter the Imperial Space Academy together and fight great space battles. They also planned to buy a spaceship after their graduation. Neither of them envisioned the galaxy of turmoil that existed beyond Tatooine.
While Luke saw his future in the stars, his uncle kept him firmly at work at the farm. Season after season, he turned down Luke's request to apply to the Academy. Meanwhile, Biggs and Tank applied and were both accepted into the Academy.
Out working with moisture vaporators one day, Luke saw what he was sure was a space battle above the planet. He quickly went to Fixer's shop in Tosche power station to tell his friends, and was suprised to see Biggs there. He was about to embark on his first mission aboard the merchant ship Rand Ecliptic, as its first mate, and had returned to Tatooine to see Luke and his family. In private, Biggs told Luke that he was going to join the Rebellion.
Luke was right about the space battle. When Uncle Owen bought two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, from the Jawas, Luke couldn't imagine the adventures he was about to tumble into. R2 carried a hologram of a beautiful princess, which eventually led Luke to Ben Kenobi. At Ben's house, Luke learned that his father had been a Jedi Knight, who had been betrayed and murdered by Darth Vader. Ben gave Luke his father's lightsaber.
After Imperials murdered his aunt and uncle in their search for the droids, Luke agreed to go with Ben to Alderaan and to learn the ways of the Jedi like his father before him. Luke, Ben, and the droids booked passage on the Millenium Falcon, a modified freighter piloted by Han Solo and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca. As they headed toward Alderaan, Ben began teaching Luke ways of the Force. But the training would not last long.........