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Fleeing Kessel
25th March 2009 |
| Amid the chaos on Kessel as the Galactic Alliance members flee, while Luke and his friends escape in the Millennium Falcon, an injured Lando Calrissian leads the freed prisoners to a Star Destroyer parked nearby on the salt flats. Amongst the prisoners forced to work the spice mines by Commander Kane's imperial soldiers is a cohort of Wookiees ! Their familiarity with starship controls makes them an ideal crew for the general. |
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| Having successfully raised the empty Star Destroyer, in this superb illustration by Scott, Lando orders the Wookiee at the comms station to over-ride the energy shield signals to allow them to pull away from the base. |
| This new artwork can be seen in the 'Kessel' gallery. You can discuss the VE artwork in the forum here ! |
| I recently purchased Michael Kaminski's 'The Secret History of Star Wars', a cinematographer and fan whose research was first published online here. T'Bone at starwarz.com helped publicise the original and reviewed it. The author has simply - but oh-so-methodically ! - collated published quotes, articles, notes, and plot drafts to illustrate how the Star Wars story - any story - has organically evolved and developed, from Darth Vader as a weak and cowardly general and Leia as Queen of Alderaan, through to Dooku instigating the Tusken capture of Shmi Skywalker and Palpatine being Anakin's father. T'Bone remarks how anti-Lucas Kaminski appeared to be, but my take on Lucas' revisionist view of his own history is that 40 years is a long time and genuine amnesiac confusion can very easily occur ; not to mention wanting to focus the public's attention on the final result of the Saga as we know it, rather than all it's permutations. I've only had a chance to glance through it, but I'll certainly be reading it from cover to cover as soon as I can ! This unofficial book looks to rank highly along with Pollock's biography, Bouzereau's Annotations, and Rinzler's Making of ANH. |
| Nathaniel Reed, 25th March 2009 |
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