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Grand Moff Tarkin interrogates the princess, wanting to know the Rebel Alliance's headquarters location. He threatens to open fire on Alderaan, where Leia Organa grew up. She tells him that the Rebel base is on Dantooine. Despite this, Tarkin orders the planet's destruction before her eyes. [18] [23] [24]
Early drafts of the Star Wars story include references to at least two planets which later evolved into the concept of Alderaan.Star Wars author George Lucas included a planet called Alderaan in early treatments; in The Star Wars (1973), Alderaan is a city-planet and the capital planet of the galaxy (prefiguring the planet Coruscant which later featured in the films).
Introduced in the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy, Governor Tarkin is the Grand Moff of the Galactic Empire and commander of the Death Star. [19] After Emperor Palpatine dissolves the Imperial Senate, Tarkin and Darth Vader (portrayed by David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones) are charged with pursuing and destroying the Rebel Alliance.
To mark the Death Star being fully operational, Tarkin orders the Death Star to destroy Leia's home world of Alderaan in an attempt to press her into giving him the location of the secret Rebel headquarters; she gives them the location of Dantooine, which housed a now-deserted Rebel base, but Tarkin has Alderaan destroyed anyway as a ...
Tarkin, the station's commander, demonstrates that power in A New Hope when he destroys Alderaan as a show of force. [23] In the film's climactic scene , however, the station is attacked by Rebel starfighters who have come into possession of the station's blueprints.
By the fourth draft, scenes on the Imperial capital planet had been moved to a space station called the Death Star and the name of Alderaan was given to a peaceful world destroyed by the Empire. [12] The Empire's homeworld, Had Abbadon, came up in early drafts of Return of the Jedi. The entire planet was to be a sprawling city.
After discovering his family's homestead has been destroyed by the Empire, they go to the Mos Eisley Cantina and hire the smuggler Han Solo, his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca and their space freighter, the Millennium Falcon. They discover that Leia's homeworld of Alderaan has been destroyed, and are soon captured by the planet-destroying Death ...
Sixteen-year-old Princess Leia Organa has her Day of Demand, where she demands her right to the crown, in line with Alderaan's traditions. She tells them of the three challenges she needs to do, the Challenge of the Body, in which she will climb one of Alderaan's famous mountains, Appenza Peak, the Challenge of the Mind, in which she is a senator-in-training on Coruscant, and the Challenge of ...