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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]
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 ...
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).
Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He was introduced in the original 1977 Star Wars film [j] as one of the two main antagonists, alongside Darth Vader, and the commander of the Death Star, a gigantic spherical space station built by the Galactic Empire, equipped with an immensely powerful superlaser capable of obliterating entire planets.
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.
Escort to members of the Royal House of Alderaan. Killed in action during Episode IV: A New Hope by Darth Vader. Lando Calrissian – General and former Cloud City administrator. Carlist Rieekan – General and Commander of the Alliance's Echo Base on Hoth. Jan Dodonna – General and Commander of the Alliance's Base One on Yavin 4.
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.
With the exception of art, Cushing was a self-proclaimed poor student in most subjects and had little attention span for that which did not interest him. He got fair grades only through the help of his brother, a strong student who did his homework for him. [7] Cushing harboured aspirations for the arts all throughout his youth, especially acting.