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| '''Luke Skywalker''', is a ] of the ] universe, a ], who plays a major role in the series of films. | |||
| He is the son of ] and ], and brother of ]. As an orphan, he was raised on the planet ] for the first twenty or so years of his life, where his Uncle ] and ] tried unsuccessfully to beat out all tendancies towards the Jedi Order from him. He was told that his father had been a member of the Imperial Navy and had died the death of any normal, skilled fighter. | |||
| ] and ] had hidden his sister Leia on ] where he is safe from her true father. But when the ] intercepts her spaceship carrying plans for the superweapon/battlestation, she sends droids ] and ] to meet Kenobi. However, on their journey the end up enslaved to Luke himself, who follows the droids to meet the Jedi. | |||
| Joining with Kenobi, they depart Tattoine on ]'s ship. They travel towards Alderaan, only to find that the planet has been replaced by mere rock, debris, and a huge, weaponized battle station. Taken in by ]s, they barely excape the Imperials after saving Princess Leia from the Death Star's detention level. Obi-Wan Kenobi, however, is not so lucky: he dies in a final battle with ]. | |||
| They travel back to the Rebel base at ], but they are tracked by an Imperial ]. The Death Star follows and the Empire prepares to destroy the planet with the superweapon. The Alliance uses the stolen plans to the station to lead a final attack on it. Luke himself sends a ] down a weak point in the Death Star, causing a chain reaction which explodes it. Darth Vader himself is attacking Luke in a ] when the weapon is destroyed. Han Solo uses the ''Falcon'' to send him spinning aimlessly into space. With these victories under it's belt, the Rebel Allience seeks shelter on Hoth. | |||
| Desperate to find Luke, whom he recently learned was his own son, Vader sends probe droids into thousands of planets across the galaxy in search of the Jedi hopeful. When a droid stumbles upon him on Hoth, the Dark Lord brings the strong hammer of the Empire down on the planet. But Luke excapes in the ''Falcon''. Following advice from the spirit of Obi-wan Kenobi, he travels to ] to learn the Jedi Arts under Jedi Master ]. But he has a vision of his friends being captured by Vader, and against the warnings of Kenobi and Yoda, he travels to ] to save them, only to be trapped by Vader. On Bespin he learns that Vader is his father, and loses his own hand in combat with the Dark Lord of the ]. | |||
| In the Star Wars books "The Expanded Universe" Luke meets Mara Jade. He falls in love with her, and eventually they wed. They have a son called Ben Skywalker (after ], who used the pseudonym Ben). | |||