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Encounter on Yavin 4

The Death Star exploded. The battle of Yavin is over. Vader, after losing control of his fighter, finally regains it and heads his ship towards Yavin 4. As he gets closer, he goes passed the remains of the battle station.

The missile detection TIE alarm sounds and flashes constantly inside the cockpit. The fighter and first missile, which are getting closer, follow the same trajectory but in the opposite direction. Vader blows up the missile with an accurate blast out of his front lasers.

Two of the 3 missiles, which are in the air, are heading to the TIE together, one behind other. There isn't possibility to aim another missile as before. There isn't time and space for the maneuver. Vader continues his fast descent in a straight line.

Soldier 1: "What happened??? Looks like we have in hand a new TIE with some kind of jamming device which it can divert the missiles of its trajectory. Isn't it?"
Soldier 2: "I don't think so. The interference devices don't act like that. How strange! Look at direction of trajectory and longitudinal axes of each missile... They're different! They haven't been diverted. It's like they had been pushed or something like that."
Soldier 1: "We had better get out of here. He has detected us too."
The other soldier shouts while running out of the control: "It's impossible to dodge four missiles!" - He's looking for a spot to see the location where the radar-locator of his air defense system is. He can see how the spacecraft fires a blast of lasers. Its target: the locator. And then, he says: "Oh... no."

The rebel soldier can see the pilot of the spacecraft descends, slowly, approaching his position, propelled by a rocket backpack. The area which the pilot has chosen to land is very close to the control air defense system. In the end, the soldier can't see the pilot among the trees. He doesn't waste a second and runs. He meets with his partner and tells him very upset:
Soldier 2: "Hurry. Take your gun and hide there. I'll hide in that place. The pilot of the TIE landed down there."
          His partner, who was talking to the command of the rebel base, is shocked and says:
Soldier 1: "What??? But ... Shit! General, I have to go. The pilot of the TIE is coming to visit us."
Dodonna: "What???" - He continues to speak despite the logical silence - "Eh! Is anybody there?" - Communication is lost. Then he tells the person next to him: - "Send a reconnaissance platoon to the antiaircraft system control 4."

It starts to rain slightly. Vader doesn't take long to get where is located the antiaircraft control truck. One of the two soldiers comes out of hiding when he notices that the intruder has gone far from where he was. He wants to surprise him from behind.
Soldier 1: "Stop!"
          Vader turns. He raises his right hand against the soldier who falls on his knees, in the distance, and he begins to have breathing problems. In that moment, the other soldier comes out of hiding too.
Soldier 2: "Don't move!"
          It's too late when he realizes who is aiming his gun. Vader even turns his head. He moves his left arm back and made a gesture with his hand. The soldier, who was a few meters behind Vader, is thrown, hurt and knock out.

The sky is darkening rapidly. The rain is more intense. Directly, Vader asks the soldier who is caught with his power:
Vader: "What is the name of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star?"
Soldier 1: "Ah! I can't ... Ah! ... breathe. Ah!"
Vader: "Come on. Speak and this will end soon."
Soldier 1: "Ah! Luke Sssk ... Ah! ... Ssky ... Sky ... Skywalker. Luke Skywalker! Ah! Aaaaaaaaaah!"
Vader: "That's not possible. It's not possible!!!"- He shouts angrily.

At that moment, far from there, Luke stares at the horizon and sees dark clouds, which warns of a storm. The echo of a thunder is heard in the distance. Next to Leia, Han and Chewbacca, he is waiting his turn to enter in the temple where the medal ceremony will be celebrating. While Han and Chewbacca talk to each other, Leia whispers to Luke very worried:
Leia: "What is wrong?"

Luke: "I don't know. Ben has awakened something in me that it makes me perceive voices and even feelings which are not mine." - He pauses briefly and says: "That storm has just emitted a shock wave of anger and sadness."
The general Dodonna appears and says: "Everyone is ready. It's time boys."
All follow the old general except Leia. She stands still while she stares at the cloudy horizon with her right hand on her chest and visible uneasiness.

After the medal ceremony, the evacuation begins. Everyone goes orderly to their transports. Luke is close to his X-wing. There he meets another pilot: Wedge Antilles.
Wedge: "Sorry, man. But, I have to tell you this. I think the show has taken too long. Since we beat them, I can not wait to get out of here at once."
Luke: "Dodonna insisted on some kind of celebration. He says it's important."
Wedge: "Important? I don't know… Plus knowing that Vader is out there."
Luke: "Vader???" - He exclaims in surprise.

Wedge: "Yes, man. Haven't you heard yet? He has been lucky and he has been saved. Dammit! At least one of our anti-aircraft was able to bring down his fighter. Now, he must be a bit pissed off."
Luke stares at the storm, which is approaching in the distance, and says: "Actually, quite a lot."

The next day, in the twilight, imperial forces took Yavin 4 under the command of the emperor himself. He is on one of the upper floors of one of the ancient temples, which served as base for the Alliance, receiving a report from Admiral Ozzel and Captain Needa.

Ozzel: "... I'm afraid we have only found Lord Vader, my lord. Here he comes now."

Sidious: "Leave us alone."

Ozzel: "What chance does he have?"

Needa: "50%?"

Ozzel: "Less... A lot less."

Sidious says angry: "You let the planes escape twice maybe 4 times. The Death Star was vital to the empire. I'm very disappointed, Lord Vader."

Vader: "Once the plans arrived on Tatooine, they were already lost and we should focus on destroying those who could use them against us. You force us to continue with the mission without giving us time to discover and fix what Erso did to the battle station. I only take responsibility for my actions. What Krennic, Tarkin or you did is not my fault. But, let's focus on the present. I'm almost convinced that the boy, who was with Kenobi, is the pilot who has destroyed the Death Star. His name is Luke Skywalker." - He pauses briefly and says: "He isn't powerful yet, but I could sense his potential with intense clarity."

Sidious says after a long silence: "Do they haven't prepare the boy??? Kenobi's weird behavior would have a logical explanation after all... as well as that extraordinary pilot. Uhmm... All this is very disturbing. You chose a strange way to give that woman death."

Vader: "I didn't know what I was doing."- And he adds menacingly: "You assume too much then."

Sidious: "You should know, already, that the dark side is full of surprises at first. It shouldn't be used without sufficient experience, but it is inevitable. Do you still feel guilty, Lord Vader?"

Vader: "I could save her." - He says sadly.

Sidious: "Maybe, but you had no opportunity to do anything because of Kenobi. Well, finally, you have got your revenge... more o less. Taking into account what he did to you, the most appropriate would have been something much more... special."

Sidious begins to walk, slowly, moving away from Vader, in silence until he says: "That boy could become a threat. Go with the fleet under Tagge's command and find me that rebel scum... as soon as possible!"

Now, Sidious walk faster. But, he stops for a moment, before leaves Vader, and says: "I don't want any more mistakes, regrets or doubts. And Lord Vader... be assured that I will not tolerate another failure like it has happened."

The End

Star Wars Comparisons

List or images compilation with comparisons drawn between Star Wars and real world.

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1) Front top view of USS Tennessee (BB-43) battleship, in World War II (12 May 1943), designing during World War I, after she was repaired and modernized. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Catalog #: 19-N-45071. Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, DC. Image changed from the original work resizing, cropping and adding some marks. Source: history.navy.mil. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 2) Front top view of an imperial star destroyer. Source: starwars.wikia.com. 3) Turbolasers of the imperial star destroyers in the episode 18, season 3, of "Star Wars Rebels": "Secret cargo". Source: starwars.wikia.com. 4) Turbolarser of the Death Star in Episode IV: A new hope (1977). Source: starwars.wikia.com. 5) Naval gun Mark 12 5"/38 caliber.

In the documentary video "Wedgie 'Em Out", George Lucas tells design director Doug Chiang during the production of "Episode II: Attack of the clones": "I think we can begin to introduce the wedge shippie. Maybe take some World War I battleships, german. Cut 'em off about halfway throuhg. You know, take 'em top and bottom and wedgie 'em out a little bit". The american battleship USS Tennessee was designed during the World War I and its hull have the same "wedge shippie" as the german battleships even after its repair and modernization.

1) Front view of a replica of the robot Maria, a fictional character in film "Metropolis" (1927) exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Crafts of Paris. Photo by Guilhem Vellut. Image changed significantly from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: flickr.com. License: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 2) Front view of C-3PO on Tatooine in Episode IV: A new hope (1977). Full body. Source: makingstarwars.tumblr.com.

María's color was golden like 3PO. "Star Wars: The Magic of Myth" it was an exhibition on display at the National Air and Space Museum from October 31, 1997 to January 31, 1999 which included this documentary video. In 3:04, George Lucas says: "I want something elegant and beautiful and human-like with 3PO. So I was inspired primarily by the film "Metropolis", which it was the first film I ever saw with a robot in it. And the robot in that film was very, very art deco, very beautiful. A lot of the of the art deco elements in 3PO relate to the rivets on the legs and others details, like in his head, has a serious a little donut put together in descending order which a very art deco image."

Image of the original robot in the movie Metropolis (1927) on these web pages: jeffbots.com and nbcnews.com.

1) Side view of a helmet of samurai armor or medieval japanese kabuto from the Edo period (1603-1868). Photo by Samuraiantiqueworld. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. License: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. 2) Front view of a japanese samurai helmet or medieval kabuto. Photo by Samuraiantiqueworld. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. License: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). 3) Side view of a close helmet of a medieval european armor exhibited in the castle of Vianden, Luxembourg. Photo by Michail Jungierek. Image changed from the original work flipping, resizing and cropping. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. License: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). 4) Helmet (barbute) of a medieval european armor of the fifteenth century exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. 5) Side view of Darth Vader's helmet in Episode V: The Empire Strike Back (1980). Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: starwars.com. 6) Death Star trooper's front view in Episode IV: A New Hope (1977). 7) Side view of the helmet of an imperial gunner or imperial engineering corps member in Episode IV: A New Hope (1977). 8) Boba Fett's helmet in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1987). Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: starwars.com.

1) Photo of a Royal Flying Corps sergeant major (Royal Air Force from United Kingdom of Great Britain) in World War I (1914 - 1918) from Deseronto Archives, Ontario, Canada. Image changed from the original work cropping. Source: flickr.com. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 2) Imperial officers in a hangar of the Death Star in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1987). Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: starwars.com. 3) Orange flight suits worn by US Navy pilots from 1957 to 1969. Image changed significantly from the original work resizing, cropping and intensifying the color. Source: National Naval Aviation Museum. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 4) Luke Skywalker wearing his orange pilot suit of the rebel alliance in Episode IV: A new hope (1977).

1) Treads ("wheels") of the space shuttle crawler-transporter which was made in 1965. Image changed from the original work resizing. Source: nasa.gov. 2) Sandcrawler and group of jawas carrying R2-D2 in Episode IV: A new hope (1977).

1) Inside the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress bomber from World War II. Photo by Acroterion. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). 2) Inside the tail gunner turret of a Mitsubishi G4M Betty bomber in World War II. Image changed from the original work resizing. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. 3) Inside the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon in Episode V: The Empire Strike Back (1980). 4) Luke Skywalker inside the turret gunner of the Millennium Falcon in Episode IV: A new hope (1977).

1) Instruments of the control room of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in June 23, 1999. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Photo by kawamoto takuo. Source: flickr.com. License: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 2) Death Star superlaser fire control, or fire control room, in Episode IV: A New Hope (1977).

Images of other more similar instruments on this flickr.com web page.

1) The Pinwheel spiral galaxy, Messier 101 or NGC 5457 released from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: European Space Agency & NASA. Image changed from the original work resizing. Source: spacetelescope.org. License: Usage of images, videos and web texts. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 2) This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust, asteroid field, system in formation with a circular disk of dust and asteroids or protoplanetary disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC). Image changed from the original work resizing. Source: spitzer.caltech.edu. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 3) NGC 2683 spiral galaxy released from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: spacetelescope.org. License: Usage of images, videos and web texts. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 4) Star Wars Galaxy in Episode V: The Empire Strike Back (1980).

- 10 seconds video The Evolution of a Planet-Forming Disk on YouTube.com: This animation shows the evolution of a planet-forming disk around a star.

- 15 seconds video Birth of an Unusual Planetary System on YouTube.com: This artist's animation shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust.

1) The Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin. Photo by David Iliff. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). 2) Jedi archives or library in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002).

1) Drone view of the Spain Square in Seville (Plaza de España in Seville). Video by Jorge Gutiérrez. Image changed from the original work resizing. Source: YouTube.com. Standard YouTube license. Creative Commons CC BY. 2) Spain Square in Seville. Photo by A volaaa. Image changed from the original work fliping and resizing. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. License: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Spain. 3) Square in Theed, Naboo, in Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: starwars.wikia.com. 4) Half of the previous frame.

Some scenes from other movies have been filmed in the Plaza de España of Seville as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Wind and the Lion (1975) and The Dictator (2012).

1) Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (December 1994). Credit: USAF/Judson Brohmer. Image changed from the original work resizing. Source: nasa.gov. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 2) J-type 327 Nubian or Padmé Amidala's Naboo Royal Starship in Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999). Image changed from the original work resizing. Source: starwars.com. 3) Frame (2'20") from documentary video "All I need is an Idea" in which there is a model of the plane SR-71 Blackbird in George Lucas's office. Image changed from the original work cropping.

Other versions of the blackbird: Lockheed A-12 and Lockheed YF-12.

1) Northrop XB-35 (1946-1949). Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives on flickr.com. 2) Northrop YRB-49A (around 1952). U.S. Air Force photo. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: National Museum of the United States Air Force. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 3) Northrop YRB-49A (side view). U.S. Air Force photo. Image changed from the original work flipping, resizing and cropping. Source: National Museum of the United States Air Force. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org.  4) J-type diplomatic barge or Naboo Royal Cruiser in Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: starwars.wikia.com. 5) J-type Naboo star skiff or Padmé Amidala's starship in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005).

1) Czech attack helicopter Mil Mi-35 (Hind-E), manofactured in Russia since 1969, in may 20, 2016. Photo by Alan Wilson. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Source: flickr.com. License: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0). Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 2) Heavy-lift helicopter Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane manofactured in USA since 1962. It is civil version of US Army's Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe. U.S. Army photo. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org. 3) Republic Attack Gunship or Low Altitude Assault Transport-infantry (LAAT/i) in Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). 4) Low Altitude Assault Transport-carrier (LAAT/c) carrying an AT-TE walker (All Terrain Tactical Enforcer) in Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002).

Others versions of Mil Mi-35 (Hind-E): Mi-24 (Hind) and Mi-25 (Hind-D).

1) Atmospheric assault lander or First Order transporter of stormtroopers in Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015). Image changed from the original work resizing. Source: starwars.com. 2) Landing craft LCM-8 in March 1972. U.S. Navy photo. Image changed from the original work resizing and cropping. Copy on commons.wikimedia.org.

Another type of barge to consider is LHD Landing Craft (LLC) or LCM-1E.

1), 2) y 3) Shield gate of planet Druidia in Spaceballs (1987). 4) Shield Gate of Scarif in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Source: The official ILM YouTube Channel. Standard YouTube license. Creative Commons CC BY.

1) and 2) TIE fighter (front view): Cockpit window as seen from the outside and inside in the attack on the Millennium Falcon in Episode IV: A new hope (1977). 3) and 4) TIE advanced (front view): Cockpit window as seen from the outside and inside in the trench of the Death Star in Episode IV: A new hope (1977). 5) and 6) TIE fighter (front view): Cockpit window as seen from the outside and inside in Star Wars Rebels, season 1, episode 2: Fighter flight (release date: 13 October 2014 in USA). 7) and 8) First Order TIE fighter (front view): Cockpit window as seen from the outside and inside in Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015). 9) and 10) First Order TIE fighter targeting computer, device, display or screen in Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015). 11) Jyn Erso and a TIE fighter (front view) in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) trailer (Official) (Standard YouTube license. Creative Commons CC BY). Cockpit window as seen from the outside. 12) TIE fighter: Cockpit window as seen from the inside in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). 13) TIE advanced (Darth Vader's ship-fighter): Targeting computer, device, display or screen in Episode IV: A new hope (1977). 14) TIE fighter targeting computer, device, display or screen in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).

The Luminous Falcon. Better design for a light freighter: a highly visible payload bay door, similar dimensions to the Millennium Falcon (Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-1300), but much higher payload capacity and a aerodynamic shape.

This is it.😉

If I realize any other comparison or I find another, out there, I'll put it right here.

Painting or drawing: Encounter Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Cody in Mos Eisley, Tatooine.😜