[Charles Martel]

Luke Starkiller? lol!

That was the character's name in the early drafts of the first movie's script:

"THE STAR WARS"
From The Adventures of Luke Starkiller
By: George Lucas

Third Draft
August 1, 1975
Lucasfilm Limited

"... and in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as The Son of The Suns."

Journal of the Whills, 3:127

"THE STAR WARS"

FADE IN:

1. EXT. SPACE

A vast sea of star serves as the backdrop for the MAIN TITLE, which is followed by a ROLL UP:

The REPUBLIC GALACTICA is dead. Ruthless trader barons, driven by greed and the lust for power, have replaced enlightenment with oppression, and "rule by the people" with the FIRST GALACTIC EMPIRE. For over a thousand years, generations of JEDI KNIGHTS were the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. Now these legendary warriors are all but extinct. One by one they have been hunted down and destroyed by the sinister agents of the Emperor: the DARK LORDS OF THE SITH. It is a period of civil wars. Rebel Armies, striking from fortresses hidden deep within the Great Rift, have won a crushing victory over the powerful Imperial Starfleet. The Emperor knows that one more such defeat will bring a thousand more solar systems into the rebellion, and Imperial control of the Outland systems could be lost forever. To crush the rebellion once and for all, the Emperor has sent one of his most ferocious Dark Lords to find the secret rebel strongholds and destroy them...

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"Galactica", hmm? So *that's* why Lucas sued Glen Larson.

[Arthalion]

There were a LOT of early drafts, and the storyline shifted back and forth incessantly, but he actually began writing this thing back in HIGH SCHOOL. When I went to Downey High there was actually a small display in the schools library of some of Lucas' work, including some early stories that were set in the Star Wars "universe", along with early sketches of storm troopers. I doubt they are still there today or that they do this anymore (they'd be worth a fortune on Ebay), but when I was a student we could pull them out for in-library use like any other reference item. I never read his stories or work, but to this day wish I had.

No, I don't believe that the story is a swipe against Bush. The first trilogy is the story of how a peaceful and democratic empire fell to a totalitarian despot, and the second trilogy chronicles the overthrow of that despot and the restoration of the republic. If these liberal ninnies want to draw some kind of strange parallel in their heads, that their business...but it's just their fantasies, nothing more.