STAR WARS THE RISE OF A HERO WRITTEN BY LOUISE SIMONSON ART BY WALTER SIMONSON TOM PALMER AND LAURA MARTIN 40 TM 2017 LUCASFILM LTD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PUBLISHED BY DISNEY LUCASFILM PRESS AN IMPRINT OF DISNEY BOOK GROUP NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL INCLUDING PHOTOCOPYING RECORDING OR BY ANY INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE PUBLISHER FOR INFORMATION ADDRESS DISNEY LUCASFILM PRESS 1101 FLOWER STREET GLENDALE CALIFORNIA 91201 ISBN 978-1-368-01183-9 VISIT THE OFFICIAL STAR WARS WEBSITE AT WWW.STARWARS.COM Disney LUCASFILM PRESS LOS ANGELES NEW YORK
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away Luke Skywalker streaks through the hot desert world of Tatooine in his sleek landspeeder He’s racing to see his best friend Biggs Darklighter who left for the Academy the year before Now Biggs is home for a visit and Luke wants to hear all ABOUT his exploits But instead Biggs tells him a dangerous secret HE’S going to leave school and join the Rebellion The Rebellion Even the moisture farmers of Tatooine have experienced the evils of the Galactic Empire and Luke wants desperately to be a part of THE FiGHT
But he realizes that is UNLiKELY Nothing exciting ever happens near Tatooine On this dry and dusty world it’s nearly impossible to keep human workers Even people like Biggs who grew up on Tatooine flee the boring planet as soon as possible But Luke is stuck here working on his uncle’s moisture farm Going nowhere Jawa scavengers offer droids for sale Uncle Owen picks C-3PO a talkative protocol droid who will work well with OWEN’S other equipment Then he chooses a small red robot But as Owen is about to pay that robot malfunctions Threepio points at a little blue astromech droid Artoo is in perfect condition he tells Luke So Uncle Owen buys R2-D2 instead unaware of how these droids will forever change their lives and the lives of everyone in the galaxy
