PRESS DISNEY WARS STAR EPISODE V THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Ryder Windham Based on the story by George Lucas and the screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett New York Los Angeles
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PROLOGUE A long time ago in a galaxy far far away During the Battle of Yavin Sith Lord Darth Vader piloted piloted his own Imperial TIE fighter to defend the Death Star space station against a Rebel Alliance assault While engaged in a dogfight with an X-wing starfighter starfighter he sensed the enemy pilot was strong with the Force Vader was about to fire upon the X-wing when he and his two wingmen were attacked by a Corellian YT-1300 transport Vader survived but his damaged TIE fighter went spinning out of control Seconds later the Death Star was blown into a billion pieces After Darth Vader brought his crippled spacecraft to an Imperial outpost he began his investigation He did not have to identify the Corellian transport He’d seen it before when it had been captured by a Death Star tractor beam and deposited in hangar 3207 The transport had been readily identified as the Millennium Millennium Falcon the same ship that had eluded Imperial
