Luke Skywalker
Species:
Human
Sex:
Male
Hair Color:
Blond
Eye Color:
Blue
Height:
1.72 meters
Homeworld:
Tatooine
Political Affiliation:
New Republic
Weapon(s) of Choice:
Lightsaber (blue blade in
Star Wars, green blade in
ROTJ forward)
Vehicle of Choice:
Incom T65B X-wing
fighter
First Appearance:
Star Wars: A New Hope
-------Galactic history is full of
heroic Jedi Knights, but
perhaps none have been as
influential as Luke
Skywalker, a young
Tatooine farm boy heir to a
legacy of darkness and
light.
-------In the time after the Clone
Wars, the Jedi Knight Obi
-Wan Kenobi asked his
brother and sister-in-law,
Owen and Beru Lars of
Tatooine, to raise Luke,
the son of Kenobi's Jedi
student who had been
seduced by the dark side of
the Force.
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Moisture farmers in the barren deserts of a twin-sunned world, Owen and Beru raised Luke as if they were his aunt and uncle. When he asked about his father, they lied to him, telling him only thet his father had been a great pilot, and later, a navigator on a spice freighter. They were good parents, but feared Luke's potential destiny.
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Ben watched over Luke from afar, hiding his own home in the treacherous Junland Wastes. Growing up Luke only saw the "crazy hermit" a few times, including once when Luke and a friend crashed a skyhopper in Beggar's Canyon. Ben helped save them but Owen ran him of the property, telling him never to return.
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Luke had tremendous aptitude for flying repulsorlift vehicles such as skyhoppers and landspeeders.
He became good friends with another hotshot, Biggs Darklighter, as wel as a crowd of kids at the nearby Anchorhead settlement: the jealous Fixer, sexy Camie, and tag alongs Deak and Windy. Somtimes they were joined bt Tank, another hopeful pilot. Fixer and his friends nicknamed Luke "Wormy."
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Luke and Biggs developed a fast friendship. They raced their landspeeders through Beggar's Canyon in the Junland Wastes, "tagging" womp rats. They both planned to enter the Imperial Space Academy together and fight great space battles. They also planned to buy a spaceship after graduation. Neither of them envisioned the galaxy of turmoil that existed beyond Tatooine.
