Tag: Star Wars

It was Wilhuff Tarkin, Grand Moff of the Empire and Governer of the Outer Rim, who commissioned Sienar Fleet Systems to create “a line of single-pilot, short-range starfighters,”

Even before he was trained in the ways of the Force, Luke Skywalker, son of one of the greatest star pilots and warriors of the Clone Wars, though

Action figures: they’re not just for kids, and neither, as Steve McLean is at pains to point out, is his show Action Figure Archive, yet even when such

The original Star Wars trilogy may ostensibly have been the story of Luke Skywalker, that story expanded to the wider Skywalker clan in Return of the Jedi and

It is a dark time for the Resistance, if ever there had been a good time, as with dwindling resources they abandon their base on D’Qar and prepare

The phrases “Star Wars” and “prequels” do not often sit well together, George Lucas’ second trilogy of films released between 1999 and 2005 faced with the impossible weight

We live in a golden age of geekdom. The technology in our hands is what has been dreamt of for years, the people making movies are geeks who

Released in 1958, The Hidden Fortress is a tale of buried treasure and war and prisoners and escapes and a princess and the slim reward for all that

We know it all began with the stolen plans of a doomsday weapon and a Princess who led a double life as freedom fighter. But a long time

With an introductory crawl which speaks of the continuing fight for peace and justice in the universe, an ongoing quest requiring daring missions rather than the opposition of