From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: How Obia Wan "died"
Article-I.D.: watmath.4168
Posted: Mon Jan  3 19:05:21 1983
Received: Tue Jan  4 00:12:34 1983
References: sri-arpa.250

Obiwan died because of movie reasons.

If Obiwan had escaped the Death Star with the rest, he could have
fought with the rebels, and being a trained Jedi, could no doubt have blown
the whole shebang up on the first run.

Luke needed a way to reach importance, replacing Obiwan as lead Jedi
was that way.