From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Miller@SRI-NIC
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: How Obia Wan "died"
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.250
Posted: Thu Dec 30 21:32:00 1982
Received: Sun Jan  2 01:09:14 1983

From:  Henry W. Miller 

This is my theory on what happened to Obi Wan in SW IV:

	Obi Wan realized he might be able to defeat Darth Vader
in mortal combat, but then again maybe not.

	He had trained Luke as best he could in the short time
period, and that if he (Obi Wan) were to fail, it would be up
to Luke.

	Luke, along with the others might be able to save the
galaxy. but they were about to be captured.  If this happened,
the chance for victory would be almost non-existant.

	If Obi Wan could cause a distraction for long enough,
the rest might be able to escape.

	Obi Wan was old, and knew he could not exist much
longer in a corporeal form, so, he "phoofed" himself, left
this plain and became one with the force, allowing him to
help Luke later on, and, in the process, providing a diversion
to allow the others to escape.

	I think he was already gone by the time the saber
touched his robe.

	"Run, Luke, run!!!)

-HWM
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