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.