Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site psuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!presby!burdvax!psuvax!starner From: starner@psuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies.sw Subject: Re: ROTJ Message-ID: <171@psuvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Jul-83 08:19:42 EDT Article-I.D.: psuvax.171 Posted: Sun Jul 10 08:19:42 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jul-83 10:59:02 EDT References: <2819@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Penn. State Univ. Lines: 28 In reference to the article concerning who the "Uncle" is. If you read the book, you are told that "Uncle Owen" is actually Ben Kenobi's brother. In the words of Ben Kenobi: "When your father left, he didn't know your mother was pregnant. Your mother and I knew he would find out eventually, but we wanted to keep you both safe, for as long as posssible. So I took you to live with my brother Owen, on Tatooine...and your mother took Leia to live as the daughter of Senator Organa, on Alderaan. The Organa family was high-born and politically quite powerful in that system. Leia became a princess by virtue of lineage - no one knew she had been adopted, of course. But it was a title without real power, since Alderaan had long been a democracy. Even so, the family continued to bo politically powerful, and Leia, following in her foster father's path, became a senator as well. That's not all she became, of course - she became the leader of her cell of the Alliance against the corrupt Empire. And because she had diplomatic immunity, she was a vital link for getting information to the Rebel cause. That's what she was doing when her path crossed yours - for her foster parents had always told her to contact me on Tatooine, if her troubles became desperate.". Mark Starner Penn State University {allegra,burdvax}!psuvax!starner