StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Most of it's hard to believe and some of it is just flat out bullshit. Han wasn't only a smuggler, he was at one time an Imperial and helped save Chewie from slavery, Chewie thus owed him a wookie life debt.

Meh. Entertaining, but as Schatten says tis' bullshit.

Man, there were so many inconsistencys in there...
thats some smelly BS.

The EU, and, indeed, the film novelizations utterly invalidate virtually every precept of the piece, from Chewbacca's supposed rank on Kashyyyk to R2-D2's activites between the two trilogies. It is an interesting bit of speculation, but nothing more; even without reams of directly contradictory canonical evidence, the conspiracy theory-esque interconnectedness of the whole thing is enough to cast it into doubt.

I think the guy was just wildly speculating off of what we see in the movies. I figured it would be contradicted by EU and novel evidence, which is why I posted it here.

What can readily be deduced is that their first recruit, who soon became their top field agent, was R2-D2.... As Star Wars opens, R2 is rushing the Death Star plans to the Rebellion. R2, not Leia. The plans are always in R2

I loved this bit, made me laugh, because me using a USB flash drive to hold my essays actually means that the USB flash drive is the author of those essays and did all the research for them, I'm just there to carry it about.

Also, didn't Leia stick the plans in R2 only after her ship got boarded and right after she recorded the message? The hologram shows her bending down and putting her hand out, I thought that was her putting the plans in R2 with a disk or something. Maybe I'm mistaken there?

She puts a disk in R2. The implication in the movie is that the disk contains the death star plans, but this essay is arguing that the disc had something else on it, like perhaps leia's recording.

AK_Jedi wrote:She puts a disk in R2. The implication in the movie is that the disk contains the death star plans, but this essay is arguing that the disc had something else on it, like perhaps leia's recording.

Too bad the recording of the message includes inserting the disk then doesn't it! If the message was on the disk then it couldn't contain an image of her inserting it. Also when they go to extract the plan rather than just having R2 eject the disk they just plug him into the computer. This indicated that R2 did indeed have the memory capacity to store the entire Death Star plans inside himself. What he did with the disk after reading itis unknown but it appears to be gone when Luke is cleaning him. Perhaps after renering the disk unreadable R2 left in the Jawa's scrap pile. Its safe to say, that a droid able to store the data of all the space hazards in an entire galaxy, or at least 10 routes, should have plenty of space to store the Death Star Plans.

The script indicates that the plans were indeed on that disk.