A question based of the Latest Scott Speicher News

[Alex Moon]

Let's say that for some reason (shipwreck, plane shot down, etc.) you are believed dead, leaving behind a wife and two young children. After ten years, you are found alive and rescued. By this time, your wife has remarried and had two more children with another man, and the whole family has taken his last name and all that jazz.

Would you want to reintiate contact with your wife and children, who are now in their teens?

[Darth Wong]

Let's say that for some reason (shipwreck, plane shot down, etc.) you are believed dead, leaving behind a wife and two young children. After ten years, you are found alive and rescued. By this time, your wife has remarried and had two more children with another man, and the whole family has taken his last name and all that jazz.

Would you want to reintiate contact with your wife and children, who are now in their teens?

I would reinitiate contact with them, but I would understand if my wife has a new husband now. My children, however, are still my children and there is no reason they should not be able to re-acquaint themselves with their original father.

Besides, I would get the chance to walk up to Matthew, who would now be in his late teens, and say "I AM YOUR FATHER".

[neoolong]

Just hope he doesn't react as badly as Luke did.

[Alex Moon]

Personally, I don't know if I would re establish contact. Like I said, we're talking about young kids, say 5 or 6 years old when I dissapeared. By the time I returned, they would have spent the majority of their lives looking up to this other man as their father, and would have little memory of me. I may be their biological father, but I would be nothing else. Trying to change that would only hurt everyone in the long run. I would probably have one meeting with my ex wife, to straighten out any legal matters, and then I'd ask that she or they not contact me ever again.

[Steven Snyder]

Just hope he doesn't react as badly as Luke did.

Well Vader should have probably mentioned that *BEFORE* he hacked his son's hand off.

Now I am thinking, in some alternate EU universe we are introduced to a Father/Son counseling session with Darth Vader, Luke, and Elizabeth Hurley playing the counselor.

Counselor: Hello Mr....Raider?

Darth Vader: Vader, actually, Darth Vader.

Counselor: Hello, Darth Vader. Hello, Luke.

Luke: Hello

Counselor: So, Luke, why don't we start with you. Why are you here?

Luke: Well, it's kind of weird.

Counselor: We don't judge here.

Luke: OK. Well, I just really met my Dad for the first time three days
ago. He has been the serving the Emperor for the past twenty years. I never knew him growing
up. He comes back and now he wants me to serve the Emperor.

Counselor: And how do you feel about that?

Luke: I don't wanna serve the Emperor.

Darth Vader: But Luke, who's going to serve the Emperor when I die?

Luke: Not me.

Counselor: What do you want to do, Luke?

Luke: I don't know. I was thinking, maybe I'd be a technician or something,
cause I like droids and stuff.

Darth Vader: An evil technician?

Luke: No. Maybe, like, work on a moisture farm or something.

Darth Vader: An evil moisture farm?

Luke: (shouting) You always do that!

(calm)

Anyways, this is really hard, because, you know, my Dad is really
a Sith Lord.

Counselor: We don't label people here, Luke.

Luke: No, he's really a Sith Lord.

Counselor: Luke.

Darth Vader: No, the boy's right. I really am a Sith Lord.

Counselor: Don't be so hard on yourself. You're here, that's what's
important. A journey of a thousand light-years begins with one step.

Luke: I just think, like, he hates me. I really think he wants to turn me to the darkside.

Counselor: OK, Luke, no one really wants to turn anyone to the darkside. They say
it, but they don't mean it.

Darth Vader: Actually, the boy's quite astute. I am trying to turn him to the darkside. The Emperor has cautioned against it and told me to kill him instead. But here he is, unfortunately, alive and not turned.

Counselor: We've heard from Luke, now let's hear from you.

Darth Vader: The details of my life are quite inconsequential.

Counselor: That's not true, Lord Vader. Please, tell us about your childhood.

Darth Vader: Very well, where should I begin? The closest thing I had to a father was a ruthlessly cheap parts dealer from Tatooine with compulsive gambling disorder and a penchant for sodomy. My mother was a 34-year-old slave named Shmi with leathery skin. My mother would be insanely overprotective, she would snort spice, she would make outrageous claims, like I was a virgin birth or something. Sometimes she would try to sell me to passing off=worlders. My childhood was typical. Summers in Pit of Carkoon, pod-racing lessons. In the spring we'd vandalize Jabba's Palace. If I was insolent, I was thrown out into the sandstorms until my skin was scoured off. Pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first
lightsaber. At the age of seventeen, I slaughtered a village of Tuskin Radiers, and later a Sith Lord named Dooku cut off my arm with in a duel. There really is nothing like a touching your new wife's face with a cold metal hand. At the age of eighteen, I joined the darkside. From there...