Recently issued on 4 CD set. Films , ed. The Art of Star Wars, including the complete script of the film by George Lucas , ed. The references to other war films, especially WW2 and Korean War air force films for the dogfights in space. A vast sea of stars serves as the backdrop for the main title.
War drums echo through the heavens as a rollup slowly crawls into infinity.
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Emperor's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. The ordinary man, forced to take up arms against an evil tyrant to defend traditional values, who endures a quest for a lost or forgotten object, who is confronted by a choice between good and evil, who wavers before making the right choice, who fights a final battle and wins. Holdfast, the keeper of the past.