The Star Wars : From The Adventures of Luke Starkiller The Star Wars : From The Adventures of Luke Starkiller was the third draft of the script to the film that would become . Plot . Above the planet of Utapau , stormtroopers led by Darth Vader ( a Sith Lord and right hand of the Emperor ) overtake a rebel spaceship , and conduct a search for the stolen plans to the Empire ' s " Death Star " battle station . A young rebel princess called Leia Organa is captured by the Imperials , but she refuses to reveal the whereabouts of the information . A young farm boy named Luke Starkiller has seen the space battle from Utapau ' s wasteland with his " electrobinoculars " , but when he tells his friends at Anchorhead about it , they dismiss it as a fantasy . Luke is deeply impressed by ( and jealous of ) his best friend Biggs Darklighter who has graduated from the academy , becoming a startrooper cadet . Before the princess was captured , two robots named See Threepio ( a tall " Human Cyborg relations droid " ) and Artoo Detoo ( a short , beeping triped ) abandoned the rebel ship , crashing in the Utapau desert . Artoo carries the Death Star plans and a message from Leia in his innards as the two " droids " are captured by " Jawa " scavengers and taken to the Lars homestead where Luke lives with his Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen . The Jawas peddle the robots to Owen , and Luke decides to apply to the academy now that they have two extra droids on the farm . When it turns out that his academy savings were spent on the robots , Luke wishes his late Jedi father were there . Cleaning Artoo , he stumbles upon the hologram message , in which Leia wants the droids delivered to Organa Major and says that she has been taken to Alderaan . Luke runs away from home with the droids in order to get help from General Ben Kenobi , a Jedi Knight his father had told him about . After being attacked by barbaric " Tusken Raiders " , Luke is found by old Ben who claims he has become too old for adventures , proving his point by angrily cracking open his artificial arm . After some thought , Ben changes his mind , but since he has little Force left in him , he starts teaching Luke about the Force of Others as they leave with the droids for Mos Eisley spaceport . On Alderaan , Vader and his fellow Sith Lords feel something old awakening , strengthening the Force . After using his " laser - sword " to defend Luke against some creatures at a Mos Eisley cantina , Ben and his friends follow a furry " Wookiee " called Chewbacca to a nearby docking bay where they are introduced to a cocky starpilot named Han Solo who agrees to take them to Organa Major for a considerable amount of money . Han tricks some evil pirates — including Jabba the Hutt , the financier of his ship — into leaving the docking area , and as the heroes leave Mos Eisley , a furious Jabba is left behind . Aboard the ship , Ben feels that something horrible has happened , and when they reach Organa Major they find the planet destroyed by the Empire . Now they must rescue the princess from the Imperial city of Alderaan in order to find the rebels . At Alderaan , their ship is boarded by stormtroopers , but only Threepio is found since the others are hiding in scan - proof lockers . Luke and Han steal stormtrooper uniforms , and with Chewbacca posing as their prisoner , they leave for the detention area , where they wreak havoc and find the tortured Leia . The groggy princess takes command of the situation , and after getting past a " Dia Nogu " monster , they jump down a chute leading to a garbage masher from where they are saved by the droids . Using the Force and his laser - sword , Ben has managed to retrieve one of the Kiber Crystals , but he meets Vader on his way back , and a duel commences . As the others make it to the hangar , Ben slams down a blast door between Vader and himself , and everybody manage to escape in Han ' s ship . Four pursuing " tie " fighters are shot down , and the ship reaches the Masassi outpost on the fourth moon of Yavin , where the rebels plan an assault on the approaching Death Star ( the plans inside Artoo give a " thermal exhaust port " as the station ' s weak point ) . Han leaves after receiving his money , while Luke claims a place in the battle as his reward . The attack has gone poorly for the rebels , when Luke approaches the target with the Kiber Crystal in his hand . Vader feels the Force in Luke and starts chasing him in his fighter , when suddenly , Han ' s ship turns up firing , causing the Sith Lord to collide with his wing man . As Vader ' s ship spins out of control , Luke fires a torpedo into the exhaust port and the Death Star explodes . At a ceremony back at the outpost , Luke , Artoo , Threepio , Han and Chewbacca are awarded gold medallions .