Star Wars Journal : The Fight for Justice Star Wars Journal : The Fight for Justice is a young readers novel from the point of view of Luke Skywalker . Publisher ' s summary . Luke Skywalker has always felt a call from space , and eventually learned the ways of the Force and became a Jedi Knight . Now , Luke tells the inside story of his battle with the evil Empire . SKYWALKER DATA PAD ENTRY LOCATION : TATOOINE " In just half a day , my whole world has changed . The farm , my aunt and uncle … . They ' re gone . Destroyed by the Empire . All my life I ' ve been waiting for something to happen to me . Something important . And now that it has , I ' m not sure I know how to handle it . " Behind the scenes . Originally , author John Peel proposed that this novel explain " why someone as gentle as Luke would enjoy killing Womp rats . " However , Lucasfilm Ltd . requested that the journal simply retell the events of from Luke Skywalker ' s perspective . The book states that while searching for the runaway R2 - D2 in the Jundland Wastes , Luke brought along a blaster pistol for protection . This is contradictory to the film , in which Luke in fact brings a slugthrower . As Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia fought to escape Imperial stormtroopers aboard the Death Star , Luke pulled a rope and grappling hook from his belt . Originally seen in " A New Hope " , this rope was later described as part of a stormtrooper ' s utility belt . At the time of the novel ' s conception , however , author John Peel was unaware of the rope ' s origin . Therefore , he used his creative license to appease Lucasfilm ' s strict demands and detailed the rope as one formerly used by Luke Skywalker to pull droids out of sinkholes back home on Tatooine . The book makes mention of " one Rebel agent [ who ] managed to get the complete plans " to the first Death Star . It is unclear which agent this is referring to , since no single agent managed to obtain complete plans to the station . Instead , agents such as Kyle Katarn and Havet Storm transferred partial plans to Princess Leia aboard the " Tantive IV " , where they were compiled into a complete technical readout . Rather than this being a continuity error , it can perhaps be explained by the context in which this information appears : Luke is recounting Leia ' s story to him of her efforts to deliver the plans to Alderaan . It is possible that Luke either got the information wrong , or that Leia simply summarized the convoluted history of Operation Skyhook . Luke remarks that the Death Star could have destroyed Yavin Prime and its many moons in minutes . This is incorrect , which is why the Death Star took the time to orbit Yavin Prime in order to have a clear line of fire on Yavin 4 , rather than destroying the gas giant outright . The Death Star took a considerable amount of time to recharge its superlaser after firing ( a drawback improved in the second Death Star ) , and would have taken a very long time to destroy each of Yavin ' s 26 moons . The book states that Gold Leader was able to fire off his proton torpedoes during Gold Squadron ' s attack run at the Battle of Yavin . This is contradictory to the film , in which Gold Leader is shot down by Darth Vader before being able to fire . The book claims that Obi - Wan Kenobi cuts off Dr . Evazan ' s arm instead of Ponda Baba ' s , as the film illustrates . General Jan Dodonna is mistakenly referred to as " Admiral Dodonna " .