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The Tom Veitch Files

Yale’s Beinecke Library 1016 photographs

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Early Sith questions & Freedon Nadd

[margin: SWDE III] [margin: [uncertain: 60?]] NEED UNEXPECTED WONDERFUL THINGS — * Original permission: “George says you can do anything you want with the Emperor ... clone him, anything. You can even create a greater evil such as you describe.” [See below *] * What if: “Strike me down & your journey towards the Dark Side will be complete --” — Somebody (a Jedi) actually does that to the Emperor’s last clone. [inserted, red ink: [illegible] [uncertain: Solomon?] ? [uncertain: Solus?] ?] title: “The Emperor’s Last Clone” * The Emperor Subsumed by another! [margin, red ink: *] According to this scenario, Senator Palpatine was long ago subsumed by something else, an entity from outside the Galaxy. This entity is most likely non-material and has a parasitical relationship to the Force. It used Palpatine as a host-body. Its political subversion of the Republic (through the agency of Palpatine), is part of a plan to transform the Galaxy into a massive antheap society, with itself at the center. * The Emperor inhabits another — yes, his clones are gone ... but we can have him inhabit another ... perhaps a Child.

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The Tom Veitch Files

On August 18, 2026, Praxis visited Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and photographed 1016 pages from the Tom Veitch papers. This collection brings those early drafts, unused stories, correspondence, and handwritten notes together for everyone to explore.

YCAL MSS 1368 · Boxes 3, 5, 42, 76, and 77

Box 3
Dark Empire and Tales of the Jedi correspondence, proposals, and annotated drafts.
Box 5
Lucasfilm approvals, contracts, Kevin J. Anderson correspondence, and audio adaptation material.
Box 42
Tales of the Jedi and Dark Lords of the Sith proposals, scripts, artwork, and proofs.
Box 76
Handwritten Star Wars drafts and the Log X notebook.
Box 77
Dark Empire, Dark Lords of the Sith, and Tales of the Jedi notebooks and plots.

The descriptions above follow Yale’s finding aid. These photographs are a selection from those boxes; individual images have not yet been assigned to exact boxes and folders. Image numbers follow photography order, with occasional gaps.

These are working papers: some ideas were approved, some changed, and some never reached publication. Most transcriptions are automatic; checked passages use the corrected text.

There’s plenty to explore. Have fun looking!

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