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The Tom Veitch Files

Yale’s Beinecke Library 1016 photographs

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Early Sith questions & Freedon Nadd

SW [struck: [uncertain: DEIII?]] 156. * Do Lando + Salla have an affair? * What about Wedge? * Hutt ganglords at war w/each other. * M. Falcon seriously damaged (probably will do this in DE2) * The focal point of the 3rd Series is Luke vs. Emperor... What if Luke "kidnaps" the Emperor? We know the Emp likes to journey to Big Balls.. So "Eclipse II" is caught + boarded -- disabled with matter-transmitters... Or Emp journeys to "lost world of the Sith"... and he + Luke meet there in the wide open outdoors -- [margin: a "rogue planet" w/ one hour of daylight.] The place is saturated w/ Dark Side power... The Emperor ages rapidly during the series... (His ending is strange... + suggestive of a "Greater [uncertain: Death?]" [margin: See ending of [uncertain: L+D War?]] They are caught in a storm ... undergo trials by fire... Instead of a huge "clash of titans" the end comes Simply ... overwhelmed by power he has unleashed! * Counterweight w/ massive battles in space... [margin: SW D[illegible]] [margin: What if Luke on Tatooine ?]

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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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