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The Tom Veitch Files

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Dark Lords working notebook

He joins forces with Ulic? What if he seduces [uncertain: Oss?] w/ him? What if Ulic is already a Warlord? He comes on stage already on his path of conquest -- teams with Aleema -- "[uncertain: Leia?] did not have time to hear the rest of his story" [margin: [struck: yeah, but better if it's Ulic.]] he teams up w/ Ulic -- makes him a Sith the "morality" would be that Ulic is older -- They test each other -- Kun wins. [margin: a larger version of what Ulic did w/ the Krath.] [margin: wouldn't he already know?] also, the whole history of TOJ is in the Holocron -- so records were avail 1000's of years later. don't want to overlap the 1-3 films with Jedi extermination. [margin: [uncertain: maybe?] just bully the Jedi?]

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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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