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The Tom Veitch Files

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Dark Lords working notebook

10. Kevin Anderson (con't) * Bodo Baas insists on dealing with Kun alone -- Kun was his student. * Bodo won't fight ... speaks stinging words. Kun strikes Bodo down + Bodo disappears. Kun: "Go on to your higher plane, teacher. The Galaxy is mine!" [margin: (Issue #4)] * [uncertain: Crado?] tracks down Sylvar, they battle, he overwhelms her. He fries her mind, locking her thoughts deep inside her, so she can only watch but not influence anything around her. * He rapes her. (really?) Says she will serve him as a child-bearer, to raise a new generation of Sith. [margin: (red ink) [illegible]] * Exar goes to Coruscant to confront the Republic. He stands behind the Speaker of the Republic Senate + makes him give a speech, puppet-style. "The Sith control the Galaxy. [struck: [illegible]] Our power comes from the Fabric of the Universe itself." * The Jedi band together to confront + purify Kun. They are led by Master Thon * [uncertain: Crado?] on the move. [uncertain: Slyvar?] pregnant, immobilized. * [uncertain: Slyvar?] attempts to kill the child -- but when she sees it she can't do it. Instead she "[uncertain: feathers?]" herself. [margin: (red ink) [illegible]] * Thon + the Jedi go to Yavin 4, erect a great wall of light to surround + extinguish the darkness of Exar Kun. Kun summons all the Great Massassi people he has enslaved. He uses their life power sources, to create a Force storm, that grows larger + larger, engulfing 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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