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The Tom Veitch Files

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Dark Lords working notebook

* The war -- Something more ancient about it [uncertain: than the?] Films -- also, not so centralized. Something "mongol-like" - hordes, great armies, Armies of millions of warriors sweeping down + pillaging worlds. Great movements of peoples from world to world. Absolutely huge ships carrying a million warriors each. [margin: [uncertain: Ark Ships?]] One of the ships [uncertain: empties?] spilling a million men across the land -- * How do the Jedi resolve such a battle? By going to war. By meditating the battle. Great numbers of Jedi involved, * Kun's death the key -- (killed by Ulic Qel-Droma...?) What if Ulic is "converted" back to the good -- he falls irrevocably when he "strikes down Kun in anger"? * What if Nomi Sunrider kills Exar Kun? Story end w/ Ulic saying: "Now I am Dark lord of the Sith." [margin: Remember the power of illusion Can she frighten an entire army? By making it see a larger army? (the old "Sahara" trick, e.g. the Bogart film)]

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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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