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The Tom Veitch Files

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Dark Lords working notebook

[page number, circled: [uncertain: 46?]] conquest of the Jedi and the subsuming of that bloodline to the dark side. "There will be no more Skywalkers. There will be no more Jedi." [margin: There will only be the Empire...and the Emperor.] [In Star Wars: Dark Empire, in a confrontation with Leia, the Emperor told Leia that his spirit could enter her child, if he wanted to. "Yes, little Jedi...your next child belongs to me!"] * So Emperor Palpatine initiates a concerted hunt for Leia and her children. He orders his Galaxy Gun to hold its fire while the search goes on...but the gunner team is to continue to compile coordinates of all Rebel bases for a massive blitzkrieg of destruction when the hunt concludes. [margin: The malfunction means the G-gun needs tuning. Maybe one missile missed [uncertain: Noycus?] VIII and hit his star destroyers.] As Palpatine’s spies and probe droids fan out across the Galaxy, Palpatine prepares to journey forth in his great starship Eclipse. [margin, boxed: Luke + his Jedi, meanwhile, are hunting down the Darkside Jedi... they [uncertain: must?] battle them on Ossus, + rescue the Ysanna Chiefs.] * Something alerts Luke and Leia to the Emperor’s plan. For instance, the Dark Jedi are caught bringing back the Ysanna chiefs in carbonite. Or, a Hutt ganglord who has been betrayed by the Empire sells information to the Rebels. Or, a skirmish on Ossus (or Onderon) ends in the capture of an Imperial Commander who is resentful of the Empire for failing to keep his men supplied with food and ammo. (incompetence of the Empire) [margin: he's captured because he ran out of ammo. (is he also a spice addict?) Does he willingly betray the Emperor? (his men are starving, get pounded by the Rebs) Is he stationed on Ossus? the Dark Jedi push him around?] [peripheral text on facing page, cropped: [illegible] FLEET [illegible]? [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]? [illegible] [illegible]. [boxed: [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]]]

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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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