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The Tom Veitch Files

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Dark Lords working notebook

[circled: 52] * Meanwhile, Eclipse is captured, and sent back through hyperspace on a collision course with the Galaxy Gun. This could be a "suicide mission", in which Solusar & Lando have to jump at the last second. The Galaxy Gun is destroyed, the Emperor is dead, the kids are safe. Luke has lost two Jedi...but Solusar, Vima are ok. And there is promise of other Jedi. * * * [margin: What if they turn the weapon around + blow up Byss? Or it gets knocked crazily by Eclipse, spins + fires wildly hitting Byss?] > Ysanna chiefs released from carbonite. > Where's Fett? > Brand's matter transmitter. > Salla/Shug (probably only mentioned) > What if the Imp Commander has a "lost fleet" that still thinks Vader alive? ([uncertain: K?] did this.) > Do the Ysanna chiefs have [uncertain: magic?] to catch a spirit (eg. Emperor?) > What if the "greater evil" subsumes the Emperor? > What if his spirit rushes into something else by mistake ... a beast ... and the beast is held prisoner. Or one of the giant [uncertain: worms?] of Tatooine. > The Holocron -- figure in plot ... at least at end, w/ prediction of things to come.

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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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