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The Tom Veitch Files

Yale’s Beinecke Library 1016 photographs

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Darksider, Ulic & The Jedi Chronicles

[circled: 81] * * * * Here we tell the parallel story of Vima Sunrider, and the events that occur during Ulic’s year of confinement: Vima Sunrider and her mother Nomi Sunrider go after the new Dark Lord of the Sith. (They know now who he is.) [margin: [struck: [uncertain: Have it again?]] No.] [margin: the DLOTS has surfaced on Onderon.] [struck: We see the awakening of Naga Sadow from "the second cocoon". (We indicate he awakened once before, in the time of Freedon Nadd.)] [margin: later] Master Thon, Odan Urr, and others get involved. Vima and Nomi lead a mission to Onderon, to uproot the warlord brothers, who have embraced the Sith teachings -- or become servants of the new Dark Lord. [struck: (I presume the new Dark Lord wants to make Onderon his base. That is why he went there in the first place.)] The Kiras and the Jedi fight alongside. * While Vima is away at the conflict, the new Dark Lord finds Ulic, shackled in the compound of the old Jedi Master. He believes Ulic to be a rival for the title of Dark Lord of the Sith. [margin: If they are fighting him on Onderon, why would he be after Ulic? What if Ulic is a prisoner on the [uncertain: ship?] [uncertain: Alakin’s?] great ships. — This D.M. has a really big ship which we see orbiting Onderon in the beginning -- when they flee, he go to his ship — He doesn’t use a planet -- He tours the Galaxy endlessly on two "generation ships".] * Released from captivity, Ulic proves himself, fighting alongside the apprentices of the old Jedi Master, and defeating the new Dark Lord, who runs off with his tail between his legs. [margin, cropped text on facing page: [illegible] [illegible] [uncertain: Saga?]) [uncertain: the ending?] [illegible] [uncertain: of N.S.?]]

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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!