Half a steely dark orb, it hung above the green world of Endor, tentacles of unfinished superstructure curling away toward its living companion like the groping legs of a deadly spider. The Death Star was the Empire’s armored battle station, nearly twice as big as its predecessor, which Rebel forces had destroyed so many years before- nearly twice as big, but more than twice as powerful. Unknown cataclysm and disappeared into unknown realms. At the feathered edge of the galaxy, the Death Star floated in stationary orbit above the green moon Endor- a moon whose mother planet had long since died of unknown cataclysm and disappeared into unknown There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. These stars marked the moments of the universe. There was the length, and width, and height and then these dimensions curved over on themselves into a bending blackness measurable only by the glinting stars that tumbled through the chasm, receding to infinity. EPISODE VI RETURN OF THE JEDI by James Kahn THE BALLANTINE PUBLISHING GROUP NEW YORKĪ long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
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