（外文电子版资料）Star Wars - Return of the Jedi.docVIP

EPISODE VI RETURN OF THE JEDI ? by James Kahn ? THE BALLANTINE PUBLISHING GROUP NEW YORK CONTENTS TOC \h \z \t Heading 3,1 HYPERLINK \l _ToA long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... PAGEREF _To\h 3 HYPERLINK \l _ToPrologue PAGEREF _To\h 4 HYPERLINK \l _To= I = PAGEREF _To\h 6 HYPERLINK \l _To= II = PAGEREF _To\h 11 HYPERLINK \l _To= III = PAGEREF _To\h 20 HYPERLINK \l _To= IV = PAGEREF _To\h 25 HYPERLINK \l _To= V = PAGEREF _To\h 30 HYPERLINK \l _To= VI = PAGEREF _To\h 36 HYPERLINK \l _To= VII = PAGEREF _To\h 42 HYPERLINK \l _To= VIII = PAGEREF _To\h 49 HYPERLINK \l _To= IX = PAGEREF _To\h 54 ?A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... Prologue THE very depth of space. 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. To the very depth. These stars marked the moments of the universe. There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star. 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 realms. 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. Yet it was only half complete. Half a steely dark orb, it hung above the green world of Endor, tentacles of unfini