A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Star Wars
Episode VII
The Force Awakens
Luke Skywalker has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister
FIRST ORDER has risen from
the ashes of the Empire and
will not rest untill
Skywalker, the last Jedi,
has been destroyed.
With the support of the REPUBLIC,
General Leia Organa leads a brave RESISTANCE.
She is desperate to find her brother, Luke
and gain his help in restoring peace and
justice to the galaxy.
Leia has sent her most daring
pilot on a secret mission
to Jakku, where an old ally
has discovered a clue to
Luke's whereabouts.
Chapter I
She needed him. and he was nowhere to be found.
There was no one else she could rely on. No one like her brother.
No one else at all, now that the New Republic stood on the verge of implosion, of destruction, of complete collapse.
They had thought that with the fall of the Empire it would all be so easy. That people would understand the need for patience, that time would be required to rebuild that which the Empire had taken away.
Cities, communications, trade: All these could and were well on their way to full restoration. It was the intanibles that proved so much more difficult to re-establish throughout galactic society.
Freedom, for example. The freedom to speak one's mind, to object, to dispute. She sighed. Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do.
Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. So everyone had argued and debated and discussed. Until it was too late.