Luke Skywalker

"I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

- Luke Skywalker

Luke Skywalker, a human male, was the son of fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala, the grandson of Shmi Skywalker Lars, the step-nephew to Owen and Beru Lars, and the twin brother of Leia Organa. Born on the asteroid Polis Massa, his mother died in labor, and the twins were thought to never have been born by his father, the recently christened Sith Lord Darth Vader. Skywalker was separated from his sister and taken by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi to the planet Tatooine to be raised by the Lars family, hidden from the Galactic Empire.

Growing up unaware of his origins, the young Skywalker's life changed forever with a chance purchase of two droids—R2-D2 and C-3PO—carrying plans to the Imperial Death Star superweapon. After his aunt and uncle were killed by Imperial troops searching for the plans, Skywalker embarked on a journey to deliver the plans to the Rebel Alliance, receiving training in the ways of the Force from Kenobi, and meeting Han Solo and (unbeknownst to him) his sister, Princess Leia Organa, a member of the Rebellion. Though Kenobi was killed by Vader, Skywalker participated in the Battle of Yavin alongside the Rebels with guidance from Kenobi's spirit, and managed to destroy the Death Star.

As a member of the Rebel Alliance, Skywalker and the Rebels evaded Imperial forces led by Vader, who hunted Skywalker relentlessly over the next three years. As the Rebels were forced to abandon their base during a battle on the snow planet Hoth, Skywalker flew to the swamp planet of Dagobah at the advice of his late mentor, Kenobi, where he received Jedi training from the exiled Jedi Master Yoda. However, Skywalker was lured into a trap by Vader at Cloud City on Bespin, where he engaged the Sith Lord in a lightsaber duel, discovering Vader's identity as his father in the process.

One year later, Skywalker fought in the Battle of Endor before surrendering himself to Vader, realizing he had to confront his father and the Galactic Emperor, Sheev Palpatine. Though Sidious attempted to convert Skywalker to the dark side of the Force, Skywalker declared himself a Jedi and successfully appealed to the good in Vader, who redeemed himself as Anakin Skywalker by destroying Sidious at the cost of his own life. Thanks to Skywalker, the battle ended in a Rebel victory, and he joined his celebrating allies on Endor.

Pre-birth
"There is another Skywalker."

- Serenity

During the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Yoda set out on a journey to discover the secrets of immortality. His journey took him to Moraband, the ancient Sith homeworld, where he faced visions of the future. At the end of his journey, the Force Priestess, Serenity, who guided his journey told him that there was another Skywalker, and Yoda heard his voice from the future say so as well. These events alluded to the birth and destiny of Luke Skywalker, as well as his twin sister Leia.

Early life
"It's a boy.''" "''Luke."

- A medical droid and Padmé Amidala

Luke Skywalker was born on the asteroid of Polis Massa two days after the proclamation of the Galactic Empire. He and his twin sister Leia, who was born shortly after him, were the children of Galactic Republic Senator Padmé Amidala, who died in labor, and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, who had recently fallen to the dark side of the Force. To protect the children from the Empire and the now-Sith Lord Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi personally sent the infant Luke to live with Anakin's stepbrother Owen Lars and his wife Beru on the planet Tatooine, while Senator Bail Organa agreed to adopt Leia together with his wife, the queen of Alderaan.

Skywalker spent his youth on the Lars' moisture farm, where his uncle unsuccessfully tried to discourage his adventurous tendencies, telling him that his father had been "a navigator on a spice freighter" during the Clone Wars.

At the age of eight, during the Great Drought, when henchmen for the crime lord Jabba the Hutt collected a "water tax" on their master's behalf despite the damage it caused moisture farmers, Skywalker naïvely stood up to the thugs at night, trying to take back the water they had stolen from the farmers. Kenobi, who sensed the danger his protegee was in, blew their vehicle's lights with the Force to hide his identity, and proceeded to disable all of Jabba's henchmen. One of them became startled and pushed Skywalker to the ground, causing him to hit his head and pass out. Once Kenobi handled the thugs, he carried Skywalker to the Lars' homestead where he was found asleep, unaware of his savior's identity, by his aunt in the morning.

Eventually, Skywalker became an adventure-seeking youth who demonstrated his father's natural piloting skills, as well as a strong desire to leave Tatooine to join a flight academy. As more of Skywalker's friends left the planet to follow their dreams, he became increasingly frustrated that his uncle would not allow him to do the same, claiming that he still needed help with the farm. In truth, Owen was trying to prevent Skywalker from following in his father's footsteps.

When not helping his uncle, Skywalker would occasionally go bulls-eye Womp rats, or go racing through the dangerous Beggar's Canyon in his T-16 Skyhopper. He would also spend time at Tosche Station with his friends, such as Biggs Darklighter, where some of them called him "Wormie".

Leaving Tatooine
"I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father."

- Luke Skywalker to Obi-Wan Kenobi

The purchase of two droids—R2-D2 and C-3PO—by Skywalker's uncle changed the youth's life forever. With the discovery of a desperate message to Obi-Wan Kenobi contained within the astromech droid R2-D2, Skywalker soon found himself in the company of Kenobi after being attacked by Sand People. Kenobi soon revealed to Skywalker that he had once been a Jedi Knight who served in the Clone Wars with Skywalker's father. He went on to inform Skywalker that his father was no cargo pilot, but a Jedi Knight struck down by Darth Vader.

On their way to Anchorhead, Skywalker and Kenobi came upon a group of slaughtered Jawas—the same ones who sold the droids to his uncle. Skywalker deduced from learning that Imperial stormtroopers were responsible that they might have looked into the sales records of the droids, and rushed home in the hopes of saving his aunt and uncle. Upon returning home, Skywalker discovered that he was too late: his aunt and uncle had been murdered by the Empire. With his family dead, he agreed to accompany Kenobi to Alderaan to deliver the astromech, who was carrying the plans for the Death Star, to Bail Organa at the behest of Organa's daughter, Princess Leia Organa.

On their way to Mos Eisley, Kenobi began training him and gave Skywalker his first lesson, during which he learned the basics of Jedi meditation. They would later reach the Mos Eisley Cantina, where Skywalker nearly had a fatal run-in with the alien criminal Ponda Baba, and where they obtained passage off the planet and met Han Solo and his first mate Chewbacca. Kenobi brokered a deal to pay Solo two thousand credits up front plus fifteen more when they arrived on Alderaan, with Skywalker selling his speeder to pay for the two thousand up front.

Death Star rescue
"Luke, we're gonna have company!"

- Han Solo to Luke Skywalker

After escaping stormtroopers on Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon, Kenobi began Skywalker's instruction in the ways of the Force, much to the derision of Solo. The lesson, however, was soon interrupted by their arrival in the Alderaan system and their discovery of the planet's destruction. They then spotted a patrolling TIE/LN starfighter and, upon following it, found that it was approaching what appeared to be a small moon, which turned out to be the Death Star. Caught by the Death Star's tractor beam, they were brought aboard the massive space station.

Once on board, Luke and Han knocked two stormtroopers out and stole their armor, whereas Kenobi set out to deactivate the tractor beam. However, when R2-D2 discovered that Leia Organa was being held captive on the station, Skywalker insisted on rescuing her. With Solo and Chewbacca's help, the trio made it into the detention area escorting the Wookiee as a prisoner. They were able to rescue Organa, but had to jump into the garbage compactor in order to escape the pursuing Imperial forces. Though Skywalker and Organa were separated from Solo and Chewbacca, they were able to reunite with their companions, and the droids, in the hangar bay.

Eventually, the group escaped the Death Star, but only after Kenobi sacrificed himself in a duel with Darth Vader. They traveled to the hidden rebel base on Yavin 4, even though the Death Star was tracking them. It was then that Solo received his reward for rescuing Organa and prepared to leave the group. Skywalker attempted to persuade him to stay and help them against the Empire, but Solo refused, deeply disappointing him.

Hero of the Rebellion
"There is a great disturbance in the Force.''" "I have felt it." "We have a new enemy: the young Rebel who destroyed the Death Star. I have no doubt this boy is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker." "How is that possible?" "Search your feelings, Lord Vader. You will know it to be true. He could destroy us." "''He's just a boy. Obi-Wan can no longer help him."

- Sheev Palpatine and Darth Vader confer about Luke Skywalker

Yavin 4
"Great shot, kid; that was one in a million!"

- Han Solo to Luke Skywalker after the destruction of the Death Star

It was at the Yavin Base that Skywalker became a pilot of the Rebel Alliance, joining Red Group with the designation of Red Five. Shortly before boarding his T-65B X-wing starfighter, Skywalker encountered his old friend Biggs Darklighter, the two about to be flying as wingmen in the upcoming battle. In a brief conversation, Darklighter promised Luke that the two would catch up on each other's stories when they got back.

During the Battle of Yavin, Skywalker witnessed the death of many compatriots, including Darklighter. After the death of the two squadron leaders, he took it upon himself to lead the final assault. With the timely arrival of the Millennium Falcon and the guidance of Kenobi's spirit, Skywalker took a single shot and used the Force to direct his proton torpedoes to their target, destroying the station. For this action he, Chewbacca, and Han Solo were awarded the medal of valor for their bravery.

Just as the ceremony ended, Skywalker told Organa to allow herself some time to grieve for the loss of her family and homeworld. Afterwards, General Jan Dodonna sent him and Wedge Antilles, the only other survivor of Red Group, in their X-wings to retrieve the wayward princess and bring her to the Great Temple of Massassi. Her shuttle's pilot, Evaan Verlaine, however, managed to outsmart them and make the jump to hyperspace with course to Naboo, with R2-D2 accompanying the two women. They would later reunite after she had successfully accomplished her mission.

Soon after, Skywalker was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and was regularly assigned numerous independent missions.

The Desert Jewel
"Ever since the Battle of Yavin, I feel sometimes that people expect me to top it and wonder why I haven't yet."

- Luke Skywalker

Running an errand for Admiral Gial Ackbar, Skywalker was dispatched to Rodia in an effort to open a secret weapon supply line to the Alliance. Piloting Nakari Kelen's Desert Jewel and accompanied by R2-D2, Skywalker helped a Kupohan ship—which, unbeknownst to him, carried vital intel on Drusil Bephorin—near Llanic, but continued his journey to Rodia where he was greeted by Laneet Chekkoo, who guided him to Toopil. During business with Taneetch Soonta, the Rodian spoke to him about the Jedi. From her, Skywalker received her uncle's lightsaber.

After killing a ghest and getting some treatment for his wounds, Skywalker focused on analyzing Huulik's lightsaber and trying to learn telekinesis, but a planetwide alert for the Desert Jewel forced him to leave Rodia immediately and meet up with Ackbar and Organa on the Promise. The two assigned him to a mission in Denon, but the need for upgrades for the Jewel prompted him to go on another mission to Fex with Kelen before that. Warned by Organa not to trust blindly on Kelen, Skywalker set off for Pasher with Kelen and R2-D2 to receive intel from her father about their destination and the necessary equipment to survive its atmosphere and then, headed towards Fex. Once they successfully retrieved the Harvester and were rewarded for it, Skywalker and Kelen traveled to Rodia to fit the Desert Jewel.

Following the ship's modifications, the two rebels returned to the Promise to receive more intel on the Denon mission from Organa and Ackbar, only to depart for the planet as soon as possible, meet with their contact Sakhet, and prepare Bephorin's liberation. Once in motion, their plan allowed them to escape from ISB Agents and Denon altogether with the Givin cryptographer onboard the Jewel. Despite several hiccups along the way―including an extended stop on Kupoh―, they reached Omereth. There, however, the Jewel was intercepted by bounty hunters and a confrontation ensued between the rebels and their pursuers. Despite the formers' victory, Kelen was killed by one of the bounty hunters―saddening Skywalker, who had come to develop feelings for her. After allowing himself some time to grieve for those he had lost during the war, Skywalker completed his mission by reuniting Bephorin with her family and meeting with Major Bren Derlin. Afterwards, Skywalker would return Kelen's body to her father, after reflecting on the fact that he had learned how to move objects with the Force thanks to her support.

Devaron
"Hyperspace scout. Historian. Farm boy. And yet here you are with a Jedi laser sword in your hand, like you mean to use it."

- Sarco Plank

After numerous missions alongside Antilles, Skywalker assisted on a mission for Red Squadron above Giju: he helped protect a transport carrying underground rebel leaders being evacuated from the planet, along with Antilles and Commander Narra. Once the package was clear, they followed the scatter protocol, and Skywalker and R2-D2 set course to Devaron when he had a vision about future events on that same planet. He soon met with Antilles and Narra, who sent him, C-3PO and R2-D2 on a mission for Chancellor Mon Mothma.

After refueling the ship, the trio departed for Whiforla 11 and jumped out of hyperspace in the Tertiary Usaita system, but an Imperial attack forced them to return to Devaron and repair the Y 4, this time letting the Force guide him into the Temple of Eedit. Landing in Tikaroo, Skywalker left the ship for repairs with Kivas and his daughter, Farnay, using the alias "Korl Marcus", and went onto the depot where he was told the Temple was off-limits; after resting and a vision of the past, he left the depot and met with Farnay, to whom he revealed his true identity. Ultimately, Sarco Plank accepted to be his guide and brought Skywalker and the two droids close to Eedit, where Skywalker found a secret entrance to the Temple and entered alone with the droids.

During his stay on the Temple, Skywalker heard Kenobi's voice, from whom he received further instructions. He managed to enter a secret chamber where he and the droids found three training remotes. Using what Kenobi had taught him on the Falcon, Skywalker gradually managed to pass the exercises after a few days, only to find himself surrounded by Imperials with orders to apprehend him and his fugitive starfighter, using Farnay as a hostage. However, Plank unexpectedly appeared and helped Skywalker fight the Stormtroopers with his electrostaff, observing that Skywalker was merely a Padawan.

Planning to ransack the Temple to pay his debts, Plank then challenged him to a duel, during which he used a grenade to blind him, seeing that Skywalker would not be defeated so easily. Prepared to administer the coup de grace, Farnay interrupted him, for which Plank put binders on her; however, it gave Skywalker time to stand up and slash Plank's control box, casting him and his electrostaff into a pit leading to the temple's underlevels. Skywalker then passed out and Farnay tended his wounds, to whom he swore he would become a Jedi and rebuild the Order, and return to Eedit one day; with the droids, they left the Temple as Imperial reinforcements arrived afterwards.

Back in Tikaroo, Skywalker reclaimed his now-repaired starfighter from Kivas, and before departing Devaron, he dropped several bombs at the base of the spire to cut off the paths into the jungle, meaning to stop the pikhron hunt.

Cymoon 1
"You boy, are no Jedi. Who are you?"

- Darth Vader to Skywalker, during a brief duel in Cymoon 1

Alongside Organa, Solo, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO, Skywalker took part of a mission to infiltrate Cymoon 1. To do so, the rebel team hijacked the ship of an emissary sent by Jabba the Hutt to negotiate a weapons' deal at Weapons Factory Alpha, with Solo as its replacement and Organa and Skywalker disguised as his bodyguards.

Once inside the facility, they revealed themselves as rebels to Overseer Aggadeen, took their escorts down and made their way to the central power station. While Organa, Solo and R2-D2 rigged the place to destroy it, Skywalker watched for additional Imperial troops, using what little he knew of the Force to reach out and sense any nearby presence. However, he was drawn to caged slaves, whom he proceeded to free, and guided them to a rendezvous with Solo and Organa, when they were alerted of Vader's arrival by Chewbacca.

Determined to fight Vader for killing his father and Kenobi, he heard his mentor's voice speak to him from beyond, telling him to run, just as he faced the Dark Lord. However, he was no match for Vader, who quickly seized Skywalker's lightsaber and was about to kill him, until Solo intervened with an AT-AT, crashing the walker through the factory's walls, giving Skywalker and the slaves an opening to escape from the facility.

Seeing so many of the freed slaves die by Imperial hands, Skywalker regretted his decision, but continued fighting after stealing a speeder bike. After the Rebels' walker opened fire against Vader, Skywalker picked his lightsaber up from the rubble, rushed to assist his team—whose walker had fallen down due to Vader—, and provided some cover fire. Determined to destroy the factory, Skywalker disobeyed Organa's orders and used his stolen speeder bike to destroy the power core despite Vader's threat. Afterwards, he managed to board the Millennium Falcon, reunite with his team and escape Cymoon 1, yet with his morale at rock bottom.

Return to Tatooine
""There's nothing here for me now." That's what I said when I left this place. Let's hope I was wrong."

- Luke Skywalker

Once they returned to the rebel fleet, Skywalker continued working on his lightsaber techniques until Organa came to see him. Skywalker told her that he lacked interest in undertaking any more missions, as he didn't consider himself a Jedi but in fact a danger, and that until he could figure out who he was, he shouldn't be around the Alliance; he asked Organa to let him go. Much to her and Solo's dismay, Skywalker (along with R2) took off in an X-wing and set a course for Tatooine. Hoping to find some guidance in Kenobi's hut, Skywalker and R2 made their way across the desert to the abandoned residence, where they found it being pillaged by Tusken raiders, who fled in fear upon seeing his activated lightsaber.

Inside the hut, Skywalker had R2 scan the ransacked place for anything of value, and the small android came across a box addressed to Skywalker. However, before they could find out its contents, one of Boba Fett's flash grenades incapacitated R2 and blinded Skywalker. Fett proceeded to aim a rifle to his head, but Skywalker fought back with his lightsaber despite his temporary blindness. Despite his disadvantage and multiple wounds done by Fett, Skywalker managed to deflect the bounty hunter's shot at point-black and Fett tackled him in anger.

Close to death, R2 saved him by hurling Kenobi's box and knocking the hunter out. Still blinded and carrying the box, Skywalker had R2 lead him to his X-Wing. On his way to an unknown location, he read some of Kenobi's passages on his journals, including one set during the Great Drought involving him. However, the fact that Kenobi had only written stories about his life, and not about lightsaber combat or the Force, frustrated him. Hoping to have answers, he decided to go to Coruscant, where the Jedi once had their temple.

Nar Shaddaa
To do so, Skywalker went to Nar Shaddaa to hire a smuggler in one of its bars, but his inexperience and naivety in dealing with smugglers and criminals made him seem an easy target to a Zabrak bartender. Skywalker defended himself with his lightsaber, which made the bartender reconsider the offer to smuggle him into Coruscant in exchange for the Jedi weapon. Though he refused, his lightsaber was stolen by a mysterious alien, prompting Skywalker and everyone on the bar to follow after him. They stopped, however, when Skywalker pursued the thief into Hutta Town, where the thief attempted to flee by attaching himself to a speeder with his magna-glove, only to be brought down by Skywalker, who instinctively used the Force to jump and catch him.

They both fell to the street below, where Grakkus the Hutt awaited him with two IG-100 MagnaGuards and claimed Skywalker and the lightsaber to be his property. Though the would-be Jedi resisted, he was knocked out by Grakkus and brought to his private Jedi collection. The Hutt presented him with a holocron, demanding that he opened it for he would be executed in five seconds if he didn't. At the last second, Skywalker managed to open it and several other holocrons scattered across the room, pleasing the Hutt.

Hoth
"You will go to the Dagobah system.''" "Dagobah system?" "''There, you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker

Three years after the Death Star's destruction, now a Commander of his own, Skywalker was transferred to Echo Base alongside Rogue Squadron to Hoth, where he participated in regular patrols of the frozen perimeter. Once while reconnoitering the surroundings of Echo Base, Skywalker was attacked by a wampa, only to regain consciousness in its cave. He severed its arm with his lightsaber, and escaped; after a long walk in the icy wind, he collapsed from exhaustion. Near death, he had a vision of Kenobi, who told him to seek the teachings of Yoda in the Dagobah system.

Rescued by Solo, Skywalker recovered from his wounds in a bacta tank; however, Vader had located Echo Base with one probe droids and prepared an imminent attack on the recently-opened Alliance base. During the battle, Skywalker led the Rogue Squadron in a airspeeder; though he was shot down, he got out of his damaged speeder and single-handedly destroyed a walker with his lightsaber. As Imperial forces breached the Rebels' defenses, the last Rebel transport departed, and Skywalker fled the planet aboard his X-wing.

Dagobah
"Will he finish what he begins?''" "I won't fail you. I'm not afraid." "''Oh, you will be. You will be."

- Yoda and Luke Skywalker

Skywalker then traveled to Dagobah, where he encountered the former Grand Master of the fallen Jedi Order, Yoda. In their initial meeting, Skywalker was frustrated and impatient and was rather short-tempered with the diminutive Yoda, who did not initially identify himself. Skywalker gained a new appreciation for the small creature upon learning his identity, and Yoda agreed to train Skywalker only at the insistence of Kenobi's spirit. Skywalker's training proved to be difficult, as his adventurous past had shaped his mind toward action and emotional instinct.

When Yoda asked him to enter a cave in which he was supposed to find only what he took with him, he was challenged by a vision of himself wearing Darth Vader's armor. Shortly after, he had a vision of Han Solo and Leia Organa suffering at Cloud City on Bespin. Despite Yoda and Kenobi's warnings and disapproval, Skywalker rashly departed from Dagobah to rescue them but not before making a promise to return to Dagobah to complete his training.

Vader's trap
"Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.''" "He told me enough! He told me you killed him!" "No. I'' am your father."

- Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker

Skywalker arrived at Cloud City, where he was shot at by Boba Fett and tried to pursue a group of Stormtroopers and Imperial officers who held captive Organa, Chewbacca and C-3PO. The princess attempted to warn Skywalker that he was walking into a trap, but his path was diverted to the carbon-freezing chamber where Darth Vader awaited him, with the intention to freeze him in carbonite to present him to the Emperor.

Skywalker engaged the Dark Lord in a fierce duel. After severing Skywalker's hand from his body, Vader attempted to seduce the weakened Jedi to the dark side of the Force, offering Skywalker the chance to destroy the Emperor and "bring order to the galaxy." In his efforts to sway Skywalker from his defiant refusals, Vader then revealed his identity as Skywalker's father.

Faced with this shocking and horrifying claim, and the temptation to join Vader, Skywalker chose likely death instead by throwing himself down the long shaft surrounding them. He was sucked through an opening portal at the bottom of the chamber, which brought him outside the floating city. Skywalker grabbed onto a weather vane, preventing a fall to his death. Weak and helpless, Skywalker at first called out for Kenobi, unsuccessfully, but then reached out to Organa with the Force. Soon, the Millennium Falcon, with Lando Calrissian, Organa, Chewbacca, and the droids onboard, arrived to rescue him. Back with the Rebel fleet, Skywalker received a cybernetic hand onboard a Nebulon-B frigate.

Zastiga
"Weapons and war don't make you a Jedi. I know that now."

- Luke Skywalker

Having renounced to rejoining Antilles' Red Squadron, Skywalker was stationed on the Redemption, when he went to Zastiga; he and R2-D2 were the ones to greet Organa on her arrival to the planet, when she and C-3PO left the Mellcrawler, piloted by its owner Nien Nunb and Lieutenant Ematt. When the time came for Organa to attend to the top clearance meeting with the Rebel leadership, Skywalker and Nunb met with Antilles for a discussion of "reconnaissance tactics" about Antilles' refusal to pay the Sullustan a drink. He would later return to escort Organa to her quarters before going to his, and two days later, he saw her off, before catching his own shuttle back to the Redemption.

Soon afterwards, he would go to Kothlis, where he would learn of Solo's location—still frozen in carbonite and kept in Jabba the Hutt's palace—, and where he would keep himself up-to-date with the status of the Alliance Fleet's assembly. He had already devised a plan to rescue Solo when Organa contacted him following the successful Operation Yellow Moon, and showed eagerness to join him on his attempts to rescue the Corellian smuggler. He would also built a new lightsaber.

Solo's rescue
"I am taking Captain Solo and his friends. You can either profit by this or be destroyed. It's your choice, but I warn you not to underestimate my powers."

- Luke to Jabba the Hutt

Nine months after the Battle of Hoth, Skywalker set in motion the plan to rescue Solo from the crime lord, Jabba the Hutt. Once Organa and half the rescue party were intentionally held captive by the crime lord, Skywalker went to free them and Solo. Skillful use of the Force allowed Skywalker to get past Jabba's Gamorrean guards and his majordomo, Bib Fortuna, but the Hutt was not so easily swayed and attempted to feed Skywalker to his rancor.

Skywalker killed the monster, but Jabba was furious and sentenced all the captured Alliance heroes–including an unfrozen Solo–to death in the Great Pit of Carkoon. However, right before he was put into the pit, Skywalker escaped when R2-D2 shot his lightsaber to him and freed the other prisoners on the skiff. A skirmish ensued in which Skywalker helped Organa escape the Khetanna after she had killed the Hutt. Skywalker and his entire team escaped unscathed through a menacing sandstorm, after which he boarded his X-Wing with R2-D2 and parted ways with the others.

Keeping the promise
"Your father was seduced by the dark side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. So what I told you was true, from a certain point of view."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker

Not long after, Skywalker returned to Dagobah to complete his training and receive confirmation from Yoda and the spirit of Kenobi that Vader was indeed his father, Anakin Skywalker, a former Jedi Knight who fell to the dark side of the Force. The elderly and dying Yoda told Luke that his training was complete, but in order to be a Jedi, he would have to confront Darth Vader again, a notion that Skywalker found painful to accept. Furthermore, Skywalker realized that Organa was his sister and would be in peril if their father discovered her identity.

Endor's test
"Now, go, my son. Leave me.''" "No. You're coming with me. I'll not leave you here. I've got to save you!" "''You already have, Luke. You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister&hellip; you were right."

- Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker

Skywalker nevertheless accompanied his friends on the mission to the forested moon of Endor to destroy the shield generator that protected the Death Star II in orbit, volunteering immediately upon arrival at the Rebel briefing. They approached the moon on the Tydirium, Skywalker sensed Vader's presence on the nearby Super Star Destroyer Executor, and realized his presence was endangering the mission; his presence, however, was what prompted Vader to allow their landing. Upon doing so, the Rebel force was discovered by Imperial scout troopers, and Skywalker and Organa pursued them on speeder bikes. Though they successfully stopped the scouts, Organa became separated from Skywalker.

Upon learning of her disappearance, Solo, Skywalker, Chewbacca, and the droids went looking for her, only to be captured by a tribe of Ewoks. Using the Force to prove C-3PO’s deific "magic", Skywalker convinced the Ewoks to release and aid the Rebels; after being accepted as a part of the village. However, Skywalker knew that he had to confront Vader, and decided to leave his friends, revealing to Organa her true familial heritage. Not long after, Skywalker surrendered to Vader in an attempt to bring the Dark Lord back to the light side, but he ultimately became a prisoner of the Emperor.

On the Death Star II, Emperor Palpatine and Vader attempted to corrupt Skywalker with promises to save his friends and the Rebel fleet if he joined the dark side, as the Battle of Endor continued. In a moment of weakness, Skywalker lashed out, but Vader stopped his strike and dueled him; he mostly managed to control his emotions until Vader telepathically sensed the existence of Skywalker's sister and threatened to corrupt her instead. Only then, Skywalker lost control and viciously attacked Vader, cutting off his right hand and nearly killing him. Sidious then demanded he finish Vader and take his place at his side.

Realizing that he was becoming what he sought to destroy, Luke threw his lightsaber away and declared himself a Jedi, just as Anakin Skywalker had been before him. Enraged, Sidious unleashed Force lightning against Skywalker to torture and eventually kill him. Finding himself in a similar position after he had twenty-three years earlier, when he chose Sidious over the Jedi Mace Windu, Vader cast the Emperor down the reactor shaft to his death. In doing so, however, he turned Sidious's lethal Force lightning against himself, irreparably damaging his life-supporting armor.

On the rapidly-deteriorating Death Star after Calrissian and Antilles destroyed its core, Skywalker carried his father to a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle, where asked him to remove his mask; for a moment, Skywalker looked upon his father's face for the first and only time. Skywalker insisted that he had to save him, but his father told him he already had and asked him to tell his sister he had been right about him before passing away.

Skywalker took his father's body on board the shuttle and escaped just before the Death Star's destruction, when he was almost intercepted by Green Squadron's Shara Bey, who proceeded to cover him from TIE Interceptors after he identified as Commander Skywalker. Back on Endor, Skywalker cremated his father's armor in the manner of a Jedi's funeral, and then joined his friends and sister in the celebration, during which he saw the spirits of Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin Skywalker appear, looking at him with pride.

Thirty years later
"The Force is strong in my family. My father has it... I have it... My sister has it... You have that power, too."

- Luke Skywalker

Skywalker was known to be alive approximately thirty years after the Battle of Endor.

Personality and traits
"This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!"

- Yoda

In his youth, Skywalker was often impatient, looking ahead to the future with little regard for his present surroundings. Like his father, he was impulsive, reckless, and often had little regard for his own personal safety. Some time after the Battle of Yavin, he would confer with Nakari Kelen that he regretted his behavior before then, acknowledging he complained "about everything" because of his desire to escape from Tatooine. He also acknowledged his scarce talent at lying, a trait that many people could infer.

However, as his skills in the Force progressed and, especially after losing a hand to Darth Vader, Skywalker became more patient and seasoned, and was often seen as having wisdom beyond his years. However, he still retained his idealistic viewpoint, willing to think the best of anyone, and believing that Vader was redeemable. He was also unable to ignore those who needed help, sometimes to the point of endangering missions for the sake of saving someone else's life. Even as a child, he had a strong sense of morality and a need to help others despite likely danger.

Lightsaber abilities
"I see you have constructed a new lightsaber."

- Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker

Though he received little training, Luke Skywalker became a skilled Jedi in combat. Luke's initial training with the weapon of the Jedi was a brief session with Obi-Wan Kenobi and a training remote on the way to Alderaan, when he learned the initial position and the four defensive postures. Though his level proved inadequate during his first, but brief duel against Darth Vader on Cymoon 1, his combat skills had improved for their duel on Bespin, and culminated with him besting the Dark Lord in combat during the Battle of Endor.

Skywalker had some skill in Form V, able to intercept blaster fire. During his mission to Rodia, he tried his hand at Jar'Kai for the first time with his and Huulik's lightsaber. Although he killed a ghest, he admitted that it hadn't been a matter of skill, but of "panicked reflexes and really good weapons."

Force powers
"The Force is strong in this one."

- Darth Vader during the Battle of Yavin

Like his father, Skywalker possessed a strong connection to the Force. Indeed, Darth Sidious believed that Skywalker was strong enough in the Force to destroy the Sith. However, most of what he learned was self-taught due to Kenobi's, and later Yoda's, few days of mentorship before their demise, and Kenobi's sporadic guidance from beyond the Netherworld of the Force.

After learning the basics of the Force, he quickly learned how to sense through it, and took the habit of opening himself to the Force in hopes of learning more than Kenobi had told him, and becoming aware of his surroundings In time, he would also learn to sense the presence of his father. He was capable of seeing and hearing those who had become one with the Force. By using the Force during the Battle of Yavin, he managed to destroy the Death Star with a shot that many thought was impossible.

After obtaining Huulik's lightsaber and dismantling it to know his inner workings, Skywalker surmised on his own that the Force could be used to manipulate matter in the manner of telekinesis and managed to learn how to move small objects, such as a noodle or a fork. By the time of the Battle of Hoth, Skywalker had the ability to pull his lightsaber to his hands. Under Yoda's training, this ability was further developed, enabling him to levitate several objects at once. Skywalker eventually learned other uses, such as choking enemies and doing mind tricks, as well as performing Force-enhanced jumps. He also demonstrated the ability to have visions several times.

Other abilities
"Okay, that was some pretty good piloting. Maybe even legendary."

- Nakari Kelen

Skywalker was acknowledged to be an expert pilot, being the person who was responsible for destroying the first Death Star and managing to evade Darth Vader himself (albeit with help from Han Solo). He also managed to destroy an Interdictor cruiser on his own while piloting the Desert Jewel, although he acknowledge that R2-D2 saved him when the astromech droid made the ship jump into hyperspace in the nick of time. He was also able to pilot a Imperial Lambda-class T-4a shuttle with relative ease, outmaneuvering an RZ-1 A-wing interceptor that was trying to get a lock on him.

Because of his upbringing in the desert planet of Tatooine, he never learned how to swim out of the lack of necessity.

Equipment
Luke Skywalker wielded at least two lightsabers during the Galactic Civil War. The first was his father's former weapon, that was retrieved and given to him by Obi-Wan Kenobi. He wielded this weapon for three years before losing it, and the hand holding it, in a duel against Darth Vader on the cloud city on Bespin. After losing his father's lightsaber, Skywalker built himself a new weapon, with a green blade, that he used to rescue his friends from Jabba the Hutt and during his final duel with Darth Vader.

Behind the scenes
Luke Skywalker was portrayed by actor Mark Hamill in the films Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi and will reprise his role in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. He was portrayed as an infant by Aidan Barton in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. In A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD he was voiced by Joshua Fardon, who also voiced the character in the radio dramatization of Return of the Jedi, which is now considered part of the continuity of Star Wars Legends and not canon, save for those portions which matched the material presented in the film.

Luke's childhood
A Korean web comic titled Star Wars: Story Before The Force Awakens features a short story of a young Luke Skywalker. According to the comic, when Skywalker was just 12 years old, he and his friend, Windy went off on their own through the Tatooine desert and wandered away from the moisture farms riding a dewback. The two encountered a sandstorm during their time outside and both lost consciousness. A krayt dragon was nearby when Skywalker woke up, but they were saved by the Jedi-in-exile, Obi-Wan Kenobi, meeting him for the first time after his adoption to Lars family. Skywalker asked him who he was, and Kenobi revealed that his name was Ben Kenobi and an old friend of his father. Soon after, Skywalker exhausted and with Windy, he returned safely to their homes, carried on a dewback.

Non-canon appearances

 * Disney Infinity 3.0
 * Epic Yarns: A New Hope
 * Epic Yarns: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Epic Yarns: Return of the Jedi
 * Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales