The Star Wars: First Draft

The Star Wars: First Draft
Attribution information
Author(s)	George Lucas
Publication information
Release date	July 1974
Chronology
Preceded by	The Star Wars: Rough Draft
Followed by	Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars

The Star Wars: First Draft was the first revision to the rough draft, completed only a few months later. Most of the revision centered on names, and many of these changes were later rejected when George Lucas began work on the second draft, entitled Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars, in early 1975.

Opening crawl

THE STAR WARS Until the recent GREAT REBELLION, the DAI NOGAS were the most feared warriors in the universe. For one hundred thousand years, generations of DAI perfected their art as the personal bodyguards of the King. They were the chief architects of the invincible ROYAL SPACE FORCE, which expanded the King's power across the galaxy, from the celestial equator to the farthest stars. Now these legendary warriors are all but extinct. One by one, they have been hunted down and destroyed as enemies of the NEW GALACTIC KINGDOM by a ferocious and sinister rival warrior sect, THE LEGIONS OF LETTOW.

Changes from the Rough to the First Draft

• The names of about half the characters, organizations and locations changed throughout the script.

• The sky of the Fourth Moon of Ogana changed from "bleak" to red. Lakes were present on that moon, some green.

• The clouds of the Royal capital of Alderaan have become yellow oxide instead of white oxide.

• The second handmaiden, Alana, was omitted. Mina remained as a decoy princess at the Chatos Academy instead.

Appearances

Because so many changes were made to the names in the script, the original names from the rough draft are indicated below.

By type 

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

A-2=Artoo Auzituck Babbs Bloodory Breha C-3=Threepio Coelo=Bowman Vantos Coll Datos Dodona=Valorum Boma=Chewbacca Bomoje Espaa=Bail Antilles Faubun (Mentioned only) Son Hhat=Cos Dashit Mara Horus=Crispin Hoedaack Jommillia Kayos Montross Mina Mir Nash Occo Oeta=Biggs Clieg Oxus=Clieg Whitsun Prue Puck=Windy Quist Sandage Luke Skywalker Han Solo Tarkin Beru Tho=Beru Lars Hu Tho=Owen Lars Ngai Thuc=Seig Darklighter (Mentioned only) Darth Vader Akira Valor=Kane Starkiller Bink Valor=Deak Justin Valor=Annikin Starkiller Zara=Leia Aay Zavos

Creatures

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Events

Great Rebellion Hubble expedition Dai Rebellion Kessilian civil wars

Locations

Anchorhead (Mentioned only) Bastine (Mentioned only) Cone systems (Mentioned only) Karollia (Mentioned only) Granicus=Alderaan Imperial City of Granicus Plaza of the Donns Granican nightclub Kessil system Ogana=Utapau Fourth Moon of Ogana Kane's hut Ophuchi system (Mentioned only) Ophuchi (Mentioned only) Space Fortress Control Room Detention Cell Docking Area Garbage Receptacle B-29 Townowi system=Aquilaean system Townowi=Aquilae Amsel (Mentioned only) Dune Sea Gordon Jundland Palace of Lite Third Moon of Townowi (Mentioned only) Underground Fortress Med Vac Emergency room Medical Station Blue Yuell Chatos Academy Norton Asteroid Belt Norton Three Yavin Forest of the Gargantuans Tho treehouse Mavassi outpost Vine jungle

Organizations and titles

class A-4 Chrome Companies (Mentioned only) Dai Noga=Jedi Bendu Dai Master First Bodyguard Galactic traders Great Families (Mentioned only) Independent Systems Kaapauku Lord Protector of Townowi New Galactic Kingdom=New Galactic Empire Consul to the Supreme Tribunal Royal skyraider Royal Space Force (Mentioned only) Legions of Lettow=Knights of the Sith Ministry of Transport Stormtroopers Supreme Tribunal Marthusians (Mentioned only) PDRs (Mentioned only) Sawas

Sentient species

Human Jawa=Wookee Urrealian

Vehicles and vessels

air tank Baltarian freighter Cao Four=Banta Four Royal starship hunter destroyer jetstick jungle crawler Akira's ship landspeeder life pod Stardestroyer Trade frigate

Weapons and technology

atomics Bloodory's distillation breath mask electrobinoculars Intra-fazer system Jai gas lazerpistol lazersword microcase multiplelaser rife shock belt

Miscellanea

Corbet dictum Dai apparel Kessilian hair knot Waita Tar dance

Sources

• The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film

External links

• Starkiller - The Jedi Bendu Script Site
• The Development of Star Wars: As Seen Through the Scripts by George Lucas