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Two Trilogies, One Saga
by: Wrath Of The Whills
date posted: Nov 19, 2005 10:21 PM  | 
updated: Apr 26, 2006 10:38 AM
An Interpretation Of Star Wars
This blog was created because Harvey asked me to put it back it up after I took it down. This interpretation of the six Star Wars episodes contradicts the movie dialogue and it even contradicts what George Lucas says too, but if you're still interested then read on.

I will acknowledge that the new episodes seem ridiculous on the surface. Even the hard core fans are complaining about the new episodes and I was even disappointed with The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones, but then I started having a change of heart about the new episodes about a year ago after watching Episodes I, II, IV, V, and VI on DVD in the comfort of my own home.

When I first saw The Phantom Menace I thought it was okay, but that's even stretching it. My girlfriend fell asleep during the movie. I have to say I thought The Phantom Menace was strange. I did appreciate the Galactic Senate scene but that was about it. The only thing that really held my interest was that it became apparent to me that Vader killing Palpatine in Return Of The Jedi was not an accident or a random event. No, it was Vader's predestined fate to kill Palpatine that day on the Death Star. What I noticed is that other fans didn't really understand that.

Star Wars is a story of fatalism. The characters of the story are being guided by a higher power. What this higher power is, I don't really know, but if you read on I'll show you why I believe this is the case. What I think is that Han, Padme, C-3P0, Palpatine, etcetera are actually mortal characters and are being watched over by god-esque characters. I believe the mortal character's little adventures are all part of a the higher power's greater plan for the mortals. If you ever watched Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom you'll see this same kind of story telling, but unlike Star Wars one of the characters comes out and tells the audience that the Hindu God Shiva guided Indiana Jones to the Indian village so that Indiana Jones will go to Pankot Palace. The Shaman tells Indiana that Shiva made the plane fall from the sky and of course we know Hindu Gods exist in the story because we see their power, so perhaps the Shaman was right. Perhaps Indiana Jones only thought he was going to Pankot Palace for fortune and glory and in the end we see he went there to free the children.

M. Night Shyamalan 's movie "Signs" is the same way. Mel Gibson's character is distraught over the death of his wife, but in the end his wife's final words are what saved the lives of their family.

Well perhaps in the story of Star Wars, everything is happening for not only simple mortal reasons but for greater cosmic reasons. Perhaps Anakin was predestined to become Darth Vader for some greater cosmic reason. Perhaps Anakin became Darth Vader so that the good people would come together and fight for each other in a resistance against Palpatine's corrupt government. Just like the Gungan and Naboo came together to fight a corrupt corporation, and it took a tragic event to bring the Gungan and Naboo together.

Anakin was created to bring balance. If the Force would of never became unbalanced then there would have been no need for him to be brought into the world of Star Wars. The Force became unbalanced before The Phantom Menace began.

Source: Star Wars Episode I Visual Dictionary

Now, the Force itself is unbalanced and great change seems imminent.

So why is the Force unbalanced? What does balance even mean? I don't really know. What is obvious is that the Force is falling into darkness when The Phantom Menace begins.

"You were supposed to bring balance the Force, not leave it in darkness." ---Obi-Wan

These new movies are hard core fan based movies, and the books go into greater detail about what balance means to a Jedi.

Source: Stover's Revenge Of The Sith novel: page 213. Conversation between Obi-Wan, Mace and Yoda.

"All I am saying is that we don't know. We don't even truly understand what it means to bring balance to the Force. We have no way of anticipating what this may involve." --Mace

"An infinite mystery is the Force," Yoda said softly. "The more we learn, the more we discover how much we do not know."

The Jedi really have no idea what's going down. All they really know is the Force has become tainted by the dark side.

Source: Stover's Revenge Of The Sith novel: page 120

Somehow, mysteriously, the cloud that has darkened the Force for near to a decade and a half has lightened around him now, and he finds within himself the limpid clarity he recalls from his schooldays at the Jedi Temple, when the Force was pure, and clean, and perfect. It is as though the darkness has withdrawn, has coiled back upon itself, to allow him this moment of clarity, to return to him the full power of the light, if only for the moment: he does not know why, but he is incapable of even wondering. In the Force, he beyond questions.

This is Obi-Wan feeling the dark side being lifted around him. So what has lifted this darkness? I believe it to be the work of Star Wars gods. Star Wars gods that are helping Obi-Wan. Guiding him to his destiny. The Jedi use the light and Sith use the dark.

Yes, but of course the Jedi never speak of gods, but maybe it's because they don't believe in them. They just believe in the Force, but Yoda doesn't even know what the Force really is other than an energy field created by all living things. So why do the Jedi speak of the Force as having a will?

Source: Stover's Revenge Of The Sith novel: page 232-233: Conversation between Padme and Obi-Wan.

She blinked as though he'd slapped her. "Why--that seems unlikely, doesn't it? What about this prophecy the Jedi put so much faith in? Isn't he the chosen one?"

"Very probably. But I have scanned this prophecy; it says only that a chosen one will be born and bring balance to the Force: nowhere does it say he has to be a Jedi."

She blinked harder, fighting down a surge of desperate hope that left her breathless. "He doesn't have to--?"

"My Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, believed that it was the will of the Force that Anakin should be trained as a Jedi--and we all have a certain, oh, I suppose you could call it a Jedi-centric bias. It is a Jedi prophecy, after all."

"But the will of the Force--isn't that what Jedi follow?"

"Well, yes. But you must understand that not even the Jedi know all there is to be known about the Force; no mortal mind can. We speak of the will of the Force as someone ignorant of gravity might say it is the will of a river to flow to the ocean: it is a metaphor that describes our ignorance. The simple truth--if any truth is ever simple--is that we do not truly know what the will of the Force may be. We can never know. It is so far beyond our limited understanding that we can only surrender to its mystery."


When Star Wars was first developing, there were characters called Whills.

Source: prologue from the original A New Hope novelization

Another galaxy, anothertime.

The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that ... it was the Republic.

Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match.

So it was with the Republic at its height. Like the greatest of trees, able to withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was not visible from outside.

Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic.

Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears.

Having exterminated through treachery and deception the Jedi Knights, guardians of justice in the galaxy, the Imperial governors and bureaucrats prepared to institute a reign of terror among the disheartened worlds of the galaxy. Many used the Imperial forces and the name of the increasingly isolated Emperor to further their own personal ambitions.

But a small number of systems rebelled at these new outrages. Declaring themselves opposed to the New Order they began the great battle to restore the Old Republic.

From the beginning they were vastly outnumbered by the systems held in thrall by the Emperor. In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples...

From the First Saga

Journal of the Whills


Source: 1987 STARLOG Magazine interview, when George was asked what the "Journal of the Whills" was all about, he replied:

"I'm not sure I can explain that. It's where the STAR WARS saga came from; it was a larger chronicle that I had been working on, of which STAR WARS was just a piece."

In the book Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, Lucas elaborates a little more:

"I knew from the beginning that I was not doing science fiction. I was doing a space opera, a fantasy film, a mythological piece, a fairy tale.

"Originally, I was trying to have the story be told by somebody else; there was somebody watching this whole story and recording it, somebody probably wiser than the mortal players in the actual events. I eventually dropped this idea, and the concepts behind the Whills turned into the Force. But the Whills became part of this massive amount of notes, quotes, background information that I used for the scripts; the stories were actually taken from the 'Journal of the Whills'."


Was George Lucas not wanting to let the truth out about Star Wars gods a.k.a. Whills a.k.a. the greater, cosmic Force?

Source: The Making Of Episode I

"The Force breaks into two sides: the living Force and a greater, cosmic Force.

"The living Force makes you sensitive to other living things, makes you intuitive, and allows you to read other people's minds, et cetera.

"But the greater Force has to do with destiny. In working with the Force, you can find your destiny and you can choose to either follow it, or not."

- George Lucas, 1999



So if the Whills were taken out of the story then why are they showing up in starwars.com databanks?

Source: starwars.com Yoda databank

Through meditation, he was able to commune with the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn. The dead Jedi Master had discovered an esoteric yet powerful technique to preserve identity even after death. A Force ability honed outside the Jedi order, this method was developed by a Shaman of the Whills.

Source: Star Wars Insider issue 83

Sometime during his travels, Qui-Gon Jinn came across a unique Force ability said to be practiced by a mysterious Force adept known as a Shaman of the Whills.

Source: theforce.net unofficial encyclopedia

Ancient Order of the Whills

Category: Affiliations

Type: Force Users

this was an ars to come, Yoda would study these techniques, learning the ability in a role he had not played in centuries: an apprentice.

ancientorder of Force-sensitive beings, whosupposedly died out generations before the birth of the Old Republic. It was believed that the shamans of the Whills could attain a unity with the Force that transcended death, allowing the shamans to influence the living world from beyond the grave. The ability could only be attained for oneself, and only through great compassion. Qui-Gon Jinn managed to discover the technique, and his spirit returned from dead years later to transfer the knowledge to Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

For more information, please read or view the following material(s):

Last of the Jedi - The Desperate Mission, by Jude Watson, copyright 2005, from Scholastic, Incorporated

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Illustrated Screenplay, by George Lucas, copyright 2005, from Del Rey Books


Source: starwars.com Anakin Skywalker databank

Through compassion and selflessness, Anakin discovered the secret knowledge of the Shaman of the Whills, a technique that allowed him to retain his identity in the netherworld of the Force.

Since the Whills are "probably wiser than the mortals" and "watching the events," as George Lucas puts it, leads me to believe the Whills are the higher power in the Star Wars galaxy and since they're showing up now that the story is finished leads me to believe they never left the story. George Lucas just couldn't divulge that information at that particular time and he still seems to be only beating around the bush when it comes to the Whills. So what's the Force then? It's exactly what Obi-Wan and Yoda said it was:

"An energy created by all living things."---A New Hope

"Life creates it makes it grow."---The Empire Strikes Back

So why has the Force turned dark? Perhaps the living things that create the Force that have made the Force turn dark or unbalanced. You got corruption galore in the galaxy. You got slave trafficking, indifference towards one another, corrupt corporations and governments. The first (new) trilogy is about the people's corruption. The second (old) trilogy is about the people's redemption. Now I'm not going to go into who's corrupt and who's not. It's obvious, Han and Lando are the embodiment of redemption and the Falcon is the connection between them. It's obvious that cloning sentient beings to be preprogrammed slaves is corrupt but here's this if you doubt my word.

Source: Salvatore's Attack Of The Clones novel, page 209

Two hundred thousand units are ready, with another million well on the way. Lama Su's previous boast echoed ominously in Obi-Wan's thoughts. A production center, supremely efficient, producing a steady stream of superbly trained and conditioned warriors. The implications were staggering.

Obi-Wan stared at the closest embryo, floating contentedly in its fluid, curled and with its little thumb stuck into its mouth. In ten short years, that tiny creature, that tiny man, would be a soldier, killing and, likely, soon enough killed.


page 210-211

The callousness of it all struck Obi-Wan profoundly. Units. Final product. These were living beings they were talking about. Living, breathing, and thinking. To create clones for such a singular purpose, under such control, even stealing half their childhood for efficiency, assaulted his sense of right and wrong, and the fact that a Jedi Master had begun all of this was almost too mush to digest.

What I find is that most fans refuse to accept that the Jedi are corrupt in Episodes I, II, and III but the writing is on the Jedi Council floor. The Jedi should not be taking children from their parents and brain washing the children into believing that they were meant to be Jedi. No one can tell another that they are not allowed to love, but that is exactly what the Jedi do. It makes no difference why the Jedi do these things, this ideology is corrupt, but what really pushes the Jedi over the edge and into the darkness is their participation in the cloning of sentient beings.

Cloning sentient beings to be nothing more than slaves is corrupt, and the Jedi above all others in the universe should of known this. The clones can not even choose to want to be free because

"They are totally obedient. Taking any order without question." ---Attack Of The Clones

The droids are sentient beings as well that are being forced to fight. R2 has all the characteristic of sentient being so don't the battle droids have them as well. They scream in Revenge Of The Sith. They have a sense of humor as well. That's why: there are heroes on both sides.

Source: Attack Of The Clones Visual Dictionary

Droids range from simple machines to complex, sentient artificial beings. They are generally treated as mere utility devices regardless of their level of intelligence, and most citizens hardly notice them. Memory wipes, which are customarily performed when a droid acquires a new owner, can delete filed information or completely erase a droid's stored experiences. When "zeroed" this way, even sophisticated droids may be rendered barely self-aware. If allowed to build experience between memory wipes, some droids seem to develop individual identities and even idiosyncratic personalities.

There is no good side in The Clone Wars because both sides are corrupt. Whereas the rebels didn't fight for land or power. They fought for love, just like Anakin. They fought for each other. They fought for freedom and that is why their actions brought balance to the Force. That is why Palpatine is losing his awareness, his vision in Return Of The Jedi.

Source: Return Of The Jedi: conversation between Vader and Palpatine

"My master, a small Rebel force has penetrated the shield and landed on Endor."

"Yes, I know."

"My son is with them."

"Are you sure?"

"I have felt him, my master."

"Strange, that I have not. Are your feelings on this matter clear, Lord Vader?"


In 1982, George Lucas was planning on making the prequels and perhaps he planted that dialogue in Return Of The Jedi to show how the Force is balanced by the time Han's team lands on Endor, however, even George Lucas says that Anakin brings balance by destroying the Sith. So George Lucas' words have debunked my interpretation, but I told you at the beginning of this blog that that was the case.

Source: Kahn's Return Of The Jedi novel copyright 1983

"Strange, that I have not," the Emperor murmured, his eyes becoming slits. They both knew the Force wasn't all-powerful--and no one was infallible with its use. It had everything to do with awareness, with vision. Certainly, Vader and his son were more closely linked than was the Emperor with young Skywalker--but, in addition, the Emperor was now aware of a crosscurrent he hadn't read before, a buckle in the Force he couldn't quite understand. "I wonder if your feelings on this matter are clear, Lord Vader."

Source: Attack Of The Clones: conversation between Obi-Wan and Dooku

"What if I told you that the Republic was now under the control of the Dark Lord of the Sith?"

"No. That's not possible. The Jedi would be aware of it."

"The dark side of the Force has clouded their vision, my friend."


Perhaps the light side of the Force is clouding Palpatine's vision in Return Of The Jedi. I believe balance starting being brought to the Force after the first Death Star was destroyed and more and more people joined the Rebellion. Notice in The Empire Strikes Back, the Rebels don't really fight for anything but to save each other. However, Luke thinks that perhaps Yoda and Obi-Wan are helping him and that is why the Emperor's vision is distorted.

Source: Kahn's Return Of The Jedi novel

He thought desperatly of Ben and Yoda. They were part of the Force, now, part of the energy that shaped it. Was it possible for them to distort the Emperor's vision by their presence?

In The Empire Strikes Back, perhaps Luke is sent to Vader by the gods/greater, cosmic Force/Whills to start Vader's turn back to the light.

Source: The Empire Strikes Back DVD commentary from George Lucas about final scene with Vader aboard the Star Destroyer bridge after the Millennium Falcon escapes into hyperspace

"And then the payoff of this Darth Vader killing his subordinates-Piett joke. Is thisone where he comes down at the end of the movie and you fully expect him (Piett) to get killed and he doesn't. Vader is too upset with even bothering killing his subordinate. You're talking about his son now. So he's conflicted. It's not just hate anymore. There's more to it than that. He's 3P0 disassembled."

In Kahn's Return Of The Jedi novel, the Emperor is vexed by his loss of awareness and vision, and he is further confused by a crosscurrent or buckle in the Force that is Vader's inner conflict.

Perhaps Luke's vision of his friends suffering was given to Luke by the gods/greater, cosmic Force/Whills so that Luke would go to Bespin to make Anakin take his first steps back to the light. Anakin's vision of his mother suffer was given to Anakin by the gods/greater, cosmic Force/Whills to make Anakin take his first step into darkness. Notice as soon as the Jedi tell Obi-Wan to get Jango then Anakin has the nightmare and then in the next scene is of rays of sunlight shinning through the clouds of Naboo. Notice as soon as Boba starts tracking Han, then Luke has his vision. Perhaps Slave 1 is the marker in Attack Of The Clones that marks Anakin's turn into Darth Vader and then Slave 1 is the marker in The Empire Strikes Back that marks Darth Vader's turn back to Anakin.



A theme of a primitive indigenous people having to cope with a foreign advanced people is in all six movies.


The Phantom Menace:

Gungans having to cope with the arrogant Naboo.

The visuals in Star Wars speak volumes. Look at the similarity between the face of kaadu and the face of a gungan. Clearly an evolutionary pattern between the indigenous people and indigenous animals of Naboo.

Source: Star Wars Episode I Visual Dictionary

Like all the Naboo, Queen Amidala was taught to think of Gungans as barbarians.


Attack Of The Clones:

Sand People having to cope with moisture farmers, gangsters and others that have come to Tatooine and taken the Sand People's land.

Source: Star Wars Episode I Visual Dictionary

Unlike the Jawas, the native Tatooine Sandpeople have not adapted to easy contact with outworld settlers. Resentful of incursions in their territory, Sandpeople prey upon travelers and are known as Tusken Raiders.

Source: starwars.comTusken Raider EU databank

So dangerous are Tusken Raiders that few xenobiologists are brave enough to venture close to them. What little information that exists on the nomadic brutes is often contradictory and incomplete. Indeed, there are those in official government positions that question the relative sentience of the Tusken Raider altogether. Alien-rights activists, however, believe that such claims are being made to justify the indiscriminate slaughter of the Sand People and the acquisition of their land.

The current leading theory is that the Sand People are the descendents of the Ghorfas, a society that built caves within the cliffs of Tatooine. Their civilization collapsed when offworld settlers disrupted their water supply, leading to their current nomadic existence.


Source: Star Wars Insider # 84: question from Star Wars fan

In Return Of The JedI, some guy shoots Luke in the hand. Who is he?

Answer from Star Wars Insider

The human sharpshooter with dried bone bound to his helmet is one of Jabba's goons, Taym Dren-garen, and his job was to deal directly with Tusken Raiders. Dren-garen kept the desert nomads armed and well supplied, and fueled their tempers with lies about local settlers. By provoking skirmishes between Tuskens and the settlers, he kept local authorities busy and distracted from Jabba the Hutt's operations. This back story comes from a card in the Jabba's Palace expansion of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game from Decipher, Inc.



Revenge Of The Sith:

Wookies having to cope with separatists and then the Imperials.



A New Hope:

Sand People again coping with moisture farmers coming into their land.



The Empire Strikes Back:

Wampas having to cope with the Rebel Alliance.

Source: Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Alien Species, by Ann Margaret Lewis

This book has the wampa defined as a semisentient being unlike the rancor and sarlaac which are defined as nonsentient.

Lucas says he always wanted the audience to see the wampa and that's why he went out of his way to put it in The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, so that the audience could see it's a primitive caveman that will one day develop into a fully sentient being.

Source:starwars.com wampa behind the scenes databank


The shooting script of Empire included a wampa sub-plot that was ultimately edited out of the final film due to difficulties in shooting the creature. The Rebel's Echo Base was to be the victim of chronic wampa attacks, wherein sections of the ice caverns were infiltrated by wampas attracted to the tootling of R2-D2 and his fellow astromech driods. Eventually, the Rebels would figure out the reason for the mysterious attacks, and would even succeed in a capturing several of the beasts and putting them in pens with clearly marked warning labels affixed to the door.

These wampa attacks used a version of the creature suit with eerie silver eyes. The actor burdened with the heavy suit would suffer from heat exhaustion often, and the breakaway effects of the ice wall were not convincing. Though several of these scenes were attempted, none looked good enough to commit to the final film. The labeled doors are still visible in the released version of Empire. In fact, the trailer for Empire shows a scene cut from the film that hints at the wampa subplot. While Imperials are in pursuit of the fleeing Rebels, C-3P0 would tear a label from the door. Not seen in the trailer were the pursuing snowtroopers who unwittingly storm the sealed chamber, only to be torn apart by an enraged snow creature.



Return Of The Jedi:

Ewoks having to cope with the Imperials and Rebel Alliance.

The indigenous Sand People kidnap the chosen one's mother and the indigenous wampas kidnap the chosen one's son. In the kidnapping of the mother we know Anakin had visions, but ask yourself. Did the chosen one have visions of his son's kidnapping too? Why as soon as Vader sees an image of the snow planet Hoth does he say, "I'm sure young Skywalker is with them."

Did Luke have dreams just like Anakin? Did Luke dream of Anakin?

"R2, what are we doing here? It's like something out of a dream or I don't know. Maybe I'm just going crazy." ---Luke


Did Leia dream of Padme?

"Obi-Wan, there is still good in him." --Padme

"There's good in him, I've felt it." --Luke

Notice how Leia calms down after being told the same thing by her brother as she heard once from a dream of her mother.

Perhaps Anakin wasn't always going to go to the dark side. Of course he had to because it was already established in the original movies that he was Darth Vader. But there was a time when he could of just been a Jedi. A Jedi that led an army to Tatooine to free the people from the gangsters that ruled the Outer Rim.

"I had a dream I was Jedi. I came back here and freed all the slaves." --Anakin

Anakin had this dream while sleeping after helping a wounded Tusken Raider.

Source: Brooks' The Phantom Menace novel, page 76

Anakin realized suddenly that the Tusken was afraid. He could sense it in the way the other spoke, in the way he sat waiting.

In Salvatore's Attack Of The Clones novel, Anakin thinks back upon the time he helped the injured Tusken after Cliegg told him the story of Shmi's kidnapping.

A sinking feeling nearly buckled Anakin's knees and he slumped into a seat across from Owen. He'd had some experience with Tusken Raiders, but on a very limited basis. Once he had tended the wound of one gravely injured raider, and when the Tusken's friends showed up, they had let him go--something unheard of among the more civilized species of Tatooine. But still, despite that one anomaly, anakin didn't like hearing the name Shmi spoken in the same breath as the grim words, Tusken Raiders.

Anakin was born into bondage and taken to planet of great suffering so that when he was found, it would be understood that this what needed to be taken care of in the galaxy. The Jedi with the help of the good people have to go out and free the people of the corruption that is spreading darkness across the galaxy, but the arrogant Jedi never truly believe in the boy. And to make matters worse the Jedi corrupt themselves by leading an army of slaves into battle against another army of slaves. That's why the Jedi Council chamber floor is dirty in Revenge Of The Sith.

It falls unto the Skywalker twins to rid the galaxy of the embodiment of evil of the Outer Rim, Jabba the Hutt. The Chosen One destroyes the embodiment of evil of the core worlds.

Source: starwars.com Jabba databank

A loathsome slug of a gangster, Jabba the Hutt was the preeminent kingpin of crime in the Outer Rim Territories. Basing his operations out of Tatooine, the Hutt had his pudgy fingers in a number of lucrative and unsavory rackets -- slavery, gunrunning, spice-smuggling, extortion and more.

Source: starwars.com Mos Espa databank

The Hutts fostered public distraction from their criminal activities by building a massive Podracing arena. With the riseof the Empire, the changing political climate caused a shift in Hutt business. Podracing waned as a public spectacle and Jabba, the most powerful Hutt on Tatooine, changed residences to be closer to Mos Eisley. As a result, Mos Espa's prominence declined in favor of Mos Eisley's growth.

The people have free will and they must choose to follow a path of righteousness or a path of evil. Anakin was led to the dark side so that the people would care for each other again. If Mace would of killed Palpatine, the Force would of still been left unbalanced. Anakin suffered as Darth Vader for the people. And they would never know that he was their savior, because the gods/greater, cosmic Force/Whills work in mysterious ways. Like when Qui-Gon tried to use the Jedi mind trick when he said, "Your gods demand his life belong to me", and something prevented the mind trick from working on Boss Nass.

Source: a book titled The Making Of Star Wars Revenge Of The Sith

George remarks to Rob Coleman that the story of Star Wars is actually recounted by R2-D2 to the Keeper of the Whills, one hundred years after Return Of The Jedi.

The Journal Of The Whills,
this legendary set of stories was believed to have been collected by the Ancient Order of the Whills, a higher order of beings who had an incredible connection and understanding of the Force. The Journal of the Whills supposedly recounted the events leading up to the Clone Wars, documenting the advent of the New Order, and continuing to tell the story of the Galactic Civil War. It was believed to have had either six or nine chapters, or episodes.