After leaving Ghost Ben, Luke returns to the rebel base where a big meeting is going on. Turns out that the Empire is building another Death Star. 'Try, try again,' I suppose. They devise a plan for taking down this new menace. The partially constructed Death Star is being protected by a force field the power source for which is located on the nearby moon of Endor. A small team will go to the moon in a captured Imperial tie fighter and disable the force field. Then the rebel fleet will attack the Death Star, led by (now) General Lando Calrissian. The team tasked with sabotaging the force field is- surprise, surprise- led by Luke, Leia, and (now) General Solo. Inexplicably, R2D2 and C3P0 tag along as well. Meanwhile on the Death Star, work has fallen behind schedule and Darth Vader has arrived to encourage the workers by way of threats of death- always a reliable staff motivator. He also informs his nervous middle management that the Emperor himself is coming to oversee the project. As our stalwart heroes approach the moon aboard the tie fighter, their stolen security code gets them by the Imperial checkpoint. Luke, however, gets the Jedi heebie-jeebies; he says that he can sense Vader's presence and that he shouldn't have come because Vader can sense him as well. He's right: Vader realizes that Luke is on the fighter, but orders his men to let the ship continue to Endor, saying that he will handle it. Down on the forest moon, the team heads for the power station. They run into some Imperial troops, however, and get separated during the resulting fight as Luke and Leia head off after some escaping troopers on speeders. This leads to the famous chase scene through the Endor forest. Leia offs the troopers she was chasing, but her speeder crashes and she loses consciousness for awhile. When she wakes up, she's being prodded with a primitive spear held by what appears to be a roly poly teddy bear. This turns out to be Wicket, an Ewok. They bond over dislike of the Imperial soldiers and Wicket takes Leia back to his village. Meanwhile Luke, having dispatched the troopers he was chasing, returns to the team and they realize that Leia is missing. They send the rest of the team to the power station while Han, Luke, Chewbacca, R2D2 and C3P0 go in search of her. On the Death Star, Emperor Palpatine has arrived and he's a dried up prune of a man. Vader tells his master of the presence of Luke on Endor. He suggests to the Emperor that Luke could be a great asset if turned to the dark side, though the Emperor seems dubious of the chances of this. Vader says that Luke will either be turned or destroyed. Back on Endor, our heroes stumble around the woods looking for Leia until they step into an Ewok trap and end up suspended from a tree in a net. The Ewoks then show up and cut down the net, but are distinctly hostile. Luke stops Han from pulling a blaster on them, and they all end up tied to poles being carried away to the Ewok village. The only exception is C3P0; the Ewoks have a legend about a golden "god" who will come from away, and they assume that C3P0 is that foretold being. He is reverently carried to the village on a sedan chair. At the village, the Ewoks start lighting the cooking fires, planning a big dinner with our heroes as the main course. Leia comes out of one of the huts, having been accepted into the tribe. She attempts to convince the Ewoks not to eat her friends, but they are disinclined to listen to her. Luke tells C3P0 to tell the Ewoks that, if they won't let them go, he will use his magic against them. The Ewoks are inclined to pooh-pooh this threat until Luke uses his powers to levitate C3P0 and spin him around. The Ewoks, terrified, untie Luke, Han, Chewie and R2D2. After this inauspicious beginning, all is forgiven and they explain to the Ewoks why they are there. The Ewoks agree to help them fight the Imperial troops and shut down the tractor beam. While Han and Chewbacca make plans with the Ewoks, Luke wanders out into the night to think. Leia follows him and asks him what's wrong. He tells her that he's going to have to leave because he's endangering the mission with his presence. He also tells her that he has to face Vader again. Leia is totally against this, but he insists and she wants to know why. Luke tells her that Vader is his father and that he knows that there is still good in him. Leia understandably thinks that this is crazy talk and urges Luke to go away somewhere Vader can't reach him. Luke refuses and tells her that she must learn the ways of the Force, finally cluing her in that she's his sister. They embrace and then Luke heads out into the darkness. Han shows up in time to see the clinch and Luke leaving. When he reaches the upset Leia, he naturally enough wants to know what the heck's going on. Leia says that she can't tell him and, angry and jealous, he asks her if she could tell Luke. Leia turns on the tears and asks Han to hold her, which effectively puts a stop to his inconvenient questions. She didn't even have to use the Force. (To Be Continued...)
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