Pencils: Paul Lee Inks: Paul Lee Colors: Paul Lee Letters: Steve Dutro Cover Artist: Tsuneo Sanda
Long after the events of the movies, there are two races of people on a world, the Vindar and the Squidge. The Vindar are the overlords of the world and they treat the Squidge very poorly. Two young Squidge leave the compound where their families live to hunt down an Oracle that their den-mother had a vision about. After traveling to the mountains, they come across a cave just like the one in their den-mothers vision. Upon entering the cave, they find the shattered remains of C-3PO, who they then activate. They ask him to tell them a story, so he relates the the adventures of Luke Skywalker. After he is finished, they ask him for another story right as the Vindar come in. They only see one of the boys so he urges the other to hide. The Vindar kill the one they saw and destroy what's left of C-3PO and then leave, saying there's nothing left in the cave. The remaining boy comes out and sees a strange cylindrical object protruding from C-3PO's torso and picks it up. It happens to be Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, and as he ignites it he contradicts the Vindar, saying that there is one thing in left in the cave, hope.
The only time reference given in this story is "A Long Time From Now ...", which could be any time after the end of the Empire. I chose 5000 years because it was a nice round number, also because I would imagine electronic circuitry would degrade over time and so it coudn't be too far down the line.
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