Star Wars: Episode I - The phantom Threat (novel)

See also: Star Wars: episode I - The phantom Threat (homonymy)

Star Wars: Episode I - The phantom Threat ( Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in English) is a Novélisation film of the same name written by Terry Brooks and published the May 2nd 2002 in France (April 21st 1999 with the the United States). This book reports the events being held in film. The action is in 32 av. BY, whereas the Fédération of the Trade starts the Blocus planet Naboo, in order to protest against a tax adopted by the Galactic Sénat.

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Summary of the history

The history begins on a race from Podracer S on the planet Tatooine. One of the participants, the young person Anakin Skywalker, is only the human able one to control one of these machines. But very quickly, its machine is put out of state to function by its rival, Sebulba and Anakin is seen constrained to stop the race. This last is then forced by its Master, Watto, to repair Pod, but manages all the same to escape and leave from it in the town of Mos Espa. It is close to a bar of this city that it meets a pilot of the Galactic République, which tells them all then that it saw throughout his carrière.
During this time, two Knights Jedi, Which-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi indicated as ambassadors of the Republic, approaches Naboo to put an end to the blockade set up by the Fédération of the Trade. After the attempted murder orchestrated by Nute Gunray against both Jedi, of the last flee with the Reine Amidala of Naboo and try to reach Coruscant, it world-capital, in the hope to find an exit peaceful with the situation. Following a damage of their vessel, the group is obliged to be posed on Tatooine in order to repair it. They meet Anakin Skywalker there. Which-Gon has a presentiment of that the young slave is unusually powerful in the Force and that it could be the “Elected official” (an individual who, according to a prophecy jedi, will restore balance in the Force). Once released Anakin of its condition of slave, the fugitive ones turn over on Naboo after a short passage on Coruscant to put an end to the blockade, but they realize that the situation is worse than they imagined it: the Sith are again present in the Galaxy. Which-Gon is made attack by one of them before leaving Tatooine. They manage to take off and join Coruscant, but vis-a-vis the indifference of the Senate in front of the situation of Naboo, the Amidala Queen decides to go back there, followed by both Jedi and Anakin, to put an end to the blockade, if not to support her people. They find there the attacker of Which-Gon, and start a combat leading them to the engine of the Palate of Theed, while the remainder of the group seeks to capture the leaders of the Federation of the Trade. Which-Gon is finally wounded mortally by the Sith warrior. Obi-Wan successful then to kill it, precipitating its body in the depths of the réacteur.
From return on Coruscant, Obi-Wan obtains the Jedi Council the right to take Anakin like Padawan and to ensure its formation Jedi.

Comments

Although it is the adaptation of a film, the book includes two chapters concerning a race of Podracers and its consequences with short terms for Anakin, and a chapter on the meeting between the young boy and a Tusken in the Désert. This passage is an anticipation of died of Shmi Skywalker in the second episode of the saga. The dispute between the young person Greedo and Anakin is the consequence of the anger of this last, due to the imminent departure of Padmé, with which it fell in love: this passage anticipates this time the death of his future wife. These additions come from George Lucas, from whom Brooks accepted information concerning the two episodes according to the Phantom Threat .

It is also in this novel that one of the first traces of the history of Siths is, with in particular the mention of the Lord Sith Dark Bane who will become thereafter one of the key characters of the wide Univers. In its book Sometimes the Magic Works , Brooks explains why George Lucas and spent approximately an hour to him to the telephone in order to speak about the history of Sith and Jedi, which lets believe that the character of Dark Bane would come from Lucas itself.

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