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His ardour for storytelling was instilled at an early age, and has developed into his pursuit of journalism. He just lately graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism with a level in communications. Timothy presently lives in Los Angeles, California. More From Timothy Mably. Source link. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Leia channeled her grief into rage and used it to fuel her in order to become an even more powerful figure in the Rebel Alliance; later, Leia recognized she'd used the dark side.

Obi-Wan would have had serious qualms about Leia's training, about her emotional stability, because he would have been concerned that a righteous anger burned within Leia that he had seen once before.

Fortunately, they would have had more time to react than they did in the films, because Grand Moff Tarkin would have had no way of finding the location of the Rebel base. Under the leadership of Leia and Mon Mothma, the Rebels would have chosen the right moment to launch an attack upon the Death Star; Obi-Wan himself would probably have been forced to lead that attack, the only Force-sensitive pilot among the Rebellion in this scenario.

Hopefully he'd have pulled it off. Obi-Wan would have taken Leia to Dagobah to train as a Jedi , but it's doubtful she'd have made a particularly good student; Leia was a natural leader, and she'd have chafed at spending time on a swamp planet while she felt the galaxy needed her. Ironically, this would have made Leia more like a Jedi of the High Republic Era than one of the prequels, for she was motivated by a commitment for life - and selfless love is very different to attachment.

These lessons seem to have been forgotten by the time of the prequels, and both Yoda and Obi-Wan would have struggled to know quite what to do with Leia.

She wasn't as ideal for Yoda's training as the aged Jedi Master believed, and - as with Luke - her training would probably have been curtailed before it had been completed. The key difference, though, is that when Leia returned to the galaxy she'd have still had Obi-Wan Kenobi at her side.

But what of Darth Vader? He'd have sensed his old Master's hand in the destruction of the Death Star, and would likely have devoted considerable resources to finding Obi-Wan. Unlike in the main timeline, Vader wouldn't have deduced Leia's true identity as he had Luke's; Vader figured out the truth about Luke as soon as he heard the boy's surname, but he'd probably have initially thought Leia was an Order 66 survivor.

Vader would have eventually learned the truth from the dark side, though, and he'd have redoubled his efforts to find the two Jedi who served as members of the Rebellion.

It wouldn't have been easy - in this hypothetical scenario, there's no Han Solo involved in all this to act as bait - but a confrontation would have happened in the end. This would have been a twisted mirror of The Empire Strikes Back , because it is unlikely Obi-Wan would have survived the encounter, while Leia would be shaken to learn she was the daughter of Darth Vader. Oddly enough, though, the news is unlikely to have devastated Leia in the way it did Luke. His desire to be a Jedi was in part driven by a vague hero worship of the father he had never known, but Leia's entire sense of morality was shaped by her upbringing in the family of Bail Organa.

All of this could have spurred Vader's return to the light side many years before it actually happens in canon. He murdered children — it's difficult to imagine him being able to live with that. Vader consistently speaks of Anakin as if he were an entirely different person, after all — the revelation that his fall to the dark side was unnecessary could have encouraged such a fiction as well. Unfortunately, it's almost certain that she would have made the same decision that Bail Organa, Yoda, and Obi-Wan Kenobi make in canon: She would have sent them into hiding.

Whether Anakin fell to the dark side or stayed with the light, Luke and Leia would still be safest if they were kept away from their parents.

This wouldn't have changed if Anakin were fighting alongside her. If he weren't, it would become even more important to keep the twins' existence and location a secret from their monster of a father. It wouldn't be easy — these kids could have definitely been raised to believe their parents were both dead, just as they are in canon. But it's still an alternative their canon selves absolutely would have chosen, if they'd been given the chance.

It's more difficult to determine when they might have actually been able to reunite. She wouldn't have had any reason to suspect the woman was her mother, granted, but as well-educated royalty and a member of the Rebellion, she would definitely know the name and face of her leader. This means that she probably wouldn't have revealed herself to them until they'd become targets of the Empire anyway.

Despite the fact that Luke and Leia share the same powerful Skywalker blood, only Luke is trained in the ways of the Jedi during the original trilogy. From an in-universe perspective, this is largely due to the fact that by the time Luke is training to be a Jedi, nobody alive knows Leia is his sister and could be trained as well.

Yoda knows, but he has no way of contacting anybody until after Luke has arrived on Dagobah. By that point, Leia is already lightyears away. With that revelation, Leia would have learned that she could become a Jedi too. With this knowledge, it's easy to imagine that Luke and Leia might have gone on to Dagobah together, to be trained in the ways of the Jedi by Master Yoda. Even if that didn't work out, having a more organized, unified, and powerful Rebel Alliance years earlier could have meant the difference between life and death for many Jedi who came later.

With more Rebel support, Hera's rescue may not have resulted in Kanan's death, and Ezra may not have had to rely on space whales to defeat Grand Admiral Thrawn. It's impossible to know for sure, but her influence could have proved to be enough that her children wouldn't have been the last of the Jedi by the time the original trilogy came to an end.

One of the most important events leading up to the sequel trilogy is the New Republic's decision to ignore the First Order's tyranny. Hoping to avoid galactic war, the New Republic does nothing, prompting Leia Organa to resign, form the Resistance, and become a general.