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Fans have often wondered about
the personal impact of Alderaan’s
destruction. Lost Stars reveals how
From left to right:
Darth Vader makes his the Death Star’s first target affects

presence felt on the individuals. Nash Windrider’s reaction
Death Star; Mon as an Alderaanian was a twist, but once it
Mothma leads the was revealed, it made sense. How did you
rebels on Home One. decide to make an Alderaanian into
an Imperial zealot?
On Netflix, there’s a documentary called

Crazy Love. It’s about a man and woman
who were dating in the 1960s or so. She
began to drift away from him; he attacked
her with acid, mutilating her face and
nearly blinding her. He went to prison.
When he was released, they got married
—this man she never really loved before
and hardly even seems to love now.
Interpretations of the movie and the real-
life relationship will differ, but what
I took from it is that sometimes we will
cling so tightly to the very thing that hurt
us, because that’s the only way we can
make ourselves believe we didn’t really
huge for her. She lost one of the most get hurt that badly. Forgiving the

important people in her life there, wrongdoing can sometimes be the first
meaning that she was never going to step to minimizing it. You hide the scar,
think well of the Rebel Alliance. Giving then you deny the scar. After Alderaan’s
her a strong, relatable reason for destruction, Nash has nothing left but
distrusting the rebels helps us the Empire. So the Empire has to
understand why she’d stand with become everything to him, or else he’s
the Empire. completely destroyed.

“WOULDN’T WE ALL BE FREAKED OUT BY VADER’S

PRESENCE? HE’S A SEVEN-FOOT-TALL GUY WITH BLACK

ARMOR, AND A TENDENCY TO STRANGLE PEOPLE WHO

DISPLEASE HIM.”

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