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Star Wars PagesLeia was the daughter of Queen Amidala of Naboo and Anakin Skywalker. Upon her mother's death she was adopted by Bail Organa of Alderaan. She was also the twin sister of Luke Skywalker.
Her memories of her mother were that she was very sad due to the fact that Leia's natural father, Anakin, had turned to the Dark Side of the Force and assummed the identity of Darth Vader.
She was raised as royalty but hith a no nonsense attitude to life. She became an Imperial Senator and an important leader of the Rebel Alliance. Leia was assigned to intercept the plans of the first Death Star and transport these to Alderaan. During this mission her ship, the Tantive IV, was intercepted over the planet Tatooine by an Imperial Star Destroyer under the command of her father. She was captured and transferred to the Death Star but not before storing the battle station's plans in the astro-mech droid R2D2. She instructed the droid to use one of the escape pods and seek out Obi Wan Kenobi, a Jedi Master living on the planet.
By a strange quirk of fate, R2D2 and his fellow droid C3P0, ended up in the possession of her twin brother, Luke. R2D2 tricked Luke into removing a restraining bolt after Luke accidentally triggered a part of Leia's holographic message to Kenobi. The little droid left to seek out Kenobi resulting in Luke and C3P0 setting off in pursuit the following morning. Kenobi eventually persuaded Luke to join him on a journey to Alderaan to return the droids.
During this period Leia was tortured and interrogated by her father on the Death Star. Her strong will stopped her from revealing any information about Rebel Alliance bases to the frustration of Grand Moff Tarkin, the station's commander. Tarkin devised a scheme to try to get this information by threatening to destroy Alderaan. Leia's response was to give away the location of a deserted base to try to give her planet time to be evacuated. Tarkin, however, decided to use Alderaan as an example, forcing the princess to watch as her planet was blasted to bits.
Leia was eventually rescued by her brother Luke, a Correlian smuggler Han Solo and Solo's partner, the Wookie Chewbacca.
Leia watched the attack on the Death Star from an Alliance command base on the fourth moon of the planet Yavin and participated in the celebrations upon the Death Star's destruction.
She also served in a tactical capacity at the Battle of Hoth when the Empire discovered the new Rebel base. Escaping Hoth in Solo's ship, the Millenium Falcon, Leia and the crew of the Falcon were forced to take drastic measures when the ship's hyperdrive was damaged.
They ended up at Cloud City on Bespine where they were captured by Boba Fett and Darth Vader. Leia revealed to Han Solo that she was in love with him when Vader decided to test out a carbon freezing unit. Vader's intention had been to use Han, Chewbacca and Leia as bait for Luke who was in training to become a Jedi Knight.
Chewbacca and Leia managed to escape with the help of Han's friend, Lando Calrissian whereupon they tried to rescue the carbon frozen Solo. Leia could only watch as Boba Fett's ship soared off to deliver his cargo to Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. Leia also had her first experience of the Force when an injured and demoralised Luke Skywalker appealed for her help by calling to her telepathically.
Leia went undercover on Tatooine, posing as the bounty hunter Boushh delivering a 'captured' Chewbacca to Jabba the Hutt. She was caught, however, when she released Solo from his carbonite prison. Jabba took great delight in enslaving her. She got her revenge during the confusion caused when Luke's rescue plan was put into operation. She strangled Jabba with the chain that the gangster had used to enslave her.
Returning to the assembled Rebel starfleet, Leia voluntered to help Han Solo lead an attack. This attack was aimed at destroying the deflector shield generator protecting the unfinished second Death Star. This is where Luke told her about her relationship with Vader and himself and the second Death Star was destroyed.
Leia would later marry Han Solo when the Rebel Alliance defeated the Galactic Empire and transformed itself into the New Republic.
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