Throughout the mythology of the Star Wars universes, this synchronicity can be seen again and again, binding heroes, villains, creatures and legend to one another despite their paths never crossing even once. Whether in Jedi or Sith, soldier or Senator, the reflections of Star Wars are as myriad and infinite as the stars themselves…even when seen in the stories of a zealous moisture farmer on Tatooine and a desperate scrumrat on the mean streets of Corellia.

One, Luke Skywalker, bears an impossible legacy, though little does he know it. The other, Han Solo, wears the weight of hardship around his shoulders, disguising his heart of gold beneath a tough exterior. Both yearn for the stars, each possessing escape plans that will lead astray. Polar opposites of one other — the first raised in the sun by a loving family, the second forced to steal in darkness by a vicious, surrogate “mother” and her enforcers — the formative stories of young Luke Skywalker and Han Solo reflect each another in more ways than their years fighting for survival and freedom against the Empire might later convey.

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