What if a star destroyer bombardment landed right next to Luke at Hoth and killed him? I mean Luke did get shot down in his snowspeeder at Hoth by an AT-AT.
What if a star destroyer bombardment landed right next to Luke at Hoth and killed him? I mean Luke did get shot down in his snowspeeder at Hoth by an AT-AT.
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If he dies from that than he wouldn’t make a powerful ally now would he?
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He believed in the doctrine of the Living Force, as taught by Qui Gon and to a lesser degree, by Obi-Wan. (As evidence, a connection to the Living Force is necessary to create a Force ghost.)
If you’ve seen the documentary, Rogue One, the Living Force does not allow someone like Chirrut Îmwe who is instrumental to the will of the universe to die.
If Luke was not essential to the Living Force, then he might have died, but Darth Vader did not believe that was possible.
I don’t know if he would have felt the need to take such precautions.
For one, Luke is a powerful Force user in his own right. He was passively using the Force to kill mountain-lion sized space rats from his landspeeder as a teenager. Post Obi-Wan & Yoda’s tutelage, most conventional threats are fairly easily overcome for a Jedi.
Secondly, the Force has a will of its own at times. Luke was the only one who could turn Vader from the Dark Side, so to recreate balance (which in the Star Wars cosmology is the absence of Dark, not Light & Dark in equal parts), Luke had to survive to confront Vader on the Death Star II.
To anyone else it would look like a mixture of Luke’s Jedi powers and uncannily good luck, but the latter would actually be the will of the Force protecting Luke so he could fulfill his destiny (because destiny & prophecy are also a big thing in the first two trilogies).
So Vader wouldn’t take precautions because he believes it is Luke’s destiny to fall to the Dark, like he did. Therefore Luke can’t die randomly beforehand.
When it was actually was Luke’s destiny to be tempted like his father, resist, and turn him back to the Light.