As such she is an enemy therefore her execution is warranted.

Leia, after all, is not merely a senator she is, as Vader says, a liar and a rebel spy, and Tarkin views her as a thief and a potential threat to Imperial order. Alderaan may not have been as innocent, or even as “peaceful,” as the Princess claims. It could be that Alderaan was chosen as one of several insurgent targets, both to make the station operational and to spread the fear of Imperial reprisal to all sectors of the galaxy. While I don’t mean to imply that Tarkin’s actions aboard the Death Star are justified, one goal of the book was to suggest that his seemingly heartless disregard for life owes more to his being an instrument of Imperial authority than to full-bore psychopathy. There is no volcanic spike, as there is on the Carrion Plateau in Tarkin, but the photo conveys a sense that, at least in that environment, the lions - composed and self-assured - were the lords of all they surveyed.ĭo you hope fans will think of Tarkin’s scenes in A New Hope any differently after reading the novel? Is there any particular message you wanted to add or reinforce in those scenes? The photo, which I figure I shot somewhere on the Serengeti or in Maasi Mara, shows a pride of lions basking in the sun atop a rocky outcropping. I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa. A photo – actual a color slide – I found among a box of stuff that dates back to the early ‘70s.

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