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(It's also where he developed an 'enormous crush' on the AT-AT and found that Vader walking into the Hoth rebel base 'took the top of your head off.') You want to mix it up a bit so you go between the low life and the hard life,' says Gillen, who admits that The Empire Strikes Back was the first movie he remembers seeing in a cinema. 'I don't want it to just be The Adventures of Space Fascists. To do all that, Vader builds his own droids - since pre-teen Anakin Skywalker was really good at that in the movie prequels - plus wrangles bounty hunters as well as smugglers and other members of the underworld. While he's still obeying the Emperor's orders, he's also doing his own thing, in which he needs his own assets.' Darth needs to get stuff done that he can't do explicitly within the Empire. 'In some ways what I'm doing is a backstory behind that. There is past experience or at least reputation. He says, 'No disintegrations,' pointed explicitly at a certain member. 'It's like, 'Darth, you have bigger things to do than briefing bounty hunters.' And he knows them. 'He really is a micromanager,' the writer says of Vader. One way Vader is trying to reclaim his previous status is by building his own power structure within the Empire, like his own KGB, and bringing in bounty hunters - the scene in Empire Strikes Back where Vader rounds up Boba Fett, Bossk, Dengar, IG-88 and others to go looking for Han Solo was key for Gillen in that respect. 'By the time we get to Empire, Vader knows Luke is his son and we never get to see Vader's 'I am your father' beat, the moment when he realizes that his last 20 years have been built on some kind of lie.' 'Why the hell did Obi-Wan Kenobi show up after all these years? And the weird nagging feeling around that fighter pilot, the one who was mysteriously strong in the Force?' Gillen says.

There's also a weirdness factor to that whole incident for him, too.

With the Death Star gone, the Empire scrambles for what to do next, and Darth Vader is somewhat to blame after a gambit to let the Rebels escape with the Death star plans failed miserably. 'The Republic is in a shell form,' the writer says, 'and it's only with the threat of the Death Star they feel the will to go full fascist.'

Gillen finds the political situation in Star Wars 'fundamentally interesting.' The Death Star was the Emperor's plan for 20 years and he didn't dissolve the old Galactic Republic until the beginning of Star Wars.

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