Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View has stories for Tarkin and Aunt Beru (and more)

Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View promised stories from the perspectives of other characters in A New Hope, and that includes Aunt Beru.

Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View has already made it onto our reading list for October. The initial list of authors (Paul Dini? Meg Cabot? Daniel José Older? Delilah S. Dawson? Seriously, it’s stacked) had us already hungering for the 40 short stories, all based on characters seen in A New Hope that aren’t main characters.

Presumably, that also means that there won’t be a Darth Vader story or anything, since the official description makes sure to specify that the stories each feature a “background character”. However, our sister site, Dork Side of the Force, found that for a brief moment, we did know about some of the stories, though.

And yes, we are actually getting a story about the dianoga:

Grand Moff Tarkin seems like an interesting choice. On one hand, he dies in A New Hope thanks to Luke blowing the Death Star up. On the other, he’s also gotten a canon novel already. But when you’re looking for 40 characters, you likely have to make some allowances about who counts as a minor enough character.

Meg Cabot and Nnedi Okorafor have the most interesting stories of these five. Okorafor has a story about the dianoga! How unexpected is that? (But, how cool will that be?) Cabot, meanwhile, has decided to do a story about Luke’s aunt Beru.

Beru Whitesun Lars shows up in more movies than Tarkin and several other characters. However, we don’t know that much about her. Remember, we see her briefly in both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. She’s primarily defined by her relationships to men. She’s Owen Lars’ girlfriend and then wife, and Luke’s close-enough aunt thanks to his grandmother Shmi Skywalker marrying Cliegg Lars. A story of her own is important.

Finally, Gary Whitta’s “Captain Antilles” doesn’t seem to refer to Wedge. Wookieepedia helpfully reminds us that a different Antilles actually captained the Tantive IV — Leia’s ship. The fact that that bullet point mentions Rogue One as well as A New Hope means it’s almost certainly this Antilles, not Wedge.

This doesn’t mean that Wedge won’t get a story (again, featuring in other books doesn’t seem to preclude featuring here), but if we had to pick one of Luke’s two pilot friends, Biggs Darklighter may get the nod instead.

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What are your guesses for other characters?