Karen Kenobi

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Obviously, I did not write or produce Star Wars. George Lucas did. He owns the franchise which I quite literally bought into at the ripe age of 10. In 1977 I saw Star Wars for the first time, and was in awe. It remains one of my favorite movies of all time.

I hated Empire Strikes Back. I detest Return of the Jedi. I cannot comment on how little I liked Episode 1, and I never even have bothered to see Attack of the Clones. To me, my Star Wars universe begins and ends with Star Wars alone. Well, Star Wars and the very fine novel by Alan Dean Foster, "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" and perhaps a couple of the Han Solo stories, and a smattering of comic books courtesy of Dark Horse.

Beyond those, the Star Wars universe almost doesn't exist for me. The only parts which I respect greatly were in comic book format, in the "Golden Age of the Sith" line. Where we learn that the Sith were a once great people, divided as most civilizations are between war and peace, between internal and external forces. Force-using people who developed great tools to aid them.

In creating Karen Kenobi when I was but a child, I inserted myself into a universe which at the time was filled with wonder and life. I've never "retracted" my character and I've never made any excuses: I put her in because I wanted to belong to that greatness and wonder. I continued to alter her course of existence by tempering her original 'insertion' with sensible alterations of the published works - she wasn't actually with the Rebels until she made it to their base shortly before the Death Star was destroyed. She was never with them on any of their 'adventures' because she just doesn't have the right to be. She's not 'in' the stories. So I have diverted her away from them, while still remaining as true as I can to the existing materials.

I mean no disrespect to the creators of Star Wars or any of its subsequent productions. I certainly mean no harm, and I wish not to detract from the 'official' works of LucasFilms. Without those films and works, not one piece of fan-fiction would ever have been written by this particular individual. I wrote my first actual pieces of coherent fiction based in the Star Wars universe, and I continue to write in my own worlds and other pieces of fan-fiction, to this day. Some day I hope to inspire others to write (and I have, in fact) in my own unique places.

I only intend to pay my respect to Lucas and the rest of the creators of Star Wars by producing a work such as mine. All of this is from the heart, and none of it is from the pocketbook.

Any of my own takes on things in the Star Wars universe, however distant from the original movie, are my own and are tempered by half-read or watched images, dreams and sheer fantasy. Unless otherwise stated and linked, everything on my pages, including words or artwork, is considered ©2002 Lethe Katherine Gray/Droppin the Fork productions, and is neither going to be reproduced in the form of a novel or other published effort, nor allowed to be removed from this site for any reason by any individual or corporation - including Yahoo/Geocities for advertising purposes.

Karen Kenobi (below left) drawn in 1989 or so. Image (below right) drawn in 1990 and colored ... today. :) (that's 12/2/02). Image with lightsabre on is done on a "drag and drop" dollz creator at Veriria's Place palace dollz site and was slightly modified, and link appears at bottom of page with image.

Photo taken by me at the Mos Eisley Party of 1999 at Sue Dawe's place, altered slightly. Isn't it neat?

Image of caverns done by Campbell in Bryce and linked on image.

Image of Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin found on the Star Wars site character database - it's a gorgeous picture, I think. Tiny little image of Vader vs Kenobi found on a fansite and is obviously a screen shot or scan of a small item. I didn't scan it myself.

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