Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (project) Darth Vader's history and development as a character and offer illumination into other characters from "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope", "Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back", and "Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi". Ultimately, Starkiller sacrifices his life to save the leaders of the new Rebel Alliance; they honor him by adopting his family's crest as their symbol. In the sequel the players controls a clone of Starkiller, who has memories of the original Starkiller. The game ends on a cliffhanger where Starkiller captures Darth Vader and intends to bring him
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Lucas decided the movies would work best as a trilogy. In the final act of the trilogy's final episode, "Return of the Jedi", Vader is ultimately redeemed through an act of sacrifice for Luke. This was in 1983, more than six years since the release of "Star Wars". Lucas admitted to being "burned out" and announced he would take a break from working on the saga. Throughout the 1980s, George Lucas remarked he had no desire to return to "Star Wars" and had unofficially canceled his sequel trilogy by the time of "Return of the Jedi". Because Lucas had developed