Star Wars sources and analogues had started working together again. In a 2005 interview, George Lucas was asked the origins of the name "Darth Vader", and replied: "Darth is a variation of dark. And Vader is a variation of father. So it's basically Dark Father." (Rolling Stone, June 2, 2005). "Vader" is the Dutch word for "father" (the Dutch word is instead pronounced "fah-der"), and the German word for "father" ("Vater") is similar. However, in the earliest scripts for "Star Wars", the name "Darth Vader" was given to a human Imperial general with no apparent relationships. Commentators have noted the strong political analogies in the
Darth Vader Vader tells him that there was still good in him after all. Luke escapes the Death Star with his father's body, and cremates it in a pyre. Anakin's spirit reunites with those of Obi-Wan and Yoda to watch over Luke and his friends as the Rebels celebrate the Death Star's destruction and the fall of the Empire. Anakin first appears in the prequel trilogy in "", which takes place 32 years before the original "Star Wars", as a nine-year-old slave living on the planet Tatooine with his mother Shmi. Anakin was conceived without a father and he can foresee the