Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan including Grand Moff Tarkin, Mon Mothma, Amilyn Holdo, and Quarsh Panaka. Gray explained how Kier Domadi, Leia's first love, compares to the character's future husband, Han Solo: Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan is a "Star Wars" novel by Claudia Gray, published by Disney Lucasfilm Press on September 1, 2017 as part of the publishing initiative. It chronicles the teen years of Princess Leia before the events of the 1977 film "Star Wars", which introduced the character. Sixteen-year-old Princess Leia Organa of the planet Alderaan finds that her parents, Queen Breha and Viceroy Bail
Alderaan "Star Wars" story include references to at least two planets which later evolved into the concept of Alderaan. "Star Wars" author George Lucas included a planet called Alderaan in early treatments; in "The Star Wars" (1973), "Alderaan" is a city-planet and the capital planet of the galaxy (prefiguring the planet Coruscant which later featured in the films). The draft script opens with a scene in which an "eerie blue-green" planet called "Aquilae" is threatened by an armed space fortress. In Lucas's 1975 draft, "Adventures of the Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars",