Episode 2 - Points Of Origin: In episode 2 Princess Leia Organa and Captain Antilles are detained by the scheming Lord Tion on Ralltiir. While on the planet, evidence of Imperial atrocities influences Leia to take a stand against the Empire. She also makes contact with a Rebel spy who reveals intelligence about a secret Imperial project, code-named "Death Star." Alderaan Tion visits Leia and her father, Bail Organa, on the pacifist world of Alderaan, but tensions rise between Leia and Tion, and in her anger, Leia lets slip the code name, thus revealing her Rebel associations. Tion attempts to arrest Leia, but during a struggle he is accidentally shot. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Bail Organa resolves to help the Rebellion, and plans to take the Tantive IV on an undercover mission to Toprawa to intercept the Death Star plans from the Rebels (see Havet Storm). Leia persuades her father to allow her to run this mission with Captain Antilles. Realizing that the galaxy is facing a terrible threat, he commissions her also to locate the exiled Jedi Knight General Obi-Wan Kenobi, and ask him to resume the fight against the Empire.

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