When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We then fast forward a few years and join the novel Star Wars: Tarkin, which shows us the first ...

The Death Star has a huge role, pun intended, to play in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. James Luceno’s Tarkin established none other than Wilhuff Tarkin was put in a position to oversee the project, so ...

Tarkin grabbed me with one line, in which Darth Sidious mocks Darth Vader in the same way he mocked Luke in Return of the Jedi: “Slavery and the desert forged Skywalker,” Sidious says, smiling, ...

One of the most striking visuals in Star Wars: A New Hope is that of a man like Grand Moff Tarkin—curt, elderly, and in officer’s gear—flanked by the fearsome, gigantic black armor of Darth Vader.

There’s only one man other than the Emperor who could hold Vader’s leash: Grand Moff Tarkin. Piell carried with him top-secret intel on a new hyperspace lane, the Nexus Route, that could connect the ...