Obi-Wan Kenobi has lived on Tatooine for 19 years, watching over Luke Skywalker, the boy he hopes to train in the ways of the Jedi in order to defeat the Empire once and for all. However, when Princess Leia is mysteriously killed aboard the Tantive-4 and when an assassin attempts to kill Luke. Kenobi is forced to take the Son of Skywalker off Tatooine in order to protect him from the mysterious assassin.