SPEAR@Wharton-10 (12/12/82)
From: SPEAR at Wharton-10 (Daniel Spear) Inspired by another letter in the current digest, I must offer an alternate explanation for the Darth/OB1 controversy. One limitation, imposed by our biological structure, granted, we are imposing on this discussion is the idea that a person has only one father. There is never any mention of Luke's mother (or, as was mentioned, anyone else's father). What if it becomes conventional to refer to the person one is cloned from as his father. Then we get this scenario. Luke's "father" (the one OB1 refers to, and who is Uncle Owen's brother) was a contemporary of OB1, who is old enough to be Luke's grandfather. He was cloned to produce Darth Vader, referred to by OB1 as a "young Jedi". Darth was then cloned to produce Luke. Which is effectively the same as being cloned by the first (a clone of a clone is a clone -- the gene pool is identical). So OB1 likes to think of the first, his friend, and one with identical gene makeup, as Luke's father. And in fact it is possible that Owen and OB1 don't know that Luke actually came from Darth instead. So OB1 knows that Darth killed the man he thinks of as Luke's father. And Darth knows that, although he killed that man, he is in fact Luke's father. How's that sound? Dan
SPEAR@Wharton-10 (12/12/82)
From: SPEAR at Wharton-10 (Daniel Spear) Inspired by another letter in the current digest, I must offer an alternate explanation for the Darth/OB1 controversy. One limitation, imposed by our biological structure, granted, we are imposing on this discussion is the idea that a person has only one father. There is never any mention of Luke's mother (or, as was mentioned, anyone else's father). What if it becomes conventional to refer to the person one is cloned from as his father. Then we get this scenario. Luke's "father" (the one OB1 refers to, and who is Uncle Owen's brother) was a contemporary of OB1, who is old enough to be Luke's grandfather. He was cloned to produce Darth Vader, referre