re: Star Wars: TFA -Official Discussion Thread - Spoilers

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24) My Crazy Theory

Having spent the last several days mired in Rey madness, I would like the opportunity to posit my own crazy theory: That Rey doesn’t have parents, and that in fact she’s the result of an experiment—an evil experiment, perhaps by scientists who continued their work after the Emperor’s death, perhaps Snoke and/or the Knights of Ren, perhaps the Sith. Whoever was behind it, they wanted to create an ultimate Force-user, so they created a child from the greatest Force-user they had access to: Luke. Specifically, Luke’s hand.

Think about it in the way that Star Wars science works—namely, it usually works in the way we think it should work, not how it really does. The Emperor’s body was absolutely annihilated when the Death Star blew up; Luke burned Vader’s body, but even if Vader’s mask remains I don’t see an Imperial CSI team scouring the ashes for Vader’s DNA. That leaves Luke, and given that someone found Luke’s lightsaber from his climatic battle on Cloud City, it’s not unreasonable his severed hand would end up in the same place (and this matches some of the weird rumors that dogged TFA before its release about Luke’s lightsaber, with hand still attached(!), playing an important role in the movie). These evil scientists—maybe sent by the Emperor himself, directly after ESB—grabbed both the lightsaber and the hand, and got to work. And it took them years before they created a viable living subject using Luke’s hand.

This would make Rey a Skywalker, but avoids 1) Luke having to have sex with some character we’ve never met and don’t care about and 2) avoiding the crazy virgin birth thing that Anakin did. If their continued fight against the Empire/First Order, it’s possible Luke and the others happened up this lab and found and rescued 5-year-old Rey, at which point Luke would have tried to train her with Ben Solo. When Snoke hears about Rey, he orders Kylo and the Knights of Ren to either destroy the girl or bring her to him to turn to the Dark Side, in true Star Wars-style.

Ben, at 19 years old, is cruel enough to kill his fellow students as they try to protect Rey, but not quite far gone enough to murder a five-year-old girl in cold blood, even if she is some kind of mega-weapon. However, Kylo also doesn’t want her as competition, or her exceeding him. His decision? To drop her off on some remote planet that no one would ever think to look for her and leave her in the hands of some brute like Unkar Plutt, presumably never to be seen or heard from again. To me, this is the only way Rey’s abandonment works; it has to be by someone cruel, but also someone that wants her out of the picture, but not dead.

So Luke, Han, and Leia don’t know if the girl’s alive or dead, or if she is, whether she’s part of the First Order. It’s effectively impossible to search for her. All Luke can do is put out part of a map in hopes that the Force will somehow guide it to her when she’s ready…and thus eventually guide her to him.

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