When her starship is captured by an Imperial Star Destroyer under the command of the ruthless Sith Lord Darth Vader, Leia hides the plans in the memory of the astromech droid R2-D2, who flees in an escape pod.

Tatooine was a sparsely inhabited circumbinary desert planet located in the galaxy's Outer Rim.

Grand Moff Tarkin's philosophy of "ruling through fear of force", dubbed the Tarkin Doctrine, would become central to Imperial policy.

Uncle Owen purchases the droids and orders his nephew, Luke Skywalker, to get them cleaned up and into service.

Obi-Wan invites Luke to accompany him to Alderaan and learn the ways of the Force, but Luke declines, saying his aunt and uncle need him. Returning home, however, he finds that Imperial stormtroopers have killed his aunt and uncle and destroyed their farm in their search for the droids.

Dianoga are large cephalopods with seven suckered tentacles and a single eyestalk protruding from their mollusk-like bodies. They can be found in the sewers of Coruscant and their flesh is used to make dianoga pie.

While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of a holographic recording of Leia, in which she requests help from Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Han's heavy blaster pistol is a modified version of the standard BlasTech Industries DL-44 model.

Cell 2187 is Princess Leia Organa's cell on the original Death Star. Found in Detention Block AA-23, sub-level five, an area reserved for political prisoners, Organa is held here after she is captured by Darth Vader and tortured by an IT-O Interrogation Unit.

Garindan, also called Long-Snoot, is considered the "greatest spy in Mos Eisley spaceport." His name translates to "Blessed One," "Burnt wood," or "dust from a windstorm."