The new Royal Mail First Day
Cover is dedicated to Star Wars, issuing 18 new stamps to celebrate Star Wars
and the upcoming release of the new movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The
Story so far is as follows:
George Lucas’s space fantasy Star
Wars is set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and tells an epic story
of a battle between good and evil. Exploding onto cinema screens in 1977, this
film saga- soon to be joined by The Force Awakens- has become a huge cultural
phenomenon, enthralling fans around the world.
In many respects, Star Wars is
the story of the Skywalker family, spanning generations across the galaxy: from
the boyhood of Anakin Skywalker on the desert planet Tatooine, through Anakin’s
meteoric rise as a Jedi and his tragic fall after being lured by an evil tyrant
to become Darth Vader, to Anakin’s son and daughter, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa,
working together to redeem their father and never losing faith in the goodness
behind Vader’s inhuman mask.
The struggle of good and evil in
Star Wars is powerfully represented by a mystical energy called the Force,
which pervades the entire galaxy and everything within it. The Force has two
sides, the light and the dark. The light side is associated with compassion, selflessness,
self-enlightenment and healing, while the dark side is aligned with hatred,
fear, anger and jealousy.
The mystical Jedi Knights train
to sense and control the light side of the Force, using it only for good, while
their sworn enemies, the Sith, seek to embrace the power and destructive energy
of the dark side. Ultimately, Star Wars is about the eternal struggle to
achieve a lasting balance between the forces of good and evil . . .
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