From Here To India- My Epics of India Course Blog

Here is the plan for my storybook so far! Sources that I think will be useful: Pashupatastra Trishula Pinaka These are all Wiki articles. I am open to suggestions on other weapons that I can talk about! Ideas for Episodes: Episode 1: The Hunt for the Supernatural Death Star       As I said in my Topic Research post, I had the idea for this episode that the original trio, Luke, Leia, and Han would discover the existence of this weapon and that the Empire is looking for it. It's a race against the clock to find this powerful weapon before Vader, the Emperor's right-hand man, finds it first. Episode 2: A Return to an Old Planet      For this one, I couldn't think of a good story at first, but then I thought "What if Luke, Leia, and Han return to a planet that they'd visited before?" They could visit Tatooine or Hoth, much to the protest of Luke and Han, who believe that there's nothing of value on those planets.  Episode 3: A ...

     So for the first topic I came up with that I wanted to research, I decided to look at Weapons within Star Wars. There are a lot of weapons within Indian Epics, so to combine that with Star Wars would be an interesting idea. I have three possible weapons that can be integrated into my story.      1.)  Pashupatastra      This is an ancient and powerful weapon of Shiva. This weapon is given to Arjuna in an interesting weapons-quest story which can be found here.  I'm thinking that if I choose this topic for my final project, I will have my main characters, Han, Luke and Leia go after the weapon on a little weapons quest themselves, so the broad theme of the story (a weapons quest) and the weapon itself will be what I use for my story, but the specifics I will come up with myself.     2.) Trishula      Another of Shiva's extremely powerful weapons, when I read the description of this, it...

    Image of Shiva       For this blog post, I wanted to discuss possible topics for my final project for this class. So for this class, I think I want to do a storybook. I think the layout will be very nice for what I want to do.      As far as topics go, I am getting a few ideas. So as a huge Star Wars fan, I thought it could be interesting to do a mash up of Indian mythology in the Star Wars universe. The original trio Luke, Leia, and Han, all went to many different planets on their travels and were exposed to very different cultures. They also use different weapons. To that end, I thought it would be interesting to talk about weapons in Indian mythology and set them in the Star Wars universe. We could open on the Millennium Falcon, Han Solo's ship. Luke, Leia and Han would exchange stories they've heard from locals about strange and powerful weapons. Perhaps it would open as Luke is practicing with his lightsaber or Han is cleaning hi...