[Where to start, then...? It was a lot of story to cover]
The stories start with you as a young man on Tatooine, wanting to be a pilot, living with your aunt and uncle. An Alliance ship gets into a fight with an imperial one off world, and two droids get jettisoned to your world during the fire fight, with a message for an old man living on the planet. When the driods land, the jawas take them in, and then you and your uncle buys them. Finding the message, you follow the one driod, R2, to the old man, and that's where your story really starts.
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The stories start with you as a young man on Tatooine, wanting to be a pilot, living with your aunt and uncle. An Alliance ship gets into a fight with an imperial one off world, and two droids get jettisoned to your world during the fire fight, with a message for an old man living on the planet. When the driods land, the jawas take them in, and then you and your uncle buys them. Finding the message, you follow the one driod, R2, to the old man, and that's where your story really starts.
Sound familiar so far?