Michael Pennington has died at the age of 82, his representatives have confirmed. Best known as the actor who played the commander of the second Death Star, Moff Jerjerrod, in Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the actor was an accomplished Shakespearean and is listed as an Honorary Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also co-founded the English Shakespeare Company alongside theatre director Michael Bogdanov. Born Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington on June 7, 1943, in Cambridge, England, the actor's on-screen career began in 1965 with a supporting part in the BBC mini-series, The War of the Roses. He went on to have more than 70 screen roles across his career, including playing Michael Foot in "The Iron Lady." Rest in Peace

A REWRITE OF THE HORNBLOWER BOOK "FLYING COLOURS" Many of the "Honorverse" stories are either obviously influenced by characters and situations in C.S. Forester's Hornblower novels or pay open homage to them. But the eighth Honorverse book takes this to the next level in that it almost exactly parallels one of Forester's novels -  Flying Colours . In each case the central character had been captured by the enemy in the previous novel by chronological sequence in their respective stories - Honor Harrington had been captured by the Peeps in " In enemy hands " and Horatio Hornblower by the French at the end of " A ship of the line. " Both protagonists are then carted away with a few of their closest associates by an evil enemy who make no secret that what they have in mind for our heroes is their execution on trumped-up charges. " Flying Colours " and " Echoes of Honor " are the stories of the struggles of Horatio Hornblo...

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On this day eleven years ago, in response to a question about who your mother might be in a Galaxy far, far, away, the late Carrie Fisher made a great comeback:

"The Jedi were not destroyed by the Sith. They were destroyed by their own assumptions."