The return of Star Wars in 2015 kicked off a wave of rampant fan speculation and theorising that feels completely unprecedented.

... But it turns out that the galaxy far, far away is no stranger to bizarre theories that blatantly won't turn out to be true, as demonstrated by a piece from a 1980 edition of Fantastic Films Collectors Edition.

Lucasfilm story group creative executive Pablo Hidalgo posted pictures from the article on Twitter, and things get very strange very quickly (via The Daily Dot).

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Between the frequent misspellings, the theory suggests that Luke and Darth Vader are actually clones created by the Jesus Eugenics Development Institute (or JEDI), and that Boba Fett is Luke's father rather than Vader.

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Fett is also suggested to be someone called 'Roberta', although the theory still mostly refers to the character as 'him'. Fett is also supposed to be the "other" (which turned out to be Leia) that Yoda mentions to Obi-Wan Kenobi's ghost.

As for Obi-Wan, it repeats that old favourite theory that he is really OB-1 a designation for a clone. In this case, he is actually a clone of Jesus. Yes, Jesus. This is possible because the Jedi date back to the time of the Roman Republic, which never fell in this alternate reality.

Feeling confused? So are we.

The theory was published half a year after the release of The Empire Strikes Back, so we dread to think what sort of fever pitch was reached before Return of the Jedi arrived in 1983.

Suddenly those theories about Force-sensitive trees and giant eggs don't sound quite so outlandish, do they?

The idea of Luke being a clone actually predicts the storyline in the well-loved novel trilogy by Timothy Zahn published in 1991-93, which featured a cloned copy called Luuke.

As for fan favourite Boba Fett, he turned out to be a complete waste of space.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be released on December 14 in the UK and December 15 in the US, hopefully to answer our questions about the Jesus Eugenics Development Institute once and for all.

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