It’s a testament to Alec Guinness’s acting ability that he can wear an old judo outfit with a dressing gown over the top, and we’ll just buy that it’s some mystic ancient bullshit.

In Empire Strikes Back, a guy shows up on camera for maybe a second or two carrying what appears to be an ice cream maker. He now has his own backstory as Willrow Hood and it turns out it was a computer memory core that he was hiding away for the Rebel Alliance. Any character, no matter how small in any of the films had to have an elaborate backstory added, because people were so desperate for new Star Wars stuff in the time between the OT and the Prequels.