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I still think Luke is more likely to die than Han. I had already considered what happened to Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, and figured Luke was headed for the same. Also, it serves the same purpose as killing them off: The younger generation coming of age is going to be a theme, and having an old master capable of dealing with the threats around for long takes away from them. The purpose of the Old Master is to give the apprentice(s) an introduction to the Force and then get killed so they have to deal with the conflict themselves, and I don't really expect much else here.

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You know, a great explanation for Luke's visual absence from the trailer would be that he's already dead and appears only in recorded holograms. Maybe he recorded the holograms as letters to his descendants, and entrusted them to Han and Chewie.