Ok, so one week ago today, we had a discussion of the classic Redneck Star Wars idea of "Luke, I am your father, and your uncle." I mentioned that I had once worked out a way for Vader to be Luke's father, uncle and cousin all at once. There was interest in seeing how it worked out if I posted it here.

There's a problem, though: I don't remember how I worked it out before (it was like, ten years ago), and I can't figure it out again. There's a possibility (oh, no!) that I did it wrong, and it's not possible. All I remember is that the solution involved only three or four generations. Here's the best I've gotten so far:

F-------------M
|.........|.........|
|.........|.........|
|........F-------|
|...................|
|...................|
|-------------M
.........|
.........|
........M

F = female, and M = male, of course.
First, a man and woman have a daughter. The daughter and her father have a son. That son - here representing Darth Vader - and his grandmother (who is also his father's wife) then have a son, here representing Luke Skywalker. As far as I can tell, this makes Vader Lukes father, some sort of cousin (half-cousin? once-removed? I don't know how those work), but I don't think uncle.

Maybe I need the first generation to have two children. Maybe if I spent my free (non-homework, non-work) time on this rather than playing Vendetta, I could figure this out again! Or maybe some of you have creative solutions. Or maybe I've waited too long to post this, and interest has fizzled out.

EDIT: Oh, no! My diagram didn't hold the spaces! I'll see how I can fix it. Inserting periods will have to do for now. :(

Yeah, you have to use periods, like this.

............................................________
....................................,.-‘”...................``~.,
.............................,.-”...................................“-.,
.........................,/...............................................”:,
.....................,?......................................................\,
.................../...........................................................,}
................./......................................................,:`^`..}
.............../...................................................,:”........./
..............?.....__.........................................:`.........../
............./__.(.....“~-,_..............................,:`........../
.........../(_....”~,_........“~,_....................,:`........_/
..........{.._$;_......”=,_.......“-,_.......,.-~-,},.~”;/....}
...........((.....*~_.......”=-._......“;,,./`..../”............../
...,,,___.\`~,......“~.,....................`.....}............../
............(....`=-,,.......`........................(......;_,,-”
............/.`~,......`-...............................\....../\
.............\`~.*-,.....................................|,./.....\,__
,,_..........}.>-._\...................................|..............`=~-,
.....`=~-,_\_......`\,.................................\
...................`=~-,,.\,...............................\
................................`:,,...........................`\..............__
.....................................`=-,...................,%`>--==``
........................................_\..........._,-%.......`\
...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`\

Is that Picard?

Haven't heard from you in awhile, Mynt!

Yeah, I've been out eating all of Picard's Cake. That's why he's so upset.