Não, por todos os relatos, Luke estava tão desamparado quanto parecia.
A novela Legends A trégua em Bakura retoma o dia após Episódio VI . Um ponto importante do enredo do romance é a saúde falha de Lucas após a luta com Palpatine.
Luke Skywalker hustled across one cruiser's landing bay, red-eyed but still suffused with victory after the Ewoks' celebration. Passing a huddle of droids, he caught a whiff of coolants and lubricants. He ached, a dull gnawing in all his bones from the longest day of his life. Today - no, it was yesterday - he had met the Emperor. Yesterday, he had almost paid with his life for his faith in his father.
A passagem está se referindo ao fato de que Luke voluntariamente se entregou, apostando sua vida - e possivelmente seus amigos - que ainda havia bem dentro de Vader. Ao longo do primeiro capítulo, Luke está em constante dor e tenta afastá-lo como mera dor física & exaustão, mas depois ele quase desmaia em um ponto. Depois, temos uma conta da condição médica real de Lucas após o ataque do Imperador:
MEDICAL DROID: You're not well, sir.
LUKE: I'm just tired.
MEDICAL DROID: Sir, my diagnosis is that you have sudden and massive calcification of your skeletal structure, of the rare type brought on by severely conductive exposure to electrical and other energy fields.
LUKE: (THINKING) Energy fields. Yesterday. Palpatine, leering as blue-white sparks leaped off his fingertips while Luke writhed on the deck. He'd thought he was dying. And he was. Dying.