yoda too old is nonsense. we clearly see in Revenge of the Sith that yoda can still fight extremely well and oppose to the emperor, and the events of ANH are just some years after. when someone's old 900 years, a decade is not much; so old age as a reason for yoda not to be in is... inadeguate EDIT: I saw that the confirmed heroes are many, yet there are some of them that I think will be useless: I mean Veers is a general, but he is not renown for his combat skills, Tarkin also I think is useless, unless he can boost the Death Star to fire repeatedly... I can't see why there shouldn't be Yoda...