Fiorenzo Delle Rupi held the position of president within the Cloud City Fan Club Italiano di Guerre Stellari, which was the biggest Star Wars fan club in Italy during that time. In the year 1998, Delle Rupi authored a brief comic titled Star Wars: The Power of the Force (in Italian: Star Wars: Il Potere della Forza), which was commissioned by Hasbro Italy as a promotional piece for the then-forthcoming release of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. The artwork was created by Filippo Rossi, who later became the vice president of the Cloud City Fan Club.