I'm new here so if this topic has been covered already I'll try to catch up!
When Jabba The Hutt had Han Solo on his wall in frozen carbonite why did Luke command such a small group for his rescue?
After all Han saved the rebels from a Death Star explosion, rescued the princess on 2 separate occasions and bailed all them out of some real sticky situations!
Clearly Jabba The Hutt was an enemy to the rebel alliance when his main bounty hunter Boba Fett was walking around as part of The Darth Vader entourage on Cloud City!
The rebel alliance should have showed up in force above the sky of Jabba's palace with masses of ships ready to blow his criminal empire to bits!
Han owing him a debt is one thing but uniting with The Empire is another thing entirely!
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I think they were going for stealth, not force.
And Han is still just one person.
And I don't think the Alliance have that much force in hand. I mean, Jabba is a crime lord.... I'm not sure how huge his influence is, but it must be pretty big.
And blowing Jabba to bits would be too conspicuous - they are hiding from the empire too.
Jabba could always tell the empire and have it work for him...
that's all the reasons I could think of right now...
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Re: The Han Solo Rescue!
I think the rebels were busy with the forthcoming attack on the second Death Star,still it wouldnt have harmed to let go 40 or so tooled up rebel troops and help everyone out.
The rebellion is about liberty and freedom. Han Solo's capture was part of war. Luke and Leia's relationship with Han was personal. Could not let there personal relations affect the rebellion
Last edited by JediRobin23 on Jan 24th, 2009 at 10:33 PM
not only what has mentioned above, but don't forget: if they were with a lot, the empire would have noticed it and they would have gotten in a pursuit
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Jabba The Hutt and his minions were all destroyed practically by Luke himself so he apparently wasn't that huge of an enemy except in his pants size!
Clearly a war was declared once Luke and friends infiltrated The Hutt palace so engagement in conflict was inevitable!
Luke, Leia, Lando, Chewy and those droids were all valuable to the rebel alliance!
Committing themselves to the task of freeing Han Solo from a known gangster who associated himself with The Empire was going to get ugly no matter how they went about it!
Jabbas palace should have been a sand dune parking lot after they left!
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errrr, Jabba is associating himself with the Empire? Than, why is Han smuggling for him in ANH?
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Boba Fett is a bounty hunter, they work for who-ever pays them the most at the time. The other time it's Vader.
That Vader leaves no garrison in Jabba's palace is normal. He can't afford to leave a full garisson at every place where someone thinks he can exercise a little mob-power.
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Then Boba Fett should have caught Han Solo on his own without The Empires help or involvement!
"I don't work for Michael Corleone I was just kissing his pinky ring out of respect!"
If The Empire is the ruler of the galaxy then what position is Jabba The Hutt playing?
Organized crime on Darth Vaders watch still has to pay its' respects one way or another or get The Death Star treatment!
What phone call did VADER make to recruit these bounty hunters? Is Jabba in the yellow pages or the empire's rolodex?
I can see stormtroopers shaking down Jabba's henchmen for contraband like an episode of COPS! Unless... they were already in cahoots then that would not happen!
Guilty by association with The Emperor's main enforcer which also included an early dinner and later some torturing of rebel leaders!
Boba Fett was in the Darth Vader entourage like TURTLE on that HBO show!
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Jan 24th, 2009 03:46 AM
