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Whose idea was it originally to capture Solo and use him as a bait to trap Luke?

Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked on June 28, 2021

We know from Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) that Darth Vader, after arriving on Hoth just before the Millennium Falcon escaped from Echo Base, decided to capture Han Solo and use him as a bait to trap Luke Skywalker. I don’t remember but I did read somewhere that Vader took the idea from Boba Fett by remembering a conversation he had with the bounty hunter on Ord Mantell. I have been looking -without success- for a canon source of that aforementioned conversation in order to determine who really came up with the idea of using Solo as a bait to catch Luke.

I only found in Boba Fett Legends that…

Fett discussed using Solo to capture Skywalker on several occasions and, after one such meeting on Ord Mantell, Fett received word that bounty hunters in his own employ had managed to capture Solo over Hoth and were holding him at a remote location. By the time Fett arrived, however, Solo had escaped.

Still image from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

The only mention of Ord Mantell in the movie is made by Solo:

INT. HOTH – REBEL BASE – ICE CORRIDOR

LEIA: Han!

Han stops in the corridor and turns to face Leia.

HAN: Yes, Your Highnessness?
LEIA: I thought you decided to stay.
HAN: Well, the bounty hunter we ran into on Ord Mantell changed my mind.
LEIA: Han, we need you!

One Answer

Looking into timeline, we see, that Vader himself devised the plan: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Duel_on_Cloud_City

[Vader] arrived in the hangar where the Falcon had been docked just in time to see the ship leave and, recognizing it, he concocted a plan to capture it and its crew. Vader hoped that if he could capture and torture Skywalker's friends, the young Jedi would feel their pain through the Force and attempt to rescue them.

Vader saw, that Luke and Han went different way, and so he may now try to capture Han and use him as a bait. In case of Ord Mantell I think that was just a trap to capture Solo for the bounty.

Answered by Yaroslav Kornachevskyi on June 28, 2021

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