If Han Solo had told you the story, it would have been unnecessarily fantastical.
( And probably mostly inaccurate but that wouldn't have stopped it from being entertaining, as he recalls. )
This would have been during the Galactic Civil War. The way I have heard it, Solo owed Jabba a large amount of money from time spent smuggling for him, which he failed to pay after getting caught up with the Rebel Alliance for several years. Darth Vader, concurrently, was hunting the galaxy for Skywalker, so they had a common interest. Once he caught them on Bespin, Vader allowed a bounty hunter to encase Solo in carbonite and take him back to Tatooine to collect the reward. Apparently Jabba wanted him as the focal point of a growing art collection. The others escaped and spent some time strategizing how to save him from his own mistakes. When they executed their plan, they were all caught, unsurprisingly, and were taken out to the Dune Sea to be fed to the sarlacc. Like tacos.
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luckily he has a great skincare routine. now watch me butcher the empire strikes back
Date: 2020-08-23 11:28 pm (UTC)( And probably mostly inaccurate but that wouldn't have stopped it from being entertaining, as he recalls. )
This would have been during the Galactic Civil War. The way I have heard it, Solo owed Jabba a large amount of money from time spent smuggling for him, which he failed to pay after getting caught up with the Rebel Alliance for several years. Darth Vader, concurrently, was hunting the galaxy for Skywalker, so they had a common interest. Once he caught them on Bespin, Vader allowed a bounty hunter to encase Solo in carbonite and take him back to Tatooine to collect the reward. Apparently Jabba wanted him as the focal point of a growing art collection. The others escaped and spent some time strategizing how to save him from his own mistakes. When they executed their plan, they were all caught, unsurprisingly, and were taken out to the Dune Sea to be fed to the sarlacc. Like tacos.