"They arrived right before you did"

[PoiuyWired]

Either Way, the "not to scale" map shows that Hoth and Bespin are like a system or two away at least.

 

Since we KNOW there are different grades of LS travel it won't be surprised if the Imps are going full speed burning up the nitro while Falcon is keeping at minimum speed cause of that cranky drive.

 

That, or chewie dropped by the drive-thru for some spiced up bantha burger happy meal while Leia go take a leak, cause we know there is no washroom in the Falcon.

[Foshjedi2004]

There was actually a number of months inbetween them getting to Bespin. What? Did you think that Luke was there on Dagobah for a week?

[StaffSaberist]

"Seen to the heart of the matter, young [Foshjedi2004] has."

--Yoda

 

Yeah, that's it... I think he got it... that might explain why Boba wasn't right on the Falcon's tail at Bespin, like he was after the asteroid field incident.

[Palpatine_dc]

A quote straight from the New Essential Chronology:

 

"Believing that Millennium Falcon had escaped Imperial capture, Han Solo limped across the Ison Corridor with a patch-together backup hyperdrive to reach the gas world." p. 118

[StaffSaberist]

That makes no sense. If that were the case:

 

1) Why didn't Solo put that into action the first time the hyperdrive failed?

 

2) Why did he panic when the hyperdrive failed for the... third time, was it? ("It's not my fault..." (Yeah, I know Lando says it too...))

 

3) Why wasn't Boba Fett right on the Falcon's tail, then? Or why didn't he just jump ahead and reach Bespin far before "right before they got here"?

[PoiuyWired]

3) I think Boba can be in Bespin chilling out, or hes has other important stuff to work on, this can be anything from smacking some pimp's rearend, to picking up another bounty to giving his lady some lovin'.

[StaffSaberist]

Still, couldn't he have signaled the Empire?

[PoiuyWired]

Think he did, thats how them Imps caught up with MF.

[StaffSaberist]

But then there's still the issue of Luke's training. FoshJedi's right, how can anyone be trained even partway in a matter of days? In the Prequels, it takes years and years to get a Jedi to kinda understand the Force. Yet, Luke is doing acrobatics like a Jedi after the training. So, shouldn't it have taken longer?

[Athomus]

Of all the explanations, I agree with Fosh's the most as well.

 

I might have to go back and watch the movie again to check it out.

[Steve-O Kreesh]

Here's my view.

 

The MF's hyperdrive was broken. Period. FoshJedi makes a great point that it took the MF months to get to Besbin. In that time, Fett could jump ahead to Cloud City, contact Vader, Imps arrive with Vader. Vader makes his plans to capture the MF crew, toture them, and draw Luke to Besbin. Also, in that time Luke is training. He would need months to gain the training needed to take on Vader.

 

Do you really think Luke learned how to fight with a lightsaber in a week? No freakin' way! Before training with Yoda, Luke uses his lightsaber like it's a tool. He had no experience with it as a weapon. IMO he got lucky with the wampa. Yoda trained him for months so he could fight Vader and stand a chance.

 

I'm sorry but, you can't learn to use a lightsaber in a week. (Or Force Jump when he jumped out of the carbon freezing chamber. Which was very cool by the way. )

[Jan Gaarni]

While I find the point that it took the MF over a month or more to reach Bespin plausable, I'm not going to try and dispute it cause it makes sense, I am going address the notion Luke has no experience with the Lightsaber.

 

3 years went by from when he first got it to Episode V.

3 years. That's a long time.

You're bound to pick up a few tricks, even without guidance by an experienced user.

 

Good enough to face Vader?

Probably not.

 

But then again, Luke's not just another Force sensitive in that universe.

 

Then again, neither is Vader.

[boinga1]

I don't see how the Falcon could have reached Bespin from a separate solar system in a matter of months without faster-than-light travel. Presumambly, Hoth is in the Outer Rim, several light-years at least from the nearest star system (as Earth is a few light-years from our nearest star). Unless the Falcon spent several years in space (which seems unlikely, given that there must be some life-support and food limitations), the concept seems unsound. If Hoth were in the Core, on the other hand, it's feasible that stars would be much closer together.

[Steve-O Kreesh]

Well, maybe my earlier comments were a bit hasty. I didn't remember that Luke did receive some training from Ben Kenobi on the MF in ep. IV. But Luke was still a beginner when he started his training with Yoda. True, he probably could figure out soon things on his own, but he wouldn't have standed a chance against Vader at that time.

 

While I'm not the smartest when it comes to distances between planetary systems. But, Hoth and Besbin must be close enough to each other in order for the Falcon to travel that distance in a few months. Right? <

[PoiuyWired]

Well, remember Vader is not trying to really hurt/kill Luke, he is trying to get Luke to join him. So I think Vader is pulling punches.

 

I don't think "months" have passed before they reach Bespin, but that may be quite a few days off. With the patch up Hyperdrive they are travelling at barely lightspeed, with possable extra stops and jumps here and there, nothing close to the "1.5 past light speed" MF should be doing.

 

Imps, on the other hand is going full speed, and quite possably have called for Imps around Bespin to do preps even before Vader's personal arrival.

 

As for the training between ObiWain and Luke, I think its mostly basic training on Ideas of the force, somewhat like what younglins would be having. QUite possably ht did pick up more from the Ghost of ObiWan though.