Having blackmailed Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian into letting him use Cloud City's crude industrial carbon-freezing facility, he tested the device out on Han Solo to ensure the chamber would be safe. ĭuring the Galactic Civil War, Skywalker, now Darth Vader, intended to trap his son Luke in carbonite on Bespin. They used a large facility housed in the Jedi Temple to freeze themselves in carbonite, as a means to smuggle their team past the prison facility's life-form scanners.

ĭuring the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and the clone troopers under their command embarked on an extraction mission to the Citadel on Lola Sayu. The earliest known use of carbon freezing living victims to be displayed as trophies dated back thousands of years to the ancient Krath and their conquest of the carbonite mines of the Empress Teta system. However, with some modification industrial grade freezing chambers could be modified into a crude and indeed painful means of bio-stasis sometimes described as 'a big wide-awake nothing.' At various times the likes of Imperials, bounty hunters, and underworld gangsters were known to use this cruel but effective method. Only industrial applications remained in common usage, typically for freezing coaxium, tibanna, and other volatile cargoes for transport. Over time the use of carbon freezing dropped off as the advent of hyperdrives eliminated the need for such extended voyages, and bio-enthropic field generators became standard for medical stasis applications. Ushering a new age of exploration that expanded the pre- Republic borders, carbonite freezing was employed aboard ancient sleeper ships to keep crews alive in extended periods of hibernation as they traversed interstellar space. The discovery of the peculiar stasis qualities of carbonite by the scientists from the planet Koros Major saw the end of generation ships and development of sleeper ships. I know the article says he doesn't give much credit to the stories of exogorths, but wouldn't atmosphere and heat in such a cave be some form of a warning? And even if he's not sure, why do something like shoot the slug (whose mouth you're in) in the tongue? Obviously at some point before he starts flying out, he's beginning to give the tales some credit.' Are, uh, we sure this thing is safe? I don't wanna end up a wall decoration.' ― ARC trooper ' Fives,' before the Battle of Lola Sayu Why isn't an experienced pilot/captain/shipowner like Han alerted because there's an atmosphere and heat outside the ship when he's on an asteroid in the middle of space? Granted, the cave is safer than facing several capital ships, but even if he didn't believe in the slugs, shouldn't he have started putting the facts together from the start? When they wonder about the rumbling, they exit the ship with only breathing masks. Once he's in this cave in an asteroid, there's heat outside and an atmosphere (again, explained in the article above). While Han Solo is brash and quick acting and appears reckless, he does keep track of all the factors in a situation, which is how he can often react quickly and succeed with moves others would consider reckless.

Assuming he doesn't notice the teeth at all, there's another issue. Originally I was wondering why there was air available to them outside of the ship, as well as heat, but this article about the exogorth explains that.īut it leaves open another question: Solo flies the ship into a cavern. In The Empire Strikes Back Han dives into a cave in an asteroid to escape the Imperial ships chasing the Millenium Falcon.

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