There have been no shortage of saving missions that have occurred throughoutStar war – from rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt inReturn of the Jedito rescuing Princess Leia from the Empire inA New Hope – with one specific tactic that is used practically every time , and now the secret behind that peculiarly repetitive rescue plan has formally been explained .

InStar Wars : Episode IV - A New Hope , Princess Leia is taken prisoner on board the Death Star , and in reception , Obi - Wan , Luke , Han Solo , and Chewbacca shape a plan to rescue her – one where Luke and Han dissemble to be tempest Troopers and Chewie pretends to be their prisoner , giving them undisputed access to the holding cell . Then , inStar warfare : Episode VI - Return of the Jedi , Han Solo is frozen in carboniteand is being held captive by Jabba the Hutt . To save him , Leia dissemble to be a bountifulness hunter who has ‘ enchant ’ Chewbacca and bring in him before Jabba to collect the amplitude on his head .

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InStar war : Han Solo & Chewbacca#8 by Marc Guggenheim and David Messina , Han and Chewie are on a missionary work toretrieve a worthful artefact from the Empire – specifically , from a Grand Moff in the Imperial Capital – and they have no idea how they ’re going to pull this off . When their companion , Phaedra , says that she has a plan on how to get the artefact back , Han Solo interjects by say , “ If you ’re thinking of having Chewie pretend to be a prisoner , that scarcely ever figure out ” only for Phardra to point out on the fact that that particular tactics work out perfectly well during their prison - interruption mission on Gulhadar ( which happened in the last issue ) .

Chewbacca Acting as a Prisoner is His Go-To Tactic

This issue rent property beforeEpisode IVwithin theStar Warstimeline , and the way Han Solo order that Chewie acting as a captive barely ever works mean that they ’ve done that tactics multiple fourth dimension in the past , and even though Han apparently was n’t happy with its results , it certainly worked well enough to keep using it . That point is then directly back up when Phaedra sound out that they just used that maneuver , and it wreak perfectly . This show that using Chewbacca as a imitation prisoner is not a plan that Han likes to bank on , but is one that has proven effect – both before and after the event of this issue . The Gulhadar prison respite is one object lesson that predates the original trilogy , then there’sPrincess Leia ’s prison breakand Han ’s prison faulting in Episodes IV and VI , respectively .

The results of these mission speak for themselves , confirming that Chewbacca pretending to be a captive tosave Han inReturn of the Jedijust as he did inA New Hopeto rescue Leia was n’t a coincidence , but rather evidence that this is his go - to grift – a secret need behind a insistent scheme that was n’t expose until this latest installment inStar Warslore .

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