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Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980, second movie produced). Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, The Empire has caught up with the Rebels and destroyed their base on Hoth, separating Luke from his friends. While Luke seeks the mysterious Jedi Master Yoda, Han Solo and Leia are chased by the Empire. Use with the [star-wars] tag.
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Snowspeeder squad markings
I've just noticed the orange markings on the back end of a T-47 snowspeeder from Empire Strikes back. They're quite small, so they may get over looked.
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Has Jason Fry publicly discussed the links between his short story Rendezvous Point and the Star Wars X-Wing series?
Jason Fry wrote a short story titled Rendezvous Point in the short story collection The Empire Strikes Back : From a Certain Point of View.
This story cover Wedge Antilles reforming an X-Wing squadron ...
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What life forms were Luke and Han trying to detect in Hoth?
At the beginning of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Luke Skywalker (Echo Three) and Han Solo (Echo Seven) have a talk via comlink about scouting the Hoth ice wastes, picking ...
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Are there any indications that Luke "knew it to be true"?
In one of the most iconic scenes from Star Wars (if not perhaps cinema history) Darth Vader reveals that
To this Luke shouts NOOOOOOOOOOO!, and Darth Vader says: "Search your feelings, you know ...
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Why did Obi-Wan raise his hands to warn Luke in Dagobah? [closed]
In the movie Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back (1980), in the scene where Luke is loading cases into the X-fighter's underbelly before leaving Dagobah to save his friends, Obi-Wan Kenobi raises his ...
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Who is Ciena Ree in The Empire Strikes Back?
Ciena Ree is a character from the Star Wars book Lost Stars who joins the Empire and is present for some of the more significant events of the movies. It's been a bit since I read the book, but I ...
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What do the colors in the ID plates worn by the Rebel Alliance mean?
We can observe in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) that rebel soldiers, snowspeeder pilots and sensor controllers, stationed at Echo Base on Hoth, wore uniforms with distinguishing ...
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Could C-3PO have sat in one of the Millenium Falcon's quad laser cannons and shot down pursuing TIE Fighters?
Could C-3PO have sat in one of the Millenium Falcon's quad laser cannons and shot down pursuing TIE Fighters?
This assumes of course that he could climb up/down a ladder.
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What were the job parameters for the original Revenge of the Jedi poster?
The first posters released for Revenge of the Jedi are fairly famous, mostly for not matching the title of the final film.
However, from the first time I saw it, what struck me was that, regardless ...
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Were the distinctive elements of the uniforms snow troopers from The Empire Strikes Back based on any particular real-world uniforms?
After we watched all three Star Wars movies again last week, one of my sons asked me which variant of the stormtrooper was my favorite. I told him it was the snow troopers from The Empire Strikes ...
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Whose idea was it originally to capture Solo and use him as a bait to trap Luke?
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 ...
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Why does Luke draw his blaster instead of his lightsaber to deal with an apparent threat?
For almost 4 years after his training in the ways of the Force with Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker had kept with him the lightsaber that once belonged to his father; then, Luke first meets Yoda ...
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How large is planet Dagobah really? [duplicate]
When Luke went to look for Yoda on the planet Dagobah, he
This implies Dagobah is a rather small planet. I mean, if it was as big as the Earth or Mars, I guess it would be rather unlikely to
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Why does the ESB opening crawl identify Luke as a leader of the Rebellion? [duplicate]
In The Empire Strikes Back, this is part of the opening crawl:
Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker have established a new secret base on the ...
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Did Luke lose his X-Wing on Cloud City?
Luke flies to Cloud City near the end of The Empire Strikes Back to rescue his friends. R2-D2 follows him into the facility when they land.
R2-D2 then follows Lando and company out to the Millennium ...
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