THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

(Trilogy Paperback)

pg.183: The Rebel Alliance had established an outpost on the ice world little more than a month before. Luke was well-known on the base and, although barely twenty-three years old, he was addressed as Commander Skywalker by other Rebel warriors. TESB takes place three years after ANH

pg.187: This subterranian base was both a natural ice cave and a maze of angular tunnels blasted from a solid mountain of ice by Rebel lasers.
pg.188: Of greatest concern to Han was the saucer-shaped freighter ship resting in its newly installed landing pods. One of the many modifications made to the Millennium Falcon in the three years after the Battle of Yavin. The forward landing pods are located in the two box-like structures added to the freighter

pg.188: This freighter was still the fastest ship ever to make the Kessel run or to outrun an Imperial TIE fighter.
pg.193: The droid made an internal adjustment to regulate the potentcy of it laser beam. Less than a moment later the beam was at maximum intensity. The machine aimed the laser at the creature, enveloping it in a great flaming and smoking cloud. Seconds later the few remaining particles of the Wampa were swept away by the icy winds. The smoke disappeared, leaving no physical evidence—save for a large depression in the snow—that an ice creature had ever been there. Weapon on the Imperial Probe Droid has variable power settings. One of the higher settings can near-completely vaporize a large 8 to 10 foot animal

pg.198: Something began to take shape around the robot, a pulsating glow that gradually covered the machine as if with a tranaparent dome. Quickly this force field solidified, repelling the blowing snow that brushed over the droid's hull. After a moment the glow faded, and the blowing snow soon formed a perfect dome of white, completely concealing the droid and its protective force field. Imperial Probe Droid force field can hold its shape overnight and appear solid

pg.206: A medical droid was removing the protective pad from his healing face. In addition to the bacta dunk, an extra protective pad covered Luke's facial scars

pg.207: "The bacta are growing well," she said as she looked at his healing wounds. "The scars should be gone in a day or so."
pg.209: The mammoth Imperial Star Destroyer occupied a position of deadly prominence in the Emperor's fleet. The sleekly elongated ship was larger and even more ominous than the five wedge-shaped Imperial Star Destroyers guarding it. Together these six cruisers were the most dreaded and devastating warships in the galaxy, capable of reducing to cosmic scrap anything that strayed too close to their weapons.
Flanking the Star Destroyers were a number of smaller fighter ships and, darting about this great space armada, were the infamous TIE fighters.
"Smaller ships" in addition to the TIE fighters and star destroyers. This dispells the ridiculous notion that "one of the smaller ships" destroyed in the asteroid field refers to a star destroyer

pg.212: "A clean bombardment is impossible through their energy field."
pg.213: "The energy shield can only be opened for a split second," Demonstrates that the energy shield can be opened and closed just fast enough to let ships in and out

pg.214: As the colossal ship began to move closer to the ice world, the planet became clearly visible through the windows which stretched 100 meters or more across the huge bridge of the warship.
pg.216: "Attention, speeder pilots...on the withdrawl signal assemble at South Slope. Your fighters are being prepared for takeoff."
pg.216: To an observer, it may have seemed that Threepio grew misty-eyed, but then it wasn't the first time he had gotten a drop of oil clogged before his optical sensors.
pg.217: Other men looked up from their work and saw what looked like a number of moving specks.
The officer raised his electrobinoculars and focused on the approaching objects. There must have been a dozen of them resolutely advancing through the snow, looking like creatures out of some uncharted past.

pg.217: Even as Luke Skywalker replied, an explosion sprayed ice and snow around the officer and his terror-struck men. The Imperial Walkers were able to fire at the Rebels from more than 20km away

pg.217-218: Angrily, Luke fired his ship's guns at a walker, only to receive a hail of Imperial fire power that shook his speeder in a barrage of flak.
pg.220: "Launch patrol, proceed with accelerated departures..."
pg.225: "We're cut off," Han yelled into his comlink, knowing that if the transport were to make good its escape there could be no time wasted in melting down or blasting through the barricade.
pg.227-228: If Han did not return soon, the Falcon would surely be buried in a tomb of ice. But loyalty to his partner kept Chewie from taking off in the freighter alone.
pg.229: Before Han could make a carefully formed retort, the Falcon was jolted by a blast of Imperial laser fire that flashed outside the cockpit window. They could all see the squad of Imperial stormtroopers rushing with drawn weapons into the far end of the ice hangar. Han knew that the Falcon's dented hull might resist the force of those hand weapons, but would be destroyed by the more powerful bazooka-shaped weapon that two of the Imperial troopers were hurriedly setting up. The Falcon could shrug off the effects of standard stormtrooper E-11 blaster rifles, but not the E-Web gun

pg.230: The huge freighter's engines roared. And everything behind the craft was instantly melted in the fiery exhaust billowing from its tailpiece.
pg.231: His was the last Rebel ship to abandon what had, for a brief time, been a secret outpost in the revolution against the tyranny of the Empire. Luke was the last Rebel to leave Hoth

pg.231: "Seventeen ships destroyed," he reported to the Dark Lord. "We don't know how many got away." Piett reports that the Death Squadron destroyed 17 Rebel ships leaving Hoth. Vader had counted on Luke being aboard the Millennium Falcon

pg.231: The ice planet was rapidly shrinking to a point of dim light as the Millennium Falcon sped into space. Soon that planet seemed nothing more than one of the billions of light specks scattered throughout the black void.
pg.231: The ship was beginning to lurch with the buffeting flak blasted at it by the fighters.
pg.232: "At sublight, they may be faster, but we can still out-maneuver them." The Millennium Falcon is not "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy" in realspace.

pg.232: Alarms blared through the interiors of all three Star Destroyers. These ponderously massive ships could not respond quickly enough to such emergencies. Sluggishly one of the Destroyers began to move to the left in its effort to avoid collision with the Avenger. Unfortunatey, as it veered, it brushed its companion ship, violently shaking up both spaceborne fortresses. The damaged Destroyers began to drift through space, while the Avenger continued in pursuit of the Millennium Falcon and its obviously insane pilot.
pg.235: "Yes Artoo, I know the Dagobah system doesn't appear on any of our navigational charts."
pg.235: "No dizziness, no drowsiness. Even the scars are gone." Luke tries to assure Artoo that he is suffering no ill effects from the Wampa attack, and points out that the scars are now gone

pg.237: Flying more on instinct than on instruments, he steered his ship through the relentless rain of stone. Han Solo using his pilot instincts to fly through the asteroid field.

pg.237: The TIE fighter pilots chasing the Falcon were some of the best in the Empire. But they couldn't compete with Han Solo. Either they weren't good enough ,or they weren't crazy enough.
pg.238: "How long until you will have Skywalker and the others in the Millennium Falcon?" Vader is under the impression that Luke is onboard the Falcon with the others. Could he have been unknowingly sensing Leia instead?

pg.241: The planet was uncharted and virtually unknown. Dagobah is an unknown planet at the time of the Galactic Civil War. Perhaps known only to the Jedi of the Old Republic

pg.242: Artoo squealed again, but his sounds were effectively drowned by the ear-splitting blast of the X-wing's retrorockets.
pg.255: There was a table in front of him and he could see a few containers holding what appeared to be hand written scrolls. These scrolls could possibly be journals Yoda kept during his exile. One hopes Luke took them with him before he left Dagobah.

pg.257: "Much anger in him," the dwarfish Jedi teacher persisted. "Like in his father."
"We've discussed this before," Kenobi said.

pg.258: Only one being in the entire universe could instill fear in the dark spirit of Darth Vader. As he stood, silent and alone in his dim chamber, the Dark Lord of the Sith waited for a visit from his own dreaded master.
pg.261: Suddenly Chewbacca, who could see better in the dark than either his captain or the princess,
pg.268: Undaunted by the steady rain of asteroids on its massive hull, the Star Destroyer relentlessly follwed the smaller ship. The Avenger shrugs of a "steady rain" of asteroids as it plows through the asteroid field

pg.268: Suddenly a gigantic asteroid appeared in the Millennium Falcon's path, rushing toward the freighter at incredible speed. The ship quickly banked out of the way, and the asteroid hurtled past it, only to explode harmlessly againt the Avenger's hull. An asteroid at least the size of the Millennium Falcon smashes into the Avenger leaving no damage

pg.268-269: He was confident that within moments the pursuing Star Destroyer would be left light-years behind. Han's assessment of the Falcon's speed capabilities, if the hyperdrive were working

pg.270: It was all he could do to avoid the barrage of flak bursts rocketing toward the Falcon from the Imperial ship.
pg.270: A small freighter could not do much damage if it collided against a Star Destroyer's hull; but if it smashed through the bridge windows, the control deck would be littered with corpses. The Falcon could ram the Avenger's hull and produce negligible damage at best. However, if it aimed for the unshielded forward bridge windows, (Like an A-Wing did in ROTJ) the bridge would be destroyed

pg.272: An emergency rescue system was activated within his metal hull and Artoo extended a small metal electrode and rested it on Luke's chest. Uttering a quiet beep of concern, Artoo generated a mild electrical charge, just strong enough to jolt Luke back to conciousness. The youth's chest heaved, and he awoke with a start. Along with everything else Artoo can do, he's an EMT as well!

pg.280: As the Millennium Falcon began its approach through the planet's atmosphere, it it soared past several of Bespin's many moons.
pg.285: Artoo hovered, his baffled internal circuits and sensors trying to detect the unseen power that held him suspended in the air. Artoo can't detect the Force with his sensors

pg.286: Through a hose that ran from the pond to an orifice in his side, the robot sprayed down the ship with a powerful stream of water.
pg.292: As he watched his student, three glow-ball seekers appeared from behind Yoda and noiselessly shot through the air to attack the young Jedi from behind. Instantly Luke turned to face them, a pot lid in one hand and a spoon in the other.
pg.311: Vader's influence was incredibly strong; it seemed to Luke like a thing alive.
pg.311: Luke was suspended, having leaped some five meters into the air to escape the carbonite.
pg.321: Just then the Falcon lurched as a bolt exploded near it, and almost threw Luke's body overboard.
pg.322: The ship was rocked again by the concussion of another laser explosion,

pg.183: The Rebel Alliance had established an outpost on the ice world little more than a month before. Luke was well-known on the base and, although barely twenty-three years old, he was addressed as Commander Skywalker by other Rebel warriors.	TESB takes place three years after ANH
pg.187: This subterranian base was both a natural ice cave and a maze of angular tunnels blasted from a solid mountain of ice by Rebel lasers.
pg.188: Of greatest concern to Han was the saucer-shaped freighter ship resting in its newly installed landing pods.	One of the many modifications made to the Millennium Falcon in the three years after the Battle of Yavin. The forward landing pods are located in the two box-like structures added to the freighter
pg.188: This freighter was still the fastest ship ever to make the Kessel run or to outrun an Imperial TIE fighter.
pg.193: The droid made an internal adjustment to regulate the potentcy of it laser beam. Less than a moment later the beam was at maximum intensity. The machine aimed the laser at the creature, enveloping it in a great flaming and smoking cloud. Seconds later the few remaining particles of the Wampa were swept away by the icy winds. The smoke disappeared, leaving no physical evidence—save for a large depression in the snow—that an ice creature had ever been there.	Weapon on the Imperial Probe Droid has variable power settings. One of the higher settings can near-completely vaporize a large 8 to 10 foot animal
pg.198: Something began to take shape around the robot, a pulsating glow that gradually covered the machine as if with a tranaparent dome. Quickly this force field solidified, repelling the blowing snow that brushed over the droid's hull. After a moment the glow faded, and the blowing snow soon formed a perfect dome of white, completely concealing the droid and its protective force field.	Imperial Probe Droid force field can hold its shape overnight and appear solid
pg.206: A medical droid was removing the protective pad from his healing face.	In addition to the bacta dunk, an extra protective pad covered Luke's facial scars
pg.207: "The bacta are growing well," she said as she looked at his healing wounds. "The scars should be gone in a day or so."
pg.209: The mammoth Imperial Star Destroyer occupied a position of deadly prominence in the Emperor's fleet. The sleekly elongated ship was larger and even more ominous than the five wedge-shaped Imperial Star Destroyers guarding it. Together these six cruisers were the most dreaded and devastating warships in the galaxy, capable of reducing to cosmic scrap anything that strayed too close to their weapons. Flanking the Star Destroyers were a number of smaller fighter ships and, darting about this great space armada, were the infamous TIE fighters.	"Smaller ships" in addition to the TIE fighters and star destroyers. This dispells the ridiculous notion that "one of the smaller ships" destroyed in the asteroid field refers to a star destroyer
pg.212: "A clean bombardment is impossible through their energy field."
pg.213: "The energy shield can only be opened for a split second,"	Demonstrates that the energy shield can be opened and closed just fast enough to let ships in and out
pg.214: As the colossal ship began to move closer to the ice world, the planet became clearly visible through the windows which stretched 100 meters or more across the huge bridge of the warship.
pg.216: "Attention, speeder pilots...on the withdrawl signal assemble at South Slope. Your fighters are being prepared for takeoff."
pg.216: To an observer, it may have seemed that Threepio grew misty-eyed, but then it wasn't the first time he had gotten a drop of oil clogged before his optical sensors.
pg.217: Other men looked up from their work and saw what looked like a number of moving specks. The officer raised his electrobinoculars and focused on the approaching objects. There must have been a dozen of them resolutely advancing through the snow, looking like creatures out of some uncharted past.
pg.217: Even as Luke Skywalker replied, an explosion sprayed ice and snow around the officer and his terror-struck men.	The Imperial Walkers were able to fire at the Rebels from more than 20km away
pg.217-218: Angrily, Luke fired his ship's guns at a walker, only to receive a hail of Imperial fire power that shook his speeder in a barrage of flak.
pg.220: "Launch patrol, proceed with accelerated departures..."
pg.225: "We're cut off," Han yelled into his comlink, knowing that if the transport were to make good its escape there could be no time wasted in melting down or blasting through the barricade.
pg.227-228: If Han did not return soon, the Falcon would surely be buried in a tomb of ice. But loyalty to his partner kept Chewie from taking off in the freighter alone.
pg.229: Before Han could make a carefully formed retort, the Falcon was jolted by a blast of Imperial laser fire that flashed outside the cockpit window. They could all see the squad of Imperial stormtroopers rushing with drawn weapons into the far end of the ice hangar. Han knew that the Falcon's dented hull might resist the force of those hand weapons, but would be destroyed by the more powerful bazooka-shaped weapon that two of the Imperial troopers were hurriedly setting up.	The Falcon could shrug off the effects of standard stormtrooper E-11 blaster rifles, but not the E-Web gun
pg.230: The huge freighter's engines roared. And everything behind the craft was instantly melted in the fiery exhaust billowing from its tailpiece.
pg.231: His was the last Rebel ship to abandon what had, for a brief time, been a secret outpost in the revolution against the tyranny of the Empire.	Luke was the last Rebel to leave Hoth
pg.231: "Seventeen ships destroyed," he reported to the Dark Lord. "We don't know how many got away."	Piett reports that the Death Squadron destroyed 17 Rebel ships leaving Hoth. Vader had counted on Luke being aboard the Millennium Falcon
pg.231: The ice planet was rapidly shrinking to a point of dim light as the Millennium Falcon sped into space. Soon that planet seemed nothing more than one of the billions of light specks scattered throughout the black void.
pg.231: The ship was beginning to lurch with the buffeting flak blasted at it by the fighters.
pg.232: "At sublight, they may be faster, but we can still out-maneuver them."	The Millennium Falcon is not "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy" in realspace.
pg.232: Alarms blared through the interiors of all three Star Destroyers. These ponderously massive ships could not respond quickly enough to such emergencies. Sluggishly one of the Destroyers began to move to the left in its effort to avoid collision with the Avenger. Unfortunatey, as it veered, it brushed its companion ship, violently shaking up both spaceborne fortresses. The damaged Destroyers began to drift through space, while the Avenger continued in pursuit of the Millennium Falcon and its obviously insane pilot.
pg.235: "Yes Artoo, I know the Dagobah system doesn't appear on any of our navigational charts."
pg.235: "No dizziness, no drowsiness. Even the scars are gone."	Luke tries to assure Artoo that he is suffering no ill effects from the Wampa attack, and points out that the scars are now gone
pg.237: Flying more on instinct than on instruments, he steered his ship through the relentless rain of stone.	Han Solo using his pilot instincts to fly through the asteroid field.
pg.237: The TIE fighter pilots chasing the Falcon were some of the best in the Empire. But they couldn't compete with Han Solo. Either they weren't good enough ,or they weren't crazy enough.
pg.238: "How long until you will have Skywalker and the others in the Millennium Falcon?"	Vader is under the impression that Luke is onboard the Falcon with the others. Could he have been unknowingly sensing Leia instead?
pg.241: The planet was uncharted and virtually unknown.	Dagobah is an unknown planet at the time of the Galactic Civil War. Perhaps known only to the Jedi of the Old Republic
pg.242: Artoo squealed again, but his sounds were effectively drowned by the ear-splitting blast of the X-wing's retrorockets.
pg.255: There was a table in front of him and he could see a few containers holding what appeared to be hand written scrolls.	These scrolls could possibly be journals Yoda kept during his exile. One hopes Luke took them with him before he left Dagobah.
pg.257: "Much anger in him," the dwarfish Jedi teacher persisted. "Like in his father." "We've discussed this before," Kenobi said.
pg.258: Only one being in the entire universe could instill fear in the dark spirit of Darth Vader. As he stood, silent and alone in his dim chamber, the Dark Lord of the Sith waited for a visit from his own dreaded master.
pg.261: Suddenly Chewbacca, who could see better in the dark than either his captain or the princess,
pg.268: Undaunted by the steady rain of asteroids on its massive hull, the Star Destroyer relentlessly follwed the smaller ship.	The Avenger shrugs of a "steady rain" of asteroids as it plows through the asteroid field
pg.268: Suddenly a gigantic asteroid appeared in the Millennium Falcon's path, rushing toward the freighter at incredible speed. The ship quickly banked out of the way, and the asteroid hurtled past it, only to explode harmlessly againt the Avenger's hull.	An asteroid at least the size of the Millennium Falcon smashes into the Avenger leaving no damage
pg.268-269: He was confident that within moments the pursuing Star Destroyer would be left light-years behind.	Han's assessment of the Falcon's speed capabilities, if the hyperdrive were working
pg.270: It was all he could do to avoid the barrage of flak bursts rocketing toward the Falcon from the Imperial ship.
pg.270: A small freighter could not do much damage if it collided against a Star Destroyer's hull; but if it smashed through the bridge windows, the control deck would be littered with corpses.	The Falcon could ram the Avenger's hull and produce negligible damage at best. However, if it aimed for the unshielded forward bridge windows, (Like an A-Wing did in ROTJ) the bridge would be destroyed
pg.272: An emergency rescue system was activated within his metal hull and Artoo extended a small metal electrode and rested it on Luke's chest. Uttering a quiet beep of concern, Artoo generated a mild electrical charge, just strong enough to jolt Luke back to conciousness. The youth's chest heaved, and he awoke with a start.	Along with everything else Artoo can do, he's an EMT as well!
pg.280: As the Millennium Falcon began its approach through the planet's atmosphere, it it soared past several of Bespin's many moons.
pg.285: Artoo hovered, his baffled internal circuits and sensors trying to detect the unseen power that held him suspended in the air.	Artoo can't detect the Force with his sensors
pg.286: Through a hose that ran from the pond to an orifice in his side, the robot sprayed down the ship with a powerful stream of water.
pg.292: As he watched his student, three glow-ball seekers appeared from behind Yoda and noiselessly shot through the air to attack the young Jedi from behind. Instantly Luke turned to face them, a pot lid in one hand and a spoon in the other.
pg.311: Vader's influence was incredibly strong; it seemed to Luke like a thing alive.
pg.311: Luke was suspended, having leaped some five meters into the air to escape the carbonite.
pg.321: Just then the Falcon lurched as a bolt exploded near it, and almost threw Luke's body overboard.
pg.322: The ship was rocked again by the concussion of another laser explosion,