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rsterling78 Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 9/12 9:40pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	The Imperial fleet is chasing the Millenium Falcon which has ducked into an asteroid field. Then out of the blue a bunch of bounty hunters are on the Star Destroyer's bridge. Why did Vader decide to call in bounty hunters to search for the Falcon when his own fleet was right on their tail? And how did all these hunters show up so quickly? The seeming illogic of the situation even leads to this rather awkward scene: PIETT: Those Rebels won't escape us. SECOND CONTROLLER: Sir, we have a priority signal from the Star Destroyer Avenger. PIETT: Right. [The group standing before Vader is a bizarre array of galactic fortune hunters There is Bossk, a slimy, tentacled monster with two huge, bloodshot eyes in a soft baggy face; Zuckuss and Dengar, two battle-scarred, mangy human types; IG-88, a battered, tarnished chrome war droid; and Boba Fett, a man in a weapon-covered armored space suit.] VADER: ... there will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive. No disintegrations. BOBA FETT: As you wish. [Admiral Piett approaches Vader in a rush of excitement.] PIETT: Lord Vader! My lord, we have them. Well, then, that's that. Sorry to drag you fellows all the way out here. I guess it would have made more sense to contact you for assistance if we had no clue where they'd escaped to rather than having them pinned down in an asteroid field. Did the bounty hunters then exchange glances, shrug, and head back to their ships? I mean, their target is a few kilometers in front of the giant Imperial warship they're on board. Yes, I know, the Falcon did eventually escape, but surely Vader had no reason to assume that Han would use some odd tactic like making a run at the Destroyer, clamping the ship to a sensor blind spot, and floating away with the garbage? And what did Fett do when he heard the Falcon had made a run at the ship and then seemingly disappeared? "Bridge, this is Slave I. I have clearance to depart? Good. Oh, if you don't mind, I'll just leave the hangar bay and then re-land my ship in your gargage hold. Open the gargage hold doors, Hal. Oh, and hold departure clearance for the other mercenaries' ships until I'm in your garbage hold, please. I don't want them to know what I'm doing." Maybe I'm just missing something here with the whole bounty hunter situation. Any help, folks?
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Merlin_Ambrosius69 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 9/12 10:05pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	Well, it's pretty well explained in the film. The Falcon has disappeared into the depths of the asteroid field; Vader believes Luke is on board, and he will stop at nothing to find him. The Imperials for their part feel slighted that the bounty hunter "scum" have been called in to do the job, and Piett is relieved when the Falcon appears, having narrowly escaped the jaws of the space slug. The only bounty hunter crafty enough to track the Falcon after it vanishes again is Fett. Where exactly is the confusion? -----signature----- "Chance makes playthings of us all." -- Seneca Shameless non-Manager Emeritus sock of Vortigern99. Fan of George RR Martin, JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien.
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Jabba_The_Hutt_123 Registered: Oct '03	Date Posted: 9/13 3:11am Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	I agree that normally it would be weird to call in bounty hunters when they have the falcon in an asteroid field with a fleet hunting it down, but Vader is obsessed with finding Luke, it just shows how much he wants the falcon that he called in hunters before the falcon actually properly escaped. He also might not have much faith in his fleet or realise how good a pilot the falcon has. Better to have hunters and the fleet than just the fleet, although you're right, if the Avenger had captured the falcon the hunters probably wouldn't be very impressed, but would Vader really care?
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timmoishere Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 9/13 12:11pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	Dengar, Zuckuss and Boba Fett were actually already in the Hoth system before the Falcon disappeared. Dengar had been seeking to join the Rebels, but got caught by a Star Destroyer instead. While in a Star Destroyer's prison, Vader visited Dengar and told him he wouldn't be punished as long as he helped hunt down Solo. Zuckuss and 4-LOM arrived during the battle and helped disable one of the Rebels' transports. Boba Fett was called in because he knew Solo was on Hoth, but he arrived on the wrong side of the planet and could only watch as the Falcon disappeared. I don't recall how Bossk or IG-88 arrived there, but this shows that it wasn't difficult for Vader to gather the bounty hunters and tell them to find Solo. -----signature----- Will do moose stuff for money. Everything tastes better wrapped in bacon, especially bacon 11/20/2008: The day I married the most wonderful woman in the world.
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Darth_Nub Registered: Apr '09	Date Posted: 9/13 4:22pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	Just a case of thinking outside the box - the Imperials were stuffing around too much, getting nowhere, Vader figured he might as well take a different tack & couldn't care less about wounding the pride of his officers & troops, who, in his mind, were displaying nothing but incompetence. Perhaps different methods were necessary. It's like something out of a western, where a sheriff & his deputies (or a platoon of soldiers) have to employ the services of a tracker. Didn't do any harm, either, Fett tracked down the Falcon, not Piett & co. -----signature----- "First you must fill your head with wisdom. Then you can hit ice with it."
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eht13 Registered: Sep '07	Date Posted: 9/13 7:49pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	Darth_Nub posted: Just a case of thinking outside the box - the Imperials were stuffing around too much, getting nowhere, Vader figured he might as well take a different tack & couldn't care less about wounding the pride of his officers & troops, who, in his mind, were displaying nothing but incompetence. Perhaps different methods were necessary. It's like something out of a western, where a sheriff & his deputies (or a platoon of soldiers) have to employ the services of a tracker. Didn't do any harm, either, Fett tracked down the Falcon, not Piett & co. Exactly. Vader was frustrated with his men's lack of results so far, and he was also right about hiring some outside help; a bounty hunter is the one that successfully tracked the Falcon to a location where they could be caught. If Fett had not hung out in the garbage, nobody would have been around to see the Falcon once the Star Destroyer left.
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rsterling78 Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 9/13 7:51pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	How long had the Empire been tracking the Falcon? I got the impression it was a few hours, maybe a day or two at most.
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eht13 Registered: Sep '07	Date Posted: 9/13 7:55pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	I always thought it seemed like a few days. But are you implying that Vader was not a patient man?
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SithStarSlayer Registered: Oct '03	Date Posted: 9/16 3:21pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	To sell more action figures. -----signature----- Lucas didn't ruin my childhood but he sure wrecked Vader's ^^Foolish men mistake transitory semblance 4 eternal fact^^ o[]\|\|]ooooooooo[0]\|\|[]{ Gal: 5:19-21 Philippians 2:9-11
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Arawn_Fenn Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 9/16 4:02pm Subject: Why did Vader bring in the bounty hunters?
	We have a winnah! -----signature----- "James T. Kirk was a great man... but that was another life."
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