From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
      
   In article <557354t8ksluk4j0pf5pjhkrj4i86qrpot@4ax.com>, Todd   
    wrote:   
      
   > I wrote:   
   >   
   > >> But that made sense.  After delivering Han to Jabba, Fett checked his   
   > >> legitimate accounts and found that his bounty for Luke had not been   
   > >> deposited.  Further researched revealed that Luke had escaped.   
   >   
   > Anybody  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Bounty for Luke?!? You probably mean Han, unless that's something in   
   > >the EU material.   
   >   
   > I doubt the bounty hunters gathered on the Executor because of any   
   > loyalty to the Empire.  They were there because they wanted to get   
   > paid for capturing Luke.  Hence, a bounty for Luke.   
      
   There was no bounty for Luke as such. The bounty hunters were brought   
   in to find Han and the Falcon, which Vader believed would then lead to   
   Luke and the Rebels.   
      
   From the RotJ script:   
      
        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 proof... no disintegrations.   
      
      
   The only reason Fett was there was because he wanted to get Han, not   
   for Luke or the Rebels.   
      
      
      
      
   > Me again:   
   >   
   > >> Of course, Luke and Leia aren't going to let Han stay a prisoner of   
   > >> Jabba for long, so he'll hang out for a while, and make sure Luke   
   > >> stays captured this time.   
   >   
   > Anybody again:   
   >   
   > >It took them about 1 year to rescue Han.   
   >   
   > I'd always heard about three months, but that seems a little short for   
   > Lando to get established as he probably was.   
   >   
   > On the other hand, if I was being held prisoner by a galactic crime   
   > lord, I'd want my friends to come blasting in with a whole army, like   
   > yesterday!  "A year!  You left me hanging there a whole frigging   
   > year!"   
      
   The official time line (among other places, it's in the front of most   
   of the paperback novels) reads:   
      
         Episode IV: A New Hope                 year 0   
      
         Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back     3 years after ANH   
      
         Episode VI: Return of the Jedi         4 years after ANH   
      
   So, give or take a few months, Han was frozen for a whole year.  :-)   
      
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