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Han's Force-sensitivity is rather low, too low to do any of the flashy stuff Jedi, Sith and other Force-sensetives do, but he could pick up the clear intent of Greedo to kill him and got his blaster ready. When Greedo started to boast how he'd love to see Han dead, he knew he's in danger and killed Greedo before he could kill him and chalked the Force-premonition up to Greedo behaving suspiciously (which he did, forcing him back on his seat at gunpoint and all).

*** Perhaps the best thing to have been was to put a grate over it. The designer may not have thought of this since grates are usually meant to keep people from falling in than anything else. Still, though, if exterior maintenance was required, they should have put a grate there since the moon has it's own gravity (unless they used geostationary ship or magnetic boots). Shields and source guns may well have protected the port from space debris, but weapons using plasma or electricity could possibly go through the shield and into the port. It was obvious that none of the designers considered the possibility of the port being found let alone targeted, but it IS placed in an awkward position in which to attack and it is defended by countless guns.

Han's Force sensitivity is rather low, too low to do any of the flashy stuff Jedi, Sith and other Force-sensetives do, but he could pick up the clear intent of Greedo to kill him and got his blaster ready. When Greedo started to boast how he'd love to see Han dead, he knew he's in danger and killed Greedo before he could kill him and chalked the Force-premonition up to Greedo behaving suspiciously (which he did, forcing him back on his seat at gunpoint and all).

Han's Force sensitivity is rather low, too low to do any of the flashy stuff Jedi, Sith and other Force-sensetives do, but he could pick up the clear intent of Greedo to kill him and got his blaster ready. When Greedo started to boast how he'd love to see Han dead, the knew he's in danger and killed Greedo before he could kill him and chalked the Force-premonition up to Greedo behaving suspiciously (which he did, forcing him back on his seat at gunpoint and all).

Hence why droids aren't allowed in his bar.

It was Batman. And [[http://files.myopera.com/Sharky8U2/albums/4580632/death-star-batman.jpg here]] is the photo to prove it...

* Alternatively, Han worshipped Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker as a kid. They ''were'' known war heroes (as pointed out in the novelization of [[RevengeOfTheSith RoTS]]), and Han wished he could be a Jedi like them. After several Jedi were killed, Han's parents told him not to say even word about them in fear of Vader/Palpatine finding out someone still aligned with the Jedi. Han felt betrayed by the Jedi, and started hating them.

It's established that Jedi can see into the future, at least to some extent. Obi-Wan knew that Vader would kill the Emperor, [[ReturnOfTheJedi which of course he did.]] He could have killed him on the Death Star, but neither he nor Luke could kill the Emperor. So Vader had to live and that meant he had to die.

* According to [[WordOfGod Word of George]] the EU is an expanded "alternate universe". clearly Alternate!Tarkin has the opposite views and personality from Movie!Tarkin, and it's just a mirror universe forced coincidence they end up acting mostly the same way.

In his time of isolation Obi-Wan became warped and slightly insane. As a result his warped mind lead him to plan a path out for Luke that would result in him killing Vader. The first obstacle was getting Luke to let go of his life on Tatooine. This was accomplished by sending an anonymous tip to the imperial stormtroopers of the location of the jawa's who sold the droids to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. This cut Luke's ties on Tatooine and solidified his hatred of the empire. Before this he lied to him telling him that Darth Vader killed his father, cementing a hatred for Vader to prevent Luke from opting out of Patricide. The next step of his plan is to train Luke in the force and lightsaber. He knew that at some point he would run afoul of Vader and had a plan for that as well. Lead Vader to fight near where the Falcon was docked so that Luke would see the battle once he and the rest of the party arrived. He then smugly let himself die becoming more powerful than Vader could ever imagine, by empowering Luke the son Vader did not know still lived.

An idea from the RobotNames page. When the Skywalker twins had to be separated, Obi-wan knew he needed to protect both of them. He used the Force to hastily put together an android he named OB-1. However, because he figured Luke wouldn't become necessary for several years, he made the force-android several decades older. Obi-wan followed Leia to Alderaan (since she was going to be the high profile bait) and OB-1 went with Luke. Several years down the line (but not enough for the aged OB-1 to be accurate), Leia gets captured. She hurriedly composes a message to Obi-wan on Alderaan and sends it to the nearest planet Tatooine hoping it will eventually get to Alderaan. R2-D2 ends up with Luke and is taken to OB-1 by mistake. OB-1 isn't lying when he says he's never owned a droid and that Darth Vader killed Luke's father because that's what Obi-wan told him happened. OB-1 decides to train Luke and bring him to Obi-wan, who ends up dying when Alderaan explodes. Later when Darth Vader strikes OB-1, he just vanishes because Obi-wan isn't around to will him together. The force ghost of Obi-wan never tells Luke this because frankly the kid has enough problems to deal without without knowing his mentor was really a some sort of construct.

We all know about the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. But the, we also know that the Clone troopers didn't necessarily attend that academy; they were pretty damn [[BadAss badass]]. Obi-Wan went into hiding after the Emperor took over; he may have assumed that the Emperor still used clones, or at least people who were trained well.

*** "Hold your fire. There are no lifeforms and there can't be any droids because they're not allowed in pods, but the plans might be on board on a disc or whatever and we know the pod is going to land on that desert planet nearby, so we'll just send some troops down to pick it up in a day or so. Or would you rather explain to Lord Vader that you blew up an escape pod with the plans in it?" Remember the "look sir, droids" trooper sounded pretty surprised that there were droids on board, so that obviously wasn't even something the Empire were considering.

For one, he was on Tatooine at this time. The empire is also not above using mercenaries and bounty hunters. And isn´t it conspicuous how they were killed? Stormtroopers may shoot you, but normal blaster fire will only leave local burn marks and internal burns, so it kills you and your body is mostly left unharmed. But in this case they literally got their flesh cooked of their bones without much damage to their surroundings. That is a textbook example of disintegration. And then there is the scene in "Empire Strikes Back". Vader makes it clear he wants Han, Chewie and Leia taken by all means and alive. But he sees the need to single out Fett to tell him: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I95Qgv7tynI "No disintegration's!"]] That is oddly specific if it never happened before.

[[FridgeHorror Think about it:]] Obi-Wan [[TheWoobie lost everything]] when the Empire rose. And, due to training Anakin in spite of the tradition, it's partly [[NiceJobBreakingItHero his fault.]] Obi-Wan already passed the DespairEventHorizon, and the only thing keeping him from wasting away was the hope that the Jedi may return. Once he had started Luke on his training, [[SuicideMission he fully expected to die.]] Being struck by Vader would not only serve to make him a Force Ghost out of reach to help out Luke, but [[DrivenToSuicide let him escape from his despairing physical form]] and re-unite with his fellow Jedi.

*** [[FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball "What, are we paying by the laser?]]

*** It should be noted that Vader could simply have been short for 'invader'.

*** Leia thought Chewie couldn't restrain himself from eating it until the ceremony was over. [[AVeryPotterMusical Racist Skywalker sister!]]

He was afraid he'd screw it up. Obi-Wan's master-apprentice chain went rather poorly; his master was a maverick who's "Chosen One" destroyed the Jedi Order. ''His'' master became a Sith Lord. And Obi-Wan's own apprentice became '''Darth Vader.''' Also, consider how bitter Old Ben must've been after Revenge of the Sith. Obi-Wan was afraid that he'd turn Luke into an unstable TykeBomb, and lose one of the only two good shots they had at stopping the Empire. Instead, Obi-Wan let his aunt and uncle look after the baby, waiting for when he'd be confident and stable enough to train Luke the right way.

During the meeting on the Death Star, General Taggi says "The Rebel Alliance is too well-equipped. They're more dangerous than you realize." Furthermore, Vader and Tarkin assume that destroying Yavin will crush the Rebellion: at that same meeting, Tarkin says that once they know the location of the Rebel base, they "will then crush the Rebellion with one swift stroke", and Vader, as they are approaching Yavin, says "This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi and will soon see the end of the Rebellion." Yet during the battle of Yavin, another officer informs Vader "We count thirty rebel ships...." We never see anywhere near that many rebel fighters in any shot, and when Red Group is reporting in, only nine pilots, counting Red Leader, report. But let's say thirty fighters. Considering how important it was for the Rebellion to destroy the Death Star, one would have to assume that the Rebels sent every fighter they had. So the main base of the "well-equipped" Rebellion, whose destruction will end the Rebellion outright, has only thirty fighters protecting it? That cannot be right. In reality, Yavin was a relatively minor Rebel base. That is why Leia was not worried about the tracking device: she could have had them all search for it and then dump it in deep space, far from any star system, but she did not bother, because she knew that she was leading the Death Star to a minor base whose loss the Rebellion could survive. Probably the first thing they did once they uploaded the plans from R2-D2 was make a copy and send them in a ship to another base, just in case, but the movie did not bother to show that scene because it ended up not mattering.

[[https://youtu.be/g6PDcBhODqo?t=28s The one here.]] Before they started working for the Overmind. Heck, maybe the Overmind is The Force! Maybe the Overmind already cleared out that far away galaxy a long time ago after the Force was balanced! Maybe that's the only way to stop the Dark Side - not give anyone the chance to create a galactic civilization.

[[WMG: The "Devil" character in the Cantina in is an [[Series/ChildhoodsEnd Overlord]].]]