Due to its freezing climate, Hoth is home to only a few species, including the towering, predatory wampa and the gray snow-lizards known as tauntauns.

Standing over 20 metres tall with blast-impervious armour plating, the All Terrain Armored Transport, or AT-AT walker, is used as much for psychological effect as tactical advantage.

Han keeps Luke alive by stuffing him inside his dead Tauntaun mount until a rescue party can find them.

Boba Fett is one of six bounty hunters assembled by Vader to capture the crew of the Millennium Falcon.

Luke is captured by a wampa but manages to escape from the creature's lair using the Force and his lightsaber.

Intending to hold Luke in suspended animation by imprisoning him in carbonite, Vader selects Han to be frozen as a test subject.

When Princess Leia finally admits her love for Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back, his scripted reply was "I love you, too." Instead, Harrison Ford improvised a much better line: "I know."

The hydrospanner is a common hand tool used as an all-purpose socket wrench and bit driver.

In every Star Wars movie, someone says "I have a bad feeling about this." In Empire, it's Leia who feels uneasy while inside the belly of the space slug.

After Ozzel commits a fatal mistake during the hunt for the Rebel Alliance, Piett is promoted to admiral and given command of Vader's flagship.