Rescue of Han Solo/Legends

The Rescue of Han Solo was the campaign orchestrated by Luke Skywalker to rescue his friend, Han Solo, from Jabba the Hutt and free him from his Carbonite encasement.

The campaign
Following the Battle of Falleen's Fist, Luke Skywalker, along with Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca organized a plan to rescue Han Solo from the Hutt crime lord, Jabba Desilijic Tiure. The campaign was essentially comprised by two incidents, the Mission to Jabba's Palace and the Skirmish at Carkoon. Ideally the skirmish at the Great Pit of Carkoon would never have taken place and the forray into Jabba's Palace would have entailed several potential phases.

Infiltration of Jabba's palace
The first phase had Lando infiltrate Jabba's Palace disguises as the guard, Tamtel Skreej as a contigency should anything go wrong. The second phase involved sending R2-D2 and C-3PO to the palace to offer a peaceful opportunity to release Han, offering the two droids as a gift. When this failed, phase three involved Leia, posing as the bounty hunter Boushh, delivering a supposedly-captured Chewbacca to Jabba for a bounty. Leia would have then freed Han in the night, released Chewbacca and escaped with them and Lando. When Jabba saw through the attempted rescue and captured all three (excluding Lando, who remained in disguise), they were forced to move to the final phase. Luke Skywalker entered the palace and, by way of several Force techniques made his way to Jabba's throne room. He underestimated Jabba however and, after killing Jabba's pet rancor, wound up sentenced to death along with Han and Chewbacca.

Trip to the Pit of Carkoon
After being condemned to death in the gullet of the sarlacc, Luke, Han and Chewbacca were taken to the Pit of Carkoon in the Dune Sea. They were transported on a desert skiff while Jabba and his minions travelled on Khetanna, Jabba's luxury sail barge. Once there, Luke was able to free himself with the help from R2-D2, and after a pitched struggle that saw the destruction of Jabba and his criminal empire, as well as the supposed demise of Boba Fett, Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, Lando and the droids all escaped unharmed and made their way back to the Rebel fleet.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Tales from Jabba's Palace
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * The Ordeal of Boba Fett
 * A Credit for Your Thoughts