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- "Why are they doing this?"
"They never even asked me any questions." - ―Leia Organa and Han Solo
Han Solo being tortured
Torture was a means of punishment, or interrogation through causing physical pain. Darth Vader was adept at it: even as a Jedi, he Force choked Poggle the Lesser to gain information on killing the brain worms.[1] He once tortured Han Solo so his pain would reverberate through the Force and draw out Luke Skywalker.[2]
It was considered wrong to torture a prisoner, but it was a practice used in the Confederacy of Independent Systems,[3] Galactic Empire,[2] and First Order.[4]
The Galactic Empire used interrogator droids equipped with mind probes to torture subjects, though they proved futile against resilient subjects like Leia Organa.[5]
After the New Republic supplanted the Empire, the new government enacted anti-torture laws, which did not prevent the First Order from secretly developing a new model of interrogator droid.[6]
The Tusken Raider nomads of Tatooine practiced ritual torture of captives.[7]
Kylo Ren used the Force to torture Poe Dameron for the piece of map that led to Luke Skywalker.[4]
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- ↑
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Brain Invaders"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Shadow Warrior"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ Star Wars: Aliens of the Galaxy
