While the carbon-freezing chambers of
        Bespin's Cloud City were built to store Tibanna
        gas, Darth Vader orders the modification of
   one chamber so that he can freeze Luke
   Skywalker -- and thus nullify his nascent Force
   powers -- to transport him to the Emperor. As a
 test, Vader decides to try the process on Han
 Solo, who survives the freezing process, but in
   a state like suspended animation.
 

Immobilized and powerless, Han is handed
  over to the notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett
as a trophy. With Han loaded into the cargo
 compartment of the Slave I, Boba Fett conveys
his entombed prisoner to the desert palace of
 the gangster Jabba the Hutt for the bounty on
  his head. The frozen Corellian pirate becomes
  an object of ridicule, hanging as a decoration in
   the Hutt's throne room.

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