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  • Cloud City

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    Cloud City

    Suspended high among the pastel clouds of Bespin is a floating metropolis of sophisticated beauty and political freedom. Cloud City exists not only as a mining colony, extracting valuable Tibanna gas from the depths of the giant planet, but also as a sanctuary for those trying to escape the turmoil gripping the galaxy. Though profitable, Cloud City is small enough not to be noticed by larger authorities such as the Mining Guild. It prospered under the capable stewardship of Baron-Administrator Lando Calrissian. Calrissian, assisted by his aide Lobot, contended with self-sufficiency issues and labor difficulties throughout his brief term.

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Appearances
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V)
  • Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI)
Terrain
  • Gaseous
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  • Carbon-freezing

History

Cloud City above Bespin

A tibanna-gas mine and luxury resort, Cloud City floated in the upper atmosphere of Bespin. Its administrator, Lando Calrissian, worked to make the gas mine profitable without attracting the attention of the Mining Guild or the Empire.

Lando and Lobot with Stormtroopers

Lando’s hard work came crashing down when his old smuggling compatriot Han Solo sought refuge in Cloud City. Anticipating Solo’s arrival, Darth Vader and Boba Fett had already forced Lando to betray Han and Princess Leia. Lando agreed to turn Han over in return for a guarantee that the Empire would leave Cloud City alone. But Vader reneged on the deal, leading to an Imperial occupation.

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    • Ol' Smoothie 2:01

      Ol' Smoothie

    • Cloud City Escape 0:48

      Cloud City Escape

    • Cloud City Apartment 0:31

      Cloud City Apartment

    • Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold 0:11

      Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold

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Cloud City History Gallery

  • 17 Images
    • Trapped on the outskirts of the Anoat system with a malfunctioning hyperdrive, Han Solo looked fo...
    • Cloud cars escorted the freighter along the approach route to Cloud City, firing warning shots as...
    • At first, Lando didn’t exactly seem glad to see Han – the Corellian had won the Falcon from him y...
    • As Han, Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO followed Lando through Cloud City, the administrator talked abo...
    • While Cloud City technicians repaired the Falcon, Lando put his guests up in a suite with an eye-...
    • Cloud City’s casinos and hotels were built atop the floating metropolis’s industrial levels, whic...
    • Lando was wrestling with a dilemma: Darth Vader had arrived before Han, accompanied by squads of ...
    • With the Empire’s enemies in his grasp, Vader changed the terms of the deal with Lando. Han would...
    • Vader decided to entomb Luke in carbonite for transport to the Empire, a process Lando warned mig...
    • Meanwhile, Luke and R2-D2 arrived from Dagobah and landed. Vader’s troops ensured that the young ...
    • Lando had finally had enough of Vader’s betrayals. He surreptitiously signaled to Lobot, his aide...
    • Fett rocketed away from Cloud City in his starship Slave I before Lando, Leia and Chewie could in...
  • Trapped on the outskirts of the Anoat system with a malfunctioning hyperdrive, Han Solo looked for a safe port where he could repair the Millennium Falcon. His answer: Bespin, a tibanna-gas mine run by his old compatriot Lando Calrissian. The Falcon limped to Bespin using her slow backup hyperdrive, then dipped through the clouds to arrive at Cloud City.

  • Cloud cars escorted the freighter along the approach route to Cloud City, firing warning shots as Han asked to be put in contact with Lando. Leia was skeptical of this rude welcome, but the cloud cars finally allowed the Falcon to land at Cloud City.

  • At first, Lando didn’t exactly seem glad to see Han – the Corellian had won the Falcon from him years earlier in a sabacc game, a loss that apparently still smarted. But he soon acted friendlier, greeting the new arrivals and promising to repair the freighter’s hyperdrive.

  • As Han, Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO followed Lando through Cloud City, the administrator talked about the challenges of running a tibanna-gas mine: He had everything from supply difficulties to labor problems, and needed to increase profits without attracting too much attention.

  • While Cloud City technicians repaired the Falcon, Lando put his guests up in a suite with an eye-popping view of Cloud City’s spires and the clouds of Bespin. But Leia remained suspicious of Lando – and worried about C-3PO, who’d disappeared.

  • Cloud City’s casinos and hotels were built atop the floating metropolis’s industrial levels, which contained mining facilities, carbon-freezing chambers and junk rooms. After a lengthy search, Chewbacca found C-3PO’s dismantled parts in a junk room. The Wookiee retrieved them after an angry confrontation with diminutive Ugnaught laborers.

  • Lando was wrestling with a dilemma: Darth Vader had arrived before Han, accompanied by squads of stormtroopers and the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Lando had no choice but to betray Han. Stuck with a bad hand, Lando made the best deal he could: He’d detain the Falcon’s crew until the arrival of Luke Skywalker – Vader’s real target – and in return Cloud City would keep its independence. It was a deal Lando would come to regret.

  • With the Empire’s enemies in his grasp, Vader changed the terms of the deal with Lando. Han would be given to Fett as a bounty, and Leia and Chewie must never again leave Cloud City. When Lando objected angrily, Vader threatened to leave a garrison in the city.

  • Vader decided to entomb Luke in carbonite for transport to the Empire, a process Lando warned might kill him. Vader then decided to test Cloud City’s carbon-freezing process on Han. The smuggler survived his dip in carbonite and Vader gave him to Fett as a prize. He then ordered Lando to take Leia and Chewie to his ship.

  • Meanwhile, Luke and R2-D2 arrived from Dagobah and landed. Vader’s troops ensured that the young Jedi found his way to the carbon-freezing chamber, where the Dark Lord awaited him.

  • Lando had finally had enough of Vader’s betrayals. He surreptitiously signaled to Lobot, his aide, who arranged an ambush of the stormtroopers guarding Leia and Chewie. Chewie started to strangle Lando, but stopped when the administrator gasped that there still might be time to save Han from Fett.

  • Fett rocketed away from Cloud City in his starship Slave I before Lando, Leia and Chewie could intervene. Lando then addressed the citizens of Cloud City, warning them that the Empire was taking over.

  • Some of Cloud City’s citizens responded to their administrator’s warning by frantically trying to escape, filling the city’s hallways. Amid the chaos, Lando, Leia and Chewie fought their way to the Falcon and took off.

  • While his friends fought to escape Cloud City, Luke confronted Vader in the carbon-freezing chamber. Luke escaped being frozen in carbonite, but Vader trapped him at the end of a gantry over a deep shaft. There, the Dark Lord cut off Luke’s hand and revealed the terrible truth that he was Luke’s father.

  • The young Jedi refused to join Vader and escaped capture by letting himself fall down the shaft. He survived the fall and was left clinging to a weather vane on the underside of Cloud City. Reaching out through the Force, Luke managed to contact Princess Leia’s mind. She insisted that the Falcon turn back to rescue him.

  • Vader curtly ordered his stormtroopers to bring his shuttle, and returned to the Super Star Destroyer Executor, confident that Luke had only briefly eluded him. Imperial operatives had deactivated the Falcon’s hyperdrive, undoing the Cloud City technicians’ work. The freighter would soon be captured.

  • R2-D2’s quick action allowed the Falcon to escape into hyperspace, leaving Cloud City and Bespin behind. After the destruction of the second Death Star at Endor, Cloud City’s citizens cheered the momentous rebel victory over the Empire.

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  • Lando Calrissian

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    Lando Calrissian

    Lando Calrissian may have come late to the fight against the Empire, but his role in destroying the second Death Star cemented his reputation as a hero. In his youth, Lando was a sportsman seeking a fortune at the sabacc tables. After he lost his beloved ship to Han Solo, Lando spent years living the high life and pursuing get-rich-quick schemes, with uneven results. He went semi-respectable as the baron administrator of Cloud City, only to be drawn into the fight against the Empire. After a personal tragedy, Lando sought solace in isolation on Pasaana, unaware that the galaxy would need him again.

  • Lobot

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    Lobot

    Never far from Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian's side was Lobot, Calrissian's aide and Cloud City's computer liaison officer. Lobot is a human male with a shiny, brain-enhancing device wrapped around the back of his skull that allowed him to contact directly with the city's central computer.

  • Bespin

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    Bespin

    Secluded from galactic turmoil by its location in a little-visited sector of space, Bespin is an astrophysical rarity. An immense gas giant surrounded by a number of moons, the planet contains a band of habitable atmosphere among its endless clouds. In this stratum of life, enterprising prospectors have established floating mining complexes devoted to extracting valuable gasses from deep within the planet. The most well known of these ventures is the opulent Cloud City, formerly under the administration of Lando Calrissian. During the tail end of the Galactic Civil War, the Empire garrisoned Bespin and took over Cloud City, though the outpost and the planet enjoyed freedom after the defeat of the Emperor at the Battle of Endor.

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    Cloud Car

    These brick-colored atmospheric vehicles keep the peace in the skies of Bespin. Cloud cars feature twin “pods” connected by a repulsorlift engine, and are equipped with light blaster cannons. Each cloud car has a pilot and a gunner, who work in tandem to intercept starships bound for Cloud City, question their captains and take defensive measures as needed.

  • Darth Vader

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    Darth Vader

    Once the heroic Jedi Knight named Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force. Forever scarred by his defeat on Mustafar, Vader was transformed into a cybernetically-enhanced Sith Lord. At the dawn of the Empire, Vader led the Empire’s eradication of the Jedi Order and the search for survivors. He remained in service of the Emperor -- the evil Darth Sidious -- for decades, enforcing his Master’s will and seeking to crush the Rebel Alliance and other detractors. But there was still good in him…

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    Han Solo

    Han Solo rose from an impoverished childhood on the mean streets of Corellia to become one of the heroes of the Rebel Alliance. As captain of the Millennium Falcon, Han and his co-pilot Chewbacca came to believe in the cause of galactic freedom, joining Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa in the fight against the Empire. After the Battle of Endor, Han faced difficult times in a chaotic galaxy, leading to a shattering confrontation with his estranged son Ben.

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