Also posting this because it still baffles me how some can see Rey and Finn escaping as being a problem when there were more ships in orbit during the Battle of Hoth that caused Luke no trouble and that’s fine. I really need someone to explain this to me.
How quick the the Empire find the Falcon after it blasted off from Mos Eisley?
The second they dropped out of hyperspace in the rubbled remains of Aldeeran since the Death Star was still right there.
How did it get away?
Jumped into hyperspace?
How quick did the Star Destroyers find the Falcon after it blasted off from Hoth? How did it get away?
Pretty damn quick since the Falcon never went to hyperspace and it didn’t get away. It was being chased to hell and back before Han goes balls crazy and lands inside an asteroid field, where Star Destroyers can’t go.
In both cases they knew precisely where on the planet they had been.
Well sure, it’d be pretty easy considering they had troops searching for the droids in Mos Eisley, had an informant tip them off that they were on the Falcon, saw it blast off after a confrontation and exchange of fire, so it was pretty easy to tell where it was on Tatooine and identify it when it conveniently popped out of hyperspace right in front of the Death Star. While on the Death Star, a tracking device was planted onboard so the Empire was able to follow them to Yavin IV, hyperspace be damned.
For Empire’s case, of course they knew the Falcon was on Hoth and exactly where it was. They were staging a direct ground assault on the Rebel base, so what a big surprise a notorious rebel ship would be among the rebel fleet.
When the Falcon escapes the space slug, the net has been woven well enough that a single Star Destroyer almost gets them except Han does the unexpected and attached to the Star Destroyer itself (in an out of the way place for sensors and patrolling ships).
Except…they didn’t escape all willy-nilly. After evading the star destroyer, they were followed by Boba Fett, who tipped off the Empire who then set up a trap on Cloud City.
The First Order should have known the moment the Tie Fighters were shot down and known exactly where they were on the surface. From there it is easy to track them down. Unless they are incompetent. They aren’t incompetent in the rest of the film.
Okay…so…if the tie fighters chased them, yeah, the First Order would’ve known where they were on the planet. Alright, so they could’ve been able to track them on the planet. Now, it’s been a while since I’ve seen TFA, but after the dogfight with the TIE fighters, didn’t the Falcon leave the planet and jump to hyperspace? So, your previous argument was that the Falcon was able to escape every time they jumped to hyperspace, now you’re criticizing the First Order’s ability to not track the Falcon after jumping the hyperspace? I’m so confused right now.