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Thumbing through Adywan's ESB thread, I saw mention of the bounty hunters up on the Star Destroyer bridge and it got me thinking.

1. Why haul these thugs up to the bridge in the first place?  Couldn't Vader have briefed them from a conference room or one of the hanger bays?  Why bring them physically to the Star Destroyer at all?

2. When did Vader issue an order to summon bounty hunters?  Did he have time for that?  It seems like the Falcon couldn't have been gone for an hour or so inside that 'cave' where the Empire couldn't find them.

Seems rather impractical to hire a bunch of bounty hunters when the Falcon was obviously hiding somewhere.

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Interesting point.  I don't so much agree with number 1.  He has a much more commanding presence in person.  As for number 2,  Vader was pretty desperate.  But I do agree that more time should have passed between the Falcon disappearing and the bounty hunters being present.

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1. He could have but the set was already build and it would be much more interesting as a movie than seeing them in some conference room.

2. Well, they could have been there even a few days... If Luke was on Dagobah for a couple of weeks, then maybe they were like 2 days on the asteroid fixing and hiding, then maybe a few days travelling to Bespin and then like a week or so on Cloud City.

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Bounty Hunters might just hang around the Empire activities, especially the command ship of DV, expecting work.   and if DV was on the bridge looking for the MF, then that's where the bounty hunters need to be brought, they came to DV and he was on the bridge.  (agree with LexX's the set was already built comment)

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Maybe it was another variation on Vader's methods of motivating the troops.

He strangles Ozzel and Needa to death in full view of the bridge crew (after promoting Piett for pointing out Ozzel cutting corners) and then when they lose the Falcon he brings bounty hunters onto the bridge too.

He's saying to them "You guys better get your act together because nobody here is irreplaceable, if these goons can do better than you, what I use are you to me?" that sort of thing.

This is why I suggested having Piett finally having enough of this tactic in a reworked ROTJ.

It reminds me of how Caligula acts in I Claudius, (he gives high ranking generals he doesn't like amusing and humiliating watchwords to say like "Give us a Kiss" and "Bottoms up" and repeatedly kills people for seemingly bizarre reasons to keep the survivors on their toes, eventually they have enough and assassinate him).

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 (agree with LexX's the set was already built comment)

Me too.  I always go with an answer based on movie production rather than 'in-universe' answers. As far as why the bounty hunters at all, I think production wise it is a matter of finding a good spot to introduce Boba Fett and other cool characters in costumes. 

The Caligula comparison is interesting.  This makes the most sense as far as the plot is concerned.  It is easy to see Piett and the other officers have such a disdain towards the hunters, especially if Vader is trying to rub it in their faces.

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Perhaps, "We don't need their scum..." is short for "We don't need their scum, we can do the job well enough on our own.  I'm insulted they've been brought on board- they can't possibly do better than we are already doing."

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xhonzi said:

Perhaps, "We don't need their scum..." is short for "We don't need their scum, we can do the job well enough on our own.  I'm insulted they've been brought on board- they can't possibly do better than we are already doing."

That could be the prequel version of the dialogue.

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xhonzi said:

Perhaps, "We don't need their scum..." is short for "We don't need their scum, we can do the job well enough on our own.  I'm insulted they've been brought on board- they can't possibly do better than we are already doing."

 the full line is "Bounty Hunters! We dont need their scum, those Rebels wont escape us"

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