Synopsis for The Empire Strikes Back Adaptation Part 2 of 6: "Battleground Hoth!"

Yoda (First Mentioned)
Admiral Ozzel (Death)
Admiral Piett (First appearance as Admiral Piett)
General Veers (First appearance)
Captain Lennox (First appearance)
General Rieekan (First appearance)
Major Derlin (First appearance)
Lieutenant Jamiro (First appearance)
Lieutenant Dak Ralter (First appearance) (Death)
Lieutenant Klivian (First appearance)
Lieutenant Zev Senesca (First appearance)
Lieutenant Farr (First appearance)
Snowtroopers (First appearance)
AT-ATs (First appearance)
AT-STs (First appearance)

At the medical center of Echo Base on Hoth, Luke Skywalker is recovering from wounds sustained from an attack by a wampa ice monster. A tender moment between Princess Leia and him is briefly shared before Han Solo and Chewbacca enter to check on Luke’s status. Leia and Han argue a bit and Leia kisses Luke in order to make Han jealous.

Meanwhile on board the super Star Destroyer, Executor, Lord Vader’s crew receives the information transmitted by the Imperial Viper probe droid. Vader knows that the rebel base is on Hoth and orders the fleet towards that location.
Admiral Ozzel of the Empire brings the fleet out of lightspeed too quickly thus alerting the Rebels to their presence. As such, the rebels activate an energy field keeping all laser fire from reaching the planet. As punishment for this, Darth Vader uses the Force to strangle Ozzel. He promotes Captain Piett of the Executor to Ozzel’s position.

The Empire deploys AT-AT and AT-ST walkers to the planets surface. Under the command of General Veers, their purpose is to take out the generators that power the energy field. Luke Skywalker leads a squad of snowspeeders to counter the Walkers while Bren Derlin leads the ground assault.

Han Solo meanwhile, has Chewbacca prep the Millennium Falcon so that he can get the Princess off the planet.

During the ground battle, Luke’s gunner Dak Ralter is killed and their speeder crashes into a snow bank. An Imperial Walker bears down on them ready to crush the crippled speeder with one of its feet.

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