Current Events > Do you think Han Solo ever got his 17,000 credits that Kenobi promised him?

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Kenobi promised a total of 17,000 credits to take him, Luke, and the droids to Alderaan. Solo got them away from the Imperial forces and made it to where Alderaan was supposed to be.

Turns out, Alderaan was no more. So technically, deal was off, right?

But also, Kenobi opted for assisted suicide soon after. So, did Han get cheated out of his payday?

Jedi are supposed to be the good guys.

He did. Luke even accuses him of just taking the money and running before the Death Star assault.

With a guy like Han, i'm guessing he got atleast a large part of that up front, but off camera

Pretty sure theres a scene at the rebel base where he is handling some sort of case that presumably has his payment while talking about his plan to leave them to the fight. Though I would guess the Rebel Alliance paid up on Kenobis behalf

Yes, he got paid by the rebels after arriving at Yavin 4 and was getting ready to bolt, which is why Luke was really annoyed with him.

After he helped Luke destroy the Death Star, he had cast his lot with the Alliance so paying off Jabba became the least of his concerns.

Pitlord_Special posted...

Pretty sure theres a scene at the rebel base where he is handling some sort of case that presumably has his payment while talking about his plan to leave them to the fight.

Yep. During the Death Star escape, Leia tells Han directly "if money is all you care about, that's what you'll receive." The rebels paid him for sure.

YoBlazer posted...

Yep. During the Death Star escape, Leia tells Han directly "if money is all you care about, that's what you'll receive." The rebels paid him for sure.

"Your friend is quite the mercenary. It's a wonder he cares about anything, or anybody."

"...I care."

Nah, I dont think he did, we never see it and if it ended up on the editing room floor its not canon

https://images.app.goo.gl/SZGNWv2RyJG8SDQN8

Here he is loading the money while Luke gives him grief for leaving.

Obi with the impossible to get to destination and suicide. Big brained move to dodge a payment.

We never saw the credits train though.

Have we all forgotten that part in Empire Strikes Back where he mentions that he was on his way to pay off Jabba when a run-in with a bounty hunter changed his mind? He got his credits.

By the way, I'm kinda surprised Disney hasn't used that actor from the Solo movie to finally show us that scene where he lost his credits / was prevented from reaching Jabba. Maybe that'll be in the next Disney+ series.

Desert hobo made a kid sell his car for the upfront cost and then he was going to make people on Alderaan pay the rest of his bill.

Who was the real villain, here?

Mussurana posted...

Here he is loading the money while Luke gives him grief for leaving.

17k, and Han is stacking the crates containing it. Yet in Phantom Menace, Qui Gon offers Watto 20k for the hyperdrive. No crates, so we assume Qui Gon has the money on him. Reasonable conclusion; Leia decided to be a dick about it, and did the Star Wars equivalent of handing over sacks of pennies.

The question is, was that simply the reward for helping rescue Leia? Or did they really honor Kenobi's deal as well?

I know he got paid, but did he get paid for both things or just the one?

FortuneCookie posted...

Have we all forgotten that part in Empire Strikes Back where he mentions that he was on his way to pay off Jabba when a run-in with a bounty hunter changed his mind? He got his credits.

By the way, I'm kinda surprised Disney hasn't used that actor from the Solo movie to finally show us that scene where he lost his credits / was prevented from reaching Jabba. Maybe that'll be in the next Disney+ series.

That ain't what he said fool.

__aCEr__ posted...

Desert hobo made a kid sell his car for the upfront cost and then he was going to make people on Alderaan pay the rest of his bill.

Who was the real villain, here?

And

008Zulu posted...

17k, and Han is stacking the crates containing it. Yet in Phantom Menace, Qui Gon offers Watto 20k for the hyperdrive. No crates, so we assume Qui Gon has the money on him. Reasonable conclusion; Leia decided to be a dick about it, and did the Star Wars equivalent of handing over sacks of pennies.

Hahaha.

008Zulu posted...

17k, and Han is stacking the crates containing it. Yet in Phantom Menace, Qui Gon offers Watto 20k for the hyperdrive. No crates, so we assume Qui Gon has the money on him. Reasonable conclusion; Leia decided to be a dick about it, and did the Star Wars equivalent of handing over sacks of pennies.

Its possible the money was on the ship and he would have had it delivered after the transaction was confirmed.

Or more likely, its just another one of the prequel trilogys many mistakes (albeit a very minor one).

Dark_Arbron posted...

Its possible the money was on the ship and he would have had it delivered after the transaction was confirmed.

Or more likely, its just another one of the prequel trilogys many mistakes (albeit a very minor one).

I wouldn't call it a mistake at all.

Just because we don't see Qui-Gon haul around crates full of credits doesn't mean shit. The credits could be onboard the ship and they didn't want to risk hauling that much currency around in to Mos Espa when they could have been robbed. It makes sense to locate the desired parts, strike a deal, then come back with the credits.

It'd be pretty dumb to haul that much around. It's begging for conflict.

And that is assuming they weren't carrying some sort of credit card or other way to pay digitally.

Just_a_loser posted...

Just because we don't see Qui-Gon haul around crates full of credits doesn't mean shit. The credits could be onboard the ship

That's exactly what the first half of my post said.

The second half of my post was making the point that George Lucas shouldn't be given enough credit to assume that was the intention.

Dark_Arbron posted...

Its possible the money was on the ship and he would have had it delivered after the transaction was confirmed.

Can't imagine the queen keeping 20k (or more) on her ship.