How to quickly and accurately harpoon cable an AT-AT. The right (read: lucrative) way to freeze a Corellian smuggler in carbonite. Using the Force as Triple-A after landing your X-Wing in a swamp. Everything we need to know about how to live in the midst of far, far away galactic conflict we learned from The Empire Strikes Back

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To celebrate all of the win Episode V taught us, IGN would like to teach you a few things – 100 of 'em, actually – about the best Star Wars movie ever made.We plugged C-3P0 into the hyperdrive – because we could – and then went to work tracking down 100 factoids about the making of the movie, about the version of Empire that almost was and other geek-friendly factoids about toys and memorabilia linked to this sacred sequel.With the help of Lucasfilm, The Star Wars Encyclopedia, IMDB.com, the original making-of journal, various Star Wars websites, the DVD commentary and our own IGN geek tank, we present to you 100 rounds of ammunition, for the next time you challenge that guy in line at Comic-Con to a geek-off.

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The original first draft of Empire was written by Leigh Brackett, a prolific science-fiction author, in 1978. The plot of the movie? Just a bit different: "While Han Solo goes in search of his Father-In-Law, Ovan Marekal, who has political ties with Darth Vader Luke Skywalker heads to the Bog Planet where he meets a frog-like Jedi named Minch, who teaches him the ways of the force."The film would have opened with Luke on the ice planet (which was not called Hoth at the time), overlooking a massive ice ridge, fascinated with the scene like he was with Tatooine's twin suns in Episode IV.We know the permanent ice planet to be called Hoth. But in the original script, Hoth was the name of the planet that houses Cloud City. And yep, Cloud City is no longer called "Cloud City." Its name? Orbital City.The Imperial Walker sequence and ensuing battle is not in this script.In this version, the Empire does not attack the rebel base, ever. Instead, Wampas attack and infiltrate our heroes' icy compound.In Lawrence Kasdan's draft of the script, commissioned after Brackett's, the Wampas and the Empire attack the Rebel Base. There are images of the Wampa attack filmed floating out there somewhere. We hope and pray that footage of this sequence will be included on the Blu-ray release.Once Luke is taken captive and turned into a frozen Wampa snack, the original draft deviates from the movie we all know and love. How so? Gone is the Jabba-Han subplot and the bounty hunters, and in its place is Solo going after his stepfather, a man named Ovan Marekal. Ovan is a huge political bigwig who's carefully aligned himself with Darth Vader to protect the people of the galaxy. The Rebels believe that if Han can get to him, he may be able to convince him to fight against Vader, giving the otherwise helpless Rebel Army a fighting chance. Some of Ovan's backstory would find its way into the character of Lando in the final film. Lando Calrissian was originally named Baron Lando Kadar.In the Brackett draft, when we meet Darth Vader, he's just kinda chillin' in a castle (?!) on the planet of Ton Muund, a proto-Coruscant type city planet. We also meet the Emperor here for the first time, and he's wearing a golden robe (cringe!). The Emperor tells him to go find Luke Skywalker, the man who destroyed the Death Star, because he believes he possesses the Force. Yoda was originally a frog thing called Minch. And Minch/Yoda's home was the Bog Planet, and not the galaxy's Everglades equivalent known as Dagobah.When Minch/Yoda is explaining the ways of Jedi sword fighting, he calls on Obi-Wan , who appears, and then Obi-Wan and Minch/Yoda have a lightsaber battle.Luke's fight with Fake "Force cave" Vader is actually a fight with a Celestial Vader! In the original story, the swamp and the cave disappear, and Luke and Vader lightsaber it out in deep space. Vader even grabs a handful of stars to show how powerful the Dark Side can be. (That scene was apparently sponsored by LSD.)In this version, Chewbacca gets jealous of Han and Leia spending so much time together. The Wookiee growls whenever the two are all Ross and Rachel with each other. And to add insult to injury, Threepio makes fun of the walking carpet for it.The Bog Planet-Skywalker Family Reunion? Yep, that's in here. Brackett wrote a scene where, before Luke leaves Swamptopia, Ben's Force ghost introduces Luke to his father – Anakin, not Vader, and not the Mustafar'd version either. Before Luke takes off for Cloud City, his father tells him that he has a sister and that the Dark Side is bad news (no s@#!).Brackett wrote a scene where Solo, before going to Orbital/Cloud City, visits the planet's surface and finds an ancient city occupied by Na'vi-like aliens called "Cloud People." (Sigh.) These aliens are white-skinned, white-haired folk who travel by way of flying Manta Rays.Our first insight into the Clone Wars – rather, their cloning process – would have been seen in this version of Empire. Ya see, younglings, Lando was revealed to be a Clone Trooper, using his blood to make himself new versions of, er, himself…Luke uses the Cloud People to help him get to Orbital City. Once there, he and Vader engage in an epic lightsaber duel.Well, Luke sets his Midi-chlorians to "Badass" and unleashes the Force on Vader – Force tossing equipment off the walls at Vader and just kicking ass. The fight's big twist? Vader is letting Luke win. The number one cause of death for Imperial officers named "Needa" tricks Luke into using his rage as a means to expose young Skywalker to the Dark Side. The evil almost consumes Luke, as this movie proves to be a study focusing on how Luke resists the Dark Side's temptations.But what about getting his hand chopped off? Sadly, Luke retains his limb but does escape via the Falcon, just like in the final film.