History Literature / StarWarsThePrincessAndTheScoundrel

* OmnicidalManiac: The Empire utilizes a mining station on the planet Madurs that will essentialy crack the planet into pieces over time. While the Empire initially seems willing to let the people leave their doomed world in a subversion of the characters' expectation of them to LeaveNoWitnesses, once [[spoiler: the Imperial commander - Beck, who already has an existing hatred of Han - discovers him and Leia on the planet she prevents anyone from leaving the planet, intending to kill ''everyone'' to ensure Han and Leia die with them.]]

** A group of people on Madura have spent some time [[spoiler:resisting the Imperial occupiers with bold and clever acts of sabotage (although they do little more than inconvenience the garrison) and preparing covert messages asking for help]]. However, the protagonists only learn of their existence in the last quarter of the book.

* FromBadToWorse: When they discover the Imperial mining presence on Madurs, Leia and Han are concerned about it polluting the planet's pristine landscape, and the greater scope problem of the Empire cutting off fuel lines across the galaxy. Then Zalma comes planetside to fix their ship, and immediately informs them of a bigger, much more immediate problem: [[spoiler: the Imperial installation isn't just polluting, it's actively cracking the planet apart and will soon destroy it completely.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Amidst the hordes of callow BystanderSyndrome sufferers on the ship, Leia also notices two Rebel sympathizers who secretly provided the campaign against the Empire starship funding and information respectively, but neither of them interacts with her on page.

* BatmanGambit: Lando getting Han to actually wear a nice (and more importantly ''clean'') jacket to his and Leia's wedding rather than his usual smuggler attire. Lando tells Han the jacket he's offering to loan him is originally from Alderaann. Han realizes how much such a symbolic gesture would mean to Leia, so he instantly agrees and dons the fine-wear for the ceremony.

** Leia reflects on how Luke lost his family on Tatooine to the Empire just as much as she lost Bail and Breha to Tarkin. She then wonders if Owen and Behru truly were ''her'' family as well. The audience of course knows they ''were'' the Skywalker Family in-laws thanks to [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Clegg Lars marrying Shmi]].

* FauxShadowing: Kelad, the inventor Han meets early in the story, is established as an expert in gravity manipulation and tractor beam technology. He gets busted for trying to kidnap Leia and stowing away, but is specifically sent to work off his debt in the Halcyon's engineering department. Later, on the planet Madurs, Han and Leia come across a seemingly impregnable Imperial mining facility that is specifically noted to run on advanced gravity manipulation and tractor beam technology. The characters immediately think of using Kelad's perfectly aligned skillset to defeat it... and then, just as they send a shuttle for him, [[spoiler: the Empire cuts all transport to and from the planet]] and Kelad is forced to sit the whole adventure out. He does, however, put his tractor beam knowledge to work in helping to stop the BigBad from escaping.

** In the wake of Endor, Lando is concerned about Bespin - which is in [[VideoGame/StarWarsUprising the Anoat System, whose governor has begun denying the death of Palpatine and has seized draconian control over its citizens.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Green Group led by Shara Bey saves the ''Halcyon'' when it falls under attack by an Imperial Star Destroyer.]]

* TheEngineer: Zalma Trinkris, head engineer of the Halcyon, is sent down to Matra to fix Han and Leia's shuttle after Leia "accidentally" ruins it beyond repair. He quickly becomes indispensable to the rest of their adventure, which requires a plan to disabling an advanced Imperial installation.

* FauxShadowing: Kelad, the inventor Han meets early in the story, is established as an expert in gravity manipulation and tractor beam technology. He gets busted for trying to kidnap Leia and stowing away, but is specifically sent to work off his debt in the Halcyon's engineering department. Later, on the planet Matra, Han and Leia come across a seemingly impregnable Imperial mining facility that is specifically noted to run on advanced gravity manipulation and tractor beam technology. The characters immediately think of using Kelad's perfectly aligned skillset to defeat it... and then, just as they send a shuttle for him, [[spoiler: the Empire cuts all transport to and from the planet]] and Kelad is forced to sit the whole adventure out. He does, however, put his tractor beam knowledge to work in helping to stop the BigBad from escaping.

* OmnicidalManiac: The Empire utilizes a mining station on the planet Matra that will essentialy crack the planet into pieces over time. While the Empire initially seems willing to let the people leave their doomed world in a subversion of the characters' expectation of them to LeaveNoWitnesses, once [[spoiler: the Imperial commander - Beck, who already has an existing hatred of Han - discovers him and Leia on the planet she prevents anyone from leaving the planet, intending to kill ''everyone'' to ensure Han and Leia die with them.]]

* SingleBiomePlanet: Matra is an Ice World. Han expects it to be exactly like Hoth, but it turns out to be very different despite the similarity: while Hoth was a planet consumed by uninhabitable blizzard, Matra has cool but calm weather and is a beautiful landscape of ice plates and mountains where people can live comfortably, making it a prime tourist destination... if not for [[spoiler: the Imperial occupation intending to exploit the planet's fuel reserves.]]