Princess Leia's sellout of Dantooine

That’s F’d up. After they made her what she was she totally dumped on them. Not cool!

I don't think she knew they were going to nuke the planet. I think her intention was to lead them to an old abandoned base.

" Sometimes you've just got to roll the hard six. "

On the plus side, Jabba the Hutt and his family would have been wiped out so that Hans wouldn't be frozen in Carbonite in the next movie.

Okay, fanboys, make yourselves useful. Has Lucas or any official Canon writer ever stated wither Dantooine was inhabited?

Because if it wasn't, she at least buys time and hopes to save Alderaan, and too bad about Alderaan but at least she tried. And as it happened buying herself a little time was worth it, because someone was going to rescue her shortly.

As far as I recall, The Empire investigated Dantooine and came back saying that it was a deserted rebel base. I don't remember them actually attacking the planet; did I miss something?

Yes... in reading the comments, I'm surprised how many people think that Tatooine (Luke's home planet, location of the Hutt's, etc.) and Dantooine were the same world and that Leia sold them out. They were, obviously, two different planets. Both remote, but separate worlds.

If we use a little common sense and what we can take from the movies, it is obvious that, not only are they different worlds, but the planet of Dantooine was uninhabited.

First off... if you want to build a secret base, you don't build it on a planet full of other intelligent inhabitants, especially one like Tatooine that had a place like Mos Eisley, full of hired hands and criminals who would sell out the Rebellion in a heartbeat. It would be impossible that, with all the Rebel traffic coming in and out of a base, even built out in the most remote region of Tatooine, someone wouldn't notice and report that to the Empire for a hefty reward. A secret base on Tatooine would have been secret for about an hour.

Second... the entire opening act of Star Wars takes place over and on Tatooine. Leia's ship is disabled and captured over Tatooine, which is how the droids got there after ejecting in the escape pod. Following that, there are imperial troops all over that planet (hence the scenes in Mos Eisley where Luke and Ben are avoiding any "imperial entanglements"). If Tatooine/Dantooine were the same planet, once Leia told Tarkin that the Rebel base was on Dantooine, Tarkin would have been like, "Yeah, we were just there and scanned that entire planet. Nice try, but, no." So, it's obvious that Dantooine is a completely separate planet from Tatooine. One that the Empire actually had to dispatch ships to in order to investigate Leia's claim.

Finally... as I said before, if you are going to build a secret base, you build it in a place where there are no intelligent inhabitants that will be able to sell you out to the Empire. The two, actual Rebel bases we know of were built on the remote, uninhabited worlds of Yavin 4 and the ice planet Hoth. No intelligent life forms to notice the sudden surge in space-faring traffic and sell you out to the Empire.

So, Leia knew what she was doing, and wasn't selling out a largely inhabited planet to protect her own. The fact that the Rebellion had a habit of building their bases on remote, uninhabited worlds that Tarkin found to be too remote to be a good demonstration is no fault of hers.

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