After The Empire Strikes Back and before The Return of the Jedi, there was a time when heroes and villains alike lived in the shadows of the Empire. carbonite-encased Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt, so Darth Vader scours the galaxy for his son, Luke Skywalker. Emperor's right hand. Luke finds himself the prize in a power struggle between the two most evil entities in the galaxy -- one who wants him alive and one who wants him dead