Four years pass between the events of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, but only one year passes between Empire and Return of the Jedi. During this time, while Han Solo was frozen in carbonite, the adventures of the Rebel Alliance continued. Before the current post-2014 real-deal Lucasfilm canon, this missing year was chronicled twice within Star Wars Legends; first by Marvel Comics in the early 1980s and again in 1996 with the Shadows of the Empire multimedia project, which spanned a Dark Horse Comics miniseries, a novel by Steve Perry, and an unforgettable video game for the N64.
