What is Cloud City?

What is Cloud City? Han says it’s a tibanna gas mine, but what *is* that, and what is tibanna gas? The city floated in orbit above the planet Bespin, which was a gas giant. The city was constructed to harvest tibanna gas from the atmosphere, where it was processed and frozen in carbonite. Tibann had many uses throughout the galaxy. It could be used as fuel or as a coolant, or it could help power hyperdrives, turbolasers, and repulsorlifts. Some alien species, like the Muqularan, even breathed tibanna. So it was a highly sought after resource. What’s more is Cloud City was small enough to fall outside of the notice of the Empire or the Mining Guild…which was also under the umbrella of the Empire. Of course the events of Episode Five changed all of that. #starwars

[oClock]

This is one of those things where if you pay attention to the film, you kinda get the same gist, but not everyone's gonna do that or even remember it afterwards.

[AIMusicMaster]

Cloud city is my favorite location in Star Wars to me it feels like a giant liminal space and I have a big thing for liminal spaces

[pocketmarcy]

Seeing as there are likely just as many gas giants as terrestrial worlds, are there gas harvesting operations all across the galaxy?

[frky]

bespin was my favourite planet while watching the original trilogy, but once the prequels came out, it was coruscant everyday all🙌
(also, delete those bot comments, they’ve infected your video)

[Fedaygin]

Thanks for the details. Good september 🤞🏼

[rubberneckinc.]

Question; After the war does Lando go back to Cloud City? Is he still in charge?

[vic]

And some people think we could one day have cloud city-typr settlements in Venus's atmosphere.

[jeffreycarman]

Between leading the Death Star directly to the rebel base on Yavin 4 (instead of switching ships) and leading The Empire to Cloud City Luke, Leah, Han, and Chewy have a lot to answer for…

[Constant_Of_Morality]

It's odd to not mention Cloud City's Founder "Ecclessis Fig", Who first started it's foundations to what it eventually became 400 Years before the Original Trilogy.

[wpatrickw]

From what I understand the empire had influence over the mining guild, but the reverse was also true

[iampaulzy]

What is episode 5, why do you guys keep saying that? Just say "The Empire Strikes Back"?

[littlesneez]

We might have these in the far future when we colonize jupiter. After all, helium 3 is a very good energy source, and is very common there.

[zacmumblethunder]

Ok, those uses are interesting, but the big question is...





Does it make your voice sound funny if you breathe it?

[michaelnoble]

You can't "float in orbit".

[lillyanneserrelio]

I would be happy living as a lowly moisture farmer if it meant living in this universe