“We’ve come out of hyperspace into a meteor shower, some kind of asteroid collision.”
Han didn’t consider it to be an asteroid field, it wasn’t named as such. It was smaller debris.
The asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back isn’t given an origin on-screen, it’s just there. It’s obviously been there for quite a while, though. It’s got native megafauna living in it.
I checked Wookieepedia and there’s Legends material that establishes a variety of different explanations for the asteroids, but they’re all natural and all happened in the ancient past.
The asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back, the one most prominent in pop culture, was not from a recently destroyed planet.
The one in A New Hope was. What was the origin of the one in Empire?
When the Falcon drops out of hyperspace in A New Hope Han says:
Han didn’t consider it to be an asteroid field, it wasn’t named as such. It was smaller debris.
The asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back isn’t given an origin on-screen, it’s just there. It’s obviously been there for quite a while, though. It’s got native megafauna living in it.
I checked Wookieepedia and there’s Legends material that establishes a variety of different explanations for the asteroids, but they’re all natural and all happened in the ancient past.
I see. Good point.