"When Darth Vader forced Lando Calrissian to modify the carbon freezing chamber, Lando warned the Sith Lord that putting people into carbon freeze could prove fatal. And from the moment Han Solo was frozen in carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back, one aspect of Star Wars technology went on to redefine what was even possible in the faraway galaxy. Even as recently as The Mandalorian, carbon freezing technology has been treated as commonplace, no longer as dangerous as Lando made it sound in Empire."
"As Ron describes, the carbonite leaks in "gas form" on this planet and billows out into the open air during earthquakes. And so, like people frozen in place by Medusa's gaze, innocents are frozen in carbonite not by a controlled freezing process like in Empire, but by a freak chemical storm. In this context, "a third of the planet is carbon frozen.""
Carbonite freezing moved from a controlled, dangerous procedure to a normalized technology across the Star Wars timeline. The Visions episode "The Lost Ones" imagines raw carbonite material unleashed as an environmental catastrophe rather than a single-person process. A Jedi survivor named F crash-lands on a former carbonite-mining planet and encounters Ron, a local survivor. The planet leaks carbonite in gas form during earthquakes, freezing inhabitants in place and leaving roughly a third of the world carbon frozen. The scenario reframes a small, quirky technology as a large-scale, deadly hazard when released uncontrolled.
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