Why did Han let someone else rebuild the Millennium Falcon?
In his younger days, Han wouldn’t have dreamed of letting anyone else touch the Falcon. Like Luke, he has too much of the Saturday-afternoon driveway-mechanic in him. But the simple fact of the matter is that he has too many other responsibilities. He’s the father of three fairly demanding kids, and the spouse of the single most important government official in the Galaxy. To borrow a phrase from a contemporary philosopher, the days are just packed. And don’t overlook the fact that one of the reasons Chewie and Han did so much by themselves, and were so ‘creative’ in their modifications, was that (a) they were always short of credits, and (b) they were usually working on the other side of the law. They had more time than money, and speed was more important than safety. Now things are exactly reversed–Han has more money than time, and you look at the ‘family car’ a lot differently than you look at a Friday-night-cruising hot rod. Besides, Leia got tired of being stranded when something
