The GROUP surveys the scene before them: SEVEN IMPERIAL STAR DESTROYERS are parked ominously in the distance, where the narrow canyon opens out onto a vast salt flat. Sitting atop a large rocky outcrop on the other side of the valley, an ancient HUTT CASTLE overshadows the immense mining area. Great mounds of DEACTIVATED DROIDS litter the canyon floor. HAN, LEIA, and LUKE watch as hovering MINE CART TRAINS, guided by an automated repulsor track system embedded in the ground, periodically emerge from the base of the mountain they are on. The CARTS transport loads of spice across the wide junkyard to a large purpose-built FACTORY situated on the valley floor below the old stone castle. As the empty MINE CARTS emerge from the other end to return to the mountain, HAN indicates the structure.
HAN: That building was never there before. Looks like some sort of refinery plant or something. And see that system of pipes running out of it over to the mines? Those are new too.
LEIA: What are they up to?
LUKE: (pointing) Look, down there - A squad of Imperial soldiers bringing more droids out of the tunnels.
HAN: The Hutts have always used labor droids in the spice mines, but it looks like the Imperials are doing away with ‘em... I wonder why?