One great downside of the Empire was that, in the course of wresting and keeping control, a great deal of history was buried and lost. People are easier to subjugate if they don't know there's anything else. They've been trying to rebuild, to keep more than the barest sense of oral history, but with the galaxy so scattered it's difficult.

Han would hate to have a holofilm about his life.

"Vader wanted Luke, planned to have him frozen. Once the trap was set they didn't need me, so." He strives not to look uncomfortable, and the best he can manage is to look detached. "They tested the carbon freeze and the bounty hunter took me back to Jabba."