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In The Empire Strikes Back, as Han Solo leaves to look for Luke Skywalker he is confronted by a Rebel soldier
Deck Officer: Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker.
Han: Then I'll see you in hell!
To what is he referring? Is there a concept of Heaven and Hell in the Star Wars universe?
A quick search in the Wookieepedia with the word "religion" produces at least seven results that are labelled as religion. In other words, seven articles in the Wookieepedia that specify a particular religion. The first seven are:
Also, in the article on Corellian Religion, it starts with the sentence:
Like many worlds, Corellia had its own religious traditions, associated almost solely with those from the planet.
So the first part of the answer would be, "Which religion are you referring to?"
Since you are referring to the comment from Han, and he's a Corellian, we'll look at that one. There are, according to the Wookieepedia, three comments made, including in the Extended Universe, that relate to Corellian beliefs and hell:
One aspect of Corellian hell is Chaos. This is a special region of the Nether World of the Force where the souls of darklings (you know -- Dark Jedi, Sith - bad people like that) go when they die. It's worth noting that, in the Star Wars universe, there's support for this, since Force Ghosts talk about this (the Netherworld of the Force, that is) and Qui-Gon has been there and back.
So Corellians believe in different hells. Heaven is a different topic.
The Jedi believe that the souls those who aren't Force sensitive and die will lose their individual identities as they merge with the Force. (Similar to the Buddhist concept of Nirvana.)
There's no reference to an actual heaven that I could find, other than Force sensitives being able to exist as Force ghosts and eventually merging with the Force in the Force Netherworld. No mention is made of just how Force-sensitive one must be to be able to become a Force ghost or to not just merge with the Force on death.
So there's no direct indication of a heaven in Corellian religion that we know of, but since some of their beliefs tend to coincide with the Jedi, they may believe more in souls merging with the Force than a heaven where we keep our self-awareness.
(So I guess if the midichlorians don't like you enough to multiply and give you a high midichlorian count, you're just S.O.L. when you deep six it.)
Yes, Hell does. It's also known as Chaos.
It's a place "inhabited by the spirits of deceased Dark Lords of the Sith, Dark Jedi, and the spirits of all evil sentient beings who had died."
As for Heaven, apart from a brief mention in the name of a drink, I don't think so.
This is addressed directly by Pablo Hidalgo in Star Wars Insider #67. In short, Han's home planet of Corellia observes a religion with no less than 9 different hells. It's not really clear which one Han is referring to.
Q. Do characters of the Star Wars universe believe in Heaven and/or Hell? I only ask because of Han's remark in The Empire Strikes Back before setting out to find Luke.
PH: ... Corellian beliefs include no less than nine types of hell, though the exact nature of each hell hasn't been explained. Han's use of the term is probably more of a cultural colloquialism than any indication of being deeply religious.
Tango's answer says "There's no reference to an actual heaven that I could find", so I just wanted to add that when I googled "afterlife" with the search restricted to site:starwars.fandom.com I did find a few references to heaven-like afterlives in Legends canon, though I haven't found any in the new Disney canon.
For example, the Legends entry for the human Peccati Syn says:
The male Human Peccati Syn was born on the planet Taris into a deeply religious family, who devoutly followed the pacifist, karmic religion known as the Sacred Way, and its Holy-Book. His parents instilled in him the belief that, should he adhere to his religion's tenets, he would reach a glorious, idyllic afterlife, and Syn lived a happy, devoted childhood.
And the Legends entry for Xi Char says:
They thought that all life was a shadow of the paradise of the afterlife, believing that creating machines was a way to glimpse the afterlife.
The Gungans seem to have had a kind of Valhalla-like happy afterlife for warriors, called Otoh-D'in:
Otoh-D'in was a location in Gungan mythology. According to legend, it was a heavenly garden hidden in the middle of the Nabooian swamps. It was thought that the god of war Balam had built Otoh-D'in to be the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous soldiers. In Otoh-D'in, the souls of the braves would live a blessed and happy afterlife, playing strategy games and organizing mock battles.
There's a hundred religions on Earth, past and present, that believe in hell in one form or another. It's not a great leap of imagination that other religions would have this notion as well, although who knows what alien minds are really like?
