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"Never tell me the odds!"

- Han Solo

Han Solo was a human male Corellian smuggler-turned-general in the Alliance to Restore the Republic who lived during the last years of the Galactic Republic, and throughout the age of the Galactic Empire. Solo was born on the planet Corellia and was orphaned at a young age, where, In order to survive, he became a thief, before eventually obtaining a starship, which he used to begin his career as a smuggler. At some point, Solo met and rescued the Wookiee Chewbacca from a life of slavery under the Galactic Empire's regime, and the pair became lifelong friends. Solo also won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian in a game of Sabacc, which bolstered the confidence of Solo, so he began smuggling for Jabba the Hutt.

Some time later on the planet Stennes, Solo supposedly married the woman Sana after deceiving a Sultan and his daughter in the Boz Pity system.

Early life
"Just blast everything and fly a fast ship. And bring a Wookiee. Works for me."

- Han Solo

Han Solo was born on the planet Corellia during the waning years Galactic Republic. He was orphaned at a young age, and turned to a life of crime as a thief in order to survive the perils of the galaxy. Solo at some point, acquired a starship and became an exceptional pilot. Solo began working outside of the Galactic Empire's laws, and began a career as a smuggling. Solo met the Wookiee Chewbacca, who he saved from imprisonment. Chewbacca thereby became Solo's first mate aboard his ship and the smuggling duo became lifelong friends. Solo and Chewbacca, at some point, met the self-proclaimed galactic entrepreneur and gambler Lando Calrissian. Solo played a game of Sabacc against Calrissian, and won his YT-1300 light freighter, the Millennium Falcon. The Falcon became Solo's most prized possession, and with their new ship, Solo and Chewbacca began engaging in much more dangerous and risky smuggling operations.

At some point, Solo met a woman, Sana, who he later married; though their relationship eventually crumbled, and Sana believed the only thing Solo was good for was lying, likening him to a "scoundrel." Solo and Chewbacca also crash-landed on a planet in the Monsua Nebula that was entirely covered in electrical super-storms and cyclones. But beneath the storms, a beautiful oasis laid, and Solo located a cave that he turned into a smuggling den, storing Corellian wine and other things within. He and Chewbacca used the den several time over the years.

Eventually, the pair came into the employment of the Outer Rim crime lord Jabba the Hutt who was based off the desert planet Tatooine, and he was also the leader of the powerful Hutt Clan. Solo and Chewbacca smuggled for Jabba for many years and Solo became Jabba's top smuggler. The smuggling duo also spent much time in the Mos Eisley Cantina looking for work. However, they were forced to dump a shipment of valuable spice, an addictive drug, when the Falcon was boarded by an Imperial crew who would have surly arrested Solo and Chewbacca if they had been caught with the illicit drug. Solo and Chewbacca returned to Jabba, who placed a large bounty on the pair; it was only intended to be removed if Solo paid restitution for the Hutt's loss. Solo, some time later,in order to repay the Hutt, smuggled for the Pyke Syndicate, who controlled a near-monopoly over the spice trade, from the planet Kessel where the syndicate's controlled the Spice mines of Kessel. Solo and Chewbacca were hired to transport spice from Kessel to the syndicate's customers; known as the foolhardy Kessel Runs. Using the Falcon, Solo broke a long-held record for the Kessel Run, he completed the challenge in less than twelve parsecs.

A fateful business venture
"Seventeen-thousand! Those guys must really be desperate&mdash;this could really save my neck. Get back to the ship and get it ready." "Hurrr."

- Han Solo to Chewbacca, after meeting with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker Some time after losing Jabba's cargo, Solo and Chewbacca traveled to the Mos Eisley Cantina to look for work to pay off Jabba. Chewbacca soon met Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, also known as Ben Kenobi, who was seeking charter to the Alderaan system on a mission of vital importance for the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Kenobi defended young Skywalker from criminals Ponda Baba and Cornelius Evazan with his lightsaber; revealing himself as a Jedi before making their way to Solo's booth. They arrived and began bartering terms of the deal. Solo assured Kenobi that his ship, the Millennium Falcon, was the fastest around, because it had made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. Kenobi informed Solo that the cargo was only himself, Skywalker and two droids, and that they wanted to avoid Imperials entirely. Therefore, Solo set the price higher than he normally would have at 10,000 credits. However, Kenobi raised Solo's bid to 17,000 credits: 2,000 in advance and 15,000 when they reached Alderaan. Solo was perplexed that Kenobi had raised his bid and quickly accepted the deal. The smuggler then told his temporary employer to meet him in Docking Bay 94 for departure as soon as he was ready, before warning Kenobi that some Imperial sandtroopers had entered the cantina and were looking for Evazan and Baba's attacker. So, Kenobi and Skywalker hastily fled, leaving Solo to express his elation to Chewbacca at having garnered such a high-paying job to pay off Jabba. Chewbacca left as well right after.

As solo got up to leave, he was confronted by one of Jabba's bounty hunters: the Rodian Greedo. Greedo demanded to be payed Jabba's debt, or he would take Solo's dead body back to Jabba as payment. Solo, therefore, in self defense, nonchalantly pulled his DL-44 blaster pitol and shot Greedo from under the table at the same time Greedo fired his weapon&mdash;although, Solo hit his target and Greedo did not. Solo ignored the Murder tax Jabba had enacted some time before, and tossed Wuher, the cantina's bartender, some credit chips and apologized for the mess before heading to Docking Bay 94.

Solo arrived in the docking and found Jabba himself, with several of his guards&mdash;including Jabba's top bounty hunter Boba Fett&mdash; looking for him near the Falcon. Jabba inquired as to whether Solo was going to pay him, and why he had "fryed poor Greedo." Jabba was disappointed in having to put the bounty on Solo; the crime lord's top smuggler. Solo insisted he had had no choice but to dump the cargo, and informed the Hutt that he had secured a charter that would be able to compensate the Hutt's loss in full as soon as he completed it. Jabba was pleased and added that if Solo paid twenty percent interest all could be forgotten, however, Solo talked him down to fifteen percent, and ironically stated that the Hutt was a "wonderful Human being," before entering the Falcon.

A short time later, Kenbobi, Skywalker and their two droids, the protocol droid C-3PO, and the astromech droid R2-D2, boarded the Falcon after Skywalker remarked that the Falcon appeared to be a "piece of junk." Solo, however, corrected him: The Millennium Falcon looked out-of-shape, but had been given "special modification" that made it one of the fastest ships in the galaxy. Just then, a squad of stormtroopers appeared in the docking bay and opened fire on Solo. Solo fired back while retreating on board to tell Chewbacca to take off. The Falcon blasted away from the Mos Eisley spaceport and clear of Tatooine. Solo inserted coordinates to the Alderaan system into the Falcon's navigation computer while teaching farmboy Skywalker the importance of entering the correct coordinates: If it was not done correctly, the ship could run into any number of dangers associated with space travel. The Falcon outran two Imperial Star Destroyers and jumped into hyperspace.

While en route to Alderaan, Solo boasted of outrunning the "Imperial slugs," but was annoyed when everyone ignored him. Chewbacca and R2-D2, often shortened to Artoo, were playing a game of Dejarik when Artoo outplayed the Wookiee, so Solo warned the droids not to upset him because Wookiee rage was not something C-3PO,often shortened to Threepio, a droid programmed in protocol would want to experience. Skywalker, meanwhile, trained with a remote with his lightsaber, trying to deflect the sting bolts with the civilized weapon. Solo was skeptical of the Force&mdash;the energy field that connected all living things in the galaxy, and the Jedi, like Kenboi, were able to use to perform seemingly supernatural feats&mdash;because in all his travels he had never seen proof that pointed to its existence; to Solo, it was all "simple tricks and nonsense." Kenobi took Solo's skepticism as a challenge and but a helmet over looks face so he couldn't see. Skywalker tried to deflect the bolts again, and did, while unable to see. Solo was mildly impressed, but acquitted Skywalker's ability to luck.

Immediately after, the Falcon emerged from hyperspace in the Alderaan system. The Falcon came out at Alderaan's galactic coordinates, but into an meteor shower, with Alderaan nowhere in sight. Kenobi soon realized the asteroid field was Alderaan: The entire planet had been destroyed by the Empire. Solo couldn't believe the Empire had had enough firepower to do so, even with their entire fleet, but then an Imperial short-range TIE fighter appeared, seemingly confirming Kenobi's suspicions. Skywalker and Solo both conflated that if the fighter identified them as the freighter that had blasted away from Tatooine, they would be damned. Therefore, Solo got in range to destroy it. Kenobi, however, argued against it before Solo realized that the fighter did have a base; what appeared to be a small moon that was seen in the distance. Kenobi, however, realized the truth: It was not a moon, but an Imperial space station, the Death Star battle station equipped with a superlaser that was capable of destroying entire planets. Solo was shocked at the Death Star's 120 kilometer spherical diameter and prepared to turn the Falcon around and retreat. One of the station's tractor beams, however, began to pull the Falcon in. Solo prepared to fight his way out once they were taken aboard and shut the freighter down. Kenobi was able to talk Solo into listening to him, though: hide instead of fight. Therefore, they ejected the Falcon's escape pods and hid themselves in the Falcon's smuggling compartments located under the floor.

Rescuing the princess of Alderaan
"Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her, or I'm beginning to like her!"

- Solo to Skywalker, after Organa took the lead in their escape

The freighter was pulled into Docking Bay 327 where it was boarded and quickly searched by stormtroopers on the orders of Darth Vader, the Emperor's chief lieutenant and a Dark Lord of the Sith. After the troopers left, Solo and the others emerged from the compartments and Kenbobi devised a plan to disable the tractor beam from inside the station. As they worked out the plan's details, an Imperial scanning crew came aboard to more thoroughly search the ship, but they were knocked unconscious by the group. Solo impersonated the crew and yelled out to a pair of stormtroopers for assistance. They came, so Solo shot them, and he and Skywalker dressed themselves in their armor.

Skywalker, now under the guise trooper TK-421, fooled an officer, Treidum, into opening the door to the hangar's control room. Chewbacca and Solo cut down the officer and his comrades, while Artoo plugged into a computer terminal to locate the tractor beam controls. Artoo found them and Kenobi departed to disable it after commanding the others to stay in the control room. Solo was fine with staying; he'd gotten much more than the he's signed on for in the cantina. Artoo, however, had learned that Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan and a leading member of the Rebel Alliance, was aboard the station, and was scheduled to be executed in Detention Block AA-23 very soon. Skywalker insisted that they go rescue her, and reasoned that if Kenobi had known she was present, he would have gone after her, too. Solo at first refused, but decided it was worth the risk when Skywalker and Chewbacca assured him their would be a huge reward from the Rebel Alliance if she was rescued. Skywalker quickly worked out a subterfuge to bluff their way into the prison using Chewbacca as a prisoner scheduled for a prisoner transfer.

Soon thereafter, they set out to the fifth level of the Death Star with their "prisoner" in stuncuffs and left the droids behind. They arrived at the detention level and told the officer in charge, Childsen, of the supposed transfer. He went to check the legitimacy of the transfer, while troopers went to detain the Wookiee. Chewbacca, per the plan, attacked. Solo kept up the charade while firing the trio fired on the guards and security cameras. Solo located the princess's cell in the prison computer and sent Skywalker to get her while he tried to convince a technician that nothing had gone wrong through a comm system, before giving up and shooting the panel when the tech saw through the rouse and sent stormtroopers to investigate.

The troopers blockaded the only exit to the detention block and attacked. Solo and Chewbacca returned fire while they retreated to Skywalker's position. Skywalker had gotten the princess, who critiqued their plan to rescue her without thinking through an escape route. Solo quipped that she was welcome to return to her cell and be executed rather than rescued if she desired, while they took cover in the corridor and traded fire with the Imperials. Organa lost patience with the the three men, took a blaster and shot open a chute and dove in after telling the others to follow. Solo remarked to Skywalker that he wasn't sure if he was very frustrated with Organa, or if he was beginning to like her, and shoved Chewbacca into the chute. Skywalker and Solo followed right after.

They found themselves in a garbage compactor with the only exit locked. Solo sarcastically told Organa great work in getting them nowhere and tried to shoot the open the exit. The laser deflected off the walls and bounced wildly around the compactor, nearly hitting the rebels. Skywalker informed Solo that he had already tried it, that it was magnetically sealed. Organa commanded Solo to put his blaster away. Solo was unhappy at being ordered around, but did so. Just then, a low growl sounded; the four simultaneously realized they weren't alone. A moment later, a tentacle belonging to a dianoga grabbed Skywalker and pulled him under water. Solo and Organa frantically searched for him, and seconds later he reemerged. Solo grabbed Skywalker and tried to shoot the creature, but Skywalker was pulled under again. Solo had almost given up looking when the dianoga released him and vanished. Solo helped him up, before the walls of the compactor began to close in. Chewbacca the princess and Solo tried to brace them while Skywalker contacted the droids in order for Artoo to hack into the station's network and shut down the compactor. After a bit of a delay, Artoo succeeded. The three Humans and the Wookiee rejoiced; their lives had been saved.

They left the compactor and Skywalker and Solo took off the trooper armor. As they did so, Chewbacca heard strange noises coming from the compactor and ran away. So Solo fired a laser blast into the compactor to prove that the Wookiee was being a coward. Organa scolded him for making so much noise, and told him that he would have to take orders from her if they were going to survive the ordeal. Solo was appalled at Organa's demeanor, and informed "her worshipfullness" that he only took orders from himself. Leaving Organa to quip that it was amazing that the smuggler was still alive. Solo looked at Skywalker and muttered that no reward was worth putting up with the princess's attitude.

As the group made their way back towards the docking bay, they ran into a group of stormtroopers. Solo yelled for Skywalker and Organa to go to the Falcon while he and his first mate charged the troopers. The troopers turned and ran from the screaming smuggler. Solo, however, ran into the troopers' reinforcements, and then he was being chased. He ran back into the hangar and through a blast door as it closed; stopping the troopers who had pursued him and Chewbacca. Solo caught up with Skywalker and Organa who had also run into some trouble, and they prepared to board the Falcon, but several stormtroopers stood guard outside. The troopers, however, rushed to Darth Vader who was locked in lightsaber combat with Kenobi. The group took advantage of the distraction Kenboi had created to rush aboard the freighter&mdash;except for Skywalker, who stopped. Kenobi saw that Skywalker and the others would be safe, so he let himself be cut-down by the Dark Lord. Skywalker yelled in grief, alerting the troopers to their presence. The troopers opened fire, but Solo ran and started up his ship, and once everyone was on board, blasted off and away from the battle station. There troubles were not over, however: four Imperial TIE fighters were in pursuit.

Chewbacca piloted the Falcon in order for Skywalker and Solo to man its turrets to fight off the attackers. A dogfight ensued, where Solo shot down one fighter and congratulated Skywalker when he shot one down, as well&mdash;and advised him to not "get cocky." Solo soon shot down the final Imperial fighter and sighed in relief as they entered hyperspace to travel to Yavin 4&mdash;the location of the Rebels' hidden base. While en route to the Yavin system, Organa grimly informed Solo that the Imperials had let them escape in order to track them to the hidden base, which explained the relative ease of their escape. Solo, however, didn't believe it had been easy, and demanded to know what information Artoo was carrying that made him so special. Organa told him: the technical readouts to the Death Star. Solo was shocked, and added that once he was rewarded, he was going to leave; he claimed he wasn't interested in the Rebels' revolution or the princess herself. Organa assured Solo that if all he loved was money, that's all he would receive, and stomped away. Skywalker took her place and asked the smuggler what he thought of the princess. Solo admitted she had spirit, and inquired to whether Skywalker could see Organa and Solo together. Skywalker quickly said "no," thereby admitting he had his own feeling for the princess&mdash;much to Solo's amusement.

A change of conscience
"I knew you'd come back&mdash;I just knew it!" "Well, I couldn't let you get all the credit and take all the reward!" "I knew there was more to you than money!"

- Skywalker, Solo and Organa celebrate the destruction of the Death Star The Falcon soon reached Yavin 4 where Solo and the others were welcomed; Alliance High Command had feared that Organa had died with her world. The plans within Artoo were soon analyzed and a weakness was discovered: a two-meter wide exhaust port that led to the station's main reactor. Solo and Chewbacca attended a briefing for the Rebel pilots, including Skywalker, who were going to attack the station when it inevitably arrived. General Jan Dodonna explained that a one-man starfighter could get close enough and fire proton torpedoes into the shaft that would cause a chain reaction that would destroy the station. Solo was skeptical, thinking it suicide to even attempt. Therefore, after he was given his rearward of credits, he packed up to leave, but was confronted by Skywalker who insisted he stay and fight with the Rebellion. Solo, however, thinking of his debt with Jabba, refused, and asked Skywalker to come with him and Chewbacca. Skywalker was dismayed with Solo's selfishness and angrily walked away. Solo called after him an old Jedi saying: "May the Force be with you." Chewbacca was disappointed in Solo&mdash;he wanted to stay and fight.

Solo and Chewbacca left Yavin 4 aboard the Millennium Falcon. Soon, however, Chewbacca's nagging and Solo's conscience eventually got the better of the smuggler and he turned around and headed towards the Death Star where the battle was raging&mdash;although he did so not for the Rebellion's cause, but to save his friend, Skywalker. He arrived in his ship to find Skywalker in his T-65B X-wing starfighter being pursued by three TIE fighters in the station's meridian trench. Solo fired on the pursers, destroying one, and causing another to panic, which collided with the last. Solo yelled in glee and told Skywalker to take the shot so they could go home. Skywalker did, and it was a direct hit: The Death Star blew apart and killed everyone on board. Of the thirty Alliance ships that had participated in the battle, only three returned to the base with Solo in the Falcon. Solo rushed to Skywalker as he exited his fighter and congratulated him, while the princess embraced Solo in his bravery and proving there was more to him than money.

A rushed award ceremony was held later for the heroes of the battle; which included Solo. The three awardees, Solo, Skywalker and Chewbacca, walked the aisle past hundreds of Alliance personnel. They reached the stage, where Organa placed a medal around Solo's neck as he winked at her. Skywalker was given his medal and they bowed to the princess and turned as the crowd clapped for them. Organa delivered her speech, next. She asked them all to not forget the lives lost on Alderaan and during the battle, including her adopted parents, Viceroy Bail Organa and Queen Breha Organa. Dodonna followed up by informing the base's population their next course of action: Evacuate Yavin 4. The ceremony was adjourned, so Organa playfully told Solo that he and his first mate had better get work. Solo did, going on a secret mission for the Alliance.

After returning from the mission, he, Skywalker, Chewbacca and the two droids welcomed the return of the princess, who had gone on a very personal mission to gather and protect the Alderaanians who had survived their homewrold's destruction.

Putting his face in front of the Empire
"You put your face in front of the Empire. You didn't have to do that." "I thought we agreed it was the only way to pull off this crazy stunt of yours." "But now the whole galaxy will know...that Han Solo is one of us." "One of us? Now just hold on there, your excellency. I'm still just a smuggler with a price on his head. I'm not&mdash;" "I do have one question for you though. Why? Why would you do that? What is it you really want, Han Solo?" "Um...Maybe now's not the best time to..."

- Princess Leia confronts Solo about his true motives with the Rebellion

Revenge of the spouse
"Han, who is it? Who's found us?" "Why bother asking him? He'd just lie. It's the only thing he's ever been good at. I should know. The name is Sana Solo. I'm his wife." "Oh no."

- Organa, Sana and Han

Within two days, the Falcon and its compliment rendezvoused with the Rebel fleet on the edge of the galaxy. Solo had his head wound treated and was debriefed by Alliance High Command. Later, he and Chewbacca went to work repairing the Falcon aboard a Nebulon-B escort frigate. Solo was amazed that the old freighter had flown with the rushed repairs the Wookiee had given it. Skywalker left the fleet to continue his training as a Jedi later, even though both Organa and Solo advised against it. And unknown to Solo, his estranged wife, Sana Solo, was searching for him.

Solo recovered further from his injuries and tried to acquire the parts he needed to finish repairing the Falcon, but was denied by the Alliance deck crew. So he went to Organa to ask what the deal was. She reminded him that with the Alliance absent of a home base, all resources were being checked to insure the fleet was kept in constant motion. To which Solo countered meant that the princess didn't want him to leave. Organa argued against Solo's suave, and told him that he could get the parts for free if he helped her on a mission to find the Alliance a new home base. Solo agreed&mdash;after reminding the princes that all he did was help her&mdash;and told Organa he was going to leave the fleet after the mission.

Soon, Solo and Organa traveled to the Moddell sector of the Outer Rim aboard a stolen Imperial Lambda-class shuttle, the Invictus, to begin scouting. The pair argued over the legitimacy of how Solo had won the Falcon in a game of Sabacc until a pair of TIE fighters that never would have normally been out so far in the Outer Rim appeared and demanded the shuttle's identification. Organa transferred the clearance codes, but Solo took over and put the Invictus through evasive maneuvers that alerted the TIEs to the illegitimacy of the shuttle, so they opened fire. Organa expressed her disdain with Solo's brash decision while the smuggler headed towards the Monsua Nebula where Solo's smuggling den was located. They soon arrived and Solo piloted them through the nebula's cyclones and electrical super-storms. Organa was shocked that Solo had pilot them into danger willingly, even though the TIE fighters gave up the chase.

Solo landed the Invictus near his old smuggling den while Organa confessed that she never would have guessed that under Monsua's storms a beautiful land rested. Solo admitted he hadn't either until he had crashed landed their with Chewbacca years earlier. The pair made their way to the smuggling den where Solo offered the princess some Corellian wine that he had stashed some time before, after telling her that no one except he, she and Chewbacca knew the Monsua Nebula's secret. Solo poured a glass of the wine for Organa, who promptly threw it into Solo's face and accused him of trying to seduce her when they were running for their lives from the Empire. Solo, however, argued that he would "rather seduce a gundark." Organa berated Solo, telling him that if he hadn't lost his nerve and fled from the Imperial fighters they wouldn't have been in the mess they currently found themselves in. Solo countered Organa's claim that he had "lost his nerve." Saying that there was not a single thing in the galaxy that could make him lose his nerve.

Just then, a ship came into view: Sana Solo's ship. Solo instantly recognized it as Sana's ship, lost his nerve, and told Organa to run. Sana fired a laser blast down that knocked both Solo and Organa off their feet, and they watched as Sana emerged from the ship and introduced herself to Organa as Solo's wife. Solo could only put his hand over his face and mutter "Oh no" as she pointed a blaster cannon at them and demanded to know who the princess was.

A New Threat: The First Order
"There were stories about what happened." "It's true. All of it. The dark side, the Jedi. They're real."

- Rey and Solo

Equipment
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."

- Han Solo to Luke Skywalker

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galactic Defense
 * Star Wars: Story Before The Force Awakens
 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD
 * Escape from Darth Vader
 * The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight
 * Star Wars: Battle Pod
 * Star Wars: Princess Leia, Part I
 * Heir to the Jedi
 * Star Wars 1: Skywalker Strikes
 * Star Wars 2: Skywalker Strikes, Part II
 * Star Wars 3: Skywalker Strikes, Part III
 * Star Wars: Darth Vader 1: Vader
 * Star Wars 4: Skywalker Strikes, Part IV
 * Star Wars 5: Skywalker Strikes, Part V
 * Star Wars 6
 * Star Wars: Commander
 * Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo Adventure
 * Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
 * Use the Force!
 * The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi?
 * Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
 * Return of the Jedi Read-Along Storybook and CD
 * Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!
 * Star Wars: Shattered Empire, Part I
 * Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens

Non-canon appearances

 * Epic Yarns: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Epic Yarns: Return of the Jedi