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Lo Khan was a male smuggler who was active during the early years of the Galactic Empire. Khan was a calm individual and tried to stay on the safer side of smuggling, avoiding dispute and armed conflict whenever possible, and spending time joking and drinking with his friends inside cantinas during his free time. As a smuggler, he made the most profitable run of his life on the Gamor Run, where he stole a spice shipment belonging to one of his rivals, Uxbeg. After stealing it, he delivered the payload to a Hutt crime lord named Spadda in the Aikhibba system. Along the way, he teamed up with Luwingo, a Yaka cyborg who was having trouble finding work. Luwingo saved Khan's life in a shootout with Uxbeg's henchmen. This impressed Khan enough to hire the Yaka as his full-time bodyguard, thus cementing what was to become a long and fruitful partnership. Khan earned enough money from that adventure to semi-retire himself, spending the following years inside cantinas all around the galaxy while doing various smuggling runs in his freighter, the Hyperspace Marauder.

In 10 ABY, while docked at the Imperial Freight Complex around Byss, Khan ran into a couple of his old smuggling friends, Salla Zend and Shug Ninx, who were fleeing pursuing Imperial forces. Khan agreed to let Zend and Ninx store the Millennium Falcon, the ship the two fugitive smugglers were borrowing from former New Republic General Han Solo, inside the Marauder cargo hold. As Zend and Ninx prepared to leave, an Imperial Hunter-Killer probot located the Falcon inside the Marauder and fired on Khan's ship in an attempt to apprehend the rogue vessel, much to the smuggler's dismay. The Marauder was impounded by the Imperials, stranding Khan and Luwingo on Byss for the next few weeks. Eventually, Khan and a group of smugglers were able to take advantage of a secret New Republic attack on Byss to retrieve their ships from the Imperial impound. Khan and the newly formed smuggler fleet aided the New Republic forces in escaping the doomed mission to besiege the Emperor's Citadel just as the tide was turning in the Empire's favor. The group then proceeded to assist in the evacuation of New Alderaan after the planet was attacked by Emperor Palpatine's forces.