Lando Calrissian/Legends

"He's a card player, gambler, scoundrel. You'd like him."

- Han Solo to Leia Organa

Lando Calrissian was a professional gambler, entrepreneur, smuggler and long-time associate of Han Solo. A Human male from Socorro, Calrissian became Baron Administrator of Cloud City for a time before the Imperial takeover during the Galactic Civil War. He subsequently joined the Rebel Alliance, and led the dangerous mission to enter the second Death Star's core and destroy its reactor.

After the Battle of Endor, Lando continued to serve the New Republic in times of need, but spent a lot of his time pursuing various business ventures, including mining on the super hot world of Nkllon. In 18 ABY, Lando met Tendra Risant and the two married shortly after the Bastion Accords were signed. During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Lando continued to aid the New Republic through his leadership and the deadly YVH-1 droids that his company Tendrando Arms produced.

Biography
"I'll pour the wine, and you tell me what you like best about me."

- Ben Skywalker impersonating Lando

Early years


Calrissian's early years were obscured by history and Calrissian's own fabrications. He was originally a Socorran, leaving him with a hint of a Corellian accent thanks to the Corellian origin of that planet's settlers. His own memories pointed to his having a stable family life until at least the age of seventeen. A reference to servants indicates he may have come from money, which he gave up in order to live an adventurous life. The earliest reliable accounts of his life date to 4 BBY, when Calrissian was around the age of twenty-seven. Already a professional gambler, Calrissian won a battered YT-1300 freighter called the Millennium Falcon in a high stakes game of sabacc. As he had no piloting experience, Lando sought out a tutor by the name of Han Solo.

Adventures in the Centrality
After Lando saved him from Boba Fett, Solo eagerly taught him the basics of starship piloting, and Calrissian used this knowledge to fly the Falcon to the Centrality. While on Oseon 2795, he won an exuberant droid called Vuffi Raa from Ottdefa Osuno Whett, but had to travel to Rafa IV to acquire it. Before he could depart, Calrissian was arrested on trumped-up charges by Governor Duttes Mer and forced to aid Rokur Gepta, a Sorcerer of Tund, to locate the Mindharp of Sharu.



Provided with a transdimensional key, Calrissian chose to begin his search on Rafa V, location of the largest Sharu pyramid in the Rafa system. He was ambushed by several Toka, who tied him to one of the crystalline lifetrees, hoping he would freeze during the night. However, Lando was resourceful, and even though the lifetree was robbing him of intelligent thought, he was able to free himself, though his feet were severely frostbitten and required light bacta treatment in a portable gel-bath kept on the Falcon. Calrissian and Vuffi Raa investigated the largest pyramid and located the Mindharp, and were promptly teleported back to Rafa IV. Vuffi Raa, who in fact had been programmed to betray Calrissian before he had even been "won," promptly turned Calrissian in to Governor Mer. Mer greedily took the Mindharp and sentenced Calrissian to a lifetime of hard labor, but Vuffi Raa, having fulfilled his imperative to betray Calrissian, rescued the gambler just as Mer activated the Mindharp. As the two fled Rafa IV, the transdimensional artifact's subharmonic emanations restored the Toka into the Sharu that they once were, and the great pyramids of the Rafa system crumbled, leaving alien cities in their wake.

Lando and Vuffi Raa entered hyperspace with a full hold of the last Rafa life crystals to leave the Rafa system; this valuable cargo netted Calrissian nearly 250,000 credits. Returning to Nar Shaddaa, he bought a used-starship lot from a Duros, but discovered the business was expensive and difficult to run. He was pondering selling it off when the Galactic Empire arrived in the criminal-ridden system. Calrissian donated his inventory to his fellow outlaws, and Vuffi Raa piloted the Millennium Falcon deftly in the resulting Battle of Nar Shaddaa. During the battle, Lando flew alongside noted smugglers such as Salla Zend, Han Solo, and Mako Spince. The attack was diverted, but less than ten percent of his stock was still spaceworthy. Calrissian sold 90 percent ownership in what was left of his lot to Roa at a loss.

Calrissian sought a way to recover his losses, and saw an opportunity in the regional sabacc championships that were soon to be held at Cloud City's Yarith Bespin casino. In order to raise the ten thousand credit buy-in, Calrissian and Vuffi Raa returned to the Centrality and attempted to haul legitimate cargo, but tariffs, fees, and licensing cost him more than he made, leaving him with nothing. Thus, when an opportunity to play sabacc in the Oseon system during the Flamewind arose, Calrissian accepted.



Soon after arriving at Oseon 6845, Calrissian was assaulted and forced to shoot his assailant in self-defense with his stingbeam. The Administrator Senior of the Oseon system, Lob Doluff, was forced to inform Calrissian that the penalty for possessing a deadly weapon was death by exposure, but since the administrator admired Calrissian, arranged for him to instead participate in a drug bust against the lesai-addicted, wealthy industrialist Bohhuah Mutdah. Posing as Mutdah's dealer, Calrissian transported two agents, Bassi Vobah and Waywa Fybot, through the maddening radiation of the Flamewind to Oseon 5792.

Mutdah turned out to be Rokur Gepta in disguise, who promptly killed the two agents and planned to kill Calrissian after forcing him to endure a machine that made him relive all the painful moments of his life, but the latter was saved by the timely intervention of Renatasian starfighters, whose goal was to kill Vuffi Raa. During the chaos surrounding his escape, Calrissian grabbed Mutdah's drug payment&mdash;twenty million credits. He deposited small sums in banks on several worlds, including fifty thousand credits into the Bank of Aargau, which he planned to use for covering the entry fee for the Bespin sabacc tournament. Unfortunately, his attempt to deposit the bulk of the money on the Centrality's primary financial planet, Dela III, interrupted a pirate attack being committed by the "pirate queen" Drea Renthal. Despite Lando's charm, Renthal kept the remainder of Mutdah's money.

Soon after, Calrissian encountered Lehesu, a young member of the space-dwelling, hyperjump-capable Oswaft species, whose curiosity had carried it from its home in the ThonBoka Nebula to a desolate part of the Centrality. After halting attempts at communication, Lehesu finally communicated to the crew of the Millennium Falcon his need for sustenance. Calrissian emptied the contents of the ship's recyclers into space, which Lehesu eagerly gobbled up. Some months later, the Empire blockaded the entrance to the sack-shaped ThonBoka with five hundred capital ships (mostly Carrack-class light cruisers modified to contaminate the "interstellar plankton" drifting into the nebula), intending to starve the entire Oswaft race into extinction. Lehesu used a transceiver provided to him by Vuffi Raa to contact the Millennium Falcon and plead for help.

Lando penetrated the blockade, using a ruse that he was a trader plying his wares to the very ships he sought to evade. Though the Falcon was inspected, no one below the rank of Admiral was informed of the reason for the blockade, so no one suspected that the ship's real cargo was the ordinary waste carried in its trash and toilet recyclers. After working his way to the front of the blockade, Lando made a break for the mouth of the ThonBoka. Inside, he contacted Lehesu and the Oswaft Elders, and they began making plans while other Oswaft went to negotiate with the picket fleet. However, as the Empire's goals were complete extermination, the Empire merely exterminated the negotiators; in the process, one of them "shouted" at the unshielded cruiser Courteous, destroying it with its maser voice-stream. The fleet, seeking retribution, raised their shields and entered the Nebula, but were called back by Gepta, who sought to destroy Calrissian.

When Gepta arrived, the fleet remobilized and entered the nebula. Fortunately, their pause had given Calrissian time to suggest a battle plan. The Oswaft excreted heavy metals from their pores and then hyperjumped, leaving decoys placed between the enemy cruisers and resulting in massive friendly fire casualties among the fleet; meanwhile, they "shouted" at the starfighters, destroying them with their powerful masers. After the fleet's forces had been reduced by eleven percent, the battle ceased, and Gepta offered Lando an ultimatum: engage Gepta in personal combat, or he would fire an electromagnetic torpedo into the nebula, killing all life therein.

Calrissian and Vuffi Raa (who was allowed to participate because Gepta believed he could reprogram the droid to betray his master) faced off against the Sorcerer of Tund in the vacuum of space. After much maneuvering and several ploys, Calrissian landed a stray shot in Gepta's ankle. The Sorcerer's form withered as he cried out and by pure chance hit Vuffi Raa. Calrissian searched the space suit and found an injured Croke where his shot had landed&mdash;Rokur Gepta had not been a human, but a small, nasty alien from a planet in the Unknown Regions that Lando had once visited. Calrissian squeezed the alien until the last Sorcerer of Tund was little more than a stain on his gloves.

At that, the battle renewed, but for only a moment; out of nowhere, a multitude of fifty-kilometer diameter self-aware droids appeared, demanding on all channels "Cease fire immediately or be destroyed!". They were the Silentium&mdash;creators of Vuffi Raa, and they had come for their offspring. The Imperial fleet, faced with thousands of gigantic ships, retreated from their genocidal mission. Vuffi Raa's progenitors repaired the little droid and departed with him into the Unknown Regions, and Lando departed the ThonBoka with a hold filled with valuable Oswaft-synthesized gemstones.

Failure and success
Unfortunately, his turn of good luck was once again countered with bad luck, as his investment in a berubium mine in the Borgo asteroid belt turned out to be worthless, and he was left with nothing but the fifty thousand credits in his Aargau account and the Nar Shaddaa starship lot. He also struck up a brief relationship with Drea Renthal, the very pirate who had stolen millions from him before.

Calrissian stole a treasure cache from the Glottalphib criminal Nandreeson to ease his desperate need for cash, earning Nandreeson's undying hate and promise of sure death if the gambler ever returned to Smuggler's Run. Soon after, he entered the Cloud City Sabacc Tournament, but wound up in second place, and gave his old friend Han Solo the choice of any ship on his used starship lot. Han, unexpectedly to Lando, chose the Millennium Falcon, the ugliest but most efficient ship in the lot.

Nearly broke after the tournament, Lando did have some successful "ventures" as he recouped his losses. He successfully scammed the governor of Pesmenben IV and eventually replaced the Falcon with the sleek Cobra. While traveling on the Queen of the Empire, Lando encountered Bria Tharen—a Rebel agent and Han Solo's former girlfriend. He tried to strike up an acquaintance with her and inadvertently complicated Boba Fett's taking Bria for her bounty. As Fett was taking his two prisoners off of the Queen, the ship was boarded by Drea Renthal, who paid Fett off in exchange for letting his prisoners go.

Some time later, Lando assisted Han Solo in an attack on the Hutt spice and slavery operations on Ylesia, which Han was involved in due to being in love with Rebel agent Bria Tharen, the mastermind of the operation. Solo recruited several smugglers for the strike, including Lando. The role of the smugglers was to use their piloting skills to land the Rebels on Ylesia and then help defeat the guards. In the end, they were successful, but Bria decided to keep the spoils for the Rebellion, leaving Han with nothing to pay Lando and the smugglers, and creating a large rift between Solo and Calrissian.



Shortly thereafter, Lando found himself on another treasure hunt sponsored by a trio of Hutts eagerly hunting the fabled Yavin Vassilika. The chase pitted him against some of the Underworld's most notorious bounty hunters, including Bossk, Dengar, and IG-88. Unfortunately, it also threw him in unwilling partnership with Han Solo again, which made for an uneasy alliance following the recent Ylesian spice fiasco. Since the rewards were considerable, they managed through it, bickering most of the way. In time, however, all parties realized they were being used again. This time, it was one of the Hutts' assistants, a woman named Jozzel Moffet, who was unknowingly being directed by none other than Bria Tharen on behalf of the Rebellion. The Vassilika was the key to opening a Massassi temple which would become a strategic Rebel outpost once opened. After the Vassilika had been found, and the dust settled on this adventure, Solo and Calrissian parted ways, their anger tempered to a mere distrust and agreement to stay on their own ends of the Galaxy.

Five months after the Battle of Yavin, after shipping a cargo of denta beans to Taanab, he was caught up in a Norulac pirate raid. After boasting he could defeat the pirates in a Pandath cantina, he accepted a wager from a drunken cantina patron named Gathal Danager of a Clendorian brewery to see it done. Calrissian hid in the ice rings of Taanab's moon. When the pirates approached their marks, he dumped his cargo of Conner nets into the midst of their fleet, temporarily disabling their ships. While they attempted to extricate themselves from the nets, he tractored ice chunks from the rings into their cockpits. He then led Taanab's orbital defense fleet in a mopping up operation, in which Calrissian was responsible for single-handedly destroying nineteen of the remaining vessels and crippling the pirate's two supporting corvettes; the ships were captured with all hands, thanks to Calrissian using yet more Conner nets to secure the escape pods. After TriNebulon News carried the story, Calrissian became a minor celebrity.



While on Cloud City, Lando played a game of sabacc against the Baron Administrator Dominic Raynor. An anonymous benefactor advanced Calrissian five million credits. He bet four million and his lot on Nar Shaddaa against Raynor's administratorship, and won not only his ship back, but the whole game, becoming the new Baron Administrator of Cloud City. The benefactor turned out to be Cloud City's cyborg liaison, Lobot, and the pooled funds of thousands of Ugnaught workers who wanted to ensure Raynor's departure.

Calrissian took his job as Baron Administrator seriously, working closely with Lobot for over two years. He deflected both the Mining Guild and the eyes of the Empire from the city, hired pilots to protect the city from raids, enacted new security procedures after the rogue droid EV-9D9 dismantled a quarter of the city's droid population, repealed restrictive anti-alien immigration laws put in place by Raynor, and increased Tibanna gas profits by over 35%.

Entering the Galactic Civil War (3 ABY – 4 ABY)
"You? A general?"

- Han Solo



As a key source of Tibanna gas, Cloud City was a lucrative target for Imperial nationalization. When Darth Vader and Boba Fett arrived in the Bespin system, Calrissian sought to retain its independence by making a covert agreement with Vader to assist in the capture of Luke Skywalker, Lando's longtime associate Han Solo, as well as Alderaanian Princess Leia Organa, who were to be detained until Luke arrived.

Lando fulfilled his part of the agreement, which was altered to include testing the carbonite-freezing process (normally used to prepare Tibanna gas for shipment) on Han Solo. Darth Vader intended to use this method, if it was found feasible, to transport Skywalker to the Emperor. Lando played the cordial host when the Millennium Falcon arrived, offering them the hospitality of Cloud City while the Falcon was repaired.

Han didn't trust Lando completely, especially since Lando was trying to charm Leia. Lando led the Rebels to Vader and his stormtroopers, who captured them. Later, Lando tried to explain to Han that he had had no choice, but Han wouldn't hear of it and all Lando received was a punch in the face.

Lando later supervised the freezing of Solo, announcing that the smuggler was in perfect hibernation inside the carbonite slab. However, the terms of the deal worsened and it became clear the Empire intended to take control of the floating city regardless, so Lando ordered the evacuation of the city and assisted the Rebels in their escape. To say the least, Leia and Chewbacca were suspicious of Lando's rescue, but they accompanied him to try and reach Han before Boba Fett left Cloud City. They were unsuccessful and fled on the Millennium Falcon, pursued by stormtroopers and TIE fighters.

On their way off the planet, Leia heard Luke Skywalker's call through the Force, and Lando flew the ship over to where Luke was hanging and pulled the injured Jedi into the Falcon.

Cody Sunn-Childe's dream
"I wonder how long your "truth" would hold up if the war you ran away from came knocking on your front&hellip; door&hellip;?!"

- Lando Calrissian to Cody Sunn-Childe, suddenly interrupted by an Imperial attack

Feeling guilty for what had happened to his old friend, and realizing firsthand the extent of the Empire's evil, Lando joined the Rebellion, allying with Chewbacca and using the Millennium Falcon to search for Han Solo.

One day, while utterly lost, the pair stumbled across a dimensional rift inhabited by Cody Sunn-Childe, a former Rebel Alliance operative and hero of Lando's who, using strange powers he'd gained during his travels, had constructed a City of Dreams in a dimensional rift. Angered by Sunn-Childe's abandonment of the Rebel cause, Lando threw a punch at him, only to be attacked by several creatures&mdash;manifestations of the dark side of Sunn-Childe's power&mdash;who were immediately absorbed by Sunn-Childe, lest they would cause injury.

The former Rebel's city had a strange effect on its inhabitants&mdash;they were enthralled by the phantasmagoric surroundings. It even affected Chewbacca, who seemed to forget the search for Han in favor of the city's distractions and roughly punched Lando for speaking ill of the city.

As Lando walked back to the Falcon, the city was attacked by an Imperial fleet led by Captain Plikk, who had also become trapped in the rift. The impact causing many, Chewbacca included, to snap out of their charmed state. Lando and the Wookiee piloted the Millennium Falcon in combat against the Imperials, but the battle was cut short when Sunn-Childe, who had at first allowed his demonic manifestations to attack the Star Destroyers, made no further attempt to stop the Imperial bombardment of the city, utterly destroying it and all its citizens, himself included.

The Falcon then escaped through the rapidly closing dimensional gate&mdash;the Imperials, because of their excessive bombardment, lacked the hyperdrive power to escape, and were trapped in Sunn-Childe's dimension.

Further missions
Lando continued to aid the Rebellion, by striking at Imperial targets like the Tarkin battle station, the move to Arbra, and helping the Rebels secure stolen TIE fighters from Orion Ferret's Bazarre.

Soon thereafter, Calrissian made a return visit to Cloud City, now Imperialized, where he was nearly killed by Lobot, who had gone out of control after suffering damage to his cybernetic module.

Lando assisted in the search for Han Solo on The Wheel and Stenos with Skywalker and Chewbacca.

Flying the Falcon, Lando attempted to intercept Boba Fett and rescue Han at Gall, but their guide, Dash Rendar, abandoned them, and there were too many TIE fighters to continue the pursuit.

Lando was with Leia when she met with the Black Sun representative Guri, as was Chewbacca, and helped determine that Guri was actually a droid. When Leia and Chewbacca went to Coruscant with Guri, Lando eventually met up with Luke and sneaked them into the capital world as well to find the Princess and the Wookiee. He was also instrumental in the infiltration of Prince Xizor's fortress on Coruscant to rescue Leia, destroying the castle with a thermal detonator placed in a garbage chute.

Saving Tay Vanis


"My plans involve secrecy&hellip; subtlety&hellip; subterfuge&hellip;"

- Lando Calrissian

After Xizor's death, Lando assisted a Rebel Alliance force consisting of Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO in tracking down the undercover Rebel operative Tay Vanis.

Tracking Vanis to the planet Iskalon&mdash;a planet where Calrissian had many contacts&mdash;the group started their search in the submerged town of Pavillion. The leader of the Iskalonians, Primor, revealed that Vanis had come to the system looking for an Imperial superweapon; he had deduced some sort of Imperial plot from the recent and bloody end of the rebellion on Telfrey, a neighbor planet of Iskalon.

The group located a K3PX droid of Vanis's on Gamandar, a heaviliy-fortified Imperial planet. Believing the operative to be on the Imperial-controlled world, or at the very least find a clue to his whereabouts through his droid Lando together with Chewbacca, Mone, C-3PO and R2-D2 flew the Millennium Falcon to Gamandar.

Tricking the Imperials stationed on the planet into thinking Mone&mdash;the son of Primor&mdash;had bought the Falcon, they were given clearing to land. Taking on the guise of "Drebble", Lando tried to trick the commanding Imperial officer of the planet&mdash;Griggor Tower&mdash;into allowing the group to search for Vanis, by pretending the Rebel owed him money. Tower however, had been informed of the true identity of the group by an Imperial spy who had followed the Falcon from Iskalon, and ordered their capture. Seeing this as evidence of Iskalon's growing Rebel tendancies, Tower launched a large-yield inter-planetary missile at the water world which caused devastating tidal waves all around the planet, both above and below the surface.

In the meantime, Lando had purchased Vanis's K3PX droid, and was trying to convince it to return with the group to Iskalon. What he did not know was that K3PX was an espionage droid, sent to spy on Admiral Tower.

Stunned by stormtroopers, the four (minus R2-D2, who had wandered off pursuing a lead of his own earlier) awoke in an Imperial holding cell, but were saved from "intensive arrogation" by the sudden arrest of Admiral Tower by K3PX on order from Darth Vader himself. The prisoners were freed by the timely arrival of R2-D2.

Fleeing back to Iskalon, they arrived just in time to blast a chiaki moments before it struck Leia and Luke and other refugees who had sought shelter amongst the ruins of Pavillion's landing platform.

The mission ended a failure; no information about Vanis's whereabouts were recovered, and Mone, the new leader of the Iskalonians after Primor's death in the tidal effect, led his School into the depths of Iskalon, far away from the Galactic conflict.

Hutt guardsman
Lando learned that Solo had been delivered to Jabba while undercover on Arcan IV and put into motion plans to infiltrate the crimelord's base.

On a moon of Blimph, he obtained a recommendation from Quaffug the Hutt to become a member of the Hutt Guardsman's Guild after a harrowing ordeal, adopting the pseudonym Tamtel Skreej. He infiltrated Jabba's organization and after a few months of reconnaissance, helped Skywalker rescue Solo from the crimelord's clutches. Lando was the "ace-in-the–hole" for the team of Alliance heroes trying to rescue Solo.

Lando was on same skiff as Luke, Han, and Chewie when they were taken to the Pit of Carkoon to be executed. While Luke dealt with Jabba's guards, Lando helped free the prisoners but nearly became a meal for the dreaded sarlacc in the process.

The Battle of Endor


In preparation for the attack on the second Death Star, Calrissian was promoted by the Alliance to Restore the Republic to general, based largely on the laurels of his victory at Taanab. At the Battle of Endor, General Calrissian commanded the Rebel starfighter contingent as Gold Leader from the cockpit of his old ship, the Millennium Falcon, alongside copilot Nien Nunb. When the Alliance discovered that the battle was orchestrated by the Empire as a trap, Calrissian's unorthodox strategies were vital in keeping the flailing Alliance forces from collapsing. He suggested taking the fleet's Mon Calamari Star Cruisers into point blank range of the Empire's Star Destroyers, exposing them to the Empire's warships but protecting them from the far more dangerous superlaser of the unexpectedly operational Death Star. At one point in the battle, while pursuing two TIE Interceptors, Calrissian approached a Super Star Destroyer too closely; rather than flee, Calrissian flew the Falcon into the hangar bay of the massive ship, flew through an interior access corridor, and, after blasting away at the unarmored innards, flew back out the way he came ahead of a sensor-obscuring fireball, saving the ship and crew from what otherwise would have been certain death.

Eventually, the strike team on the surface of Endor was able to bring the shield protecting the Death Star down. Calrissian, along with Wedge Antilles, led the starfighter assault into the battle station to destroy it. After evading TIEs and having close run-ins with the station's superstructure, Calrissian fired the Falcon's concussion missiles into the Death Star's reactor core, destroying the station; for the second time that day, Calrissian rode a fireball from inside an Imperial structure to safety. The destruction of the station, along with Luke and Anakin Skywalker's victory over the Emperor, effectively sealed the fate of the Empire, and Calrissian was hailed a hero.

Under the New Republic (4 ABY – 25 ABY)
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm sitting in a cell. How about you?"

- Lando Calrissian to Kyle Katarn

After the Battle of Endor, Calrissian continued to serve the Rebel Alliance and its successor governments&mdash;the Alliance of Free Planets, the New Republic, and the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances&mdash;usually as a civilian, but intermittently taking up his general's commission. Unfortunately, he had lost control of Cloud City to Jabba's father, Zorba, the same way he got it&mdash;in a game of sabacc. Calrissian tried his hand at several businesses, including administrating Hologram Fun World.

Nomad City
He had some success with mining on the super hot world of Nkllon. Nkllon was raided in an Imperial raid led by Grand Admiral Thrawn in 9 ABY to steal his mole miners, despite the best efforts of Luke, Han, Leia, and his own defense forces. While his three friends were at Nkllon, Lando helped identify an old beckon-call for Luke and had Threepio reprogrammed to sound like Leia as part of a decoy operation. Then Lando and Han went to Abregado-rae to meet a representative of Talon Karrde's, Fynn Torve. Torve sent them to Myrkr to meet with Karrde. While on Myrkr, Lando and Han became the first members of the New Republic to see Thrawn in person when they spied on him with a pair of electrobinoculars. Lando also deduced that Karrde had been holding Luke Skywalker hostage and participated in the subsequent ambush of the Imperial forces on Myrkr that rescued Luke. He had a tense moment with one of Karrde's associates, Aves, who was helping with the ambush, over the timing of the ambush and was wounded in the attack.

Thrawn would use the mole-miners he stole from Lando in attempt to steal a large number of Rebel capital ships at Sluis Van. Returning to Sluis Van from Myrkr, Lando, Han, and Luke were caught up in the middle of the battle. After realizing what the Imperial admiral was planning, Lando used his command codes to drive the mole-miners into the ships to cripple them in order to prevent the ships' theft. At Sluis Van, Lando also confronted ship-thief Niles Ferrier, preventing him from making his own grab at New Republic ships.

After this, Lando and Han Solo, operating off of a lead garnered at New Cov to find and recruit Garm Bel Iblis for the New Republic. Lando returned to Nkllon, but before he achieved much more progress he was attacked again by Thrawn's forces, who stole his entire stockpile of metals and severely damaged his complex. He and his miners were evacuated by Garm Bel Iblis, but the Nkllon complex was doomed. Returning to Coruscant, Lando was at the Imperial Palace when an Imperial Intelligence team penetrated the palace, intending to capture Leia Organa Solo's twins. With the help of Mara Jade and Garm Bel Iblis, Lando and the Palace Security defeated the intelligence team.

He continued to work with the New Republic throughout the Thrawn campaign, participating in such actions as the Battle for the Katana fleet and the destruction of the Imperial stronghold at Mount Tantiss on Wayland. In the latter, Calrissian would accompany Talon Karrde, Princess Leia, and a pair of vornskrs on the Wild Karrde to rescue Han, Luke, Mara Jade, R2-D2 and C-3P0. With the help of Chewbacca, Lando rigged an arrthymic detonation reaction that destroyed the complex, ending the threat of the clones grown there.

Palpatine reborn
During the resurrection of Emperor Palpatine in 10–11 ABY, he, Wedge Antilles, Kam Solusar, and R2-D2 would infiltrate Palpatine's flagship, Eclipse II over Onderon, in an attempt to destroy the massive vessel after boarding it using the Millennium Falcon. While dozens of Rebel starfighters launched a diversionary assault, the Rebel team successfully took control of the helm and R2-D2 jumped the ship back to the exact coordinates of Palpatine's Galaxy Gun orbiting Byss. As the two massive weapons collided, Lando and the other Rebels extracted under fire from the Imperial crew as the Galaxy Gun fired a final projectile into Byss, setting off an unstoppable nucleonic reaction. As Lando and rest of the Falcon's crew flew away, Byss was destroyed, as were the two most dangerous superweapons to date.

Later in 11 ABY, Lando would help Luke Skywalker search for Force-sensitives to study at Luke's Jedi Academy. During the search, Lando, along with C-3P0 and R2-D2, was led to the Umgullian Blob races in search of a possible Force-sensitive. The candidate, Dack, turned out to be a cheater on the blob races, and Lando helped expose him. Rather than suffer the usual death penalty for cheating, Dack was returned to his wife Mistal, the Duchess of Dargul. As a reward for Lando's help in returning her husband, Mistal gave him one million credits, which Lando later planned to invest in the spice mines of Kessel.

Lando was later called in, along with Luke Skywalker, to help find Han and Chewie after they disappeared following a diplomatic mission to Kessel. They posed as businessmen seeking to invest in the mines. With this cover, they investigated the moon and its administrator, Moruth Doole. Finding the Millennium Falcon in Doole's private fleet, the two ersatz "businessmen" took the ship and fled. They were pursued by the rest of Doole's ships and fled towards the Maw Cluster when the Sun Crusher—piloted by Han, Chewie, and Kyp Durron—burst out, followed by Admiral Daala's fleet. The New Republic heroes escaped in the confused brawl that ensued. During this time, he gained control of the spice mines on Kessel, partnering with Mara Jade. At the same time, Lando and Han also traded control of the Falcon three more times over games of sabacc. In the third and final game they played, Lando won the prized ship from Han, but gave it to him forever in order to impress Mara Jade, who he was smitten with. Lando and Jade had just finished taking over the mines when the Death Star prototype blew up Kessel's moon. Leading the smugglers and pirates, Lando and Mara attacked the Death Star, but were unable to keep it from re-entering the Maw Cluster. Despite this setback, they continued mining operation and Calrissian installed Nien Nunb as the mines' new administrator.

Empire reborn


In 13 ABY, Cloud City was overrun with mercenaries, criminals and thugs. Lando took it upon himself to track down their leader. After a few card games and bar fights, he was led to Reelo Baruk on Nar Shaddaa. The moment he heard of a Remnant agent called Desann, Lando was captured and placed into one of Reelo's holding cells. Fortunately for Lando, Kyle Katarn was also looking for Reelo Baruk. He freed Lando Calrissian from Baruk's hold and eventually Katarn and Calrissian managed to find the Lady Luck and refuel her using pipelines. When they were about to make their escape from Nar Shaddaa, Reelo attacked them with a handful of mercenaries. The criminal used a gun platform to hit the ship while his thugs boarded the ship, but Katarn leaped into the laser turret of the Lady Luck and shot down the gangster. Lando, finally able to call for help, signaled the New Republic with the news that the Imperial Remnant were on Cloud City. Lando dropped Kyle off at the lower levels while he organized the security forces to drive Reelo's remaining thugs and the Remnant off.

Almanian crisis
During the Almanian Crisis in 17 ABY, Lando ran afoul of the Ghottalphib crime lord Nandreeson on Smuggler's Run, who had put a considerable bounty on his head due to a weapons cache Lando had raided twenty years earlier. Nandreeson had captured Lando and was slowly drowning him when a rescue party, including Han Solo and Chewbacca, arrived and saved Lando. After this incident, Lando sold the Kessel Mines to Nien Numb, taking up other ventures instead.

Black Fleet Crisis


During the Black Fleet Crisis, Lando worked with New Republic Intelligence along with Lobot, R2-D2, and C-3P0 trying to determine the mystery of the Teljkon Vagabond. After fending off several Imperial attacks and navigating the innards of the mystifying 1500-meter ship, Lando eventually realized that the ship was the last remnants of the Qella.

First Corellian Insurrection
As of 18 ABY, Lando used his business sense for more altruistic purposes when he created Dometown&mdash;safe, affordable subterranean housing on Coruscant. That same year, with the reluctant help of Luke Skywalker, Lando set up a series of visits in order to find wealthy women to marry. One of them was Karia Ver Seryan of Leria Kerlsil, a "life-bearer" (or "life-witch"), who had the power to give men very good health for a time&mdash;usually 3-5 years&mdash;with the tradeoff that they would die as soon as the period ended. Lando had nearly unknowingly bound himself to the life-witch when R2-D2 and C-3P0 arrived and explained the truth to Lando. Rather shaken, Lando continued his search for a prospective bride, but his next prospect turned out to already be married. To forestall any further "surprises," Lando made a holocomm call to his next prospect: Tendra Risant of Sacorria. Upon meeting her, Lando was very impressed and definitely wanted to deepen the relationship, although he was surprised to find he liked her for more than just money. However, the governing Sacorrian Triad had made it illegal for a Sacorrian to marry an offworlder and the Triad chased Luke and Lando off the planet, but not before Lando was able to provide Tendra with a radionics communication device.

Luke and Lando returned to Coruscant with the disturbing news of the Corellian interdiction field. The two would return to the Corellian system on board the Bakuran war fleet dispatched to find out what was happening in the system. Approaching Centerpoint Station, Lando, Luke, R2-D2, C-3P0, Gaeriel Captison, and Belindi Kalenda boarded the massive structure in an attempt to figure out why it was destroying stars. Upon reaching the center of the station, once known as Hollowtown, they realized that the whole area was heating up and would soon be lethal to humans. Lando's toxic air training came in handy as he was the first one to reach the elevator car they would use to escape the increasingly hot and toxic atmosphere.

Lando would later rescue Tendra, who was single-handedly providing the New Republic and the Bakuran fleet with intelligence on the Triad fleet from her ship Gentleman Caller. She was code named "Source T" by intelligence operatives. They escaped the ensuing battle unscathed and spent more time together on Selonia.

Caamas Document Crisis


Following his subsequent marriage to Tendra, Lando opened an underwater mining/tourist attraction on Varn, but had difficulty finding ways to protect his shipments from pirates. Lando, while on Bothawui, gave Diamala Senator Porolo Miatamia a ride back to his homeworld after he was cut off from his ship. En route, they were interdicted by the Empire and the Lady Luck was brought onboard an Imperial Star Destroyer, where Grand Admiral Thrawn reappeared to them. Thrawn, after a short discussion, released them. Lando took this report back to the New Republic, which alarmed the government greatly.

Lando served the New Republic during the Caamas Document crisis in several ways, going with Han Solo, Lobot, and the Verpine slicer Moegid on a mission to the Imperial Remnant's capital Bastion in an effort to retrieve the document. The attempt was a failure and when they were discovered, Lando caused a distraction by firing a slug thrower into the ceiling of a building, and, evading pursuit, Han, Lobot, and Lando arrived back at the spaceport only to find Thrawn and a large cordon of stormtroopers waiting for them. Thrawn gave them a copy of the Caamas Document and allowed them to leave, astonishing both Han and Lando. They would later find the Caamas Document given to them by Thrawn was a fake. Lando was onboard a Diamala warship when the Second Battle of Bothawui started and was instrumental in convincing Senator Miatamia to investigate an anomaly near a comet, which was actually a cloaked Imperial Star Destroyer. Following the discovery of three cloaked Star Destroyers, Lando led the suddenly united fleet against the Imperials at the request of Ponc Gavrisom and defeated them.

GemDiver Station
Lando opened a Corusca gem mining station over Yavin, known as GemDiver Station. The station would be attacked by the Second Imperium, who kidnapped the Solo twins, who had been on the station, despite Lando's best attempts to stop the kidnappers.

Using income from this profitable venture, Lando opened the SkyCenter Galleria on Bespin. He later sold the Galleria in exchange for a controlling interest of two Outer Rim planets: Dubrillion and Destrillion.

Yuuzhan Vong War


With Tendra, Lando ran a mining operation on Dubrillion and Destrillion. At the beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Lando asked Han and Chewbacca to make a supply run to Sernpidal, which resulted in the Wookiee's death. Lando felt extreme guilt because of this, and made sure he did all he could to stop the invaders. He built the Shelter, a space station inside the Maw, which housed Jedi children and apprentices, and was responsible for establishing Tendrando Arms, which manufactured deadly YVH 1 Droids that proved instrumental in defeating the Yuuzhan Vong. Lando served with distinction on the Second Battle of Borleias when he, along with some New Republic engineers and YVH droids, successfully destroyed a Yuuzhan Vong rakamat. Lando also helped insert Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade, Tahiri Veila, and Wraith Squadron into occupied Coruscant, or Yuuzhan'tar as the Vong renamed it, and narrowly escaped death. He also aided Talon Karrde in "persuading" important Senators to elect Cal Omas, the pro-Jedi candidate, as Chief of State. From the Lady Luck, he and Tendra proved vital in using their advanced sensory equipment to relay information to the Galactic Alliance fleet during the Liberation of Coruscant.

Behind the scenes
Lando Calrissian was portrayed on-screen by Billy Dee Williams, who reprised the role for the radio adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back, in Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, and the dramatization of Dark Empire. In the radio adaptation of Return of the Jedi, Arye Gross was the voice of Lando. On June 9, 2005, at the American Film Institute's award ceremony for George Lucas, Williams recollected his experience as Lando, and light-heartedly described the character as a "super space-stud".

Lando existed as several different entities in early drafts of The Empire Strikes Back:
 * In the first draft of Episode V, Lando was known as Lando Kadar, a refugee from the Clone Wars making a living as a smuggler on Hoth.
 * A gambler and general store owner on the Wookiee homeworld (see also Saun Dann from the The Star Wars Holiday Special.)
 * The leader of a group of clones from the Clone Wars; his homeworld was to be filled with clones spread across 700 countries, each of which belonged to a specific clan.
 * Lando was credited for introducing an element from Earth&mdash;hot chocolate&mdash;to the Star Wars universe.

Appearances

 * Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
 * The Hutt Gambit
 * Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon
 * Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka
 * Rebel Dawn
 * Lady Luck
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Lando's Commandos: On Eagles' Wings
 * Heir to the Empire
 * Dark Force Rising
 * The Last Command
 * Jedi Search
 * Before the Storm
 * Shield of Lies
 * Tyrant's Test