Han Solo
Species:
Human
Sex:
Male
Hair Color:
Brown
Eye Color:
Brown
Height:
1.8 meters
Homeworld:
Corellia
Political Affiliation:
New Republic
Weapon(s) of Choice:
Blaster Pistol
Vehicle of Choice:
Corellian modified stock
light freighter Millenium
Falcon
First Appearance:
Star Wars: A New Hope
-------Notorious throughout the galaxy,
Han Solo has been a starship
pilot, smuggler, pirate, and target
for bounty hunters. He's also
been a Rebel hero, a general for
the Alliance, and even a husband
and father.
-------Han has revealed very little of
his past, even to his allies and friends in the New Republic. Most of what they've found out has been gleaned through conversational asides, public records, bounty posters, or old friends. Solo is a Corellian, and may be part of an illustrious yet controversial line; Berethron e Solo introduced democracy into the Corellian empire, but Dalla Solo ---also known as Dalla Suul or Dalla the Black---was a notorious kingpin of organized crime. It isn't known whether or not Han is actually related to either.
-------Han was a talented swoop and speeder pilot by the time he entered the Imperial Space Academy. There he made friends with the older Mako Spince, and "Trooper" Badure.
Han soon earned the nickname "Slick", due to a particularly slick maneuver he performed in a malfunctioning U-33 loadlifter during class exercises.
-------Mako and Han became the best of friends, breaking rules and engaging in horsplay and practical jokes. Spince went a little too far when he used a gram of antimatter from the
physics lab to blow up the Academy's "mascot moon." He was expelled two years before Solo graduated.
-------Han did graduate, with honors, and accepted a comission in the Imperial Starfleet. He might have had a brillant career in the Imperial Navy, if not for an encounter with a large, hairy Wookiee. Wookiees were a species enslaved under Imperial law, but Han felt he couldn't stand by and watch a slaver badly mistreat one paticular Wookiee. For his interference, Solo was court-martialed, stripped of his comission and rank, and ejected from the Navy. At the time, he considered himself lucky not to have been shot by a firing squad.
-------Han soon found out that the Wookiee, Chewbacca, had established a "life debt" to him. This Wookiee custom was an oath of allegiance to a person or persons who had saved a Wookiee's life. Once a "life debt" was undertaken, a Wookiee would follow his rescuer from one end of the galaxy to the another, serving at their side. At first, Han was annoyed, but he eventually came to appreciate Chewbacca's company and lifesaving gestures, and to consider him a friend.
-------Solo eventually hooked back up with Mako, who had used the Spince family money to buy a ship and become a disreputable smuggler. Mako taught his old friend the adrenalin-pumping pleasures and profits of the smuggling trade, keeping the Corellian around as a sidekick. Spince and Solo made their headquarters on Nar Shadaa, where modern cities were built upon cities of the past, creating an underworld maze of hideaways and headquarters for illicit buisiness. Nar Shadaa orbited Nal Hutta, home to the notorious species of sluglike creatures called Hutts.
-------Han and Mako worked with Roa's gang, smuggling water to the polluted industial world of Rampa. Roa taught Han about the huge trade in spice smuggling from Kessel. Han also met the half-breed Corellian master mechanic Shug Ninx, and the dashing con-man gambler Lando Calrissian. Han set up a small home in th city-maze of the Corellian sector of Nar Shadaa, with a droid named ZZ-4Z, "lost" to Han by Mako in a game of Sabacc, set up as the housekeeper for his scruffy home.
-------Solo was a canny gambler and a terrific sabacc player. His cocky attitude hid his thoughts; unless stymied. He was also incredibly luck-both in ships and on foot-and he always seemed to come out on top. Han developed a healthy ego, and the begginings of a healthier reputation. All he needed now was his own ship.
-------Lando was the answer to that problem. Han played him in a game of sabacc, walking away with Lando's Corellian modified stock light freighter, the Millenium Falcon. Smuggling became easier with the fast Falcon, and "captain" han
and "first mate" Chewie modified it constantly, usually in the spacebarn of Shug Ninx. The Corellian and the Wookiee were becoming tighter as a team, and they were now inseparable friends rather than life-debt partners. Han even learned the Wookiee's language, although he himself sounded stupid when he tried to speak it.
