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Star Wars PagesHan Solo was an Imperial Captain at one time, eventually leaving this service to become a smuggler. He won the Millenium Falcon in a game of Sabaac from his friend Lando Calrisian.
He saved the life of a Wookie named Chewbacca who felt indebted to him that he owed Solo a lifetime of loyalty. Solo looked upon this as a new friendship and the two became close friends and partners.
Solo's reputation as a good smuggler and a great pilot grew and he made improvements to his ship enabling him to make the Kessel run in less that 12 parsecs.
He was not always sucessfull and had been boarded by the authorities on a number of occaisions. After one such episode, he was forced to dump the shipment of spices he was carrying on behalf of Jabba the Hutt.
Jabba offered a reward for Solo's capture and he agreed to take on a charter from Luke Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi. The charter offered an immediate 2,000 credits followed by a further 15,000 on arrival at Alderaan.
On arrival at Alderaan, they discovered that the planet had been destroyed and their ship was captured by the Death Star. At Kenobi's suggestion, the crew hid in the smuggling compartments on the ship.
Kenobi left to disable the station's tractor beam system and Solo was persuaded to rescue Princess Leia Organa from a detention cell on the station.
Escaping the station with the loss of Kenobi, they proceeded to Yavin's fourth moon where Solo was rewarded for his rescue and departed in his ship.
Solo played an important part in the saving of the Rebel base when he destroyed Darth Vader's wingman and causing the other to collide with Vader's fighter. This left the way clear for Luke Skywalker to destroy the station when he used the Force to fire two proton torpedoes into a small thermal exaust port. This caused a chain reaction which destroyed the massive space station.
Solo stayed with the Rebel force until they met up with a bounty hunter on Ord Mantell. This persuaded him that he had to pay off Jabba the Hutt. He helped establish the Rebel base on the ice planet of Hoth prior to the evacuation caused by their discovery by the Empire. Solo, who was in love with Princess Leia Organa, one of the Rebel leaders, rescued her from certain capture when he got her out in the Millenium Falcon when she was unable to reach her own transport craft.
During their flight from Hoth, Solo's hyperdrive was damaged and he was forced to fly into an asteroid field to escape. They set down in a cave on one of the bigger asteroids and tried to repair their ship but were again forced to make a hasty retreat when it becaame clear that the 'cave' was not what it seemed. They were forced to leave the asteroid field only to discover that they had not been sucessfull with their repair efforts. With their main rear deflector screen failing, Han made a surprise move by turning his ship around and directly attacking their persuers, an Imperial Star Destroyer. This alarmed the Star Destroyer's Captain as the Falcon had dissappeared off the larger vessel's sensors. The Falcon meanwhile sat in a sensor blindspot waiting for when the Star Destroyer dumped it's waste prior to going to light speed.
When the larger vessel dumped it's waste the Falcon detatched from the larger vessel and floated away until the Star Destroyer disappeared at the speed of light. With it's main engines damaged, the Millenium Falcon headed for the planet of Bespine and it's Cloud City. This city was under the administration of Han's friend Lando Calrissian. All seemed well until C3P0 dissappeared and was eventually found by Chewbacca in a junk pile. Lando invited them for a bit of refreshment where it was revealed that they had been tracked to Bespine by the bounty hunter Boba Fett and Darth Vader. Lando, being responsible for the lives of his people, had been left with no choice but to co-operate with Vader.
Han was tortured by Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith not asking any questions of the unfortunate Captain. Vader's plan was to lure Solo's friend, Luke Skywalker to Bespine and capture the young Jedi trainee for delivery to his master, Emperor Palpatine. Vader decided to test Cloud City's carbon freezing unit on Solo in order to avoid damaging the Emperor's prize.
As Solo was being readied for carbon freezing, Princess Leia confessed her love for him.
Solo's carbon frozen body was checked by an anxious Calrissian announcing that Han had survived the freezing process. Solo's body was then turned over to Boba Fett for delivery to Jabba the Hutt.
Solo was eventually rescued by Luke Skywalker, Leia, Lando and Chewbacca resulting in the death of Jabba at Leia's hands.
Solo officially joined the Rebel Alliance being given the rank of General and assigned the task of destroying the deflector shield generator protecting a second Death Star being constructed nearby a moon in the Endor system.
This mission was successfull with the help of the local Ewok inhabitants leading to the eventual destruction of the Death Star and the fall of the Empire.
Shortly thereafter Han Solo married Princess Leia Organa.
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