You're risking your life to take me to jail, bu the irony is... ...You're the one who's truly in prison, Han Solo." ―Grakkus [106] In the (non-canon) Star Wars Expanded Universe, [22] Han is from an old family line that stretches thousands of generations. [23] An ancestor ruled the planet Corellia (the Solo homeworld) and set up a constitutional monarchy three centuries before the events of A New Hope. [24] His descendants continued to rule Corellia, but slowly lost power leading up to the time of Han's birth. His parents were named Jonash and Jaina Solo. [25] [24] I knew in the making of Empire that this was to be the second of a trilogy. Therefore I considered it the second act, the second movement—but it wouldn’t have the same climax that an ordinary film would have, where it sets up a premise, moves along, there is a payoff with a grand climax of some kind of action. The action in this film came at the beginning because it is a continuation of the first film. Solo has been merchandised in multiple media, including action figures, video games, and other collectibles. A Han Solo action figure with "human proportions" was released in 1977 to follow with the initial release of the original Star Wars films, while a figure created for the films' mid-1990s re-release was criticized as "unrealistically muscled." [48] [49]

Following the events on Nakadia, Han returned home and reunited with his wife. When Leia praised him for "making things right", Solo told her that the Battle of Jakku was happening. He predicted that it would be a big battle. In private, Han confided that it felt strange that he, Leia, Luke, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2 were not part of the final battle. Leia reassured him that they had their own adventure. Han responded that it was the end of an era while Leia replied that it was the start of a new one. [157] But what happens to our favorite space smuggler as he ventures across the rewritten Expanded Universe? What does this legendary character’s legacy look like now? This is the story of Han Solo, a smuggler who’s been just about everywhere and seen just about everything. Walt Disney Pictures/Lucasfilm Han Solo’s slow, canonical beginnings

I think the critics felt that they were going to see an extension of Star Wars. In other words, they wanted another Star Wars. I decided that the potential was much greater than a rerun of Star Wars. When I finally accepted the assignment, I knew that it was going to be a dark film, with more depth to the characters than in the first film. It took a few years for the critics to catch up with the film and to see it as a fairy tale rather than a comic book. In the Legacy of the Force series, Jacen falls to the dark side and becomes the Sith Lord Darth Caedus and plunges the galaxy into a bloody civil war. Han disowns him, but is still devastated by each new outrage his son commits. He and Leia adopt Allana (Jacen's daughter) after Jacen's death at Jaina's hands in the novel Invincible.

With only Chewbacca remaining at his side, as his trusted copilot who swore a life debt to the Corellian smuggler, Han Solo embarked on a smuggling career under the employ of Jabba the Hutt, a notorious gangster and crime lord of Tatooine. After ditching a shipment of spice to avoid trouble with the Empire, Solo owed a great deal of money to Jabba, who then placed a bounty on the smuggler's head, as a result. His fortune seemed to have changed when Han and Chewbacca were hired to charter Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO to Alderaan, avoiding Imperial stormtroopers who were searching for Luke's droids. However, as they find Alderaan destroyed by the Empire's new superweapon, the Death Star, Solo became caught up in the rebellion against the Empire, rescuing Princess Leia Organa, delivering the stolen Death Star plans to the hidden Rebel base on Yavin 4, and saved Luke from the Sith Lord Darth Vader in the Battle of Yavin, allowing Skywalker to destroy the Death Star. Solo fought with the Rebellion for a number of years afterward, taking part in numerous operations and battles against the Empire. News & Features Team (May 22, 2010). "Top 10 Tuesday: Characters In Need of a Spin-Off". IGN. San Francisco, California: j2 Global. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012 . Retrieved April 8, 2011.Wave" column denotes wave of original release. Some figures were re-released with later waves. The Sandtrooper figure was released as both VC014 and VC112. The planet appears in the Star Wars: Battlefront series (2004–) as multiplayer maps, and in the Lego-themed games Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (2006) and Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (2007) during the first two-story levels of Episode V. It also appears as an explorable hub world in the 2022 game Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. This article or section needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of article quality. ({{ Cleanup}}) Look, I waited a long time for a shot like this. I'm not about to screw it up, all right?" ―Han Solo, to Val [9]