Human
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Male
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Brown
Brown
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1.8 meters
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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 horseplay 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 commission in the Imperial Starfleet. He might have had a brilliant 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 particular Wookiee. For his interference, Solo was court-martialed, stripped of his commission 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 another, serving at their side. At first, Han was annoyed, but he eventually came to appreciate Chewbacca's company and life-saving gestures, and to consider him a friend.
Solo eventually hooked 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 the smuggler's moon of Nar Shaddaa, where modern cities were built upon cities of the past, creating an underworld maze of hideaways and headquarters for illicit business. Nar Shaddaa orbited Nal Hutta, home to the notorious species of sluglike creatures known as Hutts.
Han and Mako worked with Roa's gang, smuggling water to the polluted industrial 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, the beautiful and exotic Salla Zend, and the dashing con-man gambler Lando Calrissian. Han set up a sector of Nar Shaddaa, with a droid named ZZ-4Z, "lost" to Han by Mako in a game of sabaac, set up as the housekeeper for his scruffy home.
Solo was a canny gambler and terrific sabaac player. His cocky attitude hid his thoughts; unless they were mind readers, his foes were stymied. He was also incredibly lucky --all the other gamblers had noticed that. Han was in his share of firefights --both in ships and on foot-- and he always seemed to come out on top. Han developed a healthy ego, and the beginnings of a healthier reputation. All he needed was his own ship.
Lando was the answer to that problem. Han played him a game of sabaac, walking away with Lando's modified Corellian 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 inseperable friends rather than life-debt partners. Han even learned to understand the Wookiee's language, although he himself sounded stupid when he tried to speak it.