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Back at the Alliance's headquarters, Lando was given the rank of general, in recognition of his reputation as a soldier of fortune and his role in the Battle of Taanab. When a leader was needed for the starfighter assault on the second Death Star, Lando volunteered. Han and Chewie were planning a simultaneous raid on the moon of Endor, to destroy the Death Star's shields, so Han turned control of the Millennium Falcon over to Lando.
Lando picked a Sullustan named Nien Nunb as his copilot in the assault against the battle station. General Calrissian was Gold Leader, in charge of the attack, working under Admiral Ackbar. The Rebel fleet engaged the Imperials above the moon of Endor, waiting until the Death Star's shields went down, and they were freed to make their attack runs. Wedge Antillies led the way down the reactor shaft, followed by Lando and Nien Nunb in the Falcon, and several X-Wings and TIE fighters.
The Falcon and Wedge Antillies's X-Wing fighter made it to the reactor core. Wedge targeted the power regulator and Lando torpedoed the main reactor, then the two ships had to retrace their perilous flight through the Death Star superstructure, even as it collapsed and exploded around them. With milliseconds to spare, Wedge and the Falcon escaped the shaft into open space. Behind them, the Death Star blew up.
Lando was a hero to the Alliance, but while the Empire had fallen, their battles continued. So when Lando asked Solo and the Alliance for help in liberating Cloud City from Imperial Control, they had to decline. Han and many of the others were called to help dispel an invasion on Bakura, while Lando meandered his way back to Bespin, trying to figure out a way to get the city back on his own. He hoped the Empire would have left following the death of the Emperor, but it didn't seem likely.
Surprisingly, the Imperials had left, but only because of a revolt by the Ugnaughts, who hated the Empire. When Lando returned, the mining center appeared deserted, but he found out differently when Lobot attacked him. The cyborg's motivational programming capsule had been damaged by the rebellious Ugnaughts. Fortunately, Lando managed to remove the damaged capsule and repair it, for he needed Lobot to help him disarm bombs that the Ugnaughts had planted on the city.
The Imperials hadn't yet given up, though, and when they returned, they literally threw Lando out. He was saved from freefall by Lobot, who used a set of life-jets. Lando and Lobot were rescued from Cloud City by Luke Skywalker and Lieutenant Shira Brei. Lando starts to make plans of how to get Cloud City back, and is patient for when he can receive Alliance help.
Lando eventually resigned his commission and went back to the private sector. He established a mining operation on the dark side of Nkllon, a planet in the Athega system. The system's sun was so hot that anything caught in its direct light would fry, so Lando had his people design giant, umbrellalike, reflective shieldships. The mining operation itself was known as Nomad City, and its mobile capacity allowed it to constantly stay on Nkllon's dark side.
Lando based the plans for Nomad City on those that Cloud City founder Lord Ecclessis Figg originally had drafted for Bespin mining machines. The majority of Nomad City was constructed from the hulk of an Imperial Dreadnaught-class cruiser and those of captured AT-AT walkers scavenged after the Battle of Endor. The operation was adept at mining rare and valuable ores -- Hfredium, Kammris, Dolovite, and others -- and Lando had another successful scheme on his hands. Because the Alliance had aided him in starting up the endeavor, Lando provided them with ores at a deep discount.
Several years passed, and then the Empire attacked Nkllon, acting on Grand Admiral Thrawn's orders, stealing fifty-one of Lando's mole miners. Seeking revenge against the Empire, Lando joined Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and Luke on a mission that led him to become embroiled in the fight against the Grand Admiral and the mad Jedi Joruus C'Baoth. Lando helped find Alliance founder Garm Bel Iblis and enlist his aid.
The damage the Imperials inflicted finished Nomad City, though, leaving Lando twenty days before the crippled city would be exposed to the superhot sun's rays and destroyed. Although Iblis offered the Alliance's assistance, Lando knew he had to evacuate his people; the city itself was doomed.
As it happened, the Alliance was still in trouble with Thrawn and his forces. After a quick trip to Coruscant, Lando was involved in the strike force that traveled to Wayland to destroy the Emperor's Spaarti cloning cylinders and facility at Mount Tantiss.
Lando lost the Nkllon mining project in another sabacc game -- though it could be argued that he lost on purporse -- and again found himself between jobs. Ackbar owed Calrissian some favors, so Lando was reinstated as a general in the New Republic. Together he and General Wedge Antillies commanded the Star Destroyers Liberator and Emancipator.
At this point Coruscant was again in Imperial hands, but Imperial factions wre warring with each other, so Lando, Wedge, and Luke took the Liberator to Coruscant to finish off the Imperials. They ended up crashing planetside, with only Luke's Jedi powers saving their lives. The Rebels holed up in Imperial City until help arrived in the familiar shape of the Millennium Falcon.
Back at the Pinnacle Base on the Fifth Moon of Da Soocha, Lando and Wedge were assigned to take the Emancipator to the planet Mon Calamari to help fight the Empire's World Devastators. Although they helped bring in full complements of X-Wing fighters and speeder transports, Lando and Wedge soon lost their second Star Destroyer; as a redirected World Devastator began to eat their ship, they ejected in escape pods. They were picked up by the frigate Antares Six, where they watched as reinforcements arrived and R2-D2 used stolen control codes to immobilize the Devastators. The New Republic forces were victorious, but at a great cost to the environs of Calamari.
A short time later, Lando and Wedge planned to strike at Byss, the seat of the Empire's power. They and their troops stowed away aboard a set of commandeered S-1 Viper Automadon war droids, which were conveyed onto Byss by the Imperials. The Republic heroes attacked, but the Imperials released chrysalis beasts, which would overcome the Viper Automadons.
The Republic troops were rescued by three smuggler's ships: Shug Ninx's Starhook VII, the Bespin Bandit, and Lo Khan's Hyperspace Marauder. The smugglers then went to New Alderaan, to help stop the invading Imperials who threatened the lives of the New Republic settlers. Finally, the smugglers and assorted Republic heroes and troops settled at the Auril system's abandoned floating space city of Nespis VIII, which served as their base.