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The relocation was only temporary though; within months, the Alliance attacked the Imperial City on Coruscant yet again and succeeded in driving away the remnants of the Empire. Luke Skywalker and the droids combed Imperial records, looking for potential Jedi candidates for his academy. Lando helped them find one, a boy name Tymmo who was a regular winner at the Umgullian blob races. But Tymmo was not a Force user; he was a con artist and the runaway consort of the Duchess Mystal of Dargul. For capturing him, Lando was presented with a million-credit reward.
With credits in his account again, Lando helped Luke on a spy mission at the Imperial Correctional Facility on Kessel, where Leia thought Han and Chewie might be prisoners. They had been, but the Corellian and his partner had escaped even as Lando and Luke looked for clues as to their whereabouts.
Lando and Luke confronted prison administrator Moruth Doole, then barely escaped on the Millennium Falcon. A battle between the Falcon and Kessel's ragtag defense fleet turned deadly with the emergence of the Sun Crusher and three Star Destroyers from the swirling gases outside the black-hole cluster known as the Maw. Luckily, the Sun Crusher was being piloted by Han, Chewie, and a young Kyp Durron.
Shortly thereafter, in an angry confrontation, Lando and Han replayed their game of sabacc for the Falcon. Lando won, but he made a deal with Han: once Solo had helped Calrissian get his new ship, a modified yacht called the Lady Luck, back from Kessel, Han could have the Falcon. They did so, and as the two prepared to take Kyp Durron to Yavin Four, they picked up another passenger: the lovely smuggler Mara Jade. Lando had always liked her, but even his best manners yielded nothing but her contempt.
Yet another game of sabacc took place, and the Falcon reverted to Han. It wasn't to last for long though. One more game was played after they picked up Mara Jade from Yavin Four, and this time, Lando soundly won the freighter. With a flourish and a sparkle meant for Mara's eyes, Lando presented Han with the Falcon, free and clear.
Lando helped Han stop the rogue Kyp Durron in the Sun Crusher, then enlisted his friend's help in liberating the Kessel Correctional Facility from Doole. Still holding credits he had from Tymmo's capture, Lando planned on reopening the glitterstim spice mines of Kessel, teaming with Mara Jade and her Smugglers' Alliance to distribute the expensive spice. Rather than use the slave/prisoner labor that the Empire and Moruth Doole had used in the pitch-black mines, Lando hired Nien Nunb and other Sullustans to run the installation, while droids worked the mines.