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Han Solo

Han Solo is overly confident and arrogant. He possesses a wry, sarcastic wit, and a reckless manner. This often gets him into predicaments that only his foolhardy courage can get him out of. Han is well traveled, and claims to have been from one side of the galaxy to the other.

Han is an excellent pilot who, with his partner, a Wookie named Chewbacca, flies the Millennium Falcon, the fastest ship in the Galaxy. Han won the ship from his friend Lando Calrissian in a heated sabacc game.

During a stretch of bad fortune, Solo was forced to jettison a cargo of contraband spice belonging to the gangster Jabba the Hutt. The gangster put a price on his head so large that bounty hunters across the galaxy would come searching for the Corellian and his Wookiee first mate. Desperate for cash, Solo took a charter to the Alderaan system. He was to transport Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2 and C-3P0 from Tatooine to Alderaan for the price of 17,000 credits. Han could then use the money to pay off Jabba

However, on their way to Alderaan, the gang were captured and taken aboard an Imperial space station, the infamous Death Star. Han agreed to rescue the captive Princess Leia Organa if he was to be rewarded, and rewarded well. After escaping from the Death Star, Han took the Rebels to their base on Yavin 4. Han decided not to participate in the Alliance's desperate attack against the Death Star, preferring to take his reward and leave. It was in mid-transit that Solo had a change of heart, and joined the battle just in time to cripple Darth Vader's ship, and allow Luke enough time to destroy the station. Han received an acting rank of captain in the Alliance, and accompanied the Rebels on numerous missions and adventures.

He and Princess Leia fell in love, but he was captured by the Empire with the help of a bounty hunter, Boba Fett. He was frozen in carbonite and given to Jabba. Luke and his friends freed Han from the carbonite and Jabba, and returned him to Leia's arms.

Han went on to lead a mission on the forest moon of Endor so that the Empire could be beaten once and for all.