This calendar week , we at long last got our first face at Solo : A Star Wars Story , an exploration of how a untried moon curser became one of the coltsfoot ’s finest pilot , and a succeeding rebel submarine sandwich . But it ’s far from the first metre Star Wars material has attempted to explore the past tense of Corellia ’s most famous Word . Here ’s Solo : A Star Wars Story , grant to the old Expanded Universe .
The childhood of the Expanded Universe ’s Han Solo will have at least a small in common with what we ’ll see in Solo : A Star Wars Story — a life-time in picayune crime that starts untried . In the EU , Han was orphan at a very former age and left to stand for himself on the street of Corellia , where he was picked up by a seedy criminal named Garris Shrike . Shrike , Corellia ’s own Dickensian Fagin , oversaw unscrupulous operations out of a ship called the Trader ’s Luck , using fry like Han to guide scams . Thievery and conning were n’t the only accomplishment Han would learn under Shrike ’s tutelage — the Trader ’s Luck ’s cook , Dewlanna , would learn Han the Wookiee language and rear him like her own Logos .
As one of Shrike ’s accomplices , Han went on thieving adventures throughout the local wizard systems , learning to find his way of life in a rough galaxy through experience rather than through any all-embracing education . Shrike would also keep Han ’s past a secret from the young son — hiding his surname for long time so the child would n’t know he was a phallus of Corellia ’s esteemed Solo family , a pedigree that descended from the planet ’s ancient kings ( yes , Han Solo was technically royalty … it was a dull plotline that barely amount upafter it first got introduce ) .
Also , because this was the spread out Universe , this was the time period in which Han would first find fiber like Dengar — then a swoop bike racer who was horrifically injured during a race with Han , precede to him to curse retribution on Han and become the bounty hunter seen in Empire Strikes Back — and yes , Boba Fett , albeit indirectly . Eventually , Han grew out of being under the wing of Shrike ’s condemnable operation and made plan to leave the Trader ’s Luck . But when Shrike tried to stop his most worthful con artist from entrust , Dewlanna intervened , sacrifice herself so Han could fly the coop … before asking on her deathbed that he repay her sacrifice some daytime by helping out one of her people . Hmm , terrible convenient , that .
Anyway , Han eventually made his way to the planet Ylesia , and under an assumed name — Vykk Draygo — started a career in fly cargo ship . He finally met , and fell in love with , a woman named Bria Tharen , who inspired Han to keep abreast his dream of being an angiotensin-converting enzyme pilot light and enlist in the Imperial Navy on Coruscant . After get his identity pass to hide both his past times on Corellia and as Dragyo , Han barely passed his entrance examination and was accepted into the Imperial Flight Academy on Carida … but not before Bria left him and Shrike get up with him . Shrike , one of the few masses cognizant of Han ’s double life , was eventually kill by a bounty hunter that Han would later kill himself , ensuring that no one would know who he was before he entered purple Robert William Service .
Han ’s prison term at the academy was tumultuous . He was irked by the Empire ’s constricting regulating and its anti - exotic sentiements , and he did n’t excel at the academic aspects of his education , or else rely on excellent rafts in his pilot education to keep him going . Eventually , he calibrate with a Lieutenant ’s commission , but his vocation in the Empire would be short - dwell . Five years before the events of A New Hope , Han , serving under the bidding of an officer named Nyklas , spared the lone subsister of a deal gone faulty between Nyklas and some Trandoshan slave owner for a lading of Wookiee slaves , disobeying a direct society in the process . Although Nyklas was furious with Han , he decided that celebrate the Wookiee — a untested warrior named Chewbacca — alive would be more good .
Shortly after , Chewbacca was assign to striver obligation constructing Imperial building on Coruscant , with Han tax with overseeing progress on Nyklas ’ behalf . When the ill-affected Wookiee tried to lash out at Nyklas , the officer organize to drink down him as punishment , only for Han to draw his own blaster and stun his commanding policeman . For help Chewbacca escape and for directly attacking Nyklas , Han was stripped of his rank and motor hotel - martialed from the Imperial Navy , once again get out him to work to a biography of offence … just this time , with a large , haired companion at his side .
In the curt years between his expiration from a military career and signing up to escort a wizened hermit and a new farmboy on a one - way trip to Alderaan , Han conk out on a pretty wild ride , most of it detailed in Ann C. Crispin ’s trilogy of novels . He spent a brief time working as a illusionist ’s confederate , scamming imperial beard in the appendage . He started figure out regularly for Jabba the Hutt , contend with rival smugglers and drag illicit shipment across the galaxy . He met Lando Calrissian , who not only save Han ’s lifetime from Boba Fett , but became a fast protagonist — one who eventually fall back his trophy ship , the Millennium Falcon , to Han in a card tournament . ( Han enter after losing his last ship in an entanglement with the Empire . ) With the Falcon , Han and Chewie made a career for themselves in the smuggler ’s trade , travel all over the incarnate sector of the galaxy .
finally , that brought Han and his Wookiee friend to the fateful circumstances of A New Hope . After Han was forced to dump a shipment of spicery for Jabba to evade regal pursuers — and launch the infamous Kessel Run in 12 parsecs in an endeavor to recover it — the angry Hutt put a massive bounteousness on Han ’s headspring . Han constitute himself eager to make hard currency , fast , for pay Jabba back , bringing himself to Mos Eisley on the hunt for likely caper . There , Chewbacca would acquaint him to Ben Kenobi , and , well … you know the rest at that pointedness , do n’t you ?
Like much of the rest of the young canon , Lucasfilm is clearly happy to cherry - option bits of the Expanded Universe for Han Solo ’s “ new ” puerility . Of course , his growing up on Corellia as a unsmooth - and - tumble kid drawn into a life-time of crime and scroundrel - hood was probably going to be a given , but the flick ’s first footage has definitely indicate us that Han will still be entering the Imperial Academy for what seems to be a very short - lived military vocation . Inthe glimpses we ’ve seen so far , Woody Harrelson ’s Beckett looks like a much kinder mentor than Shrike was , and it also look the moving-picture show will feature a sure notorious smuggler ’s run , which look to be place well before A New Hope .
It remains to be seen what else gets pulled over from the EU , but there ’s still his introductions to Chewbacca , Lando , and the Millennium Falcon to go . Whatever ends up being in Solo , the liveliness of one of Star Wars ’ most inscrutable and darling heroes is going to get a spate less deep when the movie premieres on May 25 .
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