The temptingness of Han Solo is one of the most strong draws of the whole Star Wars mythos . A dark-skinned smuggler with a troublesome past tense who develop into one of the Rebellion ’s greatest heroes ? It was an collection that run to all sorts of stories being write about Han in the myriad tie - in novel and comic … some good some bad , and some completely pathetic . Here are parts of Han Solo ’s story that wo n’t be revisited in his upcoming spinoff movie .
That Time Han Fought a Giant Otter
Okay , so technically it ’s a Selonian , but come in on , look at that matter . It ’s a jumbo otter . This being Star Wars , the giant otter has a rich backstory , of course — she was called Dracmus , and was imprisoned by Han ’s cousin Thrackan Sal - Solo ( god , more on him afterwards ) during one of Corellia ’s several attempts to burst aside from the New Republic . Han was also a captive at the fourth dimension , and for shits and giggle , Thrackan make up one’s mind to mark Dracmus in a battle against Han … but Han know the Selonian speech , and wield to convince Dracmus to go easily on him , earning her trustfulness and eventually escaping captivity together . Still , it gave us Joe Jusko ’s iconic nontextual matter of Han taking a swing at a gargantuan quad otter for the cover of Star Wars : Galaxy Magazine .
That Time Han Got a Whole Song Written About Him
Longtime readers of io9 will be aware of themany , many sinsof the interminably terrible novel The Courtship of Princess Leia , which in the previous lucubrate universe was , canonically , when Han and Leia finally married each other . During the whole unconscious process of Han court Leia for her script in spousal relationship , C-3PO crafted a 15 - verse lay prognosticate “ The Virtues of King Han Solo , ” design to cue Leia of how good a husband Han would be .
The song was , as you could reckon , an unmitigated disaster , but we did get to experience at least one of its 15 verses in the novel :
He ’s generate his own planet ,
Although it ’s kind of wild .
Wookiees love him .
womanhood love him .
He ’s get a winning smile !
Though he may seem cool and cocky ,
He ’s more tender than he seems ,
Han Solo ,
What a valet ! Solo .
He ’s every princess ’s dream !
Could you imagine that being the idea tune for the Modern moving picture ?
That Time Han Found Out He Was of Royal Blood
Oh , and by the way , C-3PO call Han a king in that birdsong title was n’t just an add bit of exuberance from the communications protocol droid . The Courtship of Princess Leia also include the revelation — designed to further convince Leia of Han ’s worthiness — that Han was a blood descendant of Berethron e Solo , the King of Corellia 300 years before the events of the pic .
Berethron was apparently a kind swayer and abolished direct rule on Corellia in favor of establishing a inherent monarchy . But despite the seemingly huge implication of attach Han to a purple lineage , the plot gunpoint was basically dropped and hardly mentioned ever again in the EU . likely for the good , really .
That Time Han’s School Buddy Blew Up a Moon as a Prank
We know there ’s going to bean regal presencein Solo : A Star Wars Story , but what we do n’t cognise if that ’s an indicator that the moving picture will re - saint major elements of Han ’s backstory in the blow up universe : the fact he was inducted into an Imperial Academy to be trained as a pilot when he was a teenager . In the older EU , Han would calibrate as an Imperial Lieutenant , only to be cursorily court - martialed when he saved Chewbacca , then a striver , from death at the paw of his superior officer .
Unsurprisingly , Han was n’t just a mark - A scholarly person at the Academy of Carida . As well as faltering in his academic pursuits ( counter by his excellence in flight breeding ) , Han fell in with a spoiled bunch during his time on Carida , let in a untried mankind name Mako Spince . In their second class together , Mako stole a gm of antimatter and used it to deface the Academy ’s “ Mascot Moon”—literally a nearby synodic month with the Academy ’s sigil carve into its surface — but overcompensate and actually blew the entire thing up .
Mako got expelled , and Han nearly did too , until a fellow Cadet ’s testimony elucidate him of any involvement . If Solo does re - canonize Han ’s chronicle as a former Imperial scholarly person , we sincerely doubt the Mascot Moon will be part of it .
That Time Han Actually Herded Nerfs
This one ’s actually a recent story — and really part of Star Wars canon , as it came in Marvel ’s ongoing Star Wars comedian . But while parentage news report like Solo : A Star Wars Story are all about uncover the truth behind thing we already knew about a beloved character , I really doubt the movie will take the clip to show the Sojourner Truth behind Leia ’s infamous poking in The Empire Strikes Back .
In Star Wars # 17 , we see Han begrudgingly take on a dispatch of Nerfs — basically magnanimous , fluffy space yaks — in monastic order to lift some speedy money after he spent all his cite hazard instead of buying supplying for the Rebellion as regularize . And thus , a nerf - herding legend was born .
That Time Han’s Extended Family Started a New Galactic Civil War
Remember Thrackan Sal - Solo from earlier ? And Corellia ’s penchant for get out aside from alliances to try and start its own unmediated pattern ? Well , that ’s really kind of a regular affair in the EU , and Thrackan — alongside Han ’s Sith son , Jacen — in reality helped kick off the second Galactic Civil War in the flesh out Universe book . Yes , cousin Thrackan was always kind of a jerk , and in this particular scenario , a major one , what with the whole “ starting a fresh Galax urceolata - wide war in a quest for more personal power ” thing . Suffice to say if there is any Solo kinsperson drama in the movie , it probably wo n’t involve the death of 1000 upon thousands of multitude because of an asshole first cousin .
Oh , fun fact : Thrackan was canonically mean to see spookily similar to Han , just withwhite hair and a bushy beard . Even if he somehow made it into Solo , I bet that would n’t be a affair .
That Time Han Accidentally Started a Religious Cult at His Movie Theater
The former days of Han and Chewie ’s smuggling life history were fertile earth for the old Expanded Universe , think of the duette got down to some truly wacky thing : case in degree , the time they ran the Star Wars equivalent of a holograph picture show theater .
The adventure , recounted in Brian Daley ’s Han Solo ’s Revenge , saw Chewie and Han set up shop class on a backwater world call Kamar , where abrasive environments made water highly valuable . Neither Han or his Wookiee accomplice thought about that when they decided the only feature they ’d run for at their theater was a documentary called “ Varn , World of Water”—and mesmerized Kamarians became obsessed with it , forming a religion around the documentary and go on a none - the - heady Han in business . When they seek to vary the documentary to a melodic dramatic event , there were riots , and Han and Chewie were impel to close their movie theatre and flee the major planet .
That Time Han Was a Magician’s Accomplice
As revealed in The Hutt Gambit , Han once figure a relationship with a Nar Shaddaa level magician named Xaverri , after he and Chewbacca attended one of her performances and became enraptured with the unseasoned woman . After Xaverri revealed she also scammed imperial to enact vengeance on the Empire for killing her husband and small fry , Han agree to work for her not just as a pilot on her interstellar magic hitch , but a fellow seer and con artist . Han spent six months with Xaverri touring the galaxy as her stage assistant , complete with showy magician costume , before she finally ditch him .
That Time Han Formed a Mercenary Team With a Green Rabbit
Ah , the infamous Jaxxon — the Marvel Comics universe long rumored to have been so outlandishly silly that George Lucas himself allegedly demanded the company halt using him in their original comics . It was only through Han Solo that we ever got to con of Jaxxon in the first place .
First appear in Star Wars # 8 ( the first issue of Marvel ’s Star Wars comic that was n’t an adaption of A New Hope , making it one of the early Expanded Universe narration to have ever existed ) , Jaxxon is one of the six allies Han inscribe to become a member of the “ blank space - Hoppers of Aduba-3 , ” a freelance banding hired to represent a small village on Aduba-3 from pirates . Suffice it to say , Jaxxon will not be bring in his ash gray screen first appearance anytime soon , or ever .
That Time Han Fought Zombies
Remember when zombies were all the madness ? I mean , with The Walking Dead they ’re certainly still popular , but when they were at their eyeshade , not even Star Wars could break away the trend . The EU ’s take on the rage came in the novel Death Troopers , which orbit around an Imperial prison barge discovering a derelict Star Destroyer that had been afflicted with a foreign new computer virus that killed people and turned them into shambling members of the undead . While the script mostly revolved around new persona , around halfway through Han and Chewie show up to remind you that this is indeed Star Wars . It ’s not great , but at least you get to study about Han and Chewie blasting zombi for a bit . peradventure they can save it for Solo 2 : The Soloning ?
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