A happy new year to all you Star Wars fans out there. I hope you all had a good one! With February drawing near the filming of the first of the standalone Star Wars films will begin. If rumours are correct the film will be about, as Boba Fett calls him “That old space bum” Han Solo. There has been a lot of speculation on what part of his life the film will focus on. My thoughts are that the film will focus on how Han Solo became the Han Solo we all have become to love. Hopefully we will get to see him as a young man and the events that led him to become a smuggler and on how he met his best friend Chewbacca and how he got his hands on the Millennium Falcon. Of course the following is from the Star Wars extended universe which is no longer canon, so how much of his life’s history will change we wont know until the film comes out on 2016
Han Solo was born on Corellia and was orphaned at an early age. Found at a space port by Garris Shirke, a Fagan type of character Han wan was taught the arts of the pick pocket. As he got older he was used in a number of schemes and cons. Han was befriended by Shirke’s ships cook a wookie called Dewlanna who taught him the wookie language of Shyriiwook and started his long time love of the wookies. After many years Han was able to leave Shirkes gang and ended up at the imperial academy on Coruscant where Han went into imperial training to become a fighter pilot. Han finished top of his class and left the academy as a Lieutenant, but his career was short lived when he stunned his commanding officer who was beating the wookie Chewbacca. For saving his life Chewbacca owed Han a life debt and together they went on the run becoming smugglers. Han Solo would eventually become the owner of the Millennium Falcon which he won at a game of sabacc of Lando Calrissian who would become a life long friend. The rest Of Hans life is well known after he accepts to take an old wizard, a young man and two droids to the Alderaan system.
So hopefully when Star Wars episode VII The Force Awakens comes out we might be seeing the first trailer for the first of the Star Wars standalone films.
May the Force be with you…….
Library Jedi 