Han Solo: Former Imperial

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2005-03-31 10:04pm

I'm just curious, for anyone who knows, but where does the info that Han Solo was a former Imperial come from originally (sources)?

And if possible, post any relevant quotes. Thanks!

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-03-31 10:13pm

The first explicit thing off the top of my mind is in the Chewbacca comic miniseries. He was shown as an Imp junior officer, who's also a TIE pilot.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-03-31 10:39pm

I found that citation myself, and I'd expect that maybe some things are mentioned in Brian Daley's Han Solo Trilogy, both which are pre-1980, I think.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2005-03-31 11:09pm

A.C. Crispins Solo Trilogy, the second novel The Hutt Gambit, there's some mention in there about how he was kicked out of the Imperial Academy for saving Chewie, iirc.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-03-31 11:43pm

Yeah, but that series came out around the mid 1990s, far after the fact was established. Kurgan is asking about where the idea originally came from.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2005-03-31 11:46pm

'97 I think. My bad, misread, thought he was asking for info in general.

Cabwi Desco · Post by **Cabwi Desco** » 2005-04-01 12:04am

I'd say it was from his intimate knowledge of imperial tactics. and his corellian bloodstripe.

Gorefiend · Post by **Gorefiend** » 2005-04-01 02:18am

Corellian Bloodstripes, don’t point at imperial service, they are given to Corellians for doing something great in general, Solo got them twice, as far as I know we don’t know for what one of them was given, but the other one had something to do with him being are very good blaster wilder.

Spanky is right.

Wasn’t it already mentioned in the Han Solo’s Adventures novels that he was a former Imperial? When an old Imperial academy pilot trainer of his, hocked up with him, to find the old Xim treasure? Those books were from 1979-1980 btw.

Edit: spelling, mention of Spanky

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-04-01 02:20am

Gorefiend wrote:Wasn’t it already mentioned in the Han Solo’s Adventures novels that he was a formerIimperial, when an old Imperial academy pilot trainer of his, hocked up with him, to find the old Xim treasure? Those books were from 1979-1980

Yes, that's right. I wonder why it slipped my mind. Badure, wasn't it? He used to call Han "Slick" in his Academy days.