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cantsayidont · 5 months

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April 1979, October 1979, and August 1980. These novels by Brian Daley were not the first STAR WARS tie-ins, but they were the best of the early phase, and a strong influence on later SW media. The creative success of these exciting, frequently very funny books, which chronicle three adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca prior to the first movie, had a lot to do with Daley himself. According to Daley's friends and his partner, novelist Lucia St. Clair Robson, Daley was Han Solo, or close to it: a brash military veteran with no love of authority, a fondness for sports cars and motorcycles, and a notoriously sarcastic sense of humor that concealed a heart of gold. Ironically, Daley, who genuinely loved STAR WARS, would have preferred to explore the history of the Jedi, but Lucas declared that off-limits, and imposed many restrictions on what Daley could and couldn't use from the films. For that reason, the novels take place on the fringes of the Empire: The first two books are set in the Corporate Sector, a region administered semi-autonomously by corporate interests with their own ruthless Security Police (an idea that clearly inspired some of the plot of ANDOR), while the third is set in the Tion Hegemony, a remote principality.

HAN SOLO AT STARS' END has Han and Chewie roped into aiding a group of people whose relatives have been "disappeared" by the Corporate Sector Authority, which is quietly rounding up dissidents and sending them to a secret facility called Stars' End. After Chewbacca is captured by the Security Police, Han concocts an elaborate, harebrained scheme to rescue his friend and the other "lost ones" from the galaxy's most closely guarded high-tech prison. Naturally, things don't go quite as planned, leading to a spectacularly ludicrous finale. (Spoiler: Han accidentally launches the prison complex into space.) This novel was subsequent adapted for the STAR WARS newspaper strip by Archie Goodwin and Alfredo Alcala, although the adaptation unfortunately isn't a patch on the original.

HAN SOLO'S REVENGE finds Han and Chewbacca, desperate for cash, taking a job that turns out to involve transporting slaves. This is a line our heroes will not cross, so after dealing harshly with the slavers, Han agrees to help a Corporate Sector Authority auditor named Fiolla of Lorrd track down the ringleaders of the operation, one of whom is her once-trusted assistant, Magg. Meanwhile, Chewbacca is forced to contend with a stubborn skip-tracer called Spray, who is determined to repossess the Millennium Falcon over Han and Chewie's unpaid bills!

HAN SOLO AND THE LOST LEGACY has Han and Chewbacca agreeing to help Han's old buddy Badure, Badure's friend Hasti, and an academic named Skynx locate a legendary lost starship, the Queen of Ranroon, the fabled treasure ship of an ancient tyrant called Xim the Despot. (The skull on the cover is Xim's emblem.) Although this sounds like it was influenced by RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, the book was actually published almost a year before the premiere of RAIDERS.

Although the novels make clear that Han is not overly fond of droids, the books give Han and Chewbacca a pair of droid companions: a laconic old labor droid called Bollux, and a small, extremely sophisticated, disconcertingly enthusiastic computer probe called Blue Max, who "lives" within a compartment in Bollux's chest. Here's how Alfredo Alcala depicted them in the comic strip:

Daley also includes some delightful aliens, including the skip-tracer Spray, who's a Tynnan — basically a sentient beaver with the dexterity of a raccoon — and the Ruurian academic Skynx, a sentient caterpillar who's determined to complete as much of his research as he can before entering the next phase of his life cycle and becoming a chroma-wing who'll have little memory of his former identity.

A useful companion for the first two books is Michael Allen Horne's HAN SOLO AND THE CORPORATE SECTOR SOURCEBOOK for the West End STAR WARS RPG, published in 1993:

Aside from the inevitable game statistics and some quite decent illustrations of the novels' characters, the sourcebook fleshes out Daley's conception of the Corporate Sector Authority, explaining how the Corporate Sector functions and its relationship to the Empire. This is narrated in part by Han Solo himself, which is presented as excerpts of later interviews with an Alliance historian named Voren Na'al (a common conceit in the WEG game books that works especially well here). The sourcebook is best read after the novels, since it explains their plots in detail, but it's a worthwhile supplement. Unfortunately, a planned followup describing the Tion Hegemony was never published before West End Games lost the SW license.

Brian Daley's other major contribution to STAR WARS lore was scripting the NPR radio adaptations of the first three movies. STAR WARS originally aired in the spring of 1981, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK two years later. Daley also wrote the later adaptation of RETURN OF THE JEDI, but he died of cancer in early 1996, at the age of 49, so the final drafts were completed by John Whitman.

#books #star wars expanded universe #han solo adventures #brian daley #wayne douglas barlowe #dean ellis #william schmidt #han solo #chewbacca #corporate sector authority #archie goodwin #alfredo alcala #star wars andor #star wars

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oh-no-eu-didnt · 2 years

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Lafrarians were an avian species native to Lafra, in the Outer Rim. Their arms’ vestigial wing membranes the only remnants of their ability to fly, Lafrarians were excellent pilots, possessing keen instincts for navigating the skies and space. On their homeworld, they rarely traveled by land or sea vehicles, keeping to the air.

Source: Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook (Art: Tim Eldred; 1993)

First Appearance: Han Solo at Stars’ End (1979)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

#lafrarian #star wars aliens #lafra #han solo adventures #star wars roleplaying game #west end games #star wars d6 #tim eldred #star wars #expanded universe #star wars legends

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kissmywookiee · 1 year

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Normally I love the Star Wars EU/Legends books, but I’m seriously struggling with the Brian Daley Han Solo Adventures.

#star wars #eu #han solo #it just doesn’t feel like Han #Brian Daley #Han solo adventures

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from-a-legends-pov · 19 days

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Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week - Out-Of-Context Pictures

Which of these out-of-context pictures from a Star Wars Legends property is your favorite? (Context provided below)

1: “Heat stick”: Oh, no, that certainly doesn’t look like anything else, no….

2. Laser-eyes Leia: Is it possible to learn this power?

3. Hit where it hurts: He had it coming.

4. “Turn off the foam, Threepio!” I don’t know, that looks kind of fun, Luke.

5. Han punches an otter? An otter wearing fancy jewelry, no less.

6. Playing ships with a Sith: Vader plus younglings doesn’t usually go well….

And now, for some context:

1: “Heat stick” - Wedge Antilles and Wes Janson spend a cold night together on a mission, and yes, that is supposed to be a heat stick used to warm them and not a glowing something else (Star Wars - original Marvel Comics)

2: Laser-eyes Leia: Meet Leia Organa II, a replica droid of the Princess, designed to speak, move, and act like the real Leia, and equipped with blasters in her eyes. The real Leia Organa is captured and nearly forced to marry Trioculus, a three-eyed warlord claiming to be Palpatine’s son (he wasn’t – that was a different three-eyed guy), but right before the wedding Leia’s friends switch her with Leia Organa II. At the altar, the replica droid blasts Trioculus with a little pew pew straight from her eyes, killing him, and the real Leia is able to escape (Queen of the Empire)

3: Hit where it hurts: When Black Sun boss Prince Xizor’s attempted assault of Leia Organa (by drugging her with his powerful Falleen pheromones) is interrupted by Chewbacca coming to the rescue, Leia gives Xizor a well-deserved knee to the groin before escaping (Shadows of the Empire)

4: “Turn off the foam, Threepio!” On a mission with Leia and the droids, Luke Skywalker uses extinguisher foam to subdue some Blackhole troopers aboard a Hrakian ship (“Gambler’s World,” Early Star Wars Adventures)

5: Han punches an otter? Han Solo’s evil cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo has imprisoned Dracmus, a female Selonian who has been trained as a diplomatic envoy to humans. He forces Dracmus to fight Han, whom he has also imprisoned, but Han is familiar enough with Mandaba, the Selonian language, to convince Dracmus to go easy on him during the fight without Thrackan catching on. Han still loses the fight, but gains Dracmus’s trust, and when Dracmus is later rescued, Han is allowed to come along (Assault at Selonia)

6: Playing ships with a Sith: Plourr Ilo recalls her brother Harran (Harrandatha Estillo), who from childhood was an evil, vicious person who wanted her dead so that he could become ruler. Harran idolized Darth Vader, and when Harran met the Sith as a child, Vader made Harran his protégé, taking advantage of his sadistic personality and apparently also playing ships with him for hours (Star Wars comics, X-Wing: Rogue Squadron - The Warrior Princess)

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jewishcissiekj · 2 months

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Star Wars Adventures Ashcan - written by Landry Q. Walker with art by Derek charm | exclusive SDCC 2017 issue, reprinted in Star Wars Adventures, Volume 1: Heroes of the Galaxy

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kookyburrowing · 3 months

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what if boba fett han solo and lando calrissian engaged in shenanigans together at some point during the empire. what then.

#star wars #sw #boba fett #han solo #lando calrissian #fellas is it gay for a con artist a smuggler and a bounty hunter to go on adventures together

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the-boroughh · 4 months

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this fucking scene😭

#side note i just found out this exists #star wars #Star Wars galaxy of adventures #star wars original trilogy #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #chewbacca

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bioluminesced · 1 year

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your next line is “i’ve got a bad feeling about this”

#joseph joestar #joseph joestar as han solo #stuff i made specifically for me and my brain #jjba #jjba part 2 #battle tendency #jojo’s bizarre adventure #star wars #hes cocky enough for the role #ok ill stop rambling in the tags now im just a bit insane about him #my art

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deckardsdwelling · 1 year

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[Harrison Ford with wife Calista Flockhart at the “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” premiere at the Cannes Film Festival]

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bo-katan · 7 months

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@giftober 2023 | DAY 16: TROPES ➡ A Man (Chewie) and his dog (Han)

#han solo #chewbacca #star wars #galaxy of adventures #giftober2023 #starwarsedit #swedit #hansoloedit #chewieblog #swsource #starwarsblr #userlumi #userbariss #userjasmine #usermelanie #usermaggo #userbokatan #mypost #[gifs]

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mybodyfails · 27 days

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happy birthday @hanarchy

#han jisung #stray kids #skz #mp #chris!#happy birthday my darling! 🫂💕#i hope you can always be as happy as this jisung #thank you for being my friend on tumblr and IN REAL LIFE #(i still got your keys 😺)#ily and i'm excited about organising future events with you and going to korea for hannie solo adventures #mwah 💋

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cantsayidont · 5 months

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April 1979. One of the recurring characters in the Brian Daley Han Solo novels is Bollux, a very old labor droid whose slow, shambling gait and laconic speech pattern belie his wisdom and ingenuity. Bollux has been modified to carry a sentient computer probe called Blue Max, who rides in a compartment in Bollux's chest. In HAN SOLO AT STARS' END, Bollux explains, to Han and Chewbacca's surprise, that he actually volunteered for this unusual modification, seeing it as a way to stave off obsolescence, which he likens to death. Han does not take this well, leading to the following exchange:

Han jumped to his feet, mad without knowing exactly why, except that he felt dumb for arguing with a junk-heap ’droid. He decided to tell Bollux just what a deluded, misfit chump the old labor ’droid really was. “Bollux, do you know what you are?” “Yessir, a smuggler, sir,” Bollux responded promptly. Han, confused, looked at the ’droid for a moment, his mouth hanging open, taken off balance by the reply. Even a labor ’droid ought to recognize a rhetorical question, he thought. “What did you say?” “I said, ‘Yessir, a smuggler, sir,’” Bollux drawled, “like yourself. One who engages in the illegal import or export of”—his metal forefinger pointed down at Blue Max, nestled in his thorax—“concealed goods.” Chewbacca, paws clasped to his stomach, was rolling around on the acceleration couch, laughing in hysterical grunts, kicking his feet in the air. Han’s temper blew. “Shut up!” he shouted at the ’droid. Bollux, again with that strange literalness, obediently swung his chest panels closed. Chewbacca’s laughter had him close to suffocation, as tears appeared around his tight-shut eyes. Han began looking around for a wrench or a hammer, or another instrument of technological mayhem, not intending to have any ’droid one-up him and survive to tell the tale.

The newspaper strip adaptation doesn't include the above conversation, but Bollux does remark:

#books #han solo adventures #star wars #star wars expanded universe #brian daley #han solo at stars' end #bollux #blue max #han solo #archie goodwin #alfredo alcala

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emilydickinsonsghost · 2 months

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Literally always assumed that Indiana Jones and Han Solo are both bi, like ever since being a child and watching those movies on my aunt’s old TV recorded VHS tapes from the 80’s I lowkey assumed that was canon.

Idk why, I guess you put Harrison Ford in a slutty outfit and I’m just like “that’s a bisexual that is!”

#indiana jones #Han solo #Star Wars #bisexual #lgbt media #Harrison ford #queercoding #not to mention my repressed baby dyke self definitely wanted to be Han and Indy growing up so there’s that #gender identity be like: larger than life slutty adventurous characters played by Harrison ford in old movies #gay thoughts #also my gay ass was hopelessly in love with both Karen Allen and Carrie Fischer as a child #still am tbh

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hellostarrynightblr · 10 months

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