Han Solo is the Kevin Bacon of the Star Wars universe . Forget six degrees — severely , pick any grapheme , and I insure you that if they have n’t met Han Solo in their dangerous undertaking , they know someone who has . Here are 10 people who met Han in scene the flick did n’t show and the Star Wars universe did n’t need .
1 ) Grand Moff Tarkin
Yes , even though Han Solo never deal to chance Peter Cushing ’s Grand Moff Tarkin while he was sneaking around the Death Star , it did n’t matter , because the two already knew each other . Six old age before A New Hope , Tarkin was part of the gradation observance at the Imperial Academy of Carida … where Han Solo was valedictorian . Yes , not only was Han Solo once an majestic pilot , he was also a big nerd about it .
2 ) Dengar
When Darth Vader engage those bounteousness hunters to search for the Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back , Dengar jump-start at the opportunity . Why ? Well , you know those bandage enclose around his read/write head ? That ’s because Han Solo seriously jazz him up . The untried Dengar and Han were have an illegal swoop race on Corellia , their home planet , when at some point “ Solo brought his slide down at once over and in front of Dengar , burning his facial expression in the slide ’s exhaust system and locking therepulsorfins of both swoops , “ which knock Dengar off his wheel and onto a crew of watch glass plant , one of which pierced his brainiac . The Empire save Dengar ’s life by partly bionic man - izing him , and then he spent most of his metre hunting down Solo — jolly clearly , if you ask me .
3 ) Admiral Ackbar
for certain , since Ackbar was planning the ravishment on the 2d Death Star , and Han Solo was a full general in the Rebel Alliance , it ’s obvious the two Man — er , whatever — would meet in Return of the Jedi . But again , this was not Han and Ackbar ’s first showdown . Six months after A New Hope end , Ackbar crashed a ship on the mud planet of Daluuj ( get it ? GET IT ? ! sigh ) . Han , along with Luke and Leia , rescued the Mon Calamari , who then belong on to pull some awesome military maneuver at Massassi Station , which in turn so impressed Mon Montha she appoint Ackbar the Supreme Commander of the Rebel Fleet .
4 ) BoShek
Remember this swell from A New Hope ? He ’s the guy Obi - Wan talk to in the Mos Eisley cantina while looking for a pilot , who then points them over to Chewbacca and Han . Of course , he could n’t just be a guy in a bar who happened to recognise Han ’s rep , but rather they were were right friend from “ the smuggling scene , ” a scene that technically encompass most of the wandflower yet apparently still allow people to scat into each other forever . More ridiculously , remember Han ’s brag about fly the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs ? Well , BoShek quiver it , and in fact that ’s the whole intellect he was in the Mos Eisley cantina that day — to rub it in Han Solo ’s face .
5 ) Captain Piett
The purple officer — good known for replacing the less - than - competent Admiral Ozzel during The Empire Strikes Back — had a history with Solo before he trail the Millennium Falcon through an asteroid theater . Prior to A New Hope , Piett was part of a customs team that encountered the Falcon and board it looking for steal goods . Piett did n’t find out them — in fact , he did n’t find anything , which made him suspicious . The ever - bland Han assay to bribe Piett , who straight off threw Han and Chewbacca in the prison house of the Super Star Destroyer he later commanded and chased them with . It ’s such a small galaxy .
6 ) Aurra Sing
This pale , mohawked premium Orion , see for mayhap all of a second during the podrace in The Phantom Menace — met Han Solo waaaay after the motion picture . 37 or so years after Return of the Jedi , Aurra Sing teamed up with Han and Leia after they tried to convert some planet to join the Corellian gyration against the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi , which include Luke and their own kids ( the enlarge Universe is a stack ) . Han and Leia get framed for an blackwash attempt on the planet ’s leader , and Aurra helps them run away . They handle to trick the amplitude hunter into taking them to her leader and get substantiation to their son Jacen that they ’re innocent , although Jacen does not rescind his parents ’ arrest warrants , because Jacen is a huge peter .
7 ) Luke Skywalker ’s Aunt
Alas , Han Solo never got to meet Luke Skywalker ’s blue milk - slinging , better - known auntie Beru . But in brief after the events of Return of the Jedi , Han and Leia visit Tatooine to obtain an Alderaanian house painting that had some variety of secret code in it . Once there , they pay heed with Beru ’s younger sister Dama , who owned and operated the Sidi Driss Inn , a moisture farm turn hotel . Oh , and just for kick , Grand Admiral Thrawn round the hotel while disguised as a Stormtrooper , because why the pit not .
- Boba Fett
Obviously , Han Solo met Boba Fett in the movies : once when Han , Leia and Chewie were capture , and once when Han accidentally beaned the bounty hunter on Jabba ’s skiff and knocked him into the Sarlacc Pit . But did you cognize that these were only the 5,000th and 5,001st times out of 10,000 or so the two ran into each other ? Boba first discover Han 12 yr before A New Hope while hunting some dude on Jubilar for Jabba the Hutt , and noted “ the untested man was full of hope . ” Then five years before ANH Boba captured Solo for urinate off some other Hutts , although Lando rescue him ; this was just the first of several thousand times Boba Fett capture Han only to have him escape , which piddle off Boba to no end . sin , at one point Jabba the Hutt had to pay Boba not to kill Han , because Boba hat him so much and Han was doing Jabba ’s smuggling . Once , Grand Moff Tarkin hired Fett to get hold the Imperial turncoat Solo , and play into Darth Vader who was also hunting Solo for some reason ( this was still before ANH ) and then Fett and Vader fought over the moon-curser ( Han escaped during the fight , naturally ) . And then there was also that whole adventure from the cartoon in the Star Wars Holiday Special .
Even RotJ was no deterrent to their fiddling dance . The first time Boba escape the Sarlacc , he had amnesia and Han Solo befall to every which way get hold him while rescue R2 - D2 from another Jawa sandcrawler . When Boba acquire his memory back , he somehow managed to fall out of the Sandcrawler and into the Sarlacc Pit again . There was more chasing , and capturing , and get away , until Boba Fett got Crab and retired ( I am serious ) and eventually taught Han ’s daughter Jaina how to pop her evil asshole Sith sidekick Jacen .
9 ) Yoda
The stupefied moment of Revenge of the Sith was gratefully slue out of the final interlingual rendition , but the mere idea of it still place chills down the steadfast Star Wars fan . The fabulously abominable scene , which would have boast a 10 - year - previous Han Solo on the major planet of Kashyyyk , being raised for no plain reasonableness by Chewbacca , and wanders out of nowhere to help Yoda get over down General Grievous . The dialog that was nearly speak :
HAN SOLO : I get hold part of a transmitter droid near the east bay … I remember it ’s still send off and receiving signals .
YODA : Good . Good . cover this we can back to the germ . witness General Grievous , we might …
BLEH . Given how close it come to happening , I feel confident in include it in this list , and thus declaring that it ’s the bad , most arbitrary meeting Han Solo had with a Star Wars theatrical role before the original trilogy . But …
10 ) Indiana Jones
… what about meeting a character who was n’t in Star Wars ? In the Star Wars Tales comedian — which , to be fair , contains escapade that are n’t even consider part of the expanded universe canyon — the Falcon is shot by Imperials , escape through hyperspace , and crash - kingdom on a very familiar planet . It ’s conversant because it ’s Earth , which we have it off because Han Solo is kill by Native Americans . His body — and the Falcon — is encounter more than 100 years afterwards by Indiana Jones and Short Round , while investigating the fable of Bigfoot , who is of course Chewbacca . sure as shooting , Han was dead when he “ met ” Indiana , and it was n’t even close to being in even the vaguest continuity . Still , I must remind everyone of this nightmarishly dumb encounter so that those in the future will not replicate these error . NEVER FORGET .
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