Xaverri Xaverri was a Human female traveling magician and illusionist who performed across the galaxy several years before the Battle of Yavin . Constantly roving and usually alone , Xaverri never settled down due to the pain she experienced in her past . She despised the Empire and worked against it on numerous occasions . On the moon Nar Shaddaa , she fell in love with the smuggler Han Solo after a performance and had a relationship with him for some time before leaving him . Xaverri would later aid Solo twice after their relationship ended — the first in the Battle of Nar Shaddaa , where she helped the inhabitants of the Smuggler ' s Moon fight off an Imperial starfleet and the second on Crseih Station , where her advice helped prevent Solo from falling under the mind - controlling influence of the alien entity Waru . Biography . Early life and career . In the society of her birth , the Human female ' s surname was listed last after a series of ancestral ties , so she took no other name than simply her surname , " Xaverri . " Born at some point before the year 29 BBY , Xaverri was a trained stage magician by around the age of thirty , traveling the galaxy and reputed to be " one of the best illusionists in the galaxy . " Much of the profits she earned went to finance protection money to the Galactic Empire for her homeworld and friends , though even that was not always successful . However , the Empire killed her husband and children , embittering her and creating a vast need inside her to take revenge on the entity that had robbed her of her family . On most of her tours , she spent much time trying to find ways to inflict damage on the Empire . Her past she kept secret , choosing to live alone after the death of her loved ones . Her solitude and lack of companionship was largely her choice , though , augmented by her natural suspicion and distrust of others . Dealings with Solo . While on a week - long tour on the moon Nar Shaddaa , smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca went to see her show and were captivated by her performance . After the show , Solo and his Wookiee friend went backstage and met the magician , who was pleased to meet both their acquaintances , and her knowledge of Shyriiwook left a favorable impression on Chewbacca . Solo , who was already attracted to Xaverri , invited her out for a post - performance snack , and she agreed . The two started going out and on their fourth date , Xaverri revealed her past to Han , who in turn shared his own background and troubles with the Empire . She also told Solo that that was the first tour where she hadn ' t spent her spare time plotting against the Empire . Han offered his services as an assistant for her show and a pilot , and she agreed to take him on , as her current assistant , Glarret , was getting on in years and was not a skilled pilot anyway . Shortly after Solo signed on as her assistant , Xaverri and Solo deepened their relationship to an intimate level . By popular demand , her tour was held over for additional time on Nar Shaddaa , after which she departed with Solo and Chewie for other locations . Xaverri spent six months on tour with Solo , alternately performing stage shows and scamming Imperial officials . During the former , Xaverri continued to use her array of illusions to entertain audiences while also adding in segments featuring Chewbacca ' s Wookiee strength and with Solo onstage in a costume of his own as her assistant . As before , her shows were successful and enthralled audiences across the galaxy . During their sabotage activities , the duo duped any number of bureaucrats and officials . One such occasion , Xaverri helped con the Assistant Secretary to the Sector Moff of the D ' Aelgoth sector out of his life savings and placed him under suspicion for treason . However , two of their scams were not as successful . In one botched scheme , she and Han were forced to run through the countryside , evading pursuit by hiding up to their necks in a swamp , until Chewbacca was able to pick them up in her ship . As much as she enjoyed the companionship of Han Solo , Xaverri left him on the luxury moon of Velga , taking her ship , the " Phantasm " , and striking out on her own . She felt that being around him and Chewbacca had made her too soft , too vulnerable , and too attached to him . Realizing that she had to leave him in order to maintain her hard - edged recklessness , she left a message on a datapad for Solo and the Wookiee , wishing them both well . For her part , she planned on taking a short rest before starting a new tour — and continuing her campaign against the Empire . Battle of Nar Shaddaa . Some time later , Han Solo called upon Xaverri for her aid in the impending Battle of Nar Shaddaa . The Empire planned on razing the moon and its millions of inhabitants , and while Han and other smugglers had mustered up a fleet of smuggling freighters and privately owned craft , along with Drea Renthal ' s mercenary fleet , they needed a diversion to distract the Imperial Navy . Xaverri readily agreed to create an illusion , although she admitted it would be difficult . Using the holoprojectors from the casinos on Nar Shaddaa and the traffic control buoys in orbit around Nar Shaddaa , Xaverri engineered a deception that would generate the image of an approaching mercenary fleet while jamming the sensors of the Imperial vessels . In the days prior to the battle , Xaverri worked closely with fringe slicer Salla Zend , also a former girlfriend of Solo ' s , as they worked to prepare the equipment necessary for the deception . While Xaverri told Han that the Imperials would only be fooled for a few minutes , Solo was satisfied . The battle proceeded largely according to the plan set forth by the smugglers , with the Imperial capital ships being drawn into an ambush point . At that moment , Xaverri activated her illusions , fooling the Imperials and causing them to turn towards the perceived threat . That lapse was enough to allow Renthal ' s fleet to hit them from the rear with heavy firepower , which led to the destruction of two bulk cruiser s and one Dreadnaught . After such heavy losses , the Imperial fleet withdrew and the smugglers emerged victorious . After the battle , Xaverri left to continue her work both as a stage magician and against the Empire , bidding farewell to Solo once more and again wishing him happiness . Throughout the years , she continued her predations against the Empire , never quenching her thirst for revenge no matter how many schemes she pulled off . Never again did she seek companionship or a family , due to her vow to always be alone . Crseih Station . Years later , Xaverri sent out rumors of strange phenomena in the guise of reports of lost Jedi on Crseih Station to bring Han Solo , now married to Leia Organa Solo , and Jedi Luke Skywalker out to investigate . Crseih Research station , which orbited near a crystallizing white dwarf star and a black hole , had once been used by the Empire for research . She slipped into their room one night after they arrived there with the aid of the droid C - 3PO . Xaverri ' s presence surprised both Han Solo and Skywalker , and she told Solo that her efforts had been somewhat hampered by the New Republic and its " honorable ways . " However , she did feel that the events on Crseih were a threat to the New Republic and led Han , Luke , and C - 3PO to the hall of Waru , a strange alien being from another dimension that alternately healed and consumed those who approached it as it yearned for a way to return to its own dimension . Xaverri approached Waru , whom she had some prior contact and pleasant conversation with before , even to the point of providing it with a gift . The alien ' s influence on her was enough to cause her to sink to her knees and she looked exhausted after the encounter . Over Solo ' s objections , they remained to observe Waru at work , then left , with Solo having to tug Skywalker , who was entranced by Waru , along with him out of Waru ' s hall . Solo expressed his opinion that Waru was a trick , but Xaverri angrily responded that it was impossible for it to be a scam ; she would have spotted it . Having lived in Waru ' s compound for a hundred days to gain its trust , she felt that it was a danger to the New Republic , not to mention the sizable faction of admirers and even worshipers he had collected . Still , she returned to Waru ' s compound , as she had done many times , to observe the being in action . Later , Solo returned after he learned Xaverri was still near Waru . He met up with her just in time to witness Waru kill an Ithorian seeking healing from it , though she was annoyed that he had not done as she wished and waited until she called for him . However , the experience did convince Solo of the danger of Waru . Xaverri then revealed that Waru had been summoned to Crseih by experiments performed by the Imperial Procurator of Justice . She also announced that the Procurator and Waru had formed an alliance that would bring considerable power . Solo , still distressed by his experience with Waru , was shaken , but Xaverri assured him that they would stop Waru together . Han drifted off into sleep while sitting down , but Xaverri carried him to his bed and laid him there and remained by his side throughout the night , though she did not offend his modesty as she knew he had a family . She helped calm him down after he had nightmares of Waru , reminding him that his nightmares of losing his family were just dreams — hers were real . The incident later caused some friction between Luke Skywalker and Solo , as Skywalker , fallen under the influence of Waru and with his control of the Force slipping due to resonance from the crystal star , was suspicious of Xaverri . As Solo again pulled Skywalker away from Waru , they encountered Xaverri again . Despite Solo ' s offer to take her with them back to the New Republic , she refused in favor of continuing her work beyond the law . Before they were out of sight of Waru ' s compound though , Han spotted the Procurator of Justice , Hethrir , who was bringing Solo ' s son Anakin to Waru . Solo , Xaverri , and Skywalker quickly moved to rescue the toddler from Hethrir , aided by the recently arrived Leia Organa Solo , Rillao , — the Procurator ' s former mate — and Chewbacca . Even as they snatched Anakin Solo away , Skywalker agreed to let Waru take him instead . Han and Leia Solo dove into Waru ' s expanse to save Skywalker , who had already been engulfed , pulling him out and saving him from Waru . Meanwhile , Xaverri helped capture Hethrir ' s minions and allies , taking them to deal with in her own way . Once again , she said goodbye to Solo and also to his wife , leaving the station in her ship shortly before the crystal star collapsed into the black hole ' s event horizon , releasing deadly radiation that sterilized Crseih . Personality and traits . Xaverri had black hair , dark brown eyes , and stood slightly shorter than 1 . 8 meters . Xaverri had a large stage presence and was seen as beautiful and exotic in her performances . However , she was an embittered woman , forever grieving for the loss of her family and seeking revenge against the Empire , to the point where she willingly chose solitude and to distance herself from others in order to pursue revenge . She kept to herself largely , though Han Solo managed to work through her emotional barriers to see her true character . Underneath , Xaverri was a loving , intelligent person with a sense of humor , but that part of her was buried under her hate for the Empire . Her years of hard living and deception made her suspicious and wary , though she was quite knowledgeable and skilled in a number of disciplines . Xaverri also had numerous ways of obtaining information . To her , all of these strengths and abilities were weapons to use in her private war . She would go to any length to harm the Empire , pursuing her vendetta against it with reckless abandon . Relationships . Husband . At one point , Xaverri had a husband whom she loved . However , her husband , along with her children , were killed by the Empire . Emotionally devastated , Xaverri dedicated her life to avenging their deaths . Han Solo . After they met on Nar Shaddaa , Solo and Xaverri quickly developed a close and intimate relationship which lasted six months . The two worked well together and their strengths complimented the other , in addition to the fact that they enjoyed each other ' s company . Xaverri found Solo courageous and dashing , while he thought she was exotic and extraordinary . Xaverri and Solo loved each other , but her quest for vengeance caused her to put aside her feelings for him and leave him , though they would encounter each other twice afterward . Solo would later reflect that he might have had a future with her if she had not left him . Talents . Xaverri was a skilled magician who had a knack for spectacular and dramatic shows . Her shows featured her , usually wearing some sort of sparkly garment slashed in places to expose skin , performing a variety of illusions for the crowd ' s pleasure . Shortly after being introduced , she would go straight into her acts , performing increasingly difficult feats . Some of her tricks included lasering a volunteer from the audience in half , then lasering herself in two pieces , also . She also appeared to teleport both herself and some Rodian batwing s from one glassine cage to another one located on the other side of the stage in a single instant . Xaverri also released a flock of Kayven whistler s onto the audience , except that the animals , like the rest of her tricks , were a mere illusion . While on Nar Shaddaa , her grand finale was to create an impression that the audience was floating in space and on a collision course with a rogue dwarf star . Even Han Solo , an experienced con man , pickpocket , and card shark , could not determine how her illusions were arranged . Xaverri was a talented illusionist of great skill , such that she could fool Imperial sensors into believing that a battlefleet was approaching them . She was also trained as a gymnast and contortionist and used weapons such as vibroblades and daggers in some of her acts . She was also an accomplished con artist , easily surpassing the schemes of Garris Shrike in the eyes of Han Solo . Furthermore , Xaverri had knowledge of piloting , which allowed her to fly her own ship , the " Phantasm " . Behind the scenes . Xaverri was first introduced by Vonda N . McIntyre in the 1994 novel " The Crystal Star " , but her character and past relationship with Han Solo were later fleshed out in greater detail by A . C . Crispin in the book " The Hutt Gambit " in 1997 . In 2012 , she was mentioned in " The Essential Reader ' s Companion " , in which it was incorrectly stated in the section of the book that detailed the plot of " The Hutt Gambit " that Xaverri made her first appearance in the novel " The New Rebellion " .