Landonis Balthazar Calrissian

Landonis Balthazar “Lando” Calrissian, was a human male smuggler, gambler, entrepreneur, and card player who became Baron Administrator of Cloud City and, later, a general in the Rebel Alliance. Born on Socorro, he was the owner of the *Millennium Falcon* before losing it to Han Solo in a game of sabacc on Numidian Prime. After losing the *Falcon*, Calrissian put an end to his days as a smuggler and became an entrepreneur, setting up a small mining operation on the planet Lothal before eventually becoming the leader of Cloud City in the skies of the planet Bespin.

During the Galactic Civil War, Darth Vader arrived on Cloud City to lay a trap for his son, Luke Skywalker. As part of the trap, the Dark Lord of the Sith forced Calrissian into tricking a group of Rebels, including Solo and Princess Leia Organa, leading them to Vader himself. Though Vader promised to leave Cloud City without an Imperial presence, Calrissian felt the deal had been altered to the point where he could no longer tolerate it. Calrissian alerted his citizens to the Galactic Empire's presence and impending occupation and ordered an evacuation. He helped the Rebels try to rescue Solo, who had been frozen in carbonite, from Boba Fett, but the bounty hunter escaped.

Calrissian joined the Rebel Alliance and set out to find Solo. After locating him in the palace of Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine, Calrissian aided in his rescue. The Rebels returned to the fleet, and Calrissian became a general, volunteering to lead the assault on the DS-2 Death Star II Mobile Battle Station during the Battle of Endor. During the battle, he piloted the *Millennium Falcon* into the battle station's core, firing the shot which destroyed it.

In the years of peace after the Empire's dissolution, Calrissian started a family and fathered a daughter named Kadara Calrissian. However, while she was only an infant, his daughter was kidnapped by the First Order. Six years later, he embarked on a quest to the desert planet of Pasaana with Luke Skywalker to find answers about the growing darkness in the Force, but failed to uncover anything. Seeking to bury the pain of those memories, Calrissian settled on Pasaana and led a solitary lifestyle where he was known as the “Hermit” to the Aki-Aki of the Lurch Canyon.

When Rey, Poe Dameron, Finn, Chewbacca, C-3PO and BB-8 arrived on Pasaana in 45 ABY, also looking for Ochi, Calrissian saved them from arrest by a First Order stormtrooper, and took them to the bluff on Lurch Canyon where he and Skywalker had discovered Ochi's starship. Calrissian declined to aid the Resistance further, but eventually changed his mind—assembling and leading the Citizens' Fleet which engaged the Sith Eternal forces at the Battle of Exegol, where Calrissian flew the *Millennium Falcon* alongside Chewbacca, from which the Resistance emerged victorious. Following the battle, Calrissian decided to help former stormtrooper Jannah find her homeworld and family.

## Biography

### Early life and career

Landonis Balthazar Calrissian, otherwise known as "Lando" Calrissian, was born in 38 BBY on the planet Socorro. A member of the Calrissian family, Lando never felt close with his father, however, he considered his mother to be the "most amazing woman" he had ever known. During his youth, he became a smuggler and a gambler, excelling in a card game known as sabacc. He traveled throughout the galaxy and piloted a freighter called the *Millennium Falcon*, which saved his life on numerous occasions. Sometime before 10 BBY, Lando won a subtropical moon in the Oseon Belt during a game of sabacc. Lando also developed a partnership with L3-37, a custom self-made piloting droid.

During his career as a smuggler, Calrissian had dealings with Crimson Dawn, including one mission on Felucia. He completed his debt to Crimson Dawn and its leader, Dryden Vos. Calrissian eventually decided to retire from the life of a smuggler and instead become a full-time gambler. Calrissian also created his own autobiography known as the *Calrissian Chronicles*.

### Age of the Empire

#### Working with Crimson Dawn

##### Coaxium heist

"*Everything you've heard about me is true.*"
―Lando Calrissian, to Han Solo
During Lando's retirement on Vandor, Qi'ra, who was an old acquaintance of Lando, and her comrades, Tobias Beckett, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, needed a fast ship in order to steal unrefined coaxium from the Pykes on Kessel for Vos. Qi'ra suggested they search for Calrissian, and the group found him hustling several bar patrons at sabacc by hiding a card up his sleeve. Solo joined in the game, and the stakes soon became Lando's *Falcon* against Solo's VCX-100 light freighter. Solo produced an impressive hand that caused the other bar patrons to erupt in applause, but Calrissian produced a superior hand by cheating. Calrissian inquired where Solo's ship was, but Qi'ra greeted Calrissian and explained the situation. Calrissian agreed to pilot the *Falcon* for the heist, in exchange for a 50% cut. Beckett approached Calrissian and told him to do it for 25%. Calrissian recognised Beckett for killing Aurra Sing, someone who Calrissian owed a lot of money to. Out of gratitude, Calrissian offered to do it for 40%, however Beckett insisted on 25%. Calrissian agreed, before hearing L3-37 shouting. Calrissian intervened as L3 got into a fight with Ralakili. After convincing L3 to let go of Ralakili's face, Calrissian led the crew to the *Falcon*. Calrissian's cut was negotiated down to 20% by Beckett.

After their departure, Solo entered the cockpit and recognised the ship's model due to the fact that his father used to work for the Corellian Engineering Corporation building YT-1300s, having even taken Han aboard one at some point. Calrissian and Solo then discussed their parentage, with neither one of them being close to their fathers. When talking about his mother however, Calrissian described her as "the most amazing woman" he had ever known.

L3 then entered the cockpit and sat next to Calrissian, plotting a course to Kessel. Calrissian and L3 then saluted eachother, before making the jump to hyperspace. On Kessel, Calrissian remained aboard the *Millennium Falcon* during the heist and updated his autobiography. When Solo, Qi'ra, Chewbacca, Beckett, and L3 returned with the coaxium, Calrissian helped lay down covering fire against the Pykes until L3 was shot. Calrissian attempted to save L3, but was shot in the arm, and it took the efforts of Solo and Chewbacca to save him and L3. Aboard the *Falcon*, L3 died in a distraught Calrissian's arms. Due to his injury, Calrissian reluctantly allowed Solo to pilot the *Falcon* off Kessel.

The crew encountered an Imperial blockade when departing Kessel, causing Solo to divert his course into the dangerous maelstrom. Calrissian retrieved L3's central processor and plugged it into the *Falcon's* navicomputer in order to plot a course out of the maelstrom, in which navigation was otherwise impossible. The *Falcon* crew encountered a massive space creature, and the Maw, a powerful gravity well. Solo launched the *Falcon's* escape pod into the gravity well, causing the creature to follow it and become trapped. The *Falcon* became trapped in the gravity well, only escaping when Beckett used a drop of coaxium in order to give the *Falcon* the power to escape.

##### Savareen

"*I hate you.*"
"*I know.*"
―Lando Calrissian and Han Solo

When the crew arrived at the refinery on Savareen in order to refine the coaxium, Calrissian was furious with Solo for the damage sustained by his beloved ship despite their miraculous escape. Calrissian told Solo that he still expected his share, and after never wanted to see him again afterwards. Calrissian then waited in the *Falcon* to receive his payment. Soon after this, Enfys Nest and her Cloud-Riders arrived on Savareen to confront Beckett. Solo approached Nest and threatened her, claiming that there were around thirty hired guns aboard the *Falcon*, who would surround her gang on his command. However, in that moment, Calrissian departed the planet, abandoning Solo and the others.

##### Losing the *Falcon*

"*Fair and square, baby. Fair and square.*"
―Han Solo after his victory

Following the showdown on Savareen, Solo and Chewbacca tracked Calrissian to Numidian Prime, where he was once again hustling others at sabacc. Solo swiped Calrissian's spare card when he greeted him, and challenged him to a rematch, which Calrissian agreed to. Midway throughthe game, Calrissian reached for his spare card. After Calrissian noticed it had disappeared, Solo taunted him by asking if he had everything he needed. Eventually, Solo won the *Falcon*, and with it, departed the planet with Chewbacca.

#### Other adventures

At one point, Calrissian met Kaasha Bateen, who was serving within the Free Ryloth Movement during the Pasa Novo campaign, where the two developed romantic feelings for each other. Calrissian also worked with Solo and Chewbacca again on various occasions. During their final encounter before the Galactic Civil War, Solo ended up causing trouble for Calrissian.

### Era of the early rebellion

#### Galactic entrepreneur

##### Working with Vizago

"*"Smuggler"? Such a small word. I'm more of a… galactic entrepreneur.*"
―Lando Calrissian to Hera Syndulla
After losing the *Falcon*, Calrissian put an end to his days as a smuggler. He fancied himself a respectable businessman, and referred to himself as a "galactic entrepreneur." At some point Calrissian met a criminal known as Azmorigan, who introduced him to Cikatro Vizago, a Devaronian crime lord who operated on the Outer Rim planet of Lothal.

Later, Calrissian purchased a plot of land from Vizago on Lothal, on which the former smuggler intended to begin mining precious minerals. In order to do so discreetly, without attracting the attention of the Empire due to Imperial mining regulations, Calrissian planned to acquire a puffer pig from Azmorigan; puffer pigs could smell valuable minerals and could do the same job as twelve mining scanners. He required a ship that could evade the Imperial blockade set up around the planet; Calrissian attempted to smuggle mining equipment onto Lothal but was stopped by the Empire.

##### Hiring the Spectres

"*Name's Calrissian. Lando Calrissian. Now please, introduce me to my new droid.*"
―Lando Calrissian

Calrissian found such a ship after playing a game of sabacc in Jhothal, a settlement on Lothal. He played the game in Old Jho's Pit Stop, competing against Tsoklo and Garazeb Orrelios, the latter of whom was a Lasat crew member aboard the *Ghost*, a ship operated by a band of rebels on Lothal. Orrelios believed he had the upper hand and bet his crew's astromech droid, C1-10P, but Calrissian beat his hand by using an Idiot's Array. The droid, nicknamed Chopper, therefore belonged to Calrissian, but he agreed to give the droid back and pay the rebels much-needed credits if they assisted him on an operation—which, unknown to them, was the acquisition of the puffer pig. The crew was reluctant to trust Calrissian, but they needed the credits and wanted Chopper returned to them, so they agreed. During the trip to rendezvous with Azmorigan, Chopper gave Calrissian a tour of the ship, where he admired the artwork of Sabine Wren, a Mandalorian artist and member of the crew.

Once the *Ghost* arrived at the rendezvous, the ship docked with Azmorigan's vessel, *Merchant One*. Calrissian and the crew's leaders, Hera Syndulla and Kanan Jarrus, boarded *Merchant One*, and Calrissian told them to follow his lead. Calrissian also hinted that the ship had escape pods—a coded message to Syndulla, whom he intended to hand over to Azmorigan as payment for the puffer pig, and he knew that she would need a way to escape the vessel. Despite Jarrus' protests, Syndulla played along once Calrissian offered her to the crime lord, and Azmorigan gave Calrissian the puffer pig, which was locked in a crate. Calrissian and Jarrus returned to the *Ghost*, where Calrissian explained that he expected Syndulla to use an escape pod to leave *Merchant One*—which she did, returning to the *Ghost* and attracting the ire of the crime lord. Once Syndulla was aboard, and had given Calrissian a piece of her mind over the betrayal via a knee to the groin, the *Ghost* jumped back into hyperspace, leaving Azmorigan behind them.

Calrissian showed the crew the puffer pig and warned them not to let it out of its cage, as it would expand into a larger creature if it was startled. Orrelios and fellow crew member Ezra Bridger ended up letting it out, and the pig ran throughout the *Ghost* before being so startled that its size increased and it became stuck in one of the ship's hallways. This proved potentially problematic once the *Ghost* returned to Lothal, where they needed to slip through the Imperial blockade; Syndulla, the ship's pilot, was stuck on the other side of the pig, so Jarrus would need to pilot the vessel himself. Calrissian asked Chopper, who only responded to Calrissian's commands, to fix the mechanism that would allow the *Ghost* to mask its signature and slip past the blockade. Chopper was able to do so and the ship nearly made it through the blockade, but Bridger caused the pig to expand again, knocking Orrelios into the controls that allowed the ship's signature to remain masked. The Empire detected the *Ghost* as a rebel vessel and sent a group of TIE fighters in pursuit, which the *Ghost* was able to destroy.

The crew made their way to the farm that Calrissian purchased from Vizago, where Calrissian explained that his plan was to use the puffer pig for mining. They were confronted by Azmorigan, however, who had anticipated that Calrissian would return to the land. This led to a shootout between the rebels and Azmorigan's forces, one that ended when Azmorigan threatened to kill Orrelios if they did not hand Calrissian over to him. Syndulla refused, and Chopper—who stole a crate of fuel for the *Ghost* and returned to the ship—fired the cannons on the *Ghost* at Azmorigan, giving Orrelios a chance to gain an upper hand and hold Azmorigan at gunpoint. Syndulla demanded that the crime lord leave, a demand that he acquiesced to. With Azmorigan gone, Calrissian claimed that he did not have the credits that he owed the rebels, but he did return Chopper to them. Nonetheless, Syndulla held Calrissian in her debt, though what he did not reveal was that he knew Chopper had stolen the fuel, which was why he did not give them any credits. He did, however, believe that he would one day meet the rebels again.

##### Call from Hera

"*Well, hello there Captain Syndulla, this is a pleasant surprise.*"
―Lando Calrissian, to Hera Syndulla

Calrissian later came into contact with the rebels again some time later. After the rebels destroyed the *Sovereign*, the personal Star Destroyer of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, the Imperials tightened security on Lothal. The rebels returned to Lothal after having been away from the planet, where they were pursued by numerous Imperial agents: including Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith. Vader ordered that no ship could leave Lothal, leading the rebels to contact Calrissian to ask for his assistance in smuggling them off-planet. He spoke to them via hologram, as he was not on Lothal, but nonetheless agreed to help them in exchange for three military-grade shield generators. With the deal having been made, Calrissian ordered his personal droid, W1-LE, to assist the rebels with the masking transponders that would trick the Empire into pursuing false signals from their stolen Imperial shuttle. The rebels successfully escaped Lothal. On various occasions within the following years, Bridger used Lando's name as an alias, including during his dealings with Hondo Ohnaka and Gar Saxon. Calrissian caused trouble.

#### Business success

"*A mining colony?*"
"*Yeah, a tibanna gas mine. Lando conned somebody out of it.*"
―Leia Organa and Han Solo

Some time later, Calrissian scored a major victory in a card game and won control of Cloud City, a tibanna gas mining operation within the atmosphere of the planet Bespin. Calrissian became the Baron Administrator of Cloud City. As leader of the mining operation, he was able to keep the operation small enough to avoid being noticed by the Empire and the Mining Guild, which he considered advantageous as his customers did not want to attract attention. No one was more surprised by Calrissian's sudden transformation into a responsible leader than Lando himself.

### Galactic Civil War

#### Watching the Battle of Yavin

"*That's… That's my ship. That's the* Millennium Falcon*.*"
―Lando watches a recording of the battle over the Death Star
In the time following the Battle of Yavin, which saw the Alliance to Restore the Republicdestroy the DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station, Calrissian was playing a game of cards on a casino. Before the game, which Calrissian was certain he was winning, could end, the Empire raided the casino and shut it down. Traveling to a cantina to reunite with Lobot, Calrissian learned about the Battle of Yavin, watching a recording leaked by the Rebels.

To his surprise, he saw the *Millennium Falcon* enter the fight. Asking to watch it again, he was certain the ship was being piloted by Han Solo. Surprised that Solo was fighting for what he had written off as a lost cause, Calrissian toasted to Solo. Calrissian then sat, drinking drinks and pondering what had made Solo join the Rebels.

#### Deal with the Dark Lord

##### Placating the Empire

In 3 ABY, Darth Vader and the Imperial Navy tracked Solo and the *Millennium Falcon* after they escaped from the Battle of Hoth. Vader intended to use Solo—as well as fellow Rebel Alliance members Princess Leia Organa and Chewbacca, who were also aboard the *Millennium Falcon*—to lure Vader's son, Luke Skywalker, into a trap. Vader knew that if Skywalker thought his friends were in trouble, he would attempt to rescue them and fall into Vader's trap. In an effort to hide from the Empire, Solo suggested that they make their way to Cloud City and seek help from Calrissian. While en route to Bespin, the *Falcon* was tracked by bounty hunter Boba Fett, who had been employed by Vader to find the *Falcon*. Vader and Fett arrived on Cloud City before the *Falcon*, and the Dark Lord of the Sith told Calrissian to help trap the Rebels or Cloud City would face the wrath of the Empire. Knowing full well that Lord Vader would certainly carry out that threat if he refused, Calrissian agreed to Vader's demands, while bargaining for as lenient a treatment for Solo and company as possible, and awaited the Rebels' arrival.

The *Millennium Falcon* arrived at Cloud City and was granted permission from the city authorities to land. Once it landed, Calrissian personally greeted Solo and the others on the landing platform with Lobot and a full complement of the Bespin Wing Guard in tow. When Calrissian first approached, he feigned anger for actions Solo committed in their previous encounters. He quickly dropped the facade, however, and greeted his old friend with affection, telling Solo it was very good to see him again. Calrissian asked what brought Solo to Cloud City and the smuggler told him that they needed to repair the *Falcon*. Calrissian briefly referred to it as his own ship, asking what Solo did to damage it, but Solo reminded him that he won it from Calrissian fair and square. Calrissian then greeted Chewbacca, and introduced himself to Organa, using his charms to personally welcome her to Cloud City.

While the Rebels settled into an apartment on Cloud City, Calrissian ordered his workers to begin fixing the hyperdrive on the *Millennium Falcon*. He went with the workers and inspected the *Falcon*, making his way to the cockpit. Calrissian, missing L3-37, his former droid companion, saluted the copilot seat she once occupied. Now a part of the Millennium Collective, L3-37 projected a holographic image of the planet Kessel, the place of her death, to make Lando realize she was still a part of the ship. Calrissian was then summoned by Vader. At some point, the work was completed and Calrissian was informed that the vessel was fixed, but the Empire secretly disabled the vessel's hyperdrive without Calrissian's knowledge. Calrissian then left to go to the princess Leia's apartment, to gather her and her companions for a meeting with Darth Vader.

##### An Imperial trap

"*I had no choice, they arrived right before you did. I'm sorry.*"
―Lando Calrissian to Han Solo after betraying the crew to the Empire

Calrissian greeted them in the apartment, where he admired Organa for her beauty. He also found that their protocol droid, C-3PO, had been mysteriously damaged and blown into several pieces, which piqued the suspicions of the Rebels. Nonetheless, after he asked them to join him for refreshments, they followed Calrissian throughout the facility, where he told them about the mining operations and how the Empire and the Mining Guild had no presence on Cloud City. Upon arrival at the Rinetta dining room, Calrissian told them that he had made a deal to keep the Empire off of Cloud City, and he opened the door to reveal Vader and Fett; Fett intended to take Solo to Jabba to claim a bounty on the smuggler's head. Vader quickly subdued Solo who attempted to shoot him, even as a squad of stormtroopers appeared behind the Rebels to prevent their escape. As a result, the Rebels were successfully captured by the Empire.

The Rebels were taken into custody, and Solo was tortured by the Empire; as intended by Vader, the torture was seen by Skywalker in a vision, who rushed to Cloud City to save his friends. Calrissian waited outside of the torture chamber where he heard Solo's screams, disgusted with the evil he has been forced to collaborate with, and spoke with the Dark Lord once Vader emerged from the chamber. Vader told him that Organa and Chewbacca could never be allowed to leave Cloud City, to which Calrissian protested, as neither that nor helping Fett were part of their arrangement. Vader threatened to leave an Imperial garrison on Cloud City if Calrissian did not cooperate, which made Calrissian realise that the deal was getting worse and that Vader would not uphold his promises. After Solo's torture ended, Calrissian spoke to his old friend, Organa, and Chewbacca, and told them that the princess and Chewbacca would have to remain on Cloud City. He also told them that Vader was not interested in them, but rather he was using them to bait someone named Skywalker to Cloud City, for which he received a slug to the face from an enraged Solo.

Later, Vader determined that he would use the Cloud City carbon-freezing chamber to freeze Skywalker in carbonite so he could be delivered to the Emperor. To ensure that Skywalker would not be damaged, Vader decided to test the carbon-freezing on Solo. Calrissian protested, believing that the carbon-freezing would kill Solo. Nonetheless, Vader moved forward with the test. When Solo and the other Rebels arrived, Calrissian informed Solo of what was about to happen to him. Calrissian monitored the freezing and, when it was completed, checked on Solo's lifesigns, where he found that Solo was alive and in perfect carbonite hibernation. Vader then ordered Calrissian to bring Organa and Chewbacca to the Dark Lord's vessel, once again altering the deal he had made with the Baron Administrator. Knowing now that the Sith Lord had no intention of keeping to his bargain, Calrissian secretly signaled to Lobot to put his contingency plan into action.

##### Betraying the Empire

"*Attention. This is Lando Calrissian. Attention. The Empire is taking control of the city; I advise everyone to leave before more Imperial troops arrive.*"
―Lando Calrissian alerts the residents of Cloud City
Imperial forces led Calrissian and the Rebels towards the Dark Lord's ship. While en route, they encountered Skywalker, who exchanged fire with the Imperials before the stormtroopers led Calrissian and the Rebels away. The Imperials were soon surrounded by Cloud City security forces, led by Lobot, and disarmed. Calrissian freed the Rebels from their restraints while trying explain that he intended to leave the city while helping the Rebels escape as well, at which point Chewbacca attacked him, grabbing his neck and choking him for his betrayal. Struggling to stop the enraged Wookiee from crushing his windpipe, Calrissian gasped out that there was still time to save Solo from the bounty hunter, who was taking him to the East Platform. The Rebels let Calrissian go, and he followed them towards the platform. They arrived in time to watch Fett's ship, *Slave I*, take off. Though they attempted to fire at it with blasters, it had no impact and the bounty hunter escaped with Solo.

Stormtroopers soon arrived on the platform, forcing Calrissian and the Rebels to fight through them and escape. They made their way to the *Millennium Falcon* and arrived at its landing platform, only to find a locked door. R2-D2—Skywalker's astromech droid, who had rendezvoused with the Rebels—attempted and failed to open the door. While the droid was working, Calrissian issued a city-wide broadcast warning his citizens of the Imperial presence and impending occupation of Cloud City. He advised everyone to leave Cloud City before more Imperial forces could arrive. Calrissian's announcement created a frenzy of activity, as numerous people fled throughout the city. Calrissian led the Rebels through the commotion towards another doorway, which R2-D2 was able to open while Calrissian and the Rebels fought off more stormtroopers. The group ran towards the *Falcon*, where Calrissian provided cover fire as the others boarded the ship. Once aboard, the *Falcon* lifted off from the platform, pursued by TIE fighters.

As the *Falcon* was escaping, Skywalker—who had been injured in and escaped from a lightsaber duel with Vader—communicated to Organa through the Force, calling to her for help as he struggled to hang onto an antenna at the base of Cloud City. Organa asked Chewbacca, who piloted the *Falcon*, to turn the ship around so they could save their friend. Calrissian protested because of the TIE fighters, but the Rebels went back anyway to rescue their friend. They found Skywalker hanging from the city and positioned the ship underneath him. Once in position, Calrissian opened a hatch and took a lift to the top of the ship, where Skywalker fell into and Calrissian caught him. With Skywalker on board, the *Falcon* took off again from Cloud City, and Calrissian left Skywalker in Organa's care.

Calrissian took the pilot's seat in the *Falcon* and prepared the ship for a jump into hyperspace. When he attempted to make the jump, however, the hyperdrive failed, much to Calrissian's frustration as he was unaware that the Empire had sabotaged the ship. The *Executor*, Vader's Super Star Destroyer, approached the vessel, where Vader would once again attempt to capture Skywalker. R2-D2, who learned of the sabotage while communicating with Cloud City's computer, made the necessary repairs to the hyperdrive and the ship was able to jump into hyperspace, successfully escaping from the Empire.

The *Millennium Falcon* united with the Alliance Fleet at Rendezvous Point Gamma-Nine. Calrissian did not stay long, as he and Chewbacca intended to set out in the *Millennium Falcon* to find Solo. Before leaving the fleet, he contacted Organa and Skywalker, promising the princess that he and Chewbacca would find Solo. The group agreed to meet at a rendezvous point on Tatooine, the location of Jabba's Palace. They said their goodbyes and the *Falcon* departed from the fleet.

#### Serving the Rebellion

##### Becoming a general

Calrissian spent the following year serving the Rebel Alliance. Shortly before the rescue of Han Solo, Calrissian participated in the Battle of Taanab, helping the Alliance defeat a pirate fleet. Due to this, Calrissian was promoted, and became a general of the Rebel Alliance.

##### Rescue of Han Solo

"*Princess, we'll find Han. I promise.*"
―Lando Calrissian to Leia Organa

Some time later, Calrissian and Chewbacca had located Solo's still-frozen body at Jabba's palace on Tatooine. Skywalker put together a plan in which Calrissian, Organa, Chewbacca, the droids, and Skywalker himself would rescue their friend and, if necessary, destroy Jabba the Hutt. Calrissian infiltrated the palace and disguised himself as one of the Hutt's guards. He watched as each member of the Rebel team arrived; the droids arrived first, posing as gifts from Skywalker to Jabba, followed by Organa who posed as a bounty hunter collecting the bounty on Chewbacca, who she brought as her prisoner. Organa later released Solo from carbon-freeze, but they were discovered by Jabba and his court. Solo was placed into a prison cell with Chewbacca, while Organa became the Hutt's slave. Calrissian remained in disguise throughout the arrivals.

Skywalker arrived last and, while declaring himself a Jedi Knight, demanded that Solo and the others be released to him. Jabba refused, and Skywalker was forced to fight and kill Jabba's rancor beast. When the rancor failed to kill Skywalker, Jabba sentenced Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca to be killed; the sentence was that they would be fed to the sarlacc creature in the Great Pit of Carkoon, where they would be slowly digested over the course of a millennium. Calrissian, still disguised as a guard, traveled with Jabba and his entourage to the Great Pit of Carkoon, and was stationed aboard the skiff on which the prisoners were kept.

Before the Rebels could be executed, R2-D2 revealed he had been concealing Skywalker's lightsaber. The Jedi Knight attacked Jabba's guards and Calrissian revealed himself, helping to free the prisoners and fight off the other guards. While doing so, he was knocked from the side of the skiff and fell towards the sarlacc, clinging onto the edge of the pit. Solo, who was partially though temporarily blind as a result of the carbon freezing, was lowered towards Calrissian by Chewbacca. Solo handed him a staff and Calrissian reached for it, but one of the sarlacc's tentacles grabbed his leg. Solo aimed a blaster at the tentacle and, despite Calrissian's concerns over Solo's ability to see his target, fired upon the creature. He hit the tentacle and the sarlacc released Calrissian, allowing Solo to pull him to safety.

Once they were aboard, Skywalker and Organa—who had killed Jabba aboard the Hutt's vessel—jumped from Jabba's ship to the skiff. Calrissian piloted the skiff away from Jabba's vessel as it exploded, and the group rescued the droids, who had fallen overboard earlier. With the rescue completed, the group returned to the *Millennium Falcon* and left Tatooine.

##### Battle of Endor

"*General Calrissian has volunteered to lead the fighter attack.*"
"*Good luck. You're gonna need it.*"
―Gial Ackbar and Han Solo

Calrissian and the others soon rendezvoused with the fleet, to find that a battle was being prepared to strike a decisive blow against the Empire. The Empire was building a second Death Star, which orbited the forest moon of Endor, and the Emperor had personally arrived on the station to oversee the final stages of construction. Unknown to the Rebels was that the Emperor had allowed them to learn this information, as he was luring them into a trap in an attempt to destroy them. They believed that the station, which was fully operational, did not yet have use of its primary, planet-destroying weapon. As such, they put together a plan to destroy the Death Star and kill the Emperor. The plan would require a ground assault to destroy the generator that powered the shield protecting the Death Star, as well as a naval assault against the station itself. Calrissian volunteered to lead the starfighter attack. He attended a Rebel briefing where the plan for the Battle of Endor was reviewed, and learned that Solo would lead the ground assault, with a team that included Organa, Chewbacca, and Skywalker. Solo congratulated Calrissian for becoming a general, to which he responded it must have been because of a maneuver he pulled at Taanab. Solo told Calrissian he could fly the *Millennium Falcon* during the battle. Knowing how much the ship meant to his friend, Calrissian promised that he would return her without so much as a scratch.

Solo and his team departed prior to the fleet, in order to give themselves time to destroy the shield. The Rebel fleet, meanwhile, prepared to leave. Once it was ready, Calrissian and his co-pilot, a Sullustan named Nien Nunb, flew the *Falcon* to the head of the fleet, where all fighter squadrons were accounted for. Admiral Gial Ackbar, who led the Alliance fleet, gave Calrissian the order to depart for Endor. Once they arrived at Endor, Nunb told Calrissian that the *Falcon*'s scanners had been jammed, leading Calrissian to realize that the Empire knew they were coming and that the attack was a trap. As the squadrons approached the Death Star, Calrissian ordered his forces to break off the attack, as he knew that the shield was still operational.

A hidden Imperial fleet revealed itself, and Calrissian and his fighter squadrons were forced to contend with incoming TIE fighters. He led his fighters towards the Imperial fleet in order to draw enemy fire away from the Rebel cruisers, and the *Falcon* shot a number of the TIE fighters down. He soon saw Imperial Star Destroyers positioned away from the main fighting and was unsure as to why they were hanging back. Calrissian soon found an answer once the Death Star, revealed as operational, fired its primary weapon and destroyed a Rebel cruiser with a single shot. Ackbar ordered a retreat, but Calrissian convinced him to keep the fleet in place, as he had faith that Solo would complete his mission on the surface. When another Star Cruiser was atomized by the superweapon, Calrissian told Ackbar to move the rest of the cruisers and engage the Star Destroyers at point-blank range, reasoning that they stood a far better chance against them than the Death Star and that the destroyers would be caught in the blast if the superlaser dared to fire again.

On the surface, Solo and his team successfully completed their mission and destroyed the shield generator. With the Death Star vulnerable, Ackbar ordered Calrissian and his forces to begin their assault on the battle station. The *Falcon* and the fighter squadrons entered an opening on the space station and headed for the reactor core, all while pursued by TIE fighters. While piloting towards their target, the *Falcon* hit a bulkhead on the interior of the Death Star, knocking its sensor dish off; Calrissian, as a result, had broken his promise to return the *Falcon* to Solo "without a scratch." The Rebels reached the main reactor, where the *Falcon* fired the shot that started a chain reaction to destroy the station. Calrissian piloted the ship back through the same route that they entered, as a ball of fire followed close behind. Despite the minor damage, the *Falcon* escaped the Death Star just in time and flew back towards the Rebel fleet as the Death Star exploded behind it.

Calrissian and his fellow Rebels made their way to the surface of Endor and regrouped in Bright Tree Village, the home of the Ewoks who helped Solo and his team destroy the shield generator, where they all celebrated the destruction of the Death Star and the death of the Emperor; during the battle, Skywalker redeemed Vader, who in turn killed the Emperor before succumbing to his own injuries. Calrissian reunited with Solo, Chewbacca, and the rest of his friends for the festivities.

### New Republic Era

#### Operation: Cinder

"*You really trust us to fight beside you?*"
"*What can I say? I'm a big believer in second chances.*"
―Iden Versio and Lando Calrissian

Though they had won the Battle of Endor, the Rebels would still face many challenges as they sought to restore the Galactic Republic. Shortly after Inferno Squad's surrender, Calrissian discussed matters with the squad leader Iden Versio. He offered to let them leave free on two X-Wing fighters as well as providing them the option of helping stop the Empire from implementing Operation: Cinder. Iden and Del Meeko took the second option, leading Lando to assign them to join his friend Shriv Suurgav in Danger Squadron.

Calrissian commanded an Alliance Fleet including the cruiser *Restoration*, the *Mellcrawler II* and a small fleet of starfighters, including Danger Squadron and defected members of Inferno Squad during the Battle of Theed, aiding Queen Sosha Soruna, Organa and Lieutenant Shara Bey as they disrupted the Imperial operation to render Naboo inhospitable.

The rebels then reengaged the Imperial forces and destroyed the last satellites and engaged the *Torment*, however, before going down, the ship deployed its ground invasion force in an attempt to capture Theed and salvage the battle, after the ground battle ended, the New Republic began to form.

#### Sullust - Shriv

Calrissian soon took part in a mission to infiltrate an abandoned weapons depot on Sullust with Shriv Suurgav in order to secure weapons for the Republic. They discovered that Imperial forces under Admiral Garrick Versio had already captured the facility, causing Calrissian to change the mission's objective to instead destroying the facility altogether to prevent the Empire from getting the weapons. While Calrissian flooded the facility with lava, Suurgav captured an AT-ST scout walker for them to use to escape. However, they were unable to find an Imperial shuttle to escape the erupting volcano with. Climbing out of the scout walker, Suurgav sarcastically quipped to Calrissian that if he was going to die here, he was glad Calrissian would too. However, they were saved by Iden Versio and the *Corvus*, arriving in the nick of time.

#### Liberation of Cloud City

"*Lobot, we're home. Guess the Empire didn't keep up with housekeeping.*"
―Lando Calrissian, to Lobot, remaining good-humored in the midst of hardship and conflict
Following the events at Endor, Governor Ubrik Adelhard imposed the Iron Blockade on the Anoat sector. Adelhard also claimed that the Empire had won the Battle of Endor and that rumors of the Emperor's death were rebel propaganda. In response, a resistance movement known as the Uprising emerged in the sector. Calrissian kept in touch with his old friend Lobot, who relayed messages through the blockade and served as a liaison between Calrissian and members of the Uprising. Unable to intervene directly in the uprising on Cloud City, Calrissian instead transferred credits to the rebels through the auspices of Lobot. He was privy to a joint operation by Lobot and the pirate Kars Tal-Korlato breach Adelhard's personal quarters and capture him. Though Adelhard evaded capture, the Uprising managed to liberate Bespin as the Galactic Civil War drew to a close.

Calrissian managed to starve Adelhard's Imperial remnant into submission. Around the time of the Battle of Jakku, he returned to Cloud City at the head of a ragtag force of Wing Guards and New Republic soldiers. With Lobot at his side, Calrissian led a mopping-up operation against an Imperial hold-out in the Casino Level's Bolo Tanga room.

Upon arriving at the Bolo Tanga room, Calrissian met with the Wing Guard Captain Gladstone, who informed him that the Imperials were holed up inside. While they had broken through to the beam outtake shaft, they were trapped by poisonous fumes. Calrissian then addressed the Imperials and offered to spare their lives if they surrendered. As a further incentive, he promised to give them a hot meal, a warm bed, and to send them away without fear of New Republic prosecution. After ending his address, Calrissian ordered his engineers to unseal the door.

A dozen Imperials accepted Calrissian's offer and they were taken into custody by the Wing Guard. However, Gladstone then informed the Baron Administrator that an Imperial sergeant was refusing to surrender. Calrissian tried to reason with the sergeant but the man tried to shoot him. Calrissian was forced to kill the sergeant with his Rossmoyne Vitiator pistol. After subduing the Imperials, Calrissian invited Lobot out for a drink but Lobot responded that he did not drink. Calrissian then promised to find a win-win situation for both of them.

#### Encountering Embo

"*Look at this place. I can see Han living like this, but Chewbacca?*"
―Lando Calrissian
Calrissian and Nunb at some point stopped at a space station to refuel the *Falcon*, but were unable to take off. The ship was boarded by the bounty hunter Embo, who was attempting to claim a bounty on Calrissian for the destruction of the second Death Star. Calrissian incapacitated Embo, and he and Nunb left him on the station when they departed.

#### "Uncle Lando"

"*Kid's gonna get into trouble one day. He's gonna need some help. And that's where Uncle Lando comes in.*"
"*We are not giving a blaster to the boy. Children should not play with blasters.*"
"*No, not for now. For later. When the time is right. Tell you what. I'll write a note, kind of a…* Hey, kid, it's me, Uncle Lando, you ever need help and don't wanna call your father, come find me, we'll sort it out. *Put that in with the blaster, then secure it on a locker here on Cloud City, and give Han the key. Don't tell him what's in it—he'll pitch a fit if he sees it. It'll be for the boy when he's older.*"
―Lando Calrissian and Lobot, on Ben Solo
Following the Thrawn campaign, Han Solo and Leia Skywalker-Organa were expecting their first child. In 10 ABY, Lobot reminded Calrissian to get Skywalker-Organa and Solo a nuptial gift for their expectant child. Calrissian joked about gifting the boy a little cape and mustache so that he could resemble Uncle Lando. Calrissian wanted to gift his old blaster to the boy. Though Lobot attempted to talk him out of it, Calrissian assured him that it was for when the boy was older. Calrissian then had the blaster secured in a locker on Cloud City, with a note stating that the boy can visit him on Cloud City if he ever needed help. Calrissian then proposed gifting the family a Vantillian catamaran. Lobot accepted that idea. When Calrissian toyed with the idea of starting his own family one day, Lobot vetoed the idea.

Ben Jacen Solo was born in 10 ABY. During his youth, he grew close to Calrissian, referring to him as "Unca Wanwo". Calrissian would often tell the boy stories about Han's days as a smuggler.

### Later years

#### Starting a family

"*First Order went after us—leaders from the old wars. They took our kids. My girl wasn't even old enough to walk. Far as I know, she's a stormtrooper now.*"
―Lando Calrissian, regarding Kadara Calrissian
Retiring from New Republic service, Calrissian settled down and started a family, but tragedy struck when his daughter Kadara Calrissian disappeared—abducted by the nascent First Order as part of Project Resurrection, ostensibly to build up their army but also targeting the leaders of the former Rebel Alliance.

#### Travelling

"*Luke and I were tailing an old Jedi hunter. Ochi of Bestoon. He was carrying a clue that could lead to a wayfinder. We followed his ship halfway across the galaxy here. When we got to his ship, it was abandoned… No clue. No wayfinder.*"
―Lando Calrissian, on his and Luke's mission to Pasaana
In 31 ABY, Calrissian joined his old friend Skywalker, who had detected a growing darkness in the Force, and wished to investigate a possible resurgence of the Sith. Through his underworld contacts, Calrissian heard about an assassin, Ochi, who was searching for Sith relics on the desert planet of Pasaana. Skywalker and Calrissian did not find Ochi on Pasaana, but did find his ship, the *Bestoon Legacy*. From their time on Pasaana, Calrissian was taken with the humble nature of the native Aki-Aki people, and remained on the planet living as a hermit in the Forbidden Valley.

### Second Galactic Civil War

#### Hearing news

In 44 ABY, the Second Galactic Civil War began. In the early stages of the war, Han Solo, Amilyn Holdo and Luke Skywalker sacrificed their lives for different purposes, and Gial Ackbar was murdered by the First Order. At some point, Calrissian heard the news, though it is unknown how he reacted.

#### Pasaana

"*Leia needs pilots General.*"
"*My flying days are long gone. But do me a favour. Give Leia my love.*"
"*You should give it to her yourself. Thank you.*"
―Rey and Lando Calrissian

In 45 ABY, the galaxy was shaken by a mysterious message broadcasting the voice of Darth Sidious, the long dead Galactic Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith. Determined to stop Sidious, Resistance heroes Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Chewbacca, C-3PO and BB-8 journeyed to Pasaana in search of a wayfinder. Skywalker-Organa contacted Calrissian to inform him of the mission. Ben Solo, having fallen to the dark side years earlier adopting the name Kylo Ren, alerted local troopers that the crew were on the desert planet. Calrissian shot FN-2802, a stormtrooper who had located the crew, in the eye with his prod pistol, before telling the crew to follow him. Calrissian led them to a DN-25 treadable, and asked the driver Kalo'ne to take them to the east passage.

Calrissian soon revealed himself to the crew, embracing his old friend Chewbacca. When Dameron revealed that they were searching for Exegol, Calrissian recounted the time he and Skywalker had searched for Ochi, and told the crew that Ochi's ship The *Bestoon Legacy* was still where he had left it all those years ago. Rey offered Calrissian a chance to join the Resistance, but Calrissian declined, claiming that his flying days were long gone. However, Calrissian asked Rey to give Leia his love, to which Rey responded that he should give it to her himself, before thanking him and leaving with the rest of the crew.

#### Joining the Resistance

"*«There aren't enough of us.»*"
"*He's right. We'd be no more than bugs to them.*"
"*That's where Lando and Chewie come in. They'll take the* Falcon *to the Core systems. Send out a call for help for anybody listening.*"
―Nien Nunb, Breha Solo and Finn

Eventually, Calrissian had a change of heart, and decided to join the Resistance. He boarded his old ship the *Lady Luck*, which he had kept under an unmarked tent, and traveled to the Resistance base on Ajan Kloss. He reunited with many old friends, including Leia Skywalker-Organa. Eventually, Skywalker-Organa sacrificed herself in order to bring back her son, leaving Dameron to lead the Resistance. Overwhelmed and uncertain, Dameron sat next to Skywalker-Organa and claimed that he was not ready. Calrissian approached Dameron, and comforted him, telling him that, during the Galactic Civil War, the Heroes of Yavin weren't ready either. When Dameron questioned how they defeated the Empire, Calrissian said they simply won due to having eachother.

Calrissian later attended a briefing held in order to prepare for the Battle of Exegol, during which, Calrissian and Chewbacca were tasked with travelling to the Core Worlds to send out a call for help to anyone who would be willing to aid the Resistance in their upcoming battle. The two were also accompanied by Wedge Antilles.

#### Battle of Exegol

"*You said it, Chewie. One last time.*"
―Lando Calrissian, to Chewbacca

Calrissian approached the *Millennium Falcon*, and boarded it for the first time in over a decade. He walked around his old ship, and explored it. Calrissian entered Chewbacca's cabin, remembering how it had been his cape closet fifty five years earlier. Calrissian was about to leave, before noticing a hologram disc. He reached out and activated it, seeing a recording of Chewbacca holding a baby Ben Solo. Solo kicked his legs and yanked on Chewbacca's fur, shrieking in delight. Chewbacca cuddled him, making a sound that was almost like a purr. Calrissian deactivated the hologram, unable to watch any more. He was saddened due to the First Order having taken away so much from everyone. Calrissian knew that it was time to fight back. Calrissian entered the cockpit where he was greeted by Chewbacca. Calrissian spent a precious moment staring at his old friend. Eventually, he settled into the pilot seat, Chewbacca moaned loudly, and Calrissian agreed, before the two set off on their journey.

During the mission, Calrissian called upon many old friends, including Shriv Suurgav and Hera Syndulla. Eventually, he had amassed a combined force of over 14,000 civilian and military starships of differing classes and size that were manned by ordinary galactic citizens and Resistance friends, known as the Citizens' Fleet. The fleet arrived at Exegol, where the remains of the Resistance were engaged in a battle against the Sith Eternal's fleet of *Xyston*-class Star Destroyers, the Final Order. The Resistance ships were being gunned down, and Calrissian heard Dameron apologising to the Resistance, claiming that the enemy was too formidable to defeat. However, Calrissian contacted Dameron and told him that there were more of them. Piloting the *Falcon* along with Chewbacca and Antilles, Calrissian led the reinforcements, where they helped turn the tide of the battle. However, Sidious eventually summoned a massive burst of Force lightning against the fleet, shutting down and damaging all ships inflicted. Eventually, Rey defeated Sidious, allowing the fleet to regain control. The Resistance was able to achieve victory, and, as a result, a galactic uprising against the First Order by the inhabitants of the galaxy began.

Calrissian returned to Ajan Kloss with the rest of the fleet, where the Resistance held a celebration over their victory. Calrissian sat down and reminisced on his life whilst also remembering his close friends who had died for the greater good. In that moment however, he was approached by Jannah, who asked where he was from. After responding, Calrissian asked her the same question, to which Jannah revealed that she didn't know. Calrissian realised that the young woman was a former stormtrooper. Understanding the pain of losing family to the First Order, Calrissian agreed to help Jannah find her homeworld and family.

## Personality and traits

"*I mean, he was brave, sure, but always in the service of saving his own hide or profit. But I had also detected that deep down, behind all that smooth talking and those well-ironed capes, there was a whole human being with a conscience and a desperate need to do something worthwhile with his life.*"
―Kaasha Bateen, on Lando Calrissian
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## Skills and abilities

"*He's the best smuggler around. He's slipped through the Empire's fingers more times than anyone else. He's attractive, too. Sophisticated, with impeccable taste and…charisma. Not to mention his prodigious—*"
―Qi'ra recommends Calrissian
Calrissian was a skilled pilot. During the Battle of Taanab, Calrissian performed a piloting maneuver that impressed even himself. He later attributed that maneuver as being one of the reasons why the Rebel Alliance commissioned him as a general and placed him in a command position for the Battle of Endor.Calrissian was also skilled with a blaster, wielding anX-8 Night Sniper as his weapon of choice which he used against Azmorigan's thugs with enough proficiency to earn him a compliment from Wren, herself an accomplished markswoman.

Calrissian once undertook a dangerous maneuver which involved latching onto a Star Destroyer's tractor beam and causing it to collide with another Star Destroyer. Calrissian boasted of doing this maneuver a thousand times. Calrissian was also a cunning combatant and once tricked the lightsaber-wielding Aleksin into deactivating his blade so that he could kill him. Calrissian also owned a Rossmoyne Vitiator pistol, which he won in a game of Six-Card Gizka Limit from a spice-drunk Aybarian diplomat. Calrissian used this pistol to kill an Imperial sergeant who refused to surrender.

## Equipment

"*The cape makes the man.*"
―Lando Calrissian, on capes
Calrissian had a flamboyant sense of style. He often wore ornate clothing that included a cape. While having a fateful rematch of sabacc with smuggler Han Solo, Calrissian wore a colorful outfit that consisted of a red tie, white pants with a beckon calltransponder chit, a white and blue bespoke cape made from a tailor on a subtropical moon in the Oseon Belt, and a bright yellow shirt with it's sleeve hiding a green sylop card. On a mission to rescue Han Solo, he disguised himself as a Skiff Guard pretending to work for crime lord Jabba the Hutt in order to blend in with the crowd at Jabba's Palace. In the disguise he wore dark clothing which included a mask with bones on it.