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The Han Solo Adventures.
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The first book of the trilogy, Han Solo at Stars' End, arrived in 1979. Brian Daley wrote these novels to explore the smuggling days of Han Solo and Chewbacca two years before the original Star Wars film. These books were released between 1979 and 1980, making them the first non-movie Star Wars books published after Splinter of the Mind's Eye in 1978. Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books, originally published both this trilogy and The Adventures of Lando Calrissian series. An omnibus edition collected all three novels in 1992. The events of the series later appeared in interludes within Rebel Dawn, the final book of Ann C. Crispin's Han Solo Trilogy, which came out in 1998.
Corporate Sector Adventures
Han Solo and Chewbacca needed a special waiver to operate the Millennium Falcon inside the Corporate Sector without running afoul of authorities. They attempted to contact Doc, an outlaw technician who had vanished, presumably abducted by enemies of the Corporate Sector Authority. Jessa, Doc's daughter, informed them that her father was missing. Han made a deal with Jessa: he would help discover what happened to Doc and other enemies if she provided the waiver and upgrades for the Falcon. The pair escorted the droid Bollux to Orron III, where they met Rekkon, leader of the search group. A small computer probe named Blue Max hid inside Bollux's chest cavity and infiltrated the Authority's network. Rekkon's group was compromised by a traitor, and their activities were discovered during their escape attempt. Chewbacca was captured by the Authority while Han and others escaped aboard the Falcon. Before dying, Rekkon scrawled Stars' End, Mytus VII on the Falcon's game table. Han used this clue to reveal the traitor and jettisoned him into hyperspace. They flew to Stars' End and rescued their friends, including Doc and Chewbacca. The facility was destroyed along with its administrator and most staff.