Han Solo was a young pilot that had ambitions of joining the Republic Starfleet Academy. He was born on Corellia in 29 BBY but lived with the pirate Garris Shrike for most of his childhood where the Wookiee Dewlana who raised him, and treated him as one of her own. After the death of Dewlanna during the Clone Wars Solo escaped Shrike by helping Anakin Skywalker escape Etti IV. He got a job aboard Ridel Stowe's ship the Lernian Star where he encountered Obi-Wan Kenobi.