Han Solo and the Lost Legacy

Infobox SW Books
name = Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
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author = Brian Daley
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country = USA
language = English
era = Rise of the Empire Era
series = The Han Solo Adventures
galactic_year = 2 BBY
canon = C
subject = Star Wars
genre = Science Fiction
publisher = Del Rey
release_date = 1979
media_type = Paperback
pages = 187
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isbn = ISBN 0-345-34514-2
preceded_by = Han Solo's Revenge
followed_by = Death Star

"Han Solo and the Lost Legacy" is a science fiction novel set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. It was written by Brian Daley and originally published in 1979 by Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books. It is the last of three books in the Han Solo Adventures trilogy (the other two books in the series are "Han Solo at Stars' End" and "Han Solo's Revenge"), and one of the oldest Expanded Universe works. It is set prior to the events of "A New Hope". Unlike the first two books in the trilogy, which introduced and largely fleshed out the Corporate Sector, in this book Han and Chewbacca's adventures take place in the Tion Hegemony.

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While taking a well-earned break on the planet Rudrig in the Tion Hegemony, Han Solo and Chewbacca are approached by Badure, an old friend, and his female companion Hasti. Badure has a lead on the fabled "Queen of Ranroon", the treasure ship of Xim the Despot, which has been believed lost for centuries. Though Han is initially reluctant to join what he considers to be a pointless treasure hunt, he and Chewbacca decide to accompany Badure on his search. Accompanying them on their quest are Skynx, an alien historian from the planet Ruuria, and Han's droid companions, Bollux and Blue Max.

Han's group is not the only one on the trail of Xim the Despot's treasure, however. After landing on the planet Dellalt, Han and his companions are attacked and forced to abandon the "Millennium Falcon". Their attackers steal the "Falcon" and fly her to a distant mining camp, where they intend to search her for clues to the "Queen"'s location - by tearing the "Falcon" apart, if necessary.

Han and the others set off on a trip overland to recover the "Falcon". On their way, they are captured by a group of religious cultists, descendants of the "Queen of Ranroon"'s crew. The cultists are determined to keep Xim's treasure safe, and are about to unleash an army of Xim the Despot's war-robots to destroy the mining camp - and the "Falcon".

Through the ingenuity of Bollux and Blue Max, the war-robots are stopped. Han and the others recover the Falcon and fly to the location of Xim's fabled treasure, only to find that the treasure isn't quite what they were expecting, consisting of technology that was state-of-the-art in Xim's era but is now commonplace and inexpensive.

The book ends with Han and Chewbacca taking the badly-reassembled "Falcon" back into space, with plans to borrow money from Jabba the Hutt for an attempted Kessel Run.

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