The natural gambler, brave to a fault, impulsive, and willing to risk everything to win, Han Solo is one of the key heroes of the hopes of the Alliance. In addition, he is sublimely confident, outwardly brash and aloof to deflect any suspicions that he is not truly the amoralist he pretends to be. He has a healthy lust for credits, and has spent most of his life employing various dubious methods of acquiring them -- but beneath all his fantasizing about boundless wealth and the adulation of women all over the galaxy lies the simple desire to make something respectable, something better of himself.

At this juncture, with the Rebellion behind him and his recent marriage to Leia Organa before him, Solo retains his habitual cocky attitude and his craving for action and acclaim, tempered by the experiences that made him one of the heroes of the New Republic... and settled into place his adopted family of Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, Luke Skywalker -- the little brother he'd never had -- and most importantly, Princess Leia, the love of his life. Recent imprisonment at the hands of the Corporate Sector Authority, the Empire, and the V'ez-tcha, brutal torture by an Imperial Noghri assassin, and having to face the probable loss of both Chewbacca and the Millenium Falcon have driven home hard to Han exactly how precious his current life has become to him, and although he would rather have his Wookiee partner rip his arms off for him rather than admit it, he has begun to feel that the quiet life isn't so bad after all.