If you don’t want to know anything about the story details for Solo: A Star Wars Story then we suggest you stop reading now.
Little is known about the plot for Solo although we know that Han won the Falcon from Lando in a game of Sabacc, so we can probably assume certain things. Now that merchandise for the film has started to arrive on shop shelves, ahead of the official release date of April 13th or 20th — different licensees are saying different things but that’s a different matter — several sites are starting to put 2 + 2 together….
A children’s book called “Train Heist” was found on Amazon, showing Chewbacca and Han Solo riding the double-sided train known as the Conveyex. The description names the snow planet in which this heist will take place, indicating that the new canon is once more cherry picking from the Legends stories. Here’s what the blurb says:
Han Solo and Chewbacca the Wookiee must team-up for a daring train heist on the planet Vandor!
A planet called Vandor-3 previously appeared in the Jedi Apprentice series of novels, which chronicled the adventures of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. It was previously home to the training grounds for the Clone Troopers who fought in the Clone Wars.
Fans also learned about the film’s rumored villain Enfys Nest through the Force Link 2.0 action figure package [from Hasbro], which reveals he’ll be the leader of a swoop bike gang called the Cloud Riders. That name was also taken from Legends material, the Marvel Comics run on Star Wars.
It turns out Emilia Clarke’s character Qi’Ra might have something to do with those villains as well.
That’s my girl (first pic via u/firespray) #Solo pic.twitter.com/De4woUshOo
— dragon’s daughter (@yeahclarke) March 23, 2018
The packaging for the younger version of the character, packaged as “Qi’ra (Corellia),” indicates that she might be involved with Enfys Nest and the Cloud Riders, saying “At 18 years of age, young Qi’Ra is already enmeshed in a life of crime, working for a gang on Corellia.”
She also appears to be the same version of the character shown in the speeder with Han Solo during the trailers for the film, indicating that the movie will begin in their earlier days before a time jump. This also teases that industrial-like setting from the trailers is likely to be Corellia.
More as we get it!
