According to this Timeline, Solo takes place between 14 BBY to 11 BBY.

Which makes Han younger than Luke and Leia at the time of A New Hope. ?

I need to get a hold of Lucas Films Story Group. ?

How old/young is Han supposed to be in the novel/movie?

According to the OP's math? Between 4 and 7.

Oh wait I get it, Han in 14 bby would be like 15 years old, and 18 in 11 bby. Which would be just slightly younger than the twins at 19. Of course originally Leia was to be 16 in STAR WARS (well before this ANH stuff) with Luke being 18 or so, but ‘thankfully’ it was never said on screen.

also this whole BBY/ABY dating system sucks. With the prequels we have an exact date when Palpy became Chancellor and thus began his reign, a much more significant point in history for the Galaxy. Even dating from the founding of the Empire would be a better reference point. But this system has been ‘canon’ since the early 90s so whatever.

43 minutes ago, Sekac said:

According to the OP's math? Between 4 and 7.

Not sure how you got that from my post at all ? @Sekac

Please allow me,

Disney’s Iger has previously stated that Solo takes place when Han is between 18 and 24, putting it approximately between 12 and 6 BBY +/- a year on either side because we only have an approximate age for Han right now. I'm basing this off the assumption that he's 30 in ANH.

I the first Canon material to state Han’s age was the Topps ESB Star File Card from 1980 which lists him at 34 during ESB. That would put him at 30/31 during ANH. Topps listed Lando at 36 and Boba Fett was listed as 43.

The problem now is that later recton by Disney puts Hans age at 29 at the time of A New Hope. That’s too young for Han in my mind, and too close to Luke’s age to call him ‘kid.’ ?

My suspicion is that this Del Ray timeline fixes Solo at a particular point on their timeline like it does with Thrawn, but the film takes place over a number of years, also like Thrawn novels.

2 minutes ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

Not sure how you got that from my post at all ? @Sekac

Please allow me,

Disney’s Iger has previously stated that Solo takes place when Han is between 18 and 24, putting it approximately between 12 and 6 BBY +/- a year on either side because we only have an approximate age for Han right now. I'm basing this off the assumption that he's 30 in ANH.

I the first Canon material to state Han’s age was the Topps ESB Star File Card from 1980 which lists him at 34 during ESB. That would put him at 30/31 during ANH. Topps listed Lando at 36 and Boba Fett was listed as 43.

The problem now is that later recton by Disney puts Hans age at 29 at the time of A New Hope. That’s too young for Han in my mind, and too close to Luke’s age to call him ‘kid.’ ?

My suspicion is that this Del Ray timeline fixes Solo at a particular point on their timeline like it does with Thrawn, but the film takes place over a number of years, also like Thrawn novels.

Off by a year for your approximate age? Who cares?

1 hour ago, GrimmyV said:

How old/young is Han supposed to be in the novel/movie?

I did the math breakdown above so it’s clearer. ?

I am fairly certain that I heard somewhere that Han will be shown at several different ages throughout the film. So it could be as the OP says and Del Ray puts their timeline at a certain point rather than a Range of dates.

4 minutes ago, Tbetts94 said:

Off by a year for your approximate age? Who cares?

It invalidated three books from an earlier Han Solo series, and affected others in which Hans age of entry into the Imperial Academy was a factor.

For example. It made him younger than Admiral Daala who was supposed to be the youngest member to enter the Academy.

It does not affect your perspective, but it drives continuity note takers mynock batty.

Pretty sure the age for Han in ANH was traditionally 29 since well before Disney even thought about buying SW. and I wouldn’t call Topps trading cards ‘canon material’. Altho I remember those card backs stating no one knew what Boba Fett’s origin was so some of the rumors were that he was a robot, a clone, a cyborg, an alien, etc. and of course that card was right on one account.

Han is an *** so I can totally see him calling Luke ‘kid’ even if just a decade seperates them. After all, one is just a naive farm boy while the other is a galaxy travelled spacer.

boba being 43 in ESB would make him older than in the current canon but probably correct in the Zhan-style clone wars that took place a bit earlier than the prequels showed.

32 minutes ago, GrimmyV said:

also this whole BBY/ABY dating system sucks. With the prequels we have an exact date when Palpy became Chancellor and thus began his reign, a much more significant point in history for the Galaxy. Even dating for on the founding of the Empire would be a better reference point. But this system has been ‘canon’ since the early 90s so whatever.

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This is one change I'd love to see. In the original Thrawn books, they established that the Empire, like the Republic before it, had instituted a new dating system based on the ascension of the Emperor. It would be awesome to see that dating system used, especially since Episode III really comes off as more of a watershed, universe changing episode than IV.

4 minutes ago, GrimmyV said:

Pretty sure the age for Han in ANH was traditionally 29

There is a great line in the 70s movie adaptation novel where Luke himself can not tell Han’s age when they meet at the cantina.

I was always in the camp that wanted Han north of 30, even 31 worked for me.

Again this helps with earleir Han Solo novels.

1 minute ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

There is a great line in the 70s movie adaptation novel where Luke himself can not tell Han’s age when they meet at the cantina.

I was always in the camp that wanted Han north of 30, even 31 worked for me.

Again this helps with earleir Han Solo novels.

I will never forget that Luke was thinking about a dog he owned once when the Falcon jumps to Hyperspace in the novelization.

yeah, Luke had a dog. Not a womp-dog, space dog, star dog or whatever. Just a dog. And it probably got eaten by jawas.

There's also a line in the novelization where Obi-Wan tells Luke "Even a duck has to be taught how to swim".

To which Luke replies, "What's a duck?"

13 minutes ago, GrimmyV said:

I will never forget that Luke was thinking about a dog he owned once when the Falcon jumps to Hyperspace in the novelization.

Not to worry.

I assure you, he found his way to an Imperial Moisture farm

15 minutes ago, Scopes said:

There's also a line in the novelization where Obi-Wan tells Luke "Even a duck has to be taught how to swim".

To which Luke replies, "What's a duck?"

Ducks were first mentioned in the 1977 novelization of A New Hope.

They were given an entry in the now-defunct Databank of StarWars.com, which stated that ducks appeared in The Phantom Menace. However, the birds seen in that movie were later retconned into pelikki, a related species.

Nonetheless, the visual dictionary still mentions the ducks as part of Naboo's wildlife, meaning that the old Databank entry remains valid for the most part.

52 minutes ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

Not sure how you got that from my post at all ? @Sekac

He got that from you saying

2 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

Which makes Han younger than Luke and Leia at the time of A New Hope. ?

Which is pretty easy to read as “(Which makes Han younger than Luke and Leia) at the time of A New Hope.” Ie, at the time of ANH Han is younger than Luke. Instead of “Which makes Han younger than (Luke and Leia at the time of A New Hope)” ie. In Solo, Han is younger than Luke and Leia were in ANH, which I assume is what you meant.

^^^This. How I got there, is reading your words and taking them literally.

3 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

Which makes Han younger in 'Solo' than Luke and Leia were at the time of A New Hope. ?

There. FIFY.

Dude, almost everything you post gets moved to the off topic forum.

Please post there more often as you seem to have much more interest in talking about star wars in general rather than xwing the game.

Or join a star wars message board like theforce.net.

3 hours ago, markcsoul said:

Dude, almost everything you post gets moved to the off topic forum.

Please post there more often as you seem to have much more interest in talking about star wars in general rather than xwing the game.

Or join a star wars message board like theforce.net.

Pretty sure @Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun helped invent theforce.net.

Well ok I’m just guessing on that.

at any rate these posts are informative and fun, unlike the umpteen ‘nerf this’ post.

6 hours ago, markcsoul said:

Dude, almost everything you post gets moved to the off topic forum.

Please post there more often as you seem to have much more interest in talking about star wars in general rather than xwing the game.

Or join a star wars message board like theforce.net.

No one is forcing you to click on the threads mate. I think the only person who has an issue is you. And as said above, it makes a nice change from all the nerf threads.

The ****'s going on in this timeline right now?

2 hours ago, GrimmyV said:

Pretty sure @Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun helped invent theforce.net.

Well ok I’m just guessing on that.

at any rate these posts are informative and fun, unlike the umpteen ‘nerf this’ post.

Yeah I've got no problem with the regula X-wing sub-forum including anything star wars related. The off topic has many hundred pages threads not even related to star wars. The main forum is a fine stream of consciousness mess. Very Mos Eisley. It works.

2 hours ago, Sekac said:

The main forum is a fine stream of consciousness mess. Very Mos Eisley. It works.

Emphasis mine.

@Sekac Genius lol