Nah, that was Roddenberry’s pitch for Star Trek.
He did it with a bit of assistance.
I guess it’s a spoiler thread...
The droid l33t has a superior navigation computer brain which they install in the Falcon, and they use some special super fuel admixture. Plus Han pilots like a boss.
While some thing we have seen everything of the backstory, remember that Han ends up owing a lot of money to Jabba, likely the big time gangster he is going to meet on Tatooine. So that stuff all has to happen yet.
I will be interested to see where this all takes us, story wise.
Yeah, but that takes place literally days or weeks before Episode IV. They're not going to go that up-to-date in a "young Han Solo" movie series - the kid looks sort-of like he could grow up to be Harrison Ford, but he's not going to pull off being Han as we see him in the original trilogy.
Do we know that though? That is not something I have ever assumed, I am not saying that time frame is wrong, but I can't take it as gospel either. All I am supposing, is that Han goes to work for Jabba, and perhaps he works for the Hutt for a while, becoming a known smuggler. Presumably he works for others too, but maybe he starts the Han and Chewy show out with someone on Tatooine. Where, my guess would be Jabba, or even Jabba's father or something.
How old is freaking Han Solo? I mean, Maul, we know when he dies and about how old Anakin Skywalker is...Han should be about Obi Wan's age in a New Hope! Gee..