Han Solo loaned Lando the Millennium Falcon to fly in the attack. Together with co-pilot Nien Nunb, and with help from pilot Wedge Antilles, Lando flew into the center of the great battle station, and blew up the main reactor, escaping the ensuing explosion with his life, the ship, and mere moments to spare.

After the Battle of Endor, Lando settled down and started a family, but suffered a terrible tragedy when his infant daughter vanished – kidnapped, he’d later discover, by First Order agents. Years later, Lando traveled with Luke to Pasaana on the trail of Ochi of Bestoon. Their hunt ended in failure, but Lando found solace in the company of Pasaana’s Aki-Aki and decided to stay, keeping an uncharacteristically low profile.

At the Festival of Ancestors, Lando spotted his old friend Chewbacca and intervened to help the Wookiee and his friends escape the clutches of the First Order. When he discovered Rey had taken up Luke’s hunt for Ochi, he directed them to the site of the relic hunter’s abandoned ship. But he rebuffed Rey’s suggestion that Leia needed pilots, telling her his flying days were long gone.

But Lando found he couldn’t ignore his old friend in her time of need – or close his eyes to the threat posed by the resurrected Emperor Palpatine. He made his way to Ajan Kloss, where he paid his respects to Leia’s memory and helped Poe rally the Resistance. Lando agreed to take the Millennium Falcon and entreat the citizens of the galaxy to join the fight against Palpatine and his Sith minions.

The galaxy heard Lando’s plea, and he and Chewie flew to Exegol at the head of a huge hodgepodge of starships. This citizens’ fleet evened up the odds, and helped the Resistance defeat Palpatine’s Sith armada. Outpacing Poe’s X-wing in the Falcon, Lando then rescued Finn and Jannah from the deck of a doomed Star Destroyer.

The Resistance forces returned to Ajan Kloss to celebrate this momentous victory. But Lando was curious about Jannah and her mysterious past. Perhaps the two of them could find the answers she sought.