Salla Zend
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Orange[1] |
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Salla Zend was an ex-girlfriend of Han Solo. She and cohort Shug Ninx helped Han and Leia save Luke and foil the reborn Emperor Palpatine's plan to control the galaxy from Byss years after the Battle of Yavin with her remarkably fast ship, the Starlight Intruder (which Zend often claimed was faster than the Millennium Falcon, but in a number of races with the Falcon, the Intruder never came out on top).
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[edit] Biography
Salla was originally a student with a true gift for fixing and modifying machinery, yet she didn't seek training to become an engineer or a technician, preferring to become a spaceship mechanic aboard a corporate vessel. Eventually, she saved up enough money for a loan, with which she bought her own ship.
Her first time on Nar Shaddaa was eventful, with her getting into a fight with a smuggler named "Jump", who tried to romance her at first, but then tried to be rough; his roughness only got him a dislocated shoulder. Tweaking out her vessel, the Rimrunner, Zend began repaying the debt by smuggling with Han Solo.[2]
She was one of the many smugglers who fought in the Battle of Nar Shaddaa where she and Lando Calrissian in the Millennium Falcon were partnered up. During the battle, she personally destroyed three Guardian-class light cruisers with her ship's concussion missiles.[2]
A race with Solo past a neutron star almost ended in disaster when her hyperdrive failed and Solo nearly died rescuing her. Disturbed by the narrow miss, Zend wished to marry Solo, but he refused and said goodbye to her.[3] She later partnered up with Shug Ninx.[4]
[edit] Behind the scenes
Salla Zend and the Starlight Intruder first appeared in the third issue of the Dark Empire series, The Battle for Calamari.
Vocal actress Glynnis Talken played Salla in the 1994 Dark Empire audio drama. In 1995, Talken acted out Salla again in the Dark Empire II audio drama.
Although the first edition of The Essential Guide to Characters would firmly establish Salla's species as Human, she does have a "purr" and slight alien reverb to her voice in these audio adaptations.
[edit] Appearances
- The Hutt Gambit
- Rebel Dawn
- Dark Empire (First appearance)
- Dark Empire II
- Empire's End (Mentioned only)
- Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (Mentioned only)
[edit] Sources
- Dark Empire endnotes
- Dark Empire Sourcebook
- Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook
- The Essential Guide to Characters
- Unusual Suspects
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 88 (German Edition - ZEN1-2, Salla Zend)
- The New Essential Chronology
- Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
"Han Solo: The Early Years" - Star Wars Insider 106
- The Essential Atlas
Han Solo in the Databank
- Salla Zend in the Databank
