Hey ! Some little things before reading:
1. I do not own star wars, but I definitely own the craziness of the various character's assumptions.
2. The original concept was a non-Jedi character with as somewhat flawed understanding of the Force but knowing enough to make his own assumptions being dropped from the sequel to the prequel and baffling all the main players there. I chose Han by virtue of being the most exposed, and being more familiar with this character than with Poe and Finn (otherwise known as having seen four movies he was in instead of one). Those reactions are the chapters labelled "Main story". The "Extra" are the snowballing effects of these assumptions on the plot, the characters and their actions. Some extra are standalone, but other belong to threads. See bottom for the list. The main story is cohesive, as are each thread which can be read individually along the main story, but full understanding need all the threads.
3. English is not my native language, so expect some verbal tense confusion.
Good read !
Main story, chapter one : Where Han Solo inadvertently changes history and Obi-Wan Kenobi gets a new master
Dying hurt. Not so much because of the lightsaber in his guts but because Ben plunged said lightsaber in his guts. And all of that, because some mumbo-jumbo All-Mighty Thingy run into the family. He did not blame Leia, because she wanted as much to do with the Force as himself, meaning the bare useful minimum. It was a sad reality that Force-sensitives attracted trouble like magnet attract lead. Or maybe it was just Skywalkers – and Solos by way of Skywalkers.
Han himself picked up some skills by observation and a lot of trouble by happenstance. Not how to swing a lightsaber, but which way to dodge and to always have some cortosis on him. That, he learnt early on in the Rebellion against the Empire. Not how to make sellers give him discount and breezily pass control point through mind trick, but how to not get mind tricked and some resistance against Force interrogation. Ben was mostly responsible for that because he was he needy babe throwing compulsion left and right in his childhood.
The spiritual aspect of the Force interested him very little. Han could see use to most of the skills his relatives boasted. The religious part of Luke explanations? A waste of time. Or at least until he died and the Force had a big "Fuck your rational mind, Han Solo" billboard waiting for him. The rest was fuzzy. In fact, Han had no idea how he transitioned viewing Rey burrow a lightsaber in the Lars homestead to drifting through space on board of a brand new Millenium Falcon.
Still, he would recognize his ship anywhere, and the passengers where clearly not the owners, despite their protests. How he arrived here, the state of the Falcon, what they did here, did not make much sense. Leia lightsaber presence neither, but like Hells he was doing away with the last reminder of his wife. So he channeled Luke serenity, Leia commanding presence and commandeered the ship, not blinking at being called Master Jedi. Han could make himself pass as a Jedi when he wanted as long as the ones he tricked never met the true kind. Which, considering it was only Luke, was not probable.
Still, because the First Order was around, and the whole Ben-plunging-a-lightsaber-in-his-guts-and-fuzzy-holovids-about-Rey could have been a very lucid dream, Han ditched the passengers on the first stop and took off on the Millenium Falcon. It took a trip to Corellia, three weeks later, to ascertain that it was not a lucid dream or he was still into it, because there was Jedi around in that period and Han himself was not even born yet. On the plus side, there was no First Order. Nor Empire. On the minus, Leia was not yet born either, and Chewie was a kid somewhere on Kashyyyk who would not recognize him.
Han did not know a lot about the Force or Jedi that were not immediate family members, but he had crazier tales than crazy old Ben and no way to make them believe him. Discounting the fact he was a kid at the time of the clones war and really did not know a lot about that period. Drop him against the Empire and Han would have been on the top of his game. Thirty years before the clones wars? He barely had access to propaganda-ridden holo-books back on Corellia, and not much interest for history. So after some existential debate Han did what he did the best: he picked up smuggling.
Sure, he had some skills at commanding squadrons, some investigating experiences from after the end of the Empire, even some political sense beaten into him by Leia rants, but smuggling was the heart of his trade. He smuggled himself out of Corellia and into an Imperial piloting academy, then out of the detention block of said academy with Chewie. He smuggled goods for himself, then for the Rebellion. He had a period of honest entrepreneurial goods delivery but it sort of crumbled on itself after Ben had the bright idea to follow his grandfather footsteps and he returned to smuggling. On the top of that, the actual owners of the Millenium Falcon flagged the ship as stolen, so regular spaceports were out. It left criminal den and henceforth smuggling.
Han made his way in the galaxy for roughly five years, shaking up his trail of investigators – Han could understand the owners dedication: the Millenium Falcon was a beautiful ship and at the time a brand new design – before he took the job of escorting a few passengers from Coruscant to Bandomeer. There were two Jedi among the lot, and pirates midway but a lightsaber generally made quick work of that. Two? Not a doubt about the outcome.
"Nice timing kid" he told the tinier one, who looked roughly thirteen and saved his back during the fight. Han would not have needed the save ten years ago, but at sixty and some age was starting to take its toll. The kid wrenched longing eyes from his Master back and answered him: "It's nothing, captain Solo". Han, seeing the one-sided interaction, thought good to reassure him "Don't fret, you did well padawan, he should be proud of you", which was apparently an error because the kid nearly melted.
An hour later, Han was piloting the Falcon toward Bandomeer where the kid was set to become a farmer because he had not been chosen to become a Jedi. Which made no sense at all because the kid was Obi-Wan Kenobi, the chibi version of crazy Ben who definitely was and even had to be one of the best ones considering he outlived his currently ten thousands strong Order. On the top of that, the Jedi Master who could not spare a glance for his charge of a week had apparently been Obi-Wan last chance to become a Jedi. It made no sense.
Han gave him a cup of tea before sending him back to his bed, because the kid was drained by the fight and getting all of it out of his chest. He bought it in memory of Luke and Leia, who both liked tea but could not agree on a brand. The Falcon was on autopilot and Han had time to corner the Jedi Master. Turned out Qui-Gon Jinn was an unsensitive jerk who did not care a lick for Obi-Wan and could not wait to drop him like an hot coal. Han never heard of that Jedi beforehand, but he was clearly a piece of work. Which was why Han took the decision he did, even if he had no way of following it to the end.
After breakfast the next morning, he invited tiny Kenobi in his quarter, showed him Leia lightsaber, Luke training remote, some of the junk his brother-in-law put in the Falcon in his time and forgot there, which quite miraculously made the travel through time along with Han. Some of them were in fact holochrons, with a Sith one amongst the lot. Then, while presenting his Force paraphernalia, he told the broad strokes of his family-in-law history and offered to teach stuff to the kid. Not everything, because Han was not a Jedi himself, but he could help the kid along for a time until he figured out how to filch himself a real Jedi to teach him.
Han only dropped one Jedi to Bandomeer, took his cargo of food and took off the planet, a padawan in tow. Worst case, he knew where to find Ach-To and there would probably be other Force artefacts there.
Chapters summary by thread (the rough chronological order is the one of the posting, not the one below) :
Main story :
Chapter one : Where Han Solo inadvertently changes history and Obi-Wan Kenobi gets a new master
Chapter two : Where Jedi Master Dooku makes assumptions and Han Solo says only the truth – relatively speaking
Chapter three : Where Anakin isn't that exceptional, relatively speaking, and the Skywalker saga is a bit different
Chapter four : Where Shmi Skywalker and Mace Windu miscommunicate or how cultural difference need to be taken in account
Chapter five : Where Anakin discards the plot, and the Jedi attempt genealogical tracing and mistake left and right
Chapter six : Where Sheev Palpatine tries to puzzle out his master work, without realizing it is neither his master work, his master work, or even a master work
Chapter seven : Where Jedi Master Jocasta Nu reinvents the Skywalker family history and their links with the Sith
Thread : Han Solo rolling with the plot
Chapter one : Han Solo and the Force
Chapter two : Obi-Wan Kenobi unusual padawanship
Chapter three : Misdirection, assumption and warning, or how Han Solo passed off as a Jedi. Part one
Chapter four : Misdirection, assumption and warning, or how Han Solo passed off as a Jedi. Part two
Thread : Mace Windu headaches
Chapter one : Kenobi by the way of Solo
Chapter two : Skywalker by way of Solo
Chapter three : Losses and changes
Chapter four : The Senate strikes back, or how the Sith are not going to let their planning be ruffled by such little eddies
Thread : Darth Plagueis
Chapter one : How Obi-Wan Kenobi mainly accidentally became rich and how the Jedi damned themselves
Chapter two : Galidraan or the flaw of being considered a potential apprentice by a Sith Lord
Chapter three : The time Obi-Wan tried to bully a Sith Lord – and failed badly but survived due to the amusing nature of the attempt
Chapter four : How Obi-Wan uncovered a Sith, and promptly offered himself as a teacher to the untrained Force-sensitive
Chapter five : How Obi-Wan spilled everything, but with a bit of creative thinking convinced a Sith Lord that it was a believable tale
Chapter six : How one could understandably mistake Han Solo for a Sith Lord and another Sith Lord reminiscence on his own apprenticeship
Chapter seven : How Obi-Wan secured himself a second Sith teacher, determinately ignoring every sign of his mentor affiliation
Thread : Darth Sidious
Chapter one : How Obi-Wan ended up taking lessons from an actual Sith Lord with nobody aware, including the teacher and the learner – and Dooku was hailed as a Sith Lord none the more aware
Chapter two : How paranoia can sour even the greatest victory, or how Darth Sidious ascends to mastership to chase ghosts
Chapter three : How to use trauma to recruit one's next apprentice, or how lack of counselling can wreck the galaxy
Chapter four : The time Obi-Wan Kenobi passed himself off as a Sith Lord
Chapter five : How a false Sith recruited a real apprentice
Thread : New Korriban
Chapter one : Where the Jedi Order labels Tatooine as the new Korriban and another Skywalker brings havoc and unnecessary misunderstandings – as the Jedi did not need help in drawing hasty conclusions
Chapter two : Where Master Yoda has a theological debate with a Skywalker and mistake truth-seeking for philosophy
Chapter three : Where the haphazard education combed by a two-year padawan becomes the original doctrine of the Jedi, and Han Solo is a Force practitioner
Chapter four : Where the Jedi do the good deed for the wrong reasons and the natives are carefully not investing themselves
Standalone threads :
Chapter one : Story of a vicious remote – or the second piece of Jedi equipment passed down on generation, despite not being as popular as the Skywalker lightsaber
Chapter two : Komari Vosa, or how accidentally bullshitting one's way through Knighthood trials
Chapter three : The junior archivist groundbreaking discovery – or rancor inadvertently outing time travel (but still not in an accurate fashion)