JasperKazai’s Reviews > The Courtship of Princess Leia > Status Update

I always kind of knew this, but it's never really struck me fully until now how... "interesting" the concept of Hapes/the Hapan people are. It's basically just whitewashed Japan in space. Obviously the Hapan - Japan connection is blatant. Their ships are called Battle Dragons. They are a cluster of planets (like the archipelago). They were isolationist. But they are very white-coded, often having red or blonde hair.

Solo Command leads directly into this novel - it even says so at the end of it. I've only read this book once before. I put it off for a very long time (I would see it on shelves quite often). I knew it was important, because it's about Han and Leia getting married. But I just wasn't interested in it. I remember not really liking it when I did finally read it - bit of a slog. Let's see what I think now.