So I had a thought recently. Should I make the Master Codebreaker Maz refers to be Lando? I can do this since I don’t have him as a hermit on Pasaana in my TROS novel. Rather, he explicitly traveled there to help them.
Finn and Rose wouldn’t have to recognize him. It would mostly just be a cameo appearance before TROS so he isn’t forgotten for way too long.
That was what I thought was going to happen when I first watched The Last Jedi. You’d probably have to imply he was there for some Resistance-specific purpose somehow, otherwise it would come off as Lando just kicking it with the amoral high-rollers while the Resistance is struggling.