Han Solo at Stars' End

Publishers summary
Han Solo trusts no one, and does no favors. But when the best illegal ship rebuilder in the galaxy disappears, Han and Chewbacca agree to go after him&mdash;after all, the Millennium Falcon needs some very special repairs. Their search pits them against powerful and ruthless enemies out to destroy them, and finally leads them to an airless speck of desolate asteroid&mdash;the Authority prison planet known as Star's End.

Synopsis
About two years before the Battle of Yavin, Han Solo and Chewbacca needed some special repairs to the Millennium Falcon. Upon arriving at the station, they discovered that "Doc", the head of the outlaw repair station, had been arrested by the Corporate Sector Authority (CSA) under charges of rebellion. Doc's daughter, Jessa cuts a deal with Han: if he helped rescue her father from the CSA's secret prison, they would repair the Falcon for free.

After hiding the Falcon onboard a food barge they made an attempt to infiltrate an Authority Data Center on Orron III to get the prison's coordinates. Then Han and Chewie meet up with a group led by Rekkon seeking to free family members from the prison. The attempt went badly and results in Chewbacca being captured and sent to the CSA's prison at Star's End. While escaping Orron III, the barge encountered Shannador's Revenge, a CSA Invincible-class dreadnought. As a last-ditch effort to break free of the dreadnought's tractor beam, Han set the barge to ram the Shannador's Revenge as the Falcon detached and escaped into hyperspace.

Before reaching Orron III, Rekkon had confided to Han that he knew one of their group was a traitor. Not long after their escape to hyperspace, Han finds Rekkon shot dead in one of the Falcon's passenger compartments. Han must root out the traitor and free Chewie, Doc and the other prisoners...

Characters

 * Han Solo
 * Chewbacca
 * Sabodor
 * Ploovo Two-For-One
 * Jessa Vandangante
 * Bollux
 * Blue Max
 * Rekkon
 * Torm Dadeferron
 * Atuarre
 * Pakka
 * Mirkovig Hirken
 * Uul-Rha-Shan
 * Neera Hirken
 * Doc
 * Keeheen

Trivia

 * A three part comic adaption was made by Archie Goodwin and Alfredo Alcala for the Classic Star Wars comics series and was re-released in trade paperback form by Dark Horse in 1997.


 * There is a Han shoots first moment in the story. Han is confronting his crew looking for the traitor in their midst when the traitor is revealed and pulls a gun on Han. Han gets his hand below a table and shoots the traitor through the table. Han remarks that it was an old trick of his. Blue Max and Bollux later remark on the damage Han caused to the table and whether he could have shot around it instead.


 * Han and Bollux play chess in the comic; normal chess.


 * The droid Bollux (in the comic version) bears a slight resemblance to Wat Tambor the head of the Techno Union, though this is most likely just coinsidence.

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