Crimson Jack's pirate gang

Crimson Jack's pirate gang was a group of space-fairing buccaneers led by the notorious Crimson Jack, the red bearded pirate.

History
The gang was made up of mostly humans who carried a variety of weapons from blasters to ancient cutlasses. They travelled together in a fleet of ships led by Jack's battlecruiser which they discovered drifting in space after an early battle between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. Jack and his gang quickly dispatched the surviving Imperial crew members and took the cruiser for themselves. As it was expensive to run a large cruiser, Jack got financial backing from several criminal interests who, in turn, took a share of the gang's profits. Next in command to Jack was Jolli, a beautiful, but somewhat tempermental, pirate.

Jack's gang had run across Han Solo and Chewbacca in the Millennium Falcon soon after the Battle of Yavin and took the smugglers' treasure which was given to them by the Rebels for rescuing Princess Leia. They captured Solo and his partner again, this time very soon after taking custody of Leia on her way to the Drexel system. The captures tricked the pirates into taking them to Drexel II, the last known whereabouts of Luke Skywalker, by telling them that the Rebel treasury was located there. At Drexel they ran afoul of General Quarg and has scavengers, and the distraction afforded Solo, Leia, and Chewbacca an opportunity to escape. The gang was soon free of the scavengers' jamming system, and focused on destroying the Millennium Falcon and her crew, and a space battle ensued which saw both the Falcon and Jolli's Y-wing critically damaged. Jolli requested assistance from Jack but he refused, focusing instead on getting back at Solo. Jolli was bitterly enraged by this and opened fire from her crippled craft on her own crewmates, and rammed into the battlecruiser's bridge, killing all aboard as well as herself. Jack was the lone surviving member at this point as he wasn't aboard his cruiser, but he was soon killed in a blaster duel with Solo, thus ending the gang's reign of terror.

Notable members

 * Crimson Jack
 * Jolli

Appearances

 * Marvel Star Wars 7: New Planets, New Perils
 * Marvel Star Wars 11: Star Search
 * Marvel Star Wars 12: Doomworld
 * Marvel Star Wars 13: Day of the Dragon Lords
 * Marvel Star Wars 14: The Sound of Armageddon
 * Marvel Star Wars 15: Star Duel