Battle of Drexel

The Battle of Drexel II took place just after the Battle of Yavin during the Galactic Civil War. It was fought between the ship-dwellers of the Drexel II City-ship and the Dragon Lords, exiles from the City-ship that took command of the sea-dragons of Drexel II. The battle resulted in victory for the Dragon Lords and major damage to the city-ship. Han Solo, princess Leia,Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca participated in the battle and later engaged in space skirmish with Crimson Jack.

Background
After the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker left for a scouting mission to find a new place for a Rebel base with R2-D2 and C-3PO. During his search he stumbled upon the Drexel system. He attempted to tell princess Leia about it, but his transmission interrupted, so the princess decided to find Luke by herself and was captured by Crimson Jack. Not long after, Han Solo was also captured while returning from Aduba-3. By telling Crimson Jack about a secret treasure, they persuaded him to go to Drexel system. While on the surface of Drexel, Luke was captured by ship-dwellers and learned that his ship was brought down by powerful sonic-jammer. Soon, Crimson Jack's battlecruiser entered the system. While it was disabled by sonic jammer, Han, Leia and Chewie managed to escape on the Millennium Falcon.

The Battle
As they landed ,a full scale battle began between dragon lords and ship-dwellers. One skimmer shot at the Millennium Falcon, but Luke destroyed it. After that, Chewbacca tried to kill Luke Skywalker, suspecting that he was the one who was shooting at the Falcon, but R2's extinguisher calmed Chewie. Meanwhile, Leia was captured by governor Quarg, and Han was rescued by Dragon Lords. One of them explained Solo that the sonic jammer caused the sea-dragons to go mad. By threatening Leia, Quarg made Luke connect Falcon's power to sonic-jammer and sea-dragons began to die. But this allowed Han, who arrived on sea-dragon, to use the gun system to destroy sonic-jammer. While on city-ship Leia escaped with the help from Chewbacca and Luke. But as soon as the Falcon was repaired, Crimson Jack's fighters arrived. The battle soon continued in space.

Space Battle
Han and Luke managed to destroy two fighters but Jolli damaged Falcon's Gyro Control Module before being hit and sent out of control. While trying to convince Solo to surrender Jack found that smuggler erased all navicomputer charts. Pirate agreed to meet Solo in open space protected only by magnetic field from Jack's battlecruiser and trade Gyro Control Module for them. Jolli asked his help but he said that she'll need to make it on her own. Hovewer Jack betrayed Solo, called his thugs and sealed the magnetic field between Han and Falcon. Solo was forced to make a last stand but he was helped by enraged Jolli who killed all pirates except Jack and cut into battlecruiser's control bridge. Using a distraction from Jolli Han killed Crimson Jack with a shot in the chest. After giving the first and last kiss to Jolli and repairing the Falcon, Han and the others departed Drexel system.

Legacy
Crimson Jack's battlecruiser kept drifting above Drexel II until it was found by Jabba's accountant Mosep Bineed who also learned that Solo was responsible for this from ship's .Because Jabba helped to refit that cruiser ,bounty which was taken off smuggler's head after the Oreon incident was once again put on him. Bounty that will be collected by Boba Fett.

Appearances

 * Star Wars 12: Doomworld
 * Star Wars 13: Day of the Dragon Lords
 * Star Wars 14: The Sound of Armageddon
 * Star Wars 15: Star Duel
 * Star Wars 37: In Mortal Combat (Indirect mention only)

Schlacht von Drexel II