Planet of the Dead

Planet Of The Dead is a 12 page comic that appears in Star wars Tales 17.

Plot summary

In this possibly cannon story, Han Solo and Chewbacca come into the possession of a collection of bright red glowing Tandgor Gems that Solo hopes will pay off debts and mod the Millenium Falcon. When the Falcon runs low on fuel they head for a smell planet. Solo recieves no lifesign readings, as if the whole planets population dissapeared.

After making planet fall, Solo and Chewbacca step out of their ship and into the fog, only for the Correlian to be overwhelmed by groaning skeletal figures; The undead. After Chewbacca fights them off they beat a hasty retreat back to Falcon but find the fuel line has been severed. It seems someone doesn't want them to leave.

Arming themselves the two-man crew of the Falcon head back out and come face to face with a local and her baby. She explains that the crew of a 'Great Interplanetary Ark' perished after their ship crashed in the planets Natural fog. They are compelled to wander the plant as the living dead every night.

Solo formulates a plan. Using the Tandgor Gems to lay down lines, he forms a makeshift runway that drives away the fog. A ghostly apparition of the ship that crashed long ago uses it to land, easing the spirits of the perished crew. The living dead would no longer terrorise the planets living residents.

Although Han and Chewie are unable to leave with the gems they had broght with them to the planet, they are well rewared with enough fuel to last them rest of the journey home.