Death Star Pirates

Death Star Pirates is a 20 page comic that appears in Star Wars Tales 8. It was written by Henry Gilrdy, art by Glen Murakami. It takes place in 2 BBY.

Plot
The Rebel Alliance have just finished getting everyone off of Yavin 4 and are heading for Hoth. After Luke blasts off into hyperspace, Han, Leia, C-3PO, and Chewbacca scan ships in the Death Star wreckage. Guessing its more spies, they decide to investigate.

Red TIE Fighters fly out behind them, knowing exactly were to hit them, and they take out the Millennium Falcon's power. Another pirate ship then reveals itself, and they begin to dock onto the notorious Redkhil Rokk's pirate ship. Redkhil had planned that he would take their cargo, then let them die a slow death in space, like he did to everyone else.

Out of the blue, an X-wing jumps out of hyperspace and and guns down two TIE Fighters. It turns out that Luke had also scanned the pirates after they had left, and taking into mind that that would alert the pirates, he did not contact Han. Redkhil then shoots at Luke turning his ship aflame. With no choice, he dives toward the ship's hanger bay and crashes through.

Now that the Falcon is docked, they release small spider drones onto the ship. Because Han didn't want any blaster fire to hit the falcon, they run to the back of the ship to hide and make repairs. A pirate comes to report that they have the Falcon docked, but Redkhil had another problem. Luke survived the crash into the hangar bay. Worried that he would cause damage, he orders his crew to destory him.

Back at the Falcon, Han yells at Chewie for using his torch on bombs. Han then thinks of a plan to trick the pirates. As Luke searches for the bridge, the pirates find him and engage in combat, Luke takes three out with a swing of his lightsaber. One of then they to sneak up behind him but R2-D2 electocutes him. Now aware of the pirate, he cuts him in half.

Han has finished a hologram of him and hands it to C-3PO. 3-PO is very worried about the plan, but Leia trys to comfort him by putting a communicator on the box holding the hologram. He then walks out and the drones take him away. When he reaches Redkihl, he plays the messsage of Han telling that he will detonate the bombs that the drones had took from his ship, saying he would not detonate then if he surrenders.

Believing he is bluffing, he does not surrender. Luke then burst into the bridge, but Red quickly guns him down, wounding him. Just as Red was about to finish Luke off, the Falcon's power comes back online. Red now baffled does not notice that Luke runs up to him. Luke slashes at cords conecting him to the roof of the bridge. Luke runs to the Falcons hatch and jumps in. In a last attempt to kill Han, he turns his guns on the Falcon. Han then detonates the bombs, killing Red. They then continue to Hoth, letting the pirate ship become another hunk of Death Star wreckage.