Sometimes these stories would dabble in the extragalactic. In the starless emptiness the two heroes discover an immense techno-organic vessel. The smooth green ship, appearing as a conglomeration of featureless ovals, opens to accept the human intruders. Inside the strange vehicle known only as Ship, Luke and Leia discover the well-preserved remains of the pilot. Over countless years, the consciousness of both Ship and pilot had fused, and had become mad.
Ship is the last remaining vessel of a galaxy torn apart by deadly biological war.
After recounting its origins quite poignantly, Ship returned Luke and Leia to their galaxy, and continued its fruitless voyage in the dark cold emptiness of space. When Return of the Jedi effectively removed the Empire as the villain of the Star Wars comics, Marvel looked beyond the galaxy's borders for a suitable foe. In time they came face to face with the Nagai. Tall, gaunt and beautiful, the Nagai were thin humanoids with chalk-white skin and manes of dark hair. The Nagai allied themselves with an Imperial remnant led by the Dark Lady Lumiya in their bid for control.