Mira Volz Mira Volz was a Human female who was the daughter of the inventor Renn Volz , both inhabitants of the planet Little Kessel . Mira assisted her father from a hidden lab within the Giant Fungi Forest . During the height of the Galactic Civil War , Mira joined her father in testing out his latest invention , the Ion Ring , which could manipulate the climates of various worlds from space . During the demonstration , in which father and daughter transformed the world of Zerm into a paradise , they were confronted by the Imperial Captain Bzorn who took charge of the Ionic Ring Ship and imprisoned Mira to force Renn Volz to work for him . With Mira a captive of the Empire , her father was forced to use the Ion Ring to devastate worlds that were harboring Rebels . However , during a botched prison ship transfer , Mira escaped from Imperial custody and smuggled herself aboard the " Millennium Falcon " which was docked nearby . After escaping the world , the pilot of the ship , Han Solo , and his friend , Luke Skywalker , discovered Mira hiding in the ship ' s cargo . Mira pleaded with them to help rescue her father , and the two men agreed . They caught up with the Ionic Ring Ship at Little Kessel , and Mira used her father ' s lab and his sub - space image transmitter to contact her father and keep him from attacking her world . Though the use of her transmission and a rescue mission organized by Solo , her father was rescued from Empire and the ship was destroyed , keeping the technology out of the hands of the Empire . Biography . Early life . Mira was born on Little Kessel , a planet along the Kessel Run . Her father , Renn Volz was a talented scientist and operated out of a hidden lab in the giant fungi gorest on the world . Mira worked as her father ' s assistant , aiding his experiments and cooperating in the testing of his inventions . She was present when her father developed the sub - space image transmitter and his greatest invention , the Ion Ring . The device was housed in the Ionic Ring Ship and could be used to manipulate the climates of various worlds from space . Mira joined her father aboard his ship for the first demonstration of the device . Father and daughter made their way to the planet Zerm to fix destructive storms that had been devastating the planet ' s surface . Assisting her father , Mira helped to tame the weather on the world , transforming it into a paradise . Unfortunately for Mira and her father , the Imperial Captain Bzorn found out about the device and its potentially destructive capabilities . As Mira was using the ship to manipulate rains over the crops on Zerm , they were interrupted by a Star Destroyer captained by Bzorn . The Imperial captain boarded the ship with a force of stormtroopers and forcefully commandeered the Ion Ring . Amid her father ' s protests , Bzorn stated that he would now use his device to devastate Rebel planets . To ensure his cooperation , the Imperials took Mira hostage , removing her from the ship . As her father began to devastate planets along the Kessel Run with the Ion Ring , Mira was taken to a distant planet , but during a botched prison ship transfer , managed to escape . As she ran from her captors , she overheard that the next target of the Ion Ring was the planet Rion . Rebel aid . At the same time , the smuggler Han Solo was visiting the spaceport where the prison ship transfer was supposed to occur . Solo was there picking up a shipment of spice for Jabba the Hutt through his contact Malo . As his ship , the " Millennium Falcon " , was loaded with the cargo , Mira smuggled herself aboard . As stormtroopers searched for their escaped prisoner , Mira was able to escape the world on board Solo ' s ship . Mira knew that she needed to tell her father that she had escaped so that he would no longer be forced to serve the Empire . She stayed on the " Millennium Falcon " as it made its way to the planet Randa where a secret Rebel base was located . As Solo rendezvoused with his friend , Luke Skywalker , Skywalker ' s droids , R2 - D2 and C - 3PO , detected a stowaway in the " Millennium Falcon " ' s cargo . The two droids informed Skywalker and Solo of Mira ' s presence , and they listened to her plight . Mira was desperate to contact her father and she informed the Rebels about the next destination of the Ion Ring at Rion . Although Solo did not entirely believe her story , he agreed to stop by Rion , as it was located along the Kessel Run where Solo was already headed . Skywalker was much more eager to help Mira , infatuated by her beauty , and Mira was appreciative of Skywalker ' s support , planting a kiss on his cheek . As the " Millennium Falcon " headed towards Rion , Skywalker and Mira talked and flirted with one another , with Skywalker stating that he would like to visit Mira on her world of Little Kessel at some point . When their ship arrived at Rion , they were surprised to see the once lush world transformed into a frozen ice planet . Mira told the two Rebels that the Ion Ring must have already come to the world , but Solo decided to investigate himself . He headed to Tana ' s Resort to question the proprietor and his friend , Tana . After landing at the resort , the group was confronted by freezing inhabitants of the planet , desperate for food , as the food on the planet had all been frozen . Solo gave a portion of his shipment of spice to the desperate people before Mira and the group met with Tana , who confirmed Mira ' s fear . The Empire had come to the world and demanded that they turn over every Rebel on the world . When they refused , the world had been frozen . Tana told the group that she had overheard the next target , Mira ' s homeworld of Little Kessel . Just as they were preparing to leave , one of Tana ' s patrons informed her that stormtroopers had learned that Mira was on the planet and were coming for her . Mira and the Rebels escaped out the back of the resort but were caught in a firefight with stormtroopers . The ice storms on the planet kept both sides from seeing one another and the Rebels were able to make their way back to the " Millennium Falcon " . However , as they boarded the craft , the stormtroopers were able to locate their escaping quarry . Mira was pulled onto the craft by Luke as Solo and his first mate , Chewbacca , defended them . C - 3PO and R2 - D2 used the lights on the " Millennium Falcon " to blind the attacking Imperials , giving the Rebels time to depart Rion . Showdown on Kessel . As the " Millennium Falcon " made its way towards Little Kessel , Mira broke into tears , afraid for her father and the fate of her world . She was comforted by Skywalker and was able to compose herself as they arrived at her home planet . The group had arrived ahead of the Imperials and the Ion Ring Ship , giving them time to devise a plan . Mira guided the ship to her father ' s secret lab where she came up with a plan to contact her father and inform him that she was no longer a hostage . Using her father ' s sub - space image transmitter , an experimental piece of technology that had never been tested , Mira hoped to transmit an image of herself into the Ion Ring Ship and inform her father of her freedom . Skywalker was worried that the untested technology might hurt her , but Mira decided to go through with the plan anyway . Mira closed herself inside the transmitter and R2 - D2 was able to transmit an image of Mira into the Ion Ring Ship . The transmitter , which was only one way , left Mira blind to what was occurring inside her father ' s ship but R2 confirmed that her image and voice was being transmitted to the Imperials . As Mira attempted to contact her father , the Ion Ring Ship appeared above Little Kessel and Captain Bzorn transmitted a message to the world demanding that all Rebels on the world surrender personally to him or they would devastate the planet . As Mira called out to her father , R2 moved Mira ' s image around the ship , hoping to get her father ' s attention . Solo , not satisfied with the dependence of Mira ' s image eventually reaching her father , decided to take the " Millennium Falcon " and board the Ion Ring Ship . Taking Skywalker and Chewbacca with him , Solo left to personally stop the Imperials from destroying the planet . As Mira continued to try to contact her father , the planet began to experience earthquakes caused by the Ion Ring . The storms and quakes caused by the Imperial attack caused the Volz ' lab to lose power and the transmission began to weaken . However , unknown to Mira and the droids , her image was helping to distract the Imperials on the Ion Ring Ship , allowing Solo , Skywalker , and Chewbacca to storm the bridge and inform Mira ' s father that she was safe . At the same time , Mira ' s image finally reached the bridge of the ship , confirming beyond a doubt that Mira was free . Mira ' s father stopped the attack , and Captain Bzorn was killed in the ensuing fight , allowing the scientist to rig his ship to self - destruct . Back in the Volz laboratory , the sub - space transmitter finally lost power due to the Ion Ring ' s attack . Mira was left to hope that her message had gotten through as she waited with C - 3PO and R2 - D2 . As they watched the skies outside the lab , they witnessed a massive explosion , causing Mira to believe that her father had perished . However , they were soon joined by the " Millennium Falcon " which had escaped the Ion Ring ' s self - destruction . Mira was ecstatic over the group ' s survival and she thanked the Rebels for rescuing her father and her world . Although Skywalker had shown a romantic interest in Mira during the mission , his interest did not last much longer after Little Kessel had been saved from the Empire . Personality and traits . Mira was a young woman with blonde hair and blue eyes . By the time of the Galactic Civil War , she had never acted against the Galactic Empire before her father was kidnapped by Captain Bzorn . She was emotional over the loss of her father and her forced imprisonment , and during the mission to save her world , she broke down in tears several time . Mira was thankful for Skywalker ' s support and she flirted with him during their travels along the Kessel Run . However , following the rescue of her father , their romance petered out and they went their separate ways . As the daughter of a noted scientist , Mira had some scientific skills , and she was able to operate the Ion Ring to manipulate climate on the world of Zerm . With R2 - D2 ' s help , she was able to operate her father ' s sub - space image transmitter and aid in the rescue of her father . She was also quick enough to escape from her Imperial captors during a prison ship transfer , smuggling herself aboard the " Millennium Falcon " and avoiding detection until the ship landed on the planet Randa . Behind the scenes . Mira Volz was created by Russ Helm and illustrated by Russ Manning for use in " The Second Kessel Run " , a comic strip published by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate . The story was reprinted by Dark Horse Comics in " " , which colored the originally black - and - white comic strip panels . The collection also chose to remove the Sunday comic strips , due to the fact that the Sunday strips generally repeated parts of the storyline already shown in the weekly strips . However , the Sunday strips did show some exclusive dialogue and action . In particular , one of the Sunday strips for " The Second Kessel Run " showed Mira kissing Luke Skywalker ' s cheek , which was not repeated in the weekly strips and therefore left out of the Dark Horse reprint . Two articles in " Star Wars Galaxy Collector " magazine discussed Mira Volz ' s exploits during the comic strip . " ComicScan : Coming Full Circle " referenced " The Second Kessel Run " and Mira Volz ' s role in the storyline in issue 3 , and " ComicScan : Luke - ing for Love in all the Wrong Places " in issue 7 mentioned Skywalker ' s short - lived flirtation with Mira . " The Second Kessel Run " states that Mira and her father are from the planet Kessel , the namesake of the Kessel Run . However , the appearance of the world as a verdant planet filled with giant fungi was ignored by later works , notably " " , which depicted the planet as a barren wasteland . This discrepancy was retcon ned in " The Essential Atlas " , which stated that the Kessel in " The Second Kessel Run " was a different planet known as Little Kessel .