Evacuation of Paucris Major In 3 BBY , a fleet of rebel ships evacuated Paucris Major after learning from Prince ss Leia Organa that the Galactic Empire intended to send a fleet to the Paucris system . Prelude . In 3 BBY , Prince ss Leia Organa of Alderaan , investigating her parent s ' involvement with the rebellion , discovered that a fleet was being constructed at Paucris Major . A couple of months later , while serving as her father Bail Organa ' s senatorial aide and in the Apprentice Legislature , she was summoned to a meeting with Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin . Tarkin , who harboured suspicions of the Organas , mentioned Paucris as one of several systems that the Galactic Empire hoped to achieve " peace " in . Leia realized that this meant the Empire suspected rebel activity in the system , and attempted to contact her father after the meeting , but he was not on Coruscant . Since Bail was still offworld , Leia contacted Chandrilan Senator Mon Mothma , another leader of the rebellion , and her mother Queen Breha Organa to inform them that the Empire knew about Paucris Major . Mothma charged Leia to go to Paucris and warn the rebels there . As the Alderaanian royal yacht " Polestar " was on Alderaan , Leia had to hire another ship for transport . Mothma gave her an untraceable credit solid to pay for the trip . Before she left , Leia contacted Kier Domadi , who she had been planning to meet , to tell him that she had to go to Paucris . She promised him that they would talk again soon . Leia had some difficulty hiring a ship incognito , until she ran into fellow Apprentice Legislator s Chassellon Stevis and Amilyn Holdo attempting to hire the freighter " Mighty Oak Apocalypse " to take them to a speeder auction on Arkanis . Holdo , knowing of Leia ' s rebel connections , persuaded Stevis to stay behind , as she and Leia hired the " Moa " to take them to the planet Pamarthe . On Pamarthe , one of the planet ' s famous storms was threatening to prevent all ships from leaving the planet , making it difficult for the girls to find another ship to take them to the Paucris system – until Leia saw a Chalhuddan ship . The leader of the Chalhuddans , Occo Quentto , owed Leia a favor stemming from a relief mission she had made to Chal Hudda delivering vaccines , and she called in the favor for passage to Paucris Major . Evacuation . When Leia and Holdo , travelling with an escort of Chalhuddan ships sent by Quentto , arrived at Paucris , no Imperial ships were detected in the system . Leia sent a signal to whoever was in charge of the Paucris rebel base , and her father Bail answered . Bail was initially angry at Leia ' s presence , until she told him that the Empire was coming , and that she had been sent by Breha and Mothma . Bail immediately ordered the evacuation , and told Leia to rendezvous with him on the " Tantive IV " . Leia and Holdo disembarked from the Chalhuddan ship onto the " Tantive IV " , where they were greeted by Bail . He informed Leia that the portion of the fleet at Paucris was being broken up , and that the orbit al repair stations ' self - destructs would be activated before the last convoy left . Leia requested a shuttle so she and Holdo could return to Coruscant , so as not to link the Chalhuddans with the rebellion . The girls were given a small hopper that looked like a civilian craft . On board the hopper , Leia and Holdo waited for the other ships to leave . Leia plotted a course to Baltizaar , as it would be risky to return directly to Coruscant . As the last ships jumped out , Holdo informed Leia that another ship had arrived in the system : a nondescript cutter approaching the repair stations . Leia attempted to figure out whose ship it was , and realized in horror that it was pilot ed by Domadi , the only other person besides the rebels and the Empire who knew about the Paucris system . She attempted to warn Domadi that the orbital stations were about to self - destruct , but the warning came too late , and Domadi ' s ship was badly damaged in the shockwave from the stations detonating . Leia and Holdo approached Domadi ' s ship in their hopper and docked . Boarding , they found that the ship ' s artificial gravity generator was no longer functional . They eventually found Domadi in the cockpit , mortally injured . Dying , he told Leia that he had followed her to the Paucris system , and that he had been collecting information about the rebellion , intending to turn it over to the Empire to ensure the safety of Alderaan and Leia . He asked Leia to hand over the memory rod with the data , before dying . Leia left the rod on Domadi ' s ship , but took his body on board the hopper . Domadi ' s ship was left to burn up on reentry into Paucris Major ' s atmosphere , destroying the evidence he ' d collected . Aftermath . The rebel ships at Paucris were successfully evacuated . When Leia and Holdo ' s hopper arrived at Alderaan , they were contacted by an Imperial ship , which stated that their vessel ' s ionization levels suggested travel to a system under investigation . Using her knowledge of astrology , Holdo claimed that the hopper had just returned from the Shili system , which had a sun with near - identical ionization levels to that of Paucris Major . Holdo then got the Imperial officer to sign off by playing up her astrological interest and her odd personality quirks . Leia was grief - stricken by Domadi ' s death , and took some time to recover . His parents were told that he had died saving Leia during a small - craft accident in Alderaan ' s upper atmosphere . Back on Coruscant , Leia was contacted by Tarkin again , who made little secret of his suspicions of the Organas .