Battle of the Hungry Ghost The Battle of the " Hungry Ghost " was a minor battle in 0 ABY during the Galactic Civil War that took place aboard and around the " Hungry Ghost " , the flagship of the Huralok Redkihl Rokk and his pirates , above Yavin Prime . The destruction of the first Death Star , a planet - destroying superweapon , during the Battle of Yavin had left wreckage of the battle station . Redkihl Rokk and his pirates traveled to the wreckage to scavenge some of the Death Star ' s parts . However , Han Solo , the captain of one Rebel ship , the " Millennium Falcon " , discovered the pirate ship but was attacked by Rokkk ' s Red TIE Fighter s . The pirates docked to the " Millennium Falcon " , intending to take the bomb s the " Falcon " was carrying . However , another Rebel , Luke Skywalker , arrived in his starfighter and confronted the pirates , but his fighter was damaged in the ensuing battle . He managed to make it into the " Hungry Ghost " hangar bay and ran through the ship , continually being chased by the pirates . Meanwhile , Rokk sent numerous spider droids to scavenge the cargo of the disabled " Millennium Falcon " , and the crew of the " Falcon " fought off the droids until the ship ' s power was restored . Solo threatened Rokk to detonate the bombs if the pirates didn ' t surrender . After engaging Rokk in combat and wounding the pirate , Skywalker escaped the ship through a hatch and fled to the ship . The " Falcon " broke free of the cables that held them to the ship and evaded laserfire from the " Hungry Ghost " . Solo triggered the detonator , destroying the " Hungry Ghost " . Prelude . Leia Organa , a founding member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic , was rescued from the Death Star , the Galactic Empire ' s planet - destroying superweapon , by Alliance members Han Solo , Luke Skywalker , and Obi - Wan Kenobi , the latter two being Jedi . After her rescue , the plans for the Death Star were found to be secured in R2 - D2 , an astromech droid that Organa had previously hidden the plans in on her ship , the " Tantive IV " . After analyzing the plans , the Alliance launched an attack on the battle station , which had followed Organa back to the Rebel ' s secret base on Yavin 4 . Although the Rebels were vastly outnumbered , Skywalker was able to destroy the superweapon with the help of Solo , which left an enormous amount of wreckage around Yavin , and the Rebels evacuated their base before more Imperial troops arrived . Skywalker , in his personal X - wing starfighter , jumped to hyperspace , headed for Hoth to establish a new Rebel base in the system . Solo began to jump to hyperspace in his ship , the " Millennium Falcon " , with Chewbacca , his Wookiee copilot , as well as Organa and C - 3PO , a protocol droid under the ownership of Skywalker . Solo , however , scanned an unfamiliar ship in the Death Star wreckage . Assuming it could be Imperial spies , Solo decided to investigate the unknown ship . Before they could find the ship , the " Millennium Falcon " was attacked by TIE Fighters that were painted red ; their color scheme led the crew to believe that they were not of Imperial ownership . It was revealed that the unknown ship was in fact the " Hungry Ghost " , a ship under the command of the Huralok scavenger Redkihl Rokk and his band of pirates , who had visited the wreckage to scavenge parts of the Death Star wreckage . The battle . Solo identified Rokk as a threat and tried to turn back , having heard rumors that Rokk gave his victims slow deaths . The red TIE Fighters , however , hit the " Millennium Falcon " hard enough so that all power went out , and the " Falcon " was forced to dock to Rokk ' s ship . Rokk revealed that he planned to steal the " Millennium Falcon " cargo , which consisted of bombs and other explosives . Immediately after the " Millennium Falcon " docked , Luke Skywalker emerged from hyperspace in his X - wing and destroyed one of the red TIE Fighters . After much confusion , the crew of the " Millennium Falcon " identified the X - wing as Skywalker ' s . Redkihl Rokk used twelve laser cannons to disable the small starfighter , but Skywalker managed to fly the damaged fighter into the hangar bay of the " Hungry Ghost . " After being notified of Skywalker ' s survival , Rokk ordered the pirates to destroy Skywalker before he caused trouble . Meanwhile , the pirates released hundreds of spider droids to take the cargo aboard the " Millennium Falcon " . Solo , Organa , and Chewbacca fought off some of the spider droids , almost hitting crucial parts of the " Falcon " in the process , but were unable to stop the droids from taking the cargo . After arguing about a plan for escape , Solo gave C - 3PO a box with a holographic message . C - 3PO eventually encountered the Huralok captain and relayed the message . Solo told the captain through the message that he would detonate the bombs aboard the ship if he did not surrender and let the " Millennium Falcon " leave . Rokk , dismissing the smuggler ' s message as a mere bluff , told him to " do as you will . " Their conversation was cut short by Skywalker , who had entered the bridge . Before Skywalker could attack , a laser turret behind Rokk fired and wounded Skywalker . Rokk , threatening Skywalker with death , lunged at the Jedi . Skywalker , however , used his lightsaber to rip some of the cables attached to Rokk that provided medicine for the Huralok . Rokk , enraged at the victorious Jedi , lunged at Skywalker again , urging him to come back and fight . Skywalker escaped through the hatch that led to the " Millennium Falcon " , along with R2 - D2 , and Skywalker ' s protocol droid , C - 3PO . After finding their way to the bridge , Organa embraced Skywalker now that he was safe , at least for the time being . Aftermath . After Solo managed to get power back to the " Millennium Falcon " , the " Falcon " broke away from the cables keeping it docked to the " Hungry Ghost " , and the fleeing freighter dodged the laser blasts the pirates shot at it . The ship eventually traveled out of range , and Solo activated the detonator . The bombs exploded all around the " Hungry Ghost " . Rokk and all of his pirates were killed in the explosion , and Rokk ' s ship was disabled . The " Millennium Falcon " then continued its planned course to Hoth . Behind the scenes . The battle first appeared in the magazine " Star Wars Kids " , in the comic " Death Star Pirates " , written by Henry Gilroy . It appears over four issues of the magazine . Later , the comic was published in " Star Wars Tales Volume 2 " . Many details of the battle and characters are not revealed in the comic , such as the proper name for Rokk ' s ship or the species of Redkihl Rokk . However , in the sourcebook " Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds " , both the name of the ship and the species are explained .