Rezi Soresh ' s outpost Twenty - seven days after his exile from the Galactic Empire , Commander Rezi Soresh landed on a barren red moon ; using the data he had compiled over the years , Soresh established an outpost . Sometime after the Battle of Yavin , Soresh Mission to Nyemari lured the Rebel Alliance pilot Luke Skywalker to his outpost in an attempt to turn him into an assassin by threatening the colony vessel " Endeavor " . Skywalker and his companions were captured and held for two weeks . Skywalker later betrayed Soresh . The outpost was destroyed during the Battle of the Sixela system after Soresh launched resonance torpedo es at the sun , though his Rebel prisoners escaped . Characteristics . By the time the facility was destroyed , the outpost consisted of a small cluster of duracrete buildings . Turbolasers stood over the hostages , who were placed in electrified pens . The long - extinct indigenous population built underground tunnels , which Rezi Soresh used to a great extent . It had been established on the equator of the moon . The outpost also had a command center complete with a holoprojector . History . When the Imperial Commander Rezi Soresh fled death at the hands of Darth Vader , he spent twenty - seven days on the run . He ended his journey by settling in the Sixela system , choosing a moon orbiting the third planet . As an Imperial bureaucrat , Soresh had access to a lot of data , and he used that data to bribe or blackmail his way back to power , and established this outpsot on the barren red rock of the moon . He was also able to waylay the colony vessel " Endeavor " to use as hostages in his plan to turn the Alliance to Restore the Republic pilot Luke Skywalker into a Force - sensitive assassin . Skywalker and his companions arrived at Soresh ' s outpost after Soresh contacted Skywalker to set a deadline before executing the hostages . Han Solo landed his starship the " Millennium Falcon " near the outpost and met a hooded man . Two T - 65 X - wing starfighter s strafed the compound , destroying the turbolasers aimed at the hostages ; this angered the hooded man , and he raised his blaster at Solo but was shot instead . The X - wings landed and Skywalker and Leia Organa disembarked . A series of mines started exploding amongst the hostages . The Rebel operatives rushed to assist and were ambushed by Soresh and his mindwiped guards . Soresh spent the next two weeks torturing Skywalker and putting him through tests ; one of these tests backfired and Skywalker ' s friends escaped , although Skywalker remained behind . Soresh had used the resources available to him to acquire resonance torpedo es from the hidden Maw Installation ; these dangerous weapons could turn a star into a supernova . Soresh planned on launching the torpedoes at the system ' s star after luring Darth Vader , along with the Alliance Fleet to the system , and destroying both . When the time came to launch the torpedoes from the command center , Skywalker betrayed Soresh , but Soresh was able to launch the torpedoes and escape . When the chain reaction in the stars started , the opposing fleets withdrew . Soresh tried to kill Skywalker , but was shot by Solo . The outpost and everything in the system were obliterated when the star exploded . Behind the scenes . This outpost appears in Alex Wheeler ' s 2010 novel " . " The moon it is situated on was first said to orbit the third planet , and later the sixth .