Reconnaissance mission to Kamino This reconnaissance mission to the planet Kamino was flown by the pilots of the Rebel Alliance Red Squadron starfighter unit Luke Skywalker , Wedge Antilles , Zev Senesca , Han Solo , and Chewbacca . The mission was a trap laid by the assassin X - 7 , who had hired mercenaries to ambush the squadron and kill Luke Skywalker , who was wanted for destroying the Death Star . The mercenaries ' airstrike failed , leaving two alive . One as killed by large creature ; Skywalker and the other mercenary , Div were swallowed alive by the creatures and taken to an underground lair . Div , illustrating proficiency with Skywalker ' s lightsaber , saved them both . A Galactic Empire armored column was destroyed by more of the creatures , which were cloned experiments . The Rebels left the planet with help from the " Millennium Falcon . " X - 7 had to face his master , the ambitious Imperial Commander Rezi Soresh for his failure . Soresh , not willing to give up his quest to kill Skywalker , set more schemes into motion , culminating in his death months later . Prelude . The assassin X - 7 , personally trained by ambitious Imperial Commander Rezi Soresh was given a mission to kill the Rebel Alliance pilot responsible for the torpedo strike which destroyed the Imperial Death Star . Having been stymied on more than one occasion , X - 7 hired several mercenaries to aid him . Luring the hired pilots to his hidden base , firing on them and killing several . Five survived his test , including Div . X - 7 paid them to take out Luke Skywalker . Skywalker at the time was leading Red Squadron , a Rebel Alliance starfighter unit . Skywalker led them on a reconnaissance mission to Kamino . The battle . Red Squadron was ambushed by X - 7 ' s mercenaries upon arriving at Kamino , but the Rebel pilots outflew the mercenaries and shot them all down . Two survived and crash - landed . Skywalker and his fellow Rebels landed to confront them . One of the surviving mercenaries was eaten by a large creature , the product of a secret biological weapons project . Div and Skywalker were both trapped by another creature , and transported in its air pocket to an underwater lair . Div took Skywalker ' s lightsaber and used it to save them both by killing a creature . The two escaped to the surface and rejoined the squadron . Red Squadron , while trying to rescue Skywalker , met the Kaminoan scientist Elo Panil , the one most responsible for the creatures ; Panil subsequently died in an Imperial attack . The Rebels were then attacked by Imperial tanks , but several of the creatures grabbed the tanks and dragged them underwater . Skywalker and Div then used I - 7 Howlrunner s while Han Solo and Chewbacca took ARC - 170 trying to escape planet . Zev Senesca and Wedge Antilles escaped prior to Skywalker , Solo , and Chewbacca , then returned to Yavin 4 to inform Leia Organa . She traveled to Kamino in the Millennium Falcon , along with eight X - wings , three Y - wings and a blockade runner , to rescue the rebels still on Kamino , however they had already stolen ships . They escaped the planet , taking Div with them . Aftermath . Having failed Soresh once again , X - 7 was recalled to Belazura for reconditioning . Div was sequestered in the Rebel ' s headquarters but refused to cooperate . After mysterious operatives broke him out of prison , the Rebels followed the trail to Belazura , where X - 7 confronted his past . Following the debacle , Soresh was exiled and left for the Outer Rim Territories , eventually setting in a plan which resulted in his death . Behind the scenes . This mission appears in Alex Wheeler ' s 2009 book " . " Div originally played a role in " The Last of the Jedi " series .