Tchaka Tchaka was a student at the University of Kalla and a political activist who vocally opposed the Corporate Sector Authority . For expressing opinions held in disfavor by the leaders of the Authority , he was arrested and imprisoned in the Stars ' End penal facility . Tchaka ' s disappearance inspired Rekkon , his uncle , to form a network dedicated to finding the Authority ' s secret prison facility , and the prisoners held there . Biography . Tchaka spent much of his early life in the Corporate Sector primarily because his father had moved there to work as a programmer of entertainment software . Although life was comfortable for Tchaka and his family , his parents grew concerned by the lack of commitment Tchaka had to his studies . When Tchaka ' s uncle , Rekkon , came to live in the Corporate Sector to teach at the University of Kalla , he led Tchaka to develop an interest in the areas of history and philosophy , which helped to alleviate his apathy . Tchaka was still young when his parents died , so Rekkon took him under his wing and raised him as if he were his own son . Due to his position as a respected member of the faculty at the University of Kalla , Rekkon was able to ensure that Tchaka received a higher education . At the University , Tchaka witnessed the heavy - handed tactics the Corporate Sector Authority used to clamp down on critics and others it deemed to be troublemakers and he spoke out against the Authority ' s injustices to his fellow students . Although he held views similar to those of Tchaka , Rekkon felt it would be unwise of his nephew to vocally oppose the policies of the Authority . Despite his misgivings about Tchaka ' s behavior , Rekkon felt he could not ask Tchaka to ignore his conscience and instead decided to undertake what he termed an " ignoble compromise " — he planned to resign his position in order to draw the Authority ' s attention away from his nephew ' s activities . Rekkon ' s fears were not unfounded — many of the students at the University had parents who held considerable influence within the Authority , so Tchaka ' s activism did not go unnoticed . Tchaka ' s criticism of the Authority led to him being included on a list of critics , criminals and other troublemakers compiled by the Security Division ' s Executive Viceprex , Mirkovig Hirken . Before Rekkon could put his plan into motion , Tchaka was arrested by Security Police who had been tasked with apprehending the specified dissidents . Like the others , Tchaka was shipped to the Stars ' End penal facility , catalogued in a document entitled " Transient Persons " , interrogated and held in a stasis booth so that he could be preserved should the need for further questioning arise . Troubled by Tchaka ' s disappearance , Rekkon contacted the Security Police , but he ascertained that they would do nothing to help him find Tchaka . Rekkon learned of others whose relatives had vanished as a result of their oppostion to the authority and formed a network dedicated to the recovery of the missing dissidents . Eventually Rekkon gained the services of Han Solo , Chewbacca , Bollux and Blue Max through his connection with Jessa Vandangante , an outlaw tech whose father Klaus " Doc " Vandangante , had also disappeared under mysterious circumstances . With the help of Blue Max , Rekkon was finally able to pinpoint the location of the Authority ' s secret prison . Rekkon was murdered by a traitor before he could see Tchaka again , but Solo , Bollux , Blue Max and two other members of his group , Atuarre and Pakka , managed to infiltrate Stars ' End . After he and many other inmates were rescued from the prison , Tchaka was taken in by Doc and Jessa . Greatly saddened by his uncle ' s death , Tchaka chose to continue his studies and vowed honor Rekkon ' s memory by opposing the Authority , albeit in a less brazen but more effective manner . Behind the scenes . Tchaka ' s first and only appearance was in the 1979 novel " Han Solo at Stars ' End " , written by Brian Daley . In Archie Goodwin and Alfredo Alcala ' s 1980 comic strip adaptation of the novel , Tchaka was only mentioned , and in this case , he was incorrectly referred to as Rekkon ' s son — one of a number of discrepancies between the comic strip and the novel . Tchaka was later given a name and his background was somewhat expanded upon by Michael Allen Horne in " Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook " .