Poe Dameron 6 : Lockdown , Part III Poe Dameron 6 : Lockdown , Part III is the sixth issue of the Marvel comic book series " " . Written by Charles Soule , with art by Phil Noto , it was published on September 7 , 2016 . Plot summary . At the space station above Megalox Beta , BB - 8 battles with a hulking security droid for control of the generator , which creates a grav - field dome around the Megalox prison . On the surface , Poe Dameron and his Black Squadron fight against the other prisoners outside Grakkus the Hutt ' s fortress . BB - 8 manages to use his cable to fry the security droid ' s circuits , toppling it . Near Grakkus ' fortress , the First Order agent Terex and the gangsters Isin , Kan Be , and Papa Toren observe the skirmish as the gangsters try to fight their way through Black Squadron . L ' ulo L ' ampar demands that Grakkus let them in if he wants them to help him escape . However , Grakkus decides to keep the offer close because he had already made a deal with Terex , his old friend . With Temmin Wexley nursing a wound to his head , Poe Dameron reassures Karé Kun to keep them at bay a little longer while the droids do their work . Meanwhile , BB - 8 and his fellow astromech droid s deactivate the grav - field dome . Poe tells his men to wear their gravity belt s . The dome collapses and many of the gangsters are overwhelmed by the high gravity on Megalox Beta . While Isin , Kan , Be and Toren think that Warden Luta wanted to stop the riot , Terex realizes that Poe was behind this . Black Squadron force their way inside Grakkus ' fortress and offer to help him escape . At the space station , Warden Luta and her crew find that they have been locked out of every system . Luta receives a message from Poe Dameron and his Black Squadron . Poe tells her that he knew that Agent Terex had bribed her into make sure that Black Squadron did not leave the planet alive , despite paying for safe passage down here . With Grakkus in tow , Poe offers to give her back control of the prison if she lets them leave Megalox Beta . Luta accepts Dameron ' s offer , not wanting the prisoners to be crushed to death by the gravity . While Papa Toren deals with the death of one of his elves , Kan Be tells Terex that they will be crushed to death soon . He disagrees and summons his ship , the " Carrion Spike " . After activating his gravity belt , Terex tells his former criminal associates that he is abandoning them because they failed to kill Grakkus , Poe , and Black Squadron . At the space station , Poe tells a freed Grakkus that he can escape in one of the station ' s shuttles . They promise to escort him . They are soon joined by the astromechs with the exception of Jessika Pava ' s droid O - R10N , who was destroyed during the mission . As they leave the space station , BB - 8 transmits the control codes for Megalox back to Warden Luta . Before they can turn the gravity field back on , Terex flies the " Carrion Spike " through the space station , disabling its systems . Grakkus panics and asks Poe to transmit the coordinates since his ship lacks a nav computer capable of doing calculations . With the space station ' s systems failing , Warden Luta sends emergency shuttles to evacuate the prisoners from Megalox . However , the " Carrion Spike " begins attacking the shuttles and their escape pod s . Temmin warns Poe of the news but Grakkus opines they should let them kill each other and reminds them of their mission to keep him safe . Poe orders Black Squadron to attack the " Carrion Spike " . Terex orders his crew to kill them all but the ship sustains damage from the starfighters . With the " Carrion Spike " damaged , Terex reluctantly authorizes his crew to cloak the ship and jump to lightspeed . Back at the Resistance base on D ' Qar , Poe is debriefed by General Leia Organa about the information that Grakkus had provided about Lor San Tekka . When Poe asks about following these new leads , General Organa instructs him to return to the Crèche since they were the only ones to give the information about the explorer ' s visit to Grakkus to Poe . Aboard the damaged " Carrion Spike " , Captain Phasma asks Terex about his failed mission to Megalox . She orders him to return to First Order space for debriefing . Privately , Terex decides to delay his return .