Booster Terrik Booster Terrik , a Human male from Corellia , was a smuggler and the only civilian ever known to own and operate an " Imperial " - class Star Destroyer , the " Errant Venture " . He was the father of Mirax Terrik , and grandfather of Valin and Jysella Horn . Biography . Early career . Booster Terrik ' s childhood began on Corellia . As sure as young Booster was anything , he was independent — though his earliest work , honest or otherwise , involved piloting freighters for large corporations , he soon resolved to start his own shipping ventures , independent of anyone ' s authority but his own . The result was something less than outright success : more than one of his enterprises were quickly driven into the ground , and Terrik soon found himself burdened with enormous debts and no legal way to ensure his continued survival . Running from a team of bounty hunters in the freighter " Starwayman " — which he had been forced to steal to effect his getaway — Terrik ended up on the Outer Rim Territories planet Borlov , where he would experience the first of many odd turns of luck . He encountered an avian Borlovian noble , Llollulion , who was intrigued by stories of Terrik ' s haphazard lifestyle . Something of a rogue amongst his own introverted species , Llollulion longed to escape Borlov and see the galaxy , and Terrik seemed to be the perfect means toward that end . He used his extensive fortune to pay off Terrik ' s debtors — and purchase " Starwayman " outright — on the condition that Terrik take him on as a copilot . Happy for the company , and grateful for the financial assistance , Terrik agreed . While the Separatist Crisis was making headlines on the galactic scene , Terrik and Llollulion began a life of steady , if less - than - reputable , work as smugglers . The law would eventually catch up to them , however , and Llollulion found himself locked up in the CoCo District Constabulary on Coruscant , held on various smuggling - related charges . Thanks to a daring escape alongside Human con men Achk Med - Beq and Dannl Faytonni , the Galactic Republic never got a chance to try the Borlovian , and with the Clone Wars breaking out in full scant days afterward , the government suddenly had more important things to worry about . Though he was every bit as adventurous as Terrik , Llollulion would come to play the role of Terrik ' s conscience as the Clone Wars tore the galaxy in half . " Starwayman " soon found itself running supplies for early dissenters — presumably tied to the Separatists — throughout the Outer Rim , and though Terrik claimed to have only his business interests at heart , in truth he was no happier with the steady consolidation of power under Supreme Chancellor Palpatine than was his copilot . Scarcely a week after the defeat of General Grievous and the declaration of the New Order , Terrik and Llollulion were making a supply run to insurgents on Kobbahn when the " Victory " - class Star Destroyer " Strikefast " , under the command of Captain Voss Parck ambushed them . " Starwayman " made a series of jumps into the edge of the Unknown Regions in the hopes of shaking the Imperials , but Parck , eager to be rid of what he saw as a tedious assignment , would not be shaken . As a desperate last - minute gamble , Terrik took his ship to ground on a nearby planet , hoping to hide amidst the unnamed world ' s dense jungle . Parck continued his pursuit , and would certainly have captured " Starwayman " were it not for the intervention of a mysterious alien - a Chiss male who would later be known as Thrawn . Who had been marooned on the island years earlier . Viewing the alien ' s tactical genius as a far more important prize than a couple of two - bit smugglers , Parck packed up his forces and left without a second thought , leaving Terrik to wonder at his continued good fortune . Family man . Over the next several years , Terrik would continue doing business for the rebels — and profiting heavily from it — but everything else in his life would soon change . Undoubtedly the biggest change was his marriage to a woman named Jysella and the subsequent birth of his daughter , Mirax . Now that he had a family to take care of , Terrik abandoned his nomadic ways and began using Corellia as his base of operations . Llollulion , however , was not done seeing the galaxy , and the two parted ways . It is possible that Llollulion took " Starwayman " with him upon his departure — the ship was legally his , after all — because around this time Terrik acquired a new ship , the " Baudo " - class star yacht " Pulsar Skate " ; as well as a new copilot , the tentacled alien Polipe . Just when things were leveling out for Terrik , however , his wife met a sudden end . Finding himself solely responsible for Mirax ' s welfare , Terrik had to rethink the way he conducted business ; having a stationary base of operations already made it easier for the authorities to keep track of him , and the last thing Terrik wanted was CorSec showing up at his door and taking Mirax away while he was off on a job . Luckily , he had good friends in Jagged and Zena Antilles , the couple who operated Corellia ' s Gus Treta orbital refueling station . He often left Mirax in the Antilles ' s care during smuggling runs , though just as often , he would bring Mirax and the Antilles ' s son Wedge along for the ride . Spending many of their young years in each other ' s company , Mirax and Wedge would become good friends ; Terrik and the Antilles began to regard each other ' s children as if they were their own . When Gus Treta was destroyed by careless pirates in a hurried escape from the system , Terrik loaned Wedge , who had been onboard " Pulsar Skate " at the time , a Z - 95 Headhunter , making no move to stop Wedge from exacting revenge for his parents ' deaths . Tragedies aside , business continued to go well . At some point Terrik ' s paths had crossed the business of Talon Karrde , it greatly irritated the information broker , to the point that Karrde was forced to hire a spacer to deliver to Terrik a message to stay out of his business . Terrik held no respect from Karrde and furiously attacked the messenger , but lost and was knocked unconscious . Terrik became an expert at staying one step ahead of the law , forming something of a nemesis in CorSec inspector Hal Horn . Though they hid it well , both Terrik and Horn grudgingly respected the other ' s tenacity , and it was an emotional day when , in 2 BBY , Terrik was finally caught and tried . Though happy to be doing his job well , Horn couldn ' t help but feel a certain measure of regret that their peculiar relationship had come to an end . Kessel . Terrik was sentenced to five years of hard labor in the Spice Mines of Kessel ; not surprisingly , it would be the roughest five years of his life . The time affected him profoundly , both mentally and physically — always a large man , the constant hard work piled more and more muscle onto his frame and left him a true powerhouse of a Human being , able to lift another man clear off the ground by the scruff of his neck . Somewhere along the line he would lose his left eye , which was replaced by a large , conspicuous red prosthetic , further adding to his intimidation factor . The hardship , though , was not what troubled Terrik most of all . He was an adventurous soul , after all , and he found Kessel to be , more than anything else , profoundly boring . The only thing that kept him mentally sound during the tedium was his hatred for Hal Horn , whom he cursed with every breath . Unlike Horn himself , it would be some time before Terrik could put their feud behind him — a process made more difficult by the fact that Horn would be killed in the line of duty by the bounty hunter Bossk before Terrik ' s release . A lower profile . Several months after the Battle of Hoth , Booster Terrik once again found himself a free man . He emerged , however , into a vastly different galaxy — Wedge had run off with the Rebellion , and Mirax had grown into a capable young woman , one who had personally held Terrik ' s smuggling operations together — at least , what remained of them after Jorj Car ' das and Talon Karrde had finished picking them apart . At first , Terrik set out to pick up where he had left off , but one trip in " Pulsar Skate " showed just how much he himself had changed . Hyperspace was suddenly too lonely ; the confines of " Skate " too reminiscent of his time in the mines . Terrik also found that he had lost some of his appetite for adventure — though only some . He gave " Skate " to Mirax and her copilot , Liat Tsayv , to continue its usual operations , and started working primarily as an intermediary for his friends ' businesses . This new lifestyle allowed Terrik a measure of security , not to mention keeping him mobile — even more so than could " Skate " — and in good company . Keeping mobile , however , meant that he wouldn ' t get to see his daughter very often . As the years went on , and the galaxy continued to change around him , Terrik went through probably the most leisurely stretch of his life , and sure enough , he found himself longing once again for excitement . That excitement would come in 7 ABY , when he found himself reunited with Mirax on Tatooine in the home of Huff Darklighter , where he had been bargaining for a cache of old weaponry from the Empire ' s Eidolon Base . Terrik ' s joy at seeing his daughter again was blunted , however , by her companion — Corran Horn , the son of the man who had sent him to Kessel . Horn barged into the negotiations and , not realizing who he was talking to , tried to scare Terrik off by pointing out — " to " Mirax ' s father — who Mirax ' s father was . Terrik didn ' t know whether to laugh or throttle the man , and finding out that he was not just Mirax ' s business partner , but her " romantic interest " , didn ' t help matters . Mirax quickly defused the situation , however , by pointing out that they were there on Wedge ' s behalf . Wedge , alongside Corran and the rest of Rogue Squadron , had resigned his commission in the New Republic military and taken up a personal campaign against former Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard , who had set herself up at the head of a bacta cartel on the planet Thyferra . Terrik decided that whatever Wedge wanted , Wedge should get , and persuaded Darklighter to give the weapons to Mirax at a vastly reduced price — and only for that much because Mirax refused to take them for free . Intrigued by his daughter ' s new crusade , Terrik accompanied her back to Yag ' Dhul , where the Rogues had set up shop in the abandoned space station , Yag - prime . Wedge was thrilled to see Terrik again , and immediately set about finding him a role in their operation , and in the end , Terrik would settle for nothing less than running the entire station — Wedge had planned on using it as a base and little else ; Terrik , on the other hand , convinced him to keep the place running as a supply depot , and began instituting expert — if occasionally draconian — measures for bringing in as much of a profit as possible . Sure enough , under Terrik ' s management , the station flourished . The Rogues underwent a series of raids on Isard ' s bacta supplies on nearby worlds such as Qretu 5 , aided by smuggler allies of Terrik ' s who were then allowed to keep the captured bacta , provided they spent the money they made on supplies from the Yag ' Dhul station — everybody won , except for Isard . As his and Wedge ' s master plan for confronting Isard began to take shape , Terrik saw to the acquisition of a great deal of weaponry , both for the station itself and for the Rogues ' small but growing armada . From Talon Karrde he obtained hundreds of torpedo sensor packages and launch tubes , and many thousands of projectiles ; more than the station could possibly employ . He also acquired a large number of tractor beams , and a gravity well projector , which was mounted on the station itself . As a slow buildup of matériel commenced on both sides of the Bacta War , another , more subtle battle was being fought — one of information . During a rendezvous with Karrde ' s people in the Alderaan system , one for which Terrik himself was present aboard " Pulsar Skate " , an Imperial force ambushed the Rogues with the help of the Immobilizer 418 cruiser " Aggregator " . Only the fortuitous arrival of the automated Thranta - class War Cruiser " Valiant " , believing Rogue pilot Tycho Celchu to be " Another Chance " due to his antiquated Alderaanian IFF code , saved the Rogues from certain doom . " Aggregator " fled , and the Rogues destroyed Isard ' s " Corrupter " before it could escape . Fearing another engagement with the Interdictor , which Isard had leased from High Admiral Treuten Teradoc , Terrik began buying up maintenance parts for Interdictor cruisers with the intention of creating a rumor that the next time someone lent one to Isard , the Rogues planned on taking it . In the meantime , however , there was a more pressing matter — since no one but Terrik , Mirax and the Rogues had known where the Alderaan rendezvous was to take place , the ambush meant that there was a spy in Karrde ' s organization . Karrde quickly identified the culprit as his aide Melina Carniss , but before he could eliminate her , Terrik leveraged his purchase of the gravity well projector against her continued survival , with the aim of feeding her false information . Eventually word reached the Rogues that Isard was forcing their hand — she began rounding up Thyferran Vratix civilians and threatened to kill them if resistance to her regime hadn ' t ceased in one month . Their location no longer worth keeping secret , the Rogues brought the next supply convoy — and thus , Melina Carniss — straight to Yag ' Dhul . Carniss left a beacon in the system , and in no time at all , the Star Destroyers " Virulence " and " Lusankya " arrived in the system ready to pick the station clean . They were met by the sight of Rogue Squadron and its fleet of freighters seemingly fleeing the system , leaving the space station to be ground to dust . Terrik had other plans , however ; powering up a gravity well and locking " Lusankya " in place with the dozens of tractor beams he had acquired . The ship ' s captain , Joak Drysso , was not amused . He made ready to obliterate the station and effect an escape , when " Lusankya " suddenly found itself the target of three hundred proton torpedoes — enough to blast his ship into oblivion . Just when his doom seemed imminent , however , Captain Lakwii Varrscha of " Virulence " selflessly moved her ship in front of " Lusankya " , freeing it from the tractor beams ' grip . Drysso thanked Varrscha for her sacrifice and made a beeline out of the system and back to Thyferra . Terrik , aided by the fortuitous arrival of a New Republic flight group under the command of Pash Cracken , was able to convince Captain Varrscha to surrender " Virulence " without a fight , and Terrik immediately proceeded to load it up with his people and Cracken ' s fighters . By the time Terrik and Cracken arrived at Thyferra , the battle was well under way . Captain Drysso could not believe his good luck when he saw " Virulence " emerge from hyperspace , but his enthusiasm was short - lived as the ship began pumping A - wings into space . Terrik ' s arrival , coupled with the recently - defected Sair Yonka ' s " Freedom " , and the Rogues ' numerous freighters — loaded to the brim with the missiles and torpedoes that were not on Yag - prime station , made short work of " Lusankya " , and the battle was soon finished , with Isard apparently killed in the act of escaping . The fighting over , New Republic General Airen Cracken arrived to do cleanup work , and from Terrik ' s point of view , to take credit for the whole operation . One point of contention on which Terrik was particularly stuck was the fate of " Virulence " — while it had been surrendered to him personally , the arrival of Pash Cracken ' s unit had played enough of a role in Varrscha ' s decision that the government had at least a partial claim of ownership — besides which , Cracken wasn ' t about to leave a fully armed warship in the hands of a civilian . Luckily , Talon Karrde was on hand to broker a deal that , naturally , made everyone happy . Karrde would purchase the bulk of " Virulence " weapons from Terrik , and sell them to Cracken ; Terrik , in turn , would use the money he made off of the weapons to buy out the New Republic ' s share in the ship . Having finally found a sufficiently large base of operations , Terrik christened his new ship " Errant Venture " . Life on " Venture " . Cracken returned to Coruscant to fend off a demotion attempt from Borsk Fey ' lya , and Terrik set to work on turning " Errant Venture " into his new base of operations . The ship was left with a mere ten turbolaser batteries , but otherwise , she was in excellent condition — Terrik even managed to hang onto a portion of the ship ' s TIE fighter complement . Still every bit as thrifty as he had been as the operator of Yag - prime station , he left the TIEs ' ceiling racks in place to complement the usual docking space on the hangar bay ' s floor ; adding customized suspension collars to a number of his smaller ships to ensure that no available corner of the bay went to waste . He retained the Flag Hangar as a more private hangar as well . The rest of " Venture " became one of the galaxy ' s largest mobile entertainment bazaars — the go - to location for thrill seekers , traders , and scoundrels alike . The ship was divided into three levels : Black , Blue , and Diamond . The Diamond Level was where all the " sophisticated " business went down — luxury suites , high - stakes gambling , and so on ; Blue Level was for the more average visitors , and was most notable for Trader ' s Alley — a cash - only cornucopia of goods and services , taking up the largest single stretch of real estate on the ship . A large central courtyard linked the Blue and Diamond levels ; in the center of the courtyard was an enormous holographic reenactment of the Bacta War played on loop — with Terrik ' s role slightly enhanced . At the bottom of the ship was Black Level . Not much information was spread around about Black Level ; probably because most of its clientele weren ' t in the business of idle chitchat . Suffice it to say , if you needed something under less - than - legitimate circumstances — and if you had the guts — Black was where you wanted to go . Though Terrik could not have been more proud of his new home , managing an entire " Imperial II " - class Star Destroyer was an enormous feat , even for someone like him . As Talon Karrde would later tell him , anyone with experience working with Star Destroyers saw them as little more than " 174 , 000 design flaws waiting to be exploited , " and it was all Terrik could do to keep her from falling apart beneath his feet . The level of pressure Terrik was under during the first decade or so of " Venture " operation was evident to anyone who had had the opportunity to see his office — the large room was so filled with boxes , expense reports , loose cargo , and so on , that one could barely find a place to sit down , and the only personal effect Terrik had managed to squeeze in was a small repeating hologram of Mirax on his desk . As much as Terrik relished the chance to be busy again , his eagerness to indulge himself in the occasional distraction during this time period was quite apparent . The first such distraction came during the campaign against Grand Admiral Thrawn ; despite its condition , the New Republic had expressed interest in nationalizing " Errant Venture " to aid in the fight , and surprisingly , Terrik gave them permission — provided the deal came with an Admiral ' s commission for himself . The government quickly decided it could do without " Venture " after all . Shortly afterward , Terrik would once again come to the aid of Rogue Squadron and their continued fight against Ysanne Isard — it had turned out that she wasn ' t quite dead after all . The trouble started when Booster and Mirax traveled to the planet Distna to assist in a raid on an Imperial facility believed to be housing the prisoners Isard had previously kept aboard " Lusankya " . They arrived to find the area strewn with the Rogues ' remains ; only Wes Janson and Asyr Sei ' lar were recovered alive from the wreckage . Word eventually reached Terrik — via Wedge ' s and Corran ' s astromech droids — that the majority of the other Rogues were still alive , and being held by Isard in an attempt to use them against her rival , Prince - Admiral Delak Krennel of the Ciutric Hegemony . While the Rogues and a large portion of the local New Republic fleet were drawn into a massive attack on Ciutric IV , Isard made haste to the Bilbringi Shipyards , now all but stripped of defenses , and attempted to take back " Lusankya " — her true goal from the start . Repairs on the Super Star Destroyer from the damage sustained at Thyferra were just being wrapped up , and the ship was effectively deserted when Isard arrived . She sent a team to take control of the bridge , and would have been successful if not for Terrik , who had figured out her plan upon realizing that none of Isard ' s long - term goals would be possible without first taking back her ship . Accompanied by Mirax and New Republic Intelligence agent Iella Wessiri , and speaking as " acting captain " of " Lusankya " , Terrik informed Isard that the jig was up , and Wessiri attempted to place her under arrest . Isard tried to fight her way out , however , and was shot and killed . Upon returning to " Venture " , Terrik had one final order of business to attend to — Asyr Sei ' lar , upon being picked up by Terrik from the wreckage at Distna , had decided to keep her survival a secret . When word had reached Borsk Fey ' lya that Asyr and fellow Rogue Gavin Darklighter planned on getting married and adopting a Bothan child , he , to say the least , had not been amused . Though it would mean breaking Gavin ' s heart , Asyr opted to assume a more undercover role in Bothan society and work to change the dirty politics Fey ' lya had come to represent . Her " death " did not stop Fey ' lya from trying to impose his politics on her , however , and upon hearing the news from Distna , Fey ' lya traveled to " Venture " with the intention of bribing Terrik into obtaining a suitable replacement body — Asyr ' s purportedly having been destroyed in the battle — to be interred in a hero ' s monument on Bothawui . Terrik responded by roughing the Council or up and throwing him off the ship . Two years later , Terrik was reunited with Corran Horn , whom he had fortuitously avoided during the Isard affair — and worse yet , forced to work with him — when Mirax was captured and held hostage by Moff Leonia Tavira , leader of the Invids , a rogue ex - Imperial pirate group . Terrik had not taken well to Mirax ' s relationship with Corran , and was even less pleased when the two were married at Thyferra aboard the freshly - captured " Lusankya " — without even telling him beforehand — so when Corran responded to her abduction by spending more than two months on Yavin 4 training at Luke Skywalker ' s Jedi Praxeum , their meeting was considerably ugly . While Terrik had in fact known about Mirax ' s capture from the beginning — she had been working out of " Venture " at the time , using her father ' s resources to help Airen Cracken keep tabs on the Invids ' activities — he augmented his anger over Corran not coming straight to him with the news by pretending to have only just found out . The entire confrontation was designed to test both Corran ' s commitment to his daughter and his willingness to stand up for his decisions in the face of Terrik ' s overwhelming force of personality , and Corran not only figured out Terrik ' s ruse , but passed the test on all accounts . He asserted his own devotion to Mirax as being just as legitimate as Terrik ' s , and assumed full responsibility for whatever happened to her as a result of his two months ' absence . Terrik was pleased with Corran ' s performance , and for the first time , began to respect Corran as his own man , and more importantly , worthy of his daughter ' s love . The two immediately went to work on locating the Invids and bringing Mirax home safely . Corran ' s first order of business was to get himself on and off Corellia to see his grandfather Rostek Horn about old CorSec — and personal — business ; after conning a tourist couple aboard " Venture " into smuggling Corran down to the planet as a lark , Terrik began going through his information network , and those of his allies , for any and all data on the Invids ' whereabouts . His search eventually led him to his old friend Kina Margath , an entrepreneur based on Elshandruu Pica . There Corran was on board a shuttle transferring to a large space liner , when it was ambushed by the Eyttyrmin Batiiv pirates , allies of the Invids . The ambush was thwarted by Corran using his Jedi and piloting skills , and proved to be a windfall for their search — Terrik tracked the Eyttyrmin Batiiv to the planet Courkrus from the drive signature of a Corellian corvette used by the pirates , and from there Corran was led to the Invids ' base on Susevfi . Corran infiltrated the Invids and during the rescue of Mirax , Booster arrived aboard the " Venture " . Corran fought his way into the pirates ' compound , rescued Mirax , and when Tavira turned to engage Booster on board her flagship Star Destroyer " Invidious " , ready to turn the lesser - armed " Errant Venture " to scrap , Corran used the Force to project an image of the " Lusankya " into Tavira ' s mind . To further tease her paranoia , he added an image of the recently - destroyed Sun Crusher into the mix , causing Tavira to flee the system . Terrik was now firmly convinced that Corran would be an acceptable son - in - law — though he wouldn ' t dare say so in his presence — and two years later , Corran and Mirax gave him the gift of a grandchild , a Force - sensitive boy named Valin . The next several years were a mixed bag for Terrik and " Venture " . The ship would continue to make an impression on the galactic underworld — Mara Jade and Lando Calrissian briefly called her home during their search for Jorj Car ' das , for example , and Talon Karrde frequently used her intimidating presence as a stress - under - fire test for new recruits . Behind the scenes , however , things were getting rough . Terrik eventually hired ex - Rogue Squadron member Nawara Ven to help out with the ship ' s daily operations , but even the extra help couldn ' t keep " Venture " from falling further and further into disrepair . Turbolifts stopped working — or worked poorly , only half of her operating systems continued to function reliably , to say nothing of the ones that died altogether , and perhaps worst of all , her already low turbolaser complement continued getting smaller as weapons constantly underwent repairs , and were even cannibalized and / or sold for other more vital parts — by around 18 ABY , " Venture " was left with only three functioning turbolasers . Terrik finally decided that major overhauls would be necessary , and hired a team of two hundred Verpine techs to upgrade the ship ' s systems in the Nosken system . As the Caamas Document Crisis flared up across the galaxy seven months later , however , the techs still had not finished their work . Things had gotten so bad that Talon Karrde eventually floated an offer to buy " Venture " from Terrik should she no longer be worth his trouble . Karrde was aboard the ship ostensibly to find information on the Cavrilhu Pirates for Luke Skywalker , who had recently chased them from a base in the Kauron asteroid belt . While in the system , Luke had been buzzed by a strange ship looking faintly like a TIE fighter , which had sent out a transmission in an alien language and then raced back into hyperspace toward the Unknown Regions . While Terrik , Karrde , Mara Jade and Corran Horn , who was also on the ship as part of an investigation into an Imperial resistance movement codenamed Vengeance , were discussing the recent events , the ship appeared once more and followed the same pattern with " Venture " that it had with Luke — sending out the same alien transmission while flying on what seemed like a suicide course toward the ship ' s bridge , then turning and vanishing once more into hyperspace . This time , however , Mara had picked a familiar word out of the transmission — " Mitth ' raw ' nuruodo " , Grand Admiral Thrawn ' s full name . Concerned about rumors of Thrawn ' s return to the Imperial Remnant , Luke and Mara headed off to the ship ' s origin point , triangulated from its two escape vectors — the planet Nirauan . Meanwhile , the New Republic was in turmoil as numerous species used the controversy stirred up by the Caamas incident as an excuse to bring back old grudges ; among these species were the Frezh lix and the Sif ' krie s . The former instituted a blockade of the latter ' s planet , supposedly as retribution for the planet ' s vote against a condemnation of the Bothan people for their role in Caamas ' s devastation . A New Republic task force including Generals Garm Bel Iblis and Wedge Antilles , unable to legally intervene in a local affair , managed to break up the blockade under the pretext of inspecting one of the blockaded ships — " Hoopster ' s Prank " , one of Booster Terrik ' s freighters . The mission was successful , but Terrik ' s Sif ' krie smuggling contacts were angered over the suspension of their operations and banned him from future shipments . Still fuming over the matter , it was with some reluctance that Terrik met with Bel Iblis shortly afterward concerning an operation the General had planned . Hoping to find a full copy of the Caamas Document , President Ponc Gavrisom had ordered an information raid on the Imperial Ubiqtorate base at Yaga Minor , and Bel Iblis needed " Errant Venture " to play the role of a damaged and vulnerable Imperial warship — all of the New Republic ' s captured Star Destroyers were too busy with their official duties to slip away unnoticed , and were too well - known besides . Only through the deft manipulation of Bel Iblis did Terrik agree , having been convinced that he was getting the better end of the deal . " Venture " did , in fact , benefit greatly from renewed New Republic support , undergoing three weeks of extensive repairs , upgrades , and retrofits . Another reason Bel Iblis wanted the " Venture " is because due to the ship falling into disrepair , the exterior hull looked like it had been damaged in combat , adding to the ruse of the ship having been attacked . Lastly , the usual skeleton crew was supplemented by thousands of New Republic personnel , bringing " Venture " up to a full military - grade crew complement for the first time since her service in the Empire . Though happy to see his ship finally getting the attention it needed , Terrik began to suspect that Bel Iblis had effectively conned him , a feeling that only got stronger the more he learned about the desperate nature of the mission . The " Venture " codes were changed to identify it as the " Tyrannic " , an Imperial ship that had not been seen for several weeks , under the assumption that no one at Yaga Minor would know better . With Terrik and Bel Iblis on board — Bel Iblis ' s presence being one of the minor details Terrik hadn ' t been briefed on in advance — " " Tyrannic " " appeared in the Yaga Minor system with a respectably - sized New Republic force hot on its heels . The plan was for the Republic ships to keep the base ' s defensive perimeter busy enough that the Imperials would fail to notice that the Star Destroyer was heading straight for one of their exterior interface stations , where a team would then blast its way through to the interface , steal a copy of the Caamas Document , and escape — or if escape became impossible , which Bel Iblis and Terrik believed deep down would be the case — beam the document to one of the other ships . Unfortunately , also present at Yaga Minor was none other than Thrawn . The Grand Admiral was in actuality an impostor disguised as Thrawn and following the orders of Moff Vilim Disra and Major Grodin Tierce , but the Imperials nevertheless immediately saw through the ruse and pinned " Errant Venture " in place with fifty tractor beams . " Thrawn " threatened to destroy the ship if Bel Iblis and Terrik refused to surrender , but Bel Iblis , suspecting the Imperials would want him alive — not to mention an intact Star Destroyer — called their bluff . He ordered the " Venture " to pivot as far toward maximum firing position as the tractor beams allowed , then opened fire on the nearest beams . Once free , Bel Iblis intended to ram Thrawn ' s " Relentless " , taking what he believed to be the Imperial ' s most valuable asset out of the equation . The effort was for nothing ; for every tractor beam " Venture " took out , two more took its place . Just when it looked like Yaga Minor would indeed be the " Venture " last stop , Talon Karrde arrived in the system , came through the defensive perimeter — aided by high - level Imperial codes — and dropped Fleet Admiral Gilad Pellaeon off on " Relentless " , having furnished him with proof of Disra ' s and Tierce ' s deception . With the Thrawn pretender revealed as the con man Flim , Pellaeon assumed control of the Imperial forces , and ordered an immediate cease - fire . Soon afterward , the Bastion Accords were signed , and the Yaga Minor engagement would go down as the final significant military confrontation between the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant . Stability and purpose . True to his word , General Bel Iblis had " Errant Venture " exterior fully repaired , and even though most of the weaponry was once again removed , the innumerable repairs and upgrades were a financial windfall for Terrik — Bel Iblis had even acceded to his demand that the ship receive a new coat of paint ; " something besides Star Destroyer White . " Over the next several months , " Venture " added a new distinction to its repertoire : it was now the only Star Destroyer to be painted a screaming red from bow to stern . Though quite a thing to behold , the new paint job meant that no one would mistake her for an official warship ever again . His newfound economic security may have also prompted Terrik to splurge on a cloned left eye to replace his prosthetic , because he appeared at Luke and Mara ' s wedding soon after looking good as new . Any softening of his appearance was certainly well - timed — Mirax quickly put him to work keeping an eye on the large number of children attending the wedding ; a role he would revisit with some success in the future . Another new interest Terrik acquired during this period was superweapons . He spent a large amount of money purchasing mysterious technology from the Hutts , purported to have its origins in Durga ' s failed Darksaber project , which he had installed along " Venture " central spine straight through to the bow . Whether the end result could in fact be called a superlaser is debatable , but that it worked and was quite powerful , was certain . For several years , things finally seemed to be looking up ; not only for Terrik , but for the galaxy at large . The invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong , however , shattered this peace . Terrik largely stayed out of the war in the beginning , which served Corran Horn well upon his self - imposed exile in the wake of the Battle of Ithor in 25 ABY ; he subsequently spent around a year away from the New Jedi Order , traveling the galaxy aboard " Errant Venture " alongside Mirax . He contributed to the war effort by running guns for the Hutt underground , albeit at a profit . Eventually the Jedi came looking , though when they came it was Terrik and his ship they needed . Evidence of an imminent Yuuzhan Vong / Peace Brigade attack on the Jedi Praxeum had convinced Luke Skywalker to send Jacen and Jaina Solo out in search of Terrik to supplement the academy ' s defense ; Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila were already on Yavin 4 , and Talon Karrde had agreed to lend a handful of ships , including his own " Wild Karrde " , to the evacuation effort , but the amount of firepower the enemy had brought to bear could only be countered by " Errant Venture " — especially since the New Republic government had recently taken steps to distance itself from the Jedi . Karrde ' s ships took a considerable beating in the ensuing battle , and just when all seemed lost , " Venture " appeared and blasted its way into the maelstrom . Furious over the threat to the students — his grandson Valin being among their number — Terrik unleashed his secret weapon , obliterating the Yuuzhan Vong force ' s flagship in a sudden flash of light . Almost before anyone knew what had happened , the battle was over . The victory was only temporary , however ; even Terrik could not secure Yavin IV indefinitely . The Jedi students — over thirty of them altogether — were brought aboard " Venture " , along with Anakin ' s team from the ground , and she fled into hyperspace to parts unknown . With no safe harbor for the Jedi yet in place , " Venture " became a mobile Jedi Academy , essentially a modern - day " Chu ' unthor " . For the rest of the war , Booster Terrik was at last forced to put others ' needs ahead of his own business interests ; indeed , he now had one of the most significant responsibilities in the galaxy . He began jumping " Venture " randomly around the galaxy to keep the enemy from tracking it , going so far as to send out smaller ships to obtain supplies and fuel — and occasionally sending out Nawara Ven to assist endangered Jedi students on planets like Trogan . For months , the ship didn ' t go near a civilized system ; the only beings who could find it were Jedi , thanks to a special proprietary homing beacon provided and installed by Karrde . In the meantime , Skywalker sent Jedi Knights Kam and Tionne Solusar into the Deep Core to search for a new haven — one that would be impossible to locate without the Force . They eventually found the world that would become known as Eclipse , but not before an official arrest order was issued for the Skywalkers , forcing Luke and Mara to abandon entirely the tricky political situation on Coruscant and take refuge on " Venture " — just in time for Mara to give birth to their child . Ben Skywalker began his life in the " Errant Venture " medbay , with Terrik , Jedi healer Cilghal and others waiting nearby . He was soon ushered away to The Maw , located at the opposite end of the Jedi ' s " Great River " of safe passage from Eclipse . A reliable network now in place , the rest of the Jedi soon left " Venture " as well , but things were too far gone for Terrik to turn his back on the war . " Venture " went on to play supporting roles in many of the war ' s key battles . She helped cover the evacuation of Coruscant , then accompanied Wedge Antilles and his group to Borleias , where the New Republic government — what was left of it — promptly abandoned them . Acting - Chief of State Pwoe left them " Lusankya " with implicit orders to hold the Yuuzhan Vong off as long as possible while he and his people fled to Mon Calamari . Viewing the New Republic as essentially dead , Wedge proposed that the leaders of the group — himself , the Skywalkers and Solos , Terrik , and a handful of others — start fighting the war as a sort of new Rebellion , independent of anyone else ' s authority . Among other things , this new strategy meant that Terrik was free to arm his ship however he saw fit ; over thirty turbolasers and ion cannons were promptly transferred from " Lusankya " to " Errant Venture " . The former was essentially stripped of all personnel and useful equipment , and was used as the " Emperor ' s Spear " in the forthcoming battle ; sacrificing itself to destroy the Yuuzhan Vong force ' s command ship , and its leader , Czulkang Lah . From there , " Venture " participated in the Battle of Ebaq 9 as part of a large Smugglers ' Alliance fleet including Karrde and Lando Calrissian , and in the final battles of the war , at Caluula and Coruscant . At Caluula , Terrik was tasked with preventing the escape of any Yuuzhan Vong craft leaving the planet — on which the devastating Alpha Red virus has been unleashed — but one coralskipper managed to get through . The enemy intended to use the ship to poison the world of Zonama Sekot , but the planet ' s consciousness easily neutralized the contagion upon its arrival . After lending a hand in the final war - ending battle at Coruscant , Terrik landed on Zonama Sekot for a celebratory gathering with the many other major players in the war . With Skywalker and the others off planning the future of the galaxy , Booster Terrik stepped aside for a brandy with Karrde , Calrissian , Crev Bombaasa and Han Solo . Idly discussing the new landscape of the galaxy from their own , perhaps less - reputable point of view , Terrik and the others came to the conclusion that it was high time they moved away from their shadier dealings — spice values had plummeted since the decimation of Hutt Space , after all — and focus on legitimate business . With the war over , and all kinds of " legal " work to be done , the future was looking very profitable indeed . Booster was again seen in 40 ABY with the " Venture " now as the galaxy ' s largest mobile gambling and shopping enterprise . He had requested to be allowed access to dock with the Galactic Alliance ships blockading Corellia , but had no luck until Luke Skywalker insisted to Colonel Jacen Solo that the " Venture " would be a terrible idea to allow near the GA forces . Luke did so at the request of his sister Leia and Booster ( who intended to use the " Venture " as a place to spy on GA troops and gather intelligence on Jacen ) knowing full well that Jacen would do the exact opposite of what his uncle demanded . Booster and the " Venture " made a great deal of profit , as well as collected some useful intelligence , before being forced away by a battle with Confederate Forces . Booster ' s daughter Mirax remained on the Venture with him to learn the business as his heir , as did Iella and Myri Antilles who aided their friends in the war effort by posing as card dealers and secretly gathering information . Booster offered Myri a full - time position as a dealer ; her being so good that her father Wedge Antilles commented to Luke Skywalker that she would be the first Antilles ' to become rich . It was also shown that Booster and his son - in - law Corran had developed a grudging liking for one another , but still enjoyed baiting one another when a chance presented itself . Post - Second Galactic Civil War . In 44 ABY , tensions began to rise between the Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance government under Imperial Admiral Natasi Daala . A mysterious Force psychosis began affecting Jedi who were in hiding at Shelter in the Maw . Among the affected were Booster ' s grandchildren Valin and Jysella . Daala froze the Horn siblings in carbonite to use as leverage against the Jedi , an act that angered Booster , whose first thought was to crash the " Errant Venture " into Daala ' s offices on Coruscant to free them . Under directions from the Jedi , Booster hosted a sabacc tournament , the Tendrando Arms Celebrity Sabacc Charity Challenge , aboard his Star Destroyer , holding many Coruscanti elite hostage . He then provided a diversion by blasting orbital mirrors to draw the Sixth Fleet ' s attention away from the Jedi Temple so they could launch their StealthX wing . He did this in front of Chief of Staff Wynn Dorvan , who assumed Booster was going on a rampage in a futile attempt to have his grandchildren released . The " Errant Venture " then traveled to Pydyr to assist Luke against the Lost Tribe of Sith . Personality and traits . Terrik was a proud , blunt man . He was eager to talk back to warlords , make demands to the current galactic government and refused to show any sign of shame for it . He considered himself a self - made man and did not accept dominion from anybody . When the basic force failed , he was all too willing to resort to bravado . His only true loyalty was to his friends and his family . Behind the scenes . Though popularized by Michael A . Stackpole ' s X - wing books , Booster Terrik ' s first appearance was in the short story " Mist Encounter " by Timothy Zahn , published in " Star Wars Adventure Journal 7 " . Given the two authors ' frequent collaboration , it is possible , though unverified , that Terrik was nevertheless Stackpole ' s creation , and Zahn included him in " Mist Encounter " as a setup for his later appearances . Though having long been established as having a prosthetic left eye due to his time on Kessel , Terrik appears a handful of times in the comic series " " , and later in " The New Jedi Order Sourcebook " , with two normal eyes . Though no official explanation has been given for the change , it is doubtful that such a thing would have happened so many times by accident ; therefore , it must be inferred that he obtained a new eye — presumably through cloning — sometime prior to " Union " . This event ' s placement in the preceding article is conjectural , and subject to change . It is unknown if he was related to Mod Terrik . His name hints to his criminalization . The word ' booster ' can also be used to describe a type of thief ; such as a car thief or a shoplifter .