Battle of Drexel The Battle of Drexel took place just after the Battle of Yavin during the Galactic Civil War . It was fought between the ship - dweller s of the Great Ship and the Dragon Lords , exiles from the city - ship that took command of the sea - dragon s of Drexel . The battle resulted in victory for the Dragon Lords and major damage to the city - ship . Han Solo , Princess Leia Organa , Luke Skywalker , and Chewbacca participated in the battle and later engaged in a space skirmish with the pirate Crimson Jack . Background . After the Battle of Yavin , Luke Skywalker left for a scouting mission to find a new place for a Rebel base , along with the droids R2 - D2 and C - 3PO . During his search , Skywalker stumbled upon the Drexel system . He attempted to tell Princess Leia Organa about it , but his transmission was interrupted , so the Princess decided to find Skywalker by herself and was captured by the pirate Crimson Jack . Skywalker was found by the ship - dwellers and became their Master Machinesmith . Not long after , the smuggler Han Solo was also captured while returning from Aduba - 3 . By telling Crimson Jack about a secret treasure , they persuaded him to go to the Drexel system . While on the surface of Drexel , Skywalker was captured by the ship - dweller s and learned that his ship was brought down by a powerful sonic - jammer . Soon , Crimson Jack ' s refitted battlecruiser entered the system . While it was disabled by the sonic - jammer , Solo , Organa , and Chewbacca managed to escape on the " Millennium Falcon " . The battle . As they landed , a full scale battle began between dragon lords and ship - dwellers . One skimmer shot at the " Millennium Falcon " , but Skywalker destroyed it . After that , Chewbacca tried to kill Luke Skywalker , suspecting that he was the one who was shooting at the " Falcon " , but R2 ' s extinguisher calmed the Wookiee . Meanwhile , Leia Organa was captured by the city - ship governor Quarg , and Han Solo was rescued by the Dragon Lords . One of them explained to Solo that the sonic - jammer caused the sea - dragons to go mad . Meanwhile , by threatening Organa ' s life , Quarg made Skywalker connect the " Falcon " ' s power to the sonic - jammer and the sea - dragons began to die . While the governor was busy , Solo , who arrived on a sea - dragon , used a gun system to destroy the sonic - jammer . While on the city - ship , Organa escaped with the help from Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker . Unfortunately , as soon as the " Falcon " was repaired , Crimson Jack ' s fighters arrived from orbit . The battle , for the Rebels at least , soon continued in space . Space battle . Solo and Skywalker managed to destroy two fighters , but the female pirate Jolli damaged Falcon ' s Gyro Control Module before being hit and sent out of control . While trying to convince Solo to surrender , Jack found that the smuggler had erased all his navicomputer charts . The pirate agreed to meet Solo in open space , protected only by the magnetic field from Jack ' s battlecruiser and trade a Gyro Control Module for the charts . Jolli also asked for Jack ' s help , but he dismissed her , leaving her abandoned . However , during the exchange , Jack betrayed Solo , called his thugs and sealed the magnetic field between Solo and the " Falcon " . Solo was forced to make a last stand , but he was assisted by an enraged Jolli , who returned to kill all the pirates , except Jack himself , and cut into the battlecruiser ' s control bridge . Using this distraction , Solo killed Crimson Jack with a shot in the chest . After giving Jolli her first and last kiss and repairing the " Falcon " , Solo and the others departed the Drexel system . Aftermath . Crimson Jack ' s battlecruiser kept drifting above Drexel , until it was found by Jabba ' s accountant , Mosep Binneed . He also learned that Han Solo was responsible for its destruction , from the ship ' s log . Because Jabba had helped to refit that battlecruiser , the bounty which had been taken off of Han ' s head after the Orleon incident , was reinstated . That bounty that was in time collected by Boba Fett .