Death Star Pirates Death Star Pirates is a five part comic written by Henry Gilroy and illustrated by Glen Murakami , and was originally published in issues " # 16 - # 20 " of the " Star Wars Kids " magazine and later collected in " Star Wars Tales 8 " . It takes place in 0 ABY . Plot summary . The Rebel Alliance has just finished evacuating everyone off Yavin 4 and are heading for Hoth . After Luke blasts off into hyperspace , Han , Leia , C - 3PO , and Chewbacca scan ships in the Death Star wreckage . Guessing that Imperial spies are hiding there , they decide to investigate . However , pirates are actually waiting for them . Red TIE Fighters fly out behind them , and take out the " Millennium Falcon " ' s power . Another pirate ship then reveals itself , and they begin to dock onto the notorious Redkihl Rokk ' s ship . Redkhil had planned that he would take their cargo , then let them die a slow death in space , like he did to everyone . Out of the blue , Luke bursts out of hyperspace and guns down two TIE Fighters . It turns out that he had also scanned the pirates after they had left , and taking into mind that contacting Han would alert the pirates and remove his element of surprise , he did not send anything . Redkhil then shoots at Luke , setting his ship on fire . Luke dives toward the ship ' s hangar bay and crashes through . The Battle of the Hungry Ghost begins . Now that the " Falcon " is docked to Rokk ' s ship , they release small spider drones onto the ship . The Alliance heroes run to the back of the ship to hide and make repairs . A pirate comes to report that they have the " Falcon " docked , but Redkhil had another problem . Luke survived the crash into the hangar bay . He orders his crew to kill him , knowing that if he reaches the bridge , he would die . Back at the " Falcon " , the drones are searching the ship for cargo and Han . All they find are bombs . Han thinks of a plan to trick the pirates into surrendering . As Luke searches for the bridge , the crew finds him and engage in combat . Luke takes three of them easily with a swing of his lightsaber . One of them tries to sneak up behind him , but R2 - D2 electrocutes him . Now aware of the pirate , Luke slices him in half . Han finishes a hologram of himself and hands it to C - 3PO so they can begin the plan . C - 3PO is very worried about the plan though , but Leia does her best to comfort him by putting a communicator on the box holding the hologram . He then walks out surrendering to the drones , and they take him away . When C - 3PO reaches Redkihl , he plays a message of Han saying that the bombs the drones took have a detonator , and that he will blow them up if Red does not surrender . Believing Han is bluffing , he does not surrender . Luke then bursts into the bridge , but Red quickly orders his drones to shoot at him , wounding Luke . Just as Red is about to finish Luke off , Han and Chewbacca manage to get the " Falcon ' s " power back on . Red does not notice that Luke is running up to him , ready to attack . Luke slashes at Red , and then runs to a hatch connecting to the " Falcon " ' s hatch along with C - 3PO and R2 - D2 , and jumps inside . In a last attempt to kill them , Red turns his guns on the " Falcon " . Han then detonates the bombs that are still in the ship , killing the pirate . They then continue to Hoth , letting the pirate ship become just another hunk of Death Star wreckage , as Red would have done to them .