Liberation of Stars ' End The Liberation of Stars ' End was the mission to liberate the political prisoners of Stars ' End . Prelude . Han Solo and Atuarre both had close relations incarcerated in the Corporate Sector Authority prison facility at Stars ' End , but had no plan for a rescue operation . After intercepting a transmission from the Imperial Entertainers ' Guild to Viceprex Hirken , administrator of Stars ' End , they crafted a plan to infiltrate the base . Along with Atuarre ' s son , Pakka , and the labor droid Bollux , they fabricated the guise of an entertainment troupe named Madame Atuarre ' s Roving Performers , to gain entrance to Stars ' End . The Mission . After making planetfall on Mytus VII , the group met with Viceprex Hirken , who was not interested in other diversions , but was anxious to commence the duel between his Mark X Executioner droid and Bollux , in the guise of Annihilator . Using the pretense that Annihilator needed repairs on his auxiliary management circuitry , Han requested the use of a circuit scanner , to discover the nature of the damage . Destroying the Power Plant . Once on the computer level , Han Solo and Blue Max started the search for the missing persons , while Atuarre and Pakka entertained the resident officials . Han and the probe droid did not find a detention level , but rather a tier block filled with many stasis booth s drawing an enormous amount of energy from the base ' s power plant . Solo concocted a scheme to begin load - shedding the tower ' s secondary control systems , starting an overload spiral . Han was also able to damage the plant ' s primary control ancillaries , which caused the power plant to erupt . Because of the tower ' s construction of molecularly bonded armor and its defensive deflector shield , the tower was not destroyed in the explosion , but launched into a high - arc trajectory , far above the planet ' s surface . The Rescue . During the confusion prior to the explosion , Atuarre and her cub had made their way back to the " Millennium Falcon " , while Han went off to aid the prisoners . After leaving the surface , the tower ' s power management routers focused power to life support systems , disregarding the tremendous amount of energy needed to maintain the stasis booths ' entropy field s . Many of the prisoners were slowly emerging from their booths , just as Solo arrived , including Chewbacca , Doc , and Atuarre ' s mate , Keeheen . Meanwhile , the Security Police on the surface had dispatched a strike team in an Espo assault ship to the lower airlock of the tower , in effort to rescue the Viceprex . The prisoners now had to defend their mid - level position from below as well as above . Just as they were about to initiate an offensive to capture Hirken and use him as a hostage , Atuarre docked the " Millennium Falcon " at the tier block level airlock , with an attached tunnel - tube junction station in tow . They extended one of the tunnel - tubes down to the lightly - manned assault craft , and Chewbacca with a small strike force , was able to commandeer the vessel . Using both ships , and the attached tunnel - tube junction , Han , Chewbacca , Doc , and Atuarre were able to board the prisoners and cast - off from the descending tower . Aftermath . Viceprex Hirken was shot in the back by one of his guards after betraying his officers , while pleading for safe passage on one of the vessels . Both ships , however , departed while the tower plummeted to its destruction , and made their way to the recently established outlaw tech base on Urdur .