Mission to Kaddak During the Cold war , the Resistance operatives Poe Dameron , C - 3PO , BB - 8 , and the technician Oddy Muva undertook a mission to Kaddak to obtain secret information that would lead to the First Order ' s Supreme Leader Snoke . They managed to rescue the BX - series droid commando N1 - ZX from the Ranc gang . The group was then pursued by the First Order Security Bureau Agent Terex , who had retaken control of the Ranc gang . In an attempt to prevent Terex and the Ranc gang from finding the Resistance base on D ' Qar , Dameron and the droids fled to a desert planet , leading to a skirmish between the Resistance and the Ranc gang . Prelude . During the Cold war , the Resistance , a private paramilitary outfit working to protect the New Republic , operated a droid spy network . The spy network was headed by C - 3PO , General Leia Organa ' s spymaster . Following the Skirmish on Pheryon , C - 3PO received a transmission from the Resistance droid spy operative N1 - ZX on the Outer Rim world of Kaddak claiming that it had acquired a large trove of information about the First Order including the current location of Supreme Leader Snoke . At the request of Organa , C - 3PO enlisted the Resistance starfighter pilot and Commander Poe Dameron ' s help in recovering the droid , who had been unable to transmit the data . Unable to trust his own Black Squadron pilots , Dameron brought the technician Oddy Muva and the astromech droid BB - 8 along . Unknown to the Resistance , the information N1 - ZX had obtained was part of a plot by the First Order Security Bureau Agent Terex to find the location of the Resistance base . Terex had also blackmailed Muva into working as a spy by keeping his wife Sowa Chuan as his hostage . Meanwhile , Terex returned to Kaddak and retook control of the Ranc gang from his former lieutenant Wisper . He intended to use the Ranc gang to hunt down and destroy Dameron . Kaddak was a notorious crime haven in the Outer Rim . The New Republic had previously dispatched a fleet to restore order but the fleet had never returned ; reinforcing the planet ' s seedy and dangerous reputation . Rescuing Nunzix . Dameron and his team traveled to Kaddak ' s main settlement the Sliver in a disguised freighter . After landing , they headed to a cantina on the Sliver ' s Level 45 . There , C - 3PO and BB - 8 managed to establish contact with a mouse droid , who informed them that their spy droid had been taken by the Ranc gang , which dominated Kaddak . While at the cantina , C - 3PO mentioned his old companion the smuggler Han Solo . This drew the attention of the Guavian Death Gang and the Kanjiklub gang , who decided to team up and hunt down Solo , who had defaulted on their loans . Dameron and his team then traveled to the Ranc gang ' s headquarters . The reception staff member recognized Dameron and stun ned him , knocking him unconscious . The group was then surrounded by several alien Ranc gang members , who decided to take Dameron captive and destroy the droids . However , C - 3PO activated several members of the spy network , who forced the gangster s to stand down . While the droids freed the BX - series droid commando N1 - ZX ( " Nunzix " ) , Muva helped Dameron up . Despite recovering Nunzix safely , Dameron and his team faced a new predicament . N1 - ZX refused to share the information until he had been safely returned to the Resistance base on D ' Qar . After some haggling , Dameron and C - 3PO decided to acquiesce to Nunzix ' s demands due to the droid ' s strong self - preservation unit . Before they could return to their ship , the group was attacked by a mob of locals , who wanted to collect Lord Terex ' s bounty on Dameron ' s head . C - 3PO managed to activate more Resistance operatives to slow down the crow . This allowed Dameron and the droids to safely return to their freighter but Muva was separated from the group . Aftermath . Having safely recovered N1 - ZX , Dameron and his team decided to return to D ' Qar . In an effort to lose their pursuers , Dameron and the droids escaped in his T - 70 X - wing fighter " Black One " , which had been fitted with external storage compartments for the droids . However , Terex had allowed the group to escape as part of his plan to locate the Resistance ' s base . He used his starship " Carrion Spike " powerful sensor s to lock onto Dameron ' s X - wing . Terex also mustered the Ranc gang ' s fleet of " Uglies " , starfighters made from former Imperial and Rebel starships and spareparts . Unknown to Terex , Muva had sneaked aboard the " Carrion Spike " as well . Behind the scenes . The Mission to Kaddak first appeared as a plot element in the 2016 – 2017 Marvel Comics arc " " . The mission was created by Charles Soule and illustrated by Phil Noto .