Three Against the Galaxy Three Against the Galaxy is a 22 - page comic featured in " Star Wars Tales " # 3 . It was written by Rich Hedden , pencilled by Rick Leonardi , inked by Mark Lipka , lettered by Steve Dutro , colored by Dave McCaig , and edited by Dave Land and Peet Janes . It takes place in 4 ABY , post - " " . It was canonized in " Unusual Suspects " , an article in " Star Wars Gamer 6 " . Plot summary . Ever since the death of Jabba the Hutt , one of his elite guards , Grissom , a Gamorrean , has been jumping from planet to planet , job to job , and is currently settled in as a pitfighter on Otunia . As he sits in the cantina on Otunia , a woman named Arista enters and gets into a scuffle with a perverted Gran . She bumps into Grissom , and the Gran demands that Grissom get him a drink . The Gamorrean punches the Gran to the ground , just as Lorn Kabul ' s police force come in and take him away . One week later , Lorn Kabul speaks with his daughter Arista , who complains about the tracking device he ' s protectively attached to her ankle . Suddenly Lorn ' s brother Seth comes in and tells Lorn that the Cerilian trade agreement needs his immediate attention . Later , Seth speaks to Imperial Moff Harsh , promising to kill Arista and Lorn with a charge in the mines where they ' re to visit tomorrow , taking over Kabul Industries for himself , and that he will be much friendlier with the Empire than Lorn is . The next day , Lorn and his daughter Arista oversee the mining operation on Otunia , which Grissom is involved in . Grissom then notices the charge left by Seth Kabul and tossed it down a service ladder , though that doesn ' t do a lot of good , as the cave crumbles down on top of all in attendance regardless . Grissom comes out from under a mine cart and picks up an unconscious Arista before finding a nearly - dead Lorn Kabul . He asks Grissom to take Arista off Otunia , and to give her a ring which he holds out to him , and dies . Grissom navigates his way out of the mines , out into the harsh desert of Otunia . Two days later , Seth Kabul tells one of his Weequay underlings to find Arista with a tracking unit , used to detect her ankle bracelet . They find her later that night , alone , in a small outcropping of rocks . As they get near to her , Grissom , from a higher position , throws several boulders down onto Seth ' s men . Grissom is chased by a Weequay on a skiff , but the skiff is shot down by a Jawa armed with some kind of rocket launcher . The Jawa introduces himself as Tek , and takes Arista and Grissom back to his cave to remove her tracking device . While doing so , Tek says that he has a bounty on his head for 12 , 000 credits after a farmer was killed using his sand blaster on rocks , causing the blaster to explode , and so the farmer ' s family put a bounty on his head . Grissom deduces to himself that 12 , 000 credits would be enough money to get them off Otunia , and takes Tek in , claiming the sizable bounty . However , Grissom and Arista rescue Tek from the detention center later that night and head off to the Kabul Estate , now under ownership of Seth Kabul , where a " Lambda " - class shuttle and several stormtroopers are stationed . As Seth finishes up a meeting with Moff Harsh , Arista walks in carrying a blaster , and Seth acts delightfully surprised to see her . Grissom enters from behind him , nearly scaring him to death , as Arista points to the mines through the window , which abruptly explode due to several charges being placed throughout them by Tek earlier . As Seth turns around to say she ' ll never escape , he discovers that she ' s escaped . Arista , Grissom and Tek bribe a space freighter pilot with their 12 , 000 credits and get passage off Otunia .