Theft of the Imperialis During the reign of the Galactic Empire , Papa Toren , a crime boss operating on the Colonies planet Castell , hired gambler Lando Calrissian and his team to steal the " Imperialis " from Orbital Shipyard CC - 24 . Prelude . Following the Battle of Yavin , the gambler and criminal Lando Calrissian became indebted to the crime boss Papa Toren , who operated out off the planet Castell . Calrissian managed to obtain a trinket from Moff Ssaria in an effort to pay off his debt . However , Papa Toren only deducted ten percent of the debt in order to coerce Calrissian into stealing an Imperial luxury pleasure craft being serviced at Sienar Fleet Systems ' Orbital Shipyard CC - 24 . This pleasure ship turned out to be the Galactic Emperor Palpatine ' s personal yacht " Imperialis " . Due to the sensitive nature of the mission , Calrissian enlisted the help of his cyborg companion Lobot , the alien twins Aleksin and Pavol , and the former Ugnaught sava Korin Pers , an antiquities scholar who had fallen on hard times . Calrisisan managed to entice the twins and Korin Pers by pointing out the wealth and treasure aboard the yacht . Calrissian and his companions were however unaware that the ship belonged to Emperor Palpatine , a secret Sith Lord who stored dangerous Sith artifact s aboard his ship . In addition , the " Imperialis " stored information about the Emperor ' s secret protege Gallius Rax , a high - ranking Imperial Navy officer who was tasked with executing the Contingency plan in the event of the Emperor ' s death . The theft . Imperial entanglements . While the " Imperialis " was docking at Orbital Shipyard CC - 24 , Calrissian and his team spacewalked to the shipyard in stealth suit s , sliced into an airlock , and knocked a pair of stormtrooper sentries unconscious . They then raced through the wheel - section of the shipyard , boarded the " Imperialis " , and blasted away from the shipyard . A horrified Commander Pasqual saw the Emperor ' s pleasure craft fleeing into space and quickly contacted the Grand Vizier Mas Amedda , who subsequently dispatched three " Imperial " - class Star Destroyers to the Castell system recapture the Emperor ' s vessel . The Star Destroyers were commanded by Captain s Shan and Conro , and Commodore Idel . To punish Commander Pasqual for his failure to protect the Emperor ' s property , Commodore Idel ordered the Star Destroyers to destroy the shipyard with their turbolaser s . The shipyard exploded and was totally annihilated , killing all those aboard , including Pasqual . Idel ' s Star Destroyer then deployed a pair of gravity mine s , which were designed to latch to a ship ' s hull and prevent it from jumping into hyperspace . The " Imperialis " , however , quickly destroyed both mines with its advanced automatic weaponry . Therefore , Idel , seeing the " Imperialis " was better equipped than he had previously thought , offered a one - million credit reward to whoever recovered the yacht and brought it to him . The " Imperialis " then blasted past the warships in its bid to escape . In their attempt to collect the reward , Captains Conro and Shan tried to trap the " Imperialis " with their Star Destroyer ' s tractor beam s . However , Calrissian , who piloted the Imperialis , used a maneuver that resulted in Conro ' s Star Destroyer locking on to Shan ' s Star Destroyer , causing the Star Destroyers to collide with each other . This distraction allowed the " Imperialis " to escape into deep space . Having failed the Emperor , Idel told his lieutenant to enlist in the Rebel Alliance before shooting himself in the head . Chanath ' s special job . Following the failure of his military forces , Emperor Palpatine contacted the bounty hunter Chanath Cha and tasked her with destroying the " Imperialis " . Chanath had been hunting the alien crime lord Big String and had destroyed his oceanic fortress . The Emperor promised to provide Cha with a starship that was capable of locating the " Imperialis " . He told her that he would reward her greatly for her success . However , if the yacht could not be recovered , Palpatine instructed Chanath to destroy the " Imperialis " to prevent the items that it contained from falling into the hands of others . Chanath headed to the classified Imperial Facility 729 - D in the Inner Rim where she was assigned the modified Star Courier " Scimitar " , which had once been Darth Maul ' s personal transport . The droid O - 66 began to brief her about the " Scimitar " capabilities . However , the impatient Chanath blasted his head off . As they departed the facility , O - 66 explained that " Scimitar " was capable of tracking a starship ' s trail through hyperspace . Chanath then took the ship into lightspeed . Entering a death trap . After fleeing into deep space , Lando and his companions began to explore the " Imperiales " . Amazed at the ship ' s wealth and treasures , Lando toyed with sharing the proceeds among his companions and giving the ship to Papa Toren . Lobot used his AJ ^ 6 cyborg construct to access the ship ' s central chamber . Before he could enter the chamber , he was impaled through the gut by the Force pike . Lando and his companions found themselves facing two of the Emperor ' s Royal Guard s . While Lando and Korin Pers evacuated the wounded Lobot to the ship ' s medbay , Aleksin and Pavol took on the Royal Guards with blades . While Lobot recuperated inside a bacta tank , Korin deduced that the yacht they had stolen belonged to the Emperor due to the presence of the Royal Guards . Korin panicked but Lando replied that they would go and help the twins . Lando and Korin found a well - stocked armory and helped themselves to blasters . They then re - entered the central chamber only to discover that Aleksin and Pavol had killed the Royal Guards . After Korin examined the guards ' faces , she discovered that the guards had been corrupted by the dark side of the Force . They discovered that several Sith artifacts including a helmet were the source of the dark side presence . Pull of the dark side . Meanwhile , Chanath and O - 66 reached the " Imperialis " . While O - 66 stayed aboard to transmit the access codes , Chanath donned a pair of jet boots and accessed the yacht ' s docking rig . Elsewhere , Lando and Korin talked about how much they could sell the Sith artifacts aboard the " Imperialis " on the black market . Suddenly , Aleksin grabbed a double - bladed lightsaber and sliced off the right hand of his twin Pavol . While the twins fought , Lando and Korin escaped and shut the doors . While Lando thought that Aleksin had double - crossed them , Korin recalled that her research into Jedi lore indicated that Sith artifacts were capable of corrupting lifeforms . While Calrissian wanted to figure out a way to get back into the central chamber to help Pavol , Korin decided to leave the ship . Meanwhile , Chanath made her way into the " Imperialis " and requested that O - 66 send her the control codes for the ship ' s operational system . When O - 66 pointed out that the Emperor had given no such orders , Chanath threatened to blow him up with a small pulse bomb . O - 66 obliged and reiterated his question . Chanath responded that she had received orders from Palpatine to make sure that the thieves did not leave the ship . Meanwhile , Calrissian and Korin argued . Calrissian refused to leave Pavol but Korin recognized the danger of the Sith objects . Before the two could move Lobot into an escape pod , they received an announcement from the ship ' s intercom that the escape pods were non - operational . Back in the central chamber , Pavol tried to reason with his lover Aleksin . Aleksin claimed not to have noticed anything and retorted that Pavol had lost something . Pavol responded that this was going to be their last job since they had saved enough money to affaord a clone , their own child . Aleksin however retorted that no child would have a one - armed parent and claimed that he did not want a child anymore . Giving into anger , Pavol grabbed a scimitar . Meanwhile , Calrissian tried to talk Korin out of going to the bridge to reactivate the escape pod . The two of them were then cornered at gunpoint by Chanath , who was an old friend of Lando . Lando was surprised to see a familiar face and the two embraced . Chanath then warned Lando that the yacht belonged to Palpatine , who had sent her to kill the ship ' s thieves . If she couldn ' t do that , he had instructed her to destroy the ship . Chanath warned Lando and Korin that the ship ' s only cargo was death . Meanwhile , the corrupted Aleksin and Pavol cut their way out of the central chamber with red - bladed Sith lightsaber s . Destroying the " Imperialis " . Unable to kill her friend Lando , Chanath proceeded with her Plan B to destroy the " Imperialis " . Korin objected due to the historic treasures aboard the ship . Lando proposed a Plan C but Canath warned that plans could get people killed . He also proposed that Korin help them to take down Aleksin and then let him and his remaining companions escape in escape pods with some treasures . However , Chanath was unwilling to take chances and told them that she would give them a ride on the " Scimitar " . Though Lando was concerned that taking Lobot out would cause the implants to take over his mind , Chanath told Lando to fetch Lobot from his bacta tank in order to save his life . Lando , Chanath , and Korin were then confronted by the corrupted Aleksin and Pavol , who demanded that they leave their starship . Aleksin then appealed to Korin , claiming that the she was a seeker who had been manipulated by Calrissian . He presented her the Sith mask of Lord Momin , which corrupted her . Before Korin could join them , Aleksin killed her with his double - bladed lightsaber . Lando and Chanath managed to escape the murderous twins by shooting a door shut . While Chanath set the self - destruct mechanism , she told Lando to fetch Lobot and meet her at the airlock so that they could leave on the " Scimitar " . Lando managed to retrieve Lobot but found his path blocked by Aleksin . Meanwhile , Chanath ordered O - 66 to dock the " Scimitar " with the " Imperialis " . However , the droid responded that his primary directive was to protect the " Scimitar " . When Chanath threatened to ignited the pulse bomb , O - 66 taunted back that he had already removed the bomb . O - 66 then took the " Scimitary " into hyperspace . Chanath was then attacked by a lightsaber - wielding Pavol . After failing to reason with the corrupted Pavol , Chanath fought him in a knife fight and killed him . Meanwhile , Lando used his smooth talking to convince Aleksin to lower his lightsaber . Lando then shot him in the chest with his blaster . As Lobot and Lando made their way to the airlock , Lobot struggled to prevent the implants from taking over his mind . Despite the disappearance of the " Scimitar " , Lobot was able to use his cyborg implant to connect with the interface . He managed to reactivate the escape pods . Lando and Lobot escaped in one while Chanath escape in another before the " Imperialis " exploded . Aftermath . Following the destruction of the " Imperialis " , the wrecked ship ended up on Quantxi , the Junk Moon of Ord Mantell . The ship was stored alongside several droids which contained information about Gallius Rax . In the chaotic aftermath of the Battle of Endor , Grand Vizier Mas Amedda informed Grand Admiral Rae Sloane about the " Imperialis " location . She dispatched the bounty hunter Mercurial Swift to investigate . Swift found information that Rax had originated on the planet Jakku while examining the droids on Quantxi . Despite the ship ' s destruction , a replica of the " Imperialis " was stored at the Jakku Observatory . Following the Battle of Jakku , Sloane along with Brendol Hux , Armitage Hux , and several child soldiers would use the replica to flee into the Unknown Regions . Meanwhile , Lando heeded Lobot ' s words to find something to believe in and to use his charm for good . After serving a stint as Baron Administrator of Cloud City , Lando became a General in the Rebel Alliance . In 5 ABY , Lando and Lobot took part in the New Republic ' s war effort against Governor Adelhard ' s Imperial remnant and liberated Cloud City from the Imperial occupation . Behind the scenes . The theft of the " Imperialis " serves as the main plot for the 2015 Marvel Comics arc " " . The comic was written by Charles Soule , drawn by Alex Maleev , and colored by Paul Mounts .