Lady Luck ( comic ) Lady Luck is a 16 - page comic featured in " Star Wars Tales " # 3 . It was written by Rich Handley and Darko Macan , illustrated by Chris Brunner , lettered by Steve Dutro , colored by Michelle Madsen and Dave Stewart , and edited by Dave Land and Peet Janes . It takes place in 1 ABY . Plot summary . In Cloud City , Lando Calrissian wins a game of sabacc against Barpotomous Drebble , gathering over 25 , 000 credits . He leaves the casino and sees an alien running away from a prone woman , carry her pendant . Lando throws a knife at the control panel for the door the alien is attempting to escape through , stopping him in his tracks . The alien throws the pendant to his Toydarian friend Zlato , but Lando uses his cape to capture Zlato and grab the pendant . The proper authorities come around and arrest the criminals , as the woman thanks Lando for what he ' s done ; Lando notices that she sat next to Drebble during his sabacc game , and when she did , his luck quickly turned around . Lobot comes around and tells Lando that the Baron Administrator Dominic Raynor has challenged Lando to a game of sabacc . Lando agrees and goes to where Raynor is waiting , and the Baron happens to have the woman , who he calls Ymile , by his side . The game goes on for quite some time , as Lando , after getting a pure sabacc , bets his ship , the " Cobra " . Raynor reveals an Idiot ' s Array , the best hand in the game , winning the " Cobra " from a much - chagrined Lando . Lobot tells Lando that someone ' s been using a skifter to rig the game . Dominic denies it of course , but Lobot reveals that indeed the dealer was using one . The dealer claims that Drebble paid him off , and Raynor has Drebble locked up . Lando asks what will become of the game , and Raynor simply says that he shouldn ' t relinquish the winnings due to someone else cheating . Suddenly , Lobot presents Lando with an anonymous gift of five million credits , from someone who wants to see the game continue . Raynor sees this and demands another game . And so , Lando and Dominic continue playing , when Lando puts up 4 million credits and his starship lot on Nar Shaddaa against Raynor ' s Baron Administratorship . Dominic laughs it off at first , but Lando tells him that it has three pre - Empire Surronian Farstar s , which have become collector ' s items under the Empire , and Raynor agrees to the bet . Lando reveals he has pure sabacc , causing Baron Raynor to angrily call the guards , but of course they don ' t listen to him . Lando Calrissian has become the new Baron Administrator of Cloud City . Lobot reveals to Lando later on that Ymile ' s pendant was a skifter , and that , coupled with Lobot ' s connection to the Cloud City computers , allowed Lando to get the right cards at the right time . And the money came from the collective efforts of fifty thousand Ugnaught workers on Bespin , who hated what Raynor had done to the city . Lando walks over to a balcony and dramatically drops Ymile ' s pendant off the edge . Behind the scenes . The events taking place in this tale — unlike other stories in the ambiguous " Star Wars Tales " series — have been canon ized by being included in sources such as " The New Essential Chronology " , " " and the short story " " . This story also serves to explain why Lando has a ship called " Lady Luck " in later years . This also could be the incident referred to by Barpotomous Drebble in the " Marvel Star Wars " comics when he accuses Lando of cheating him . In the third panel of the comic ' s second page , makes a cameo appearance as a background character .