Droma Droma was a male Ryn who had a passion for adventure and a deep concern for his family . He was adept at problem - solving , observing others , and the various sleight - of - hand techniques for which his nomadic species was notorious . Following the outbreak of the Yuuzhan Vong War in 25 ABY , he was separated from his clanmates and made the acquaintance of the famous pilot and ex - smuggler Han Solo aboard the " Jubilee Wheel " while it was being attacked by a Yuuzhan Vong dread weapon . The two headed to Bilbringi aboard the luxury liner " Queen of Empire " and became tangled up in foiling a Yuuzhan Vong plot to wipe out the Jedi . Droma saved Solo ' s life several times in the process , and in return , Solo vowed to help reunite Droma with his clanmates . The two embarked on a quest that saw Droma assume the temporary position of co - pilot on Solo ' s famous ship , the " Millennium Falcon " . As the war raged on , Droma and Solo followed a trail of clues to Droma ' s missing clanmates , eventually ending up on Ruan , where Droma , mistaken for one of his kin , was arrested and forced into labor . After being rescued by Solo and the BFL - series droid Baffle , Droma traveled with Solo to Fondor , where , in the midst of a battle , they were able to locate and recover Droma ' s family , which had been traveling the galaxy as refugees . Following the recovery , Droma remained in Solo ' s company for a short period of time , helping him to administer refugee camps on the planet Duro . When Yuuzhan Vong agents infiltrated the camps , the planet fell to the Yuuzhan Vong , and Droma parted ways with Solo , flying a group of refugees away to safety . Over the next three years of the war , Droma founded the Ryn Network , a unique intelligence organization that helped undo the damage inflicted upon the galaxy by the Yuuzhan Vong . The network began its operations on the planet Onadax , where Droma was reunited with Solo and his family in 28 ABY . He led the Solos to Esfandia , where they aided Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon and the Imperial Remnant in repelling the Yuuzhan Vong . After the battle , Droma quietly slipped away in order to continue operating the Ryn Network . Biography . Meeting Han Solo . A male Ryn , Droma , like many members of his nomadic species , lived in the Corporate Sector working as a pilot and a scout in order to contribute to the support of his extended family . In 25 ABY , shortly after the extra - galactic race of religious zealots known as the Yuuzhan Vong began their invasion of the galaxy , Droma was part of a caravan of Ryn ships heading from the Corporate Sector to the Lesser Plooriod Cluster when the Yuuzhan Vong entered the Ottega system and attacked Ithor . The attack scattered the caravan , and Droma , in addition to several other Ryn , ended up as refugees aboard the " Jubilee Wheel " , a space station orbiting Ord Mantell . While Droma was aboard the " Jubilee Wheel " , the station was attacked by a Yuuzhan Vong dread weapon . The creature began ripping away the station ' s exterior bulkhead s and inhaling the passengers into its gaping mouth . Droma resisted the pull by grabbing hold of the knees of another passenger , who turned out to be Han Solo , a famous pilot and hero of the Rebellion , who had been aboard the station with his friend Roa . Droma suggested to Solo that the two of them close the corridor ' s blast shield , thus blocking the interior of the station from the pull . Solo agreed , but was caught in the creature ' s pull during the execution of the maneuver ; the Ryn snagged Solo ' s body with his tail , holding him in place while the shield was closing . Knowing where the station ' s launching bays were , Droma then led Solo and a large group of frightened passengers there and summoned an R2 unit to open a locked hatch for them in the process by playing his flute - like beak . Leading the passengers into a civilian shuttle , Solo and Droma took the shuttle ' s controls and left the station . They found themselves in a battlefield above Ord Mantell full of X - wing fighters , TIE Interceptors , and Yuuzhan Vong coralskippers . An angered Solo attempted to attack the dread weapon , which had swallowed Roa , but a frantic Droma reminded him that they were piloting an unarmed shuttle . At the co - pilot ' s station , Droma used the auxiliary controls to break the ship free of a Yuuzhan Vong warship ' s dovin basal s and helped Solo evade four coralskippers that began to chase them through the melee of the battle . As the Star Destroyer " Erinnic " of the New Republic Defense Force and its accompanying armada chased the Yuuzhan Vong fleet off , Solo plotted a course down toward Ord Mantell . After landing the ship at the planet ' s primary spaceport , the two parted ways . Annoyed with Droma , Solo stated that he hoped not to see the Ryn again any time soon . Foiling a Yuuzhan Vong scheme . Along with many other refugees , Droma stowed away aboard the luxury liner " Queen of Empire " with only enough credits to secure his passage as far as Vortex . While onboard , he once again encountered Solo , who was pursuing Reck Desh — a pilot of the Peace Brigade who was collaborating with the Yuuzhan Vong — to Bilbringi . Introductions were finally made , with Solo claiming to be named Roaky Laamu . The two shared a steak at a cafeteria , but , disliking the taste , headed to a restaurant . Solo was enraged to discover that the establishment did not serve Ryn and promptly ordered two meals to go . Eating with Droma in the observation bay , Solo asked many questions about the Ryn species , which he had never encountered before landing on the " Jubilee Wheel " . Droma later kibitzed a game of sabacc involving Solo , telling him that it was a fool ' s enterprise , and forced Solo to play against the randomizer , which Droma believed was the only worthy opponent . Solo won the game , took the equivalent of his buy - in stakes , and gave the rest to Droma . Droma passed most of it on to some deserving passengers on the lower decks but kept enough for himself to secure passage to Bilbringi , where he believed he could more easily secure a ride to Ralltiir . As Ralltiir was accepting refugees displaced by the invading Yuuzhan Vong , Droma thought it a good starting point for the search for his family . At the now - empty sabacc table , he used the game ' s cards to tell Solo ' s fortune . After sharing Solo ' s cabin space overnight and annoying him with his swishing tail , Droma was again abandoned by the frustrated pilot , but caught up to him in a corridor as Solo was in mid - conversation with Major Showolter , an agent of New Republic Intelligence . Injured from an attack by Yuuzhan Vong warriors , Showolter bid Solo to hide two defectors from the Yuuzhan Vong , Elan and Vergere . Droma was surprised to hear Solo ' s real name , but would later claim it was a name he hadn ' t heard before . Solo , after sending Showolter to sick bay , attempted to prevent Droma from involving himself in the situation , but the Ryn reminded Solo that he knew the ship better , including good places to hide the defectors . After Solo reluctantly agreed , the " Queen " was interdicted from hyperspace , and announcements were made over the ship ' s loudspeakers that the bridge was under assault by raiders . The party of four made their way to the ship ' s docking bay , but on the way , Solo saw Reck Desh and temporarily left the other three in order to confront him . All four were captured by Desh ' s Peace Brigade companions , and Desh realized that Elan and Vergere were Yuuzhan Vong defectors . He took them into custody , and , hoping to get rid of Solo , forced his foe to step into a deactivated drop shaft . Solo survived the fall by grabbing hold of Droma ' s tail . The move caused Droma grievous pain , but Solo insisted that he wouldn ' t forget that the Ryn had just saved his life . Chasing after Desh , the two arrived at the docking bay just as New Republic Elite Forces were boarding the " Queen " , which had arrived at Bilbringi . Solo ' s ship , the " Millennium Falcon " , had also just landed on the space station , and Solo ' s wife , Leia Organa Solo , departed down its boarding ramp , accompanied by her brother , Luke Skywalker ; his wife , Mara Jade Skywalker ; and the droids C - 3PO and R2 - D2 . Solo forestalled a warm welcome with his family in order to ask his wife where Desh ' s ship had departed to , and hurriedly introduced her to Droma as he raced up the ramp . A confused Droma followed , and the two left the others behind as they began to pursue Desh and the defectors in the " Falcon " . New to the " Falcon " , Droma doubted that it could catch Desh . However , the Yuuzhan Vong had attacked Bilbringi , and in the midst of the space battle there , Droma and Solo found Desh ' s shuttle drifting dead in space . Droma took over the pilot ' s station as Solo boarded , and found the entire crew , including Desh , dead . The two defectors had survived , however ; Solo brought them aboard the " Falcon " , and Droma recognized Vergere as belonging to the Fosh , a species he had seen before . The wary Ryn warned Solo that she could not have been of extra - galactic origin . Suddenly suspicious , Solo realized that the Yuuzhan Vong warship which had started firing on them was deliberately missing , and suspected a trap . As he left his ship ' s cockpit in order to confront the defectors , Droma took the controls again , but abandoned his post on a hunch and entered the rear hold . As the door to the hold opened , Solo emerged , gasping for breath , and swallowed some fresh air after having inhaled some of Elan ' s bo ' tous poison . Droma was shocked to discover that Elan was actually a Yuuzhan Vong agent who had been assigned to poison and wipe out Luke Skywalker ' s Jedi Order , and was now dead , having committed suicide by swallowing her own poison . Droma then killed the insect - like creatures that the bo ' tous spore produced and raced back to the cockpit while Solo searched the ship ' s corridors for Vergere . She fled in an escape pod , and Droma and Solo veered the " Falcon " away from the Yuuzhan Vong warship , which was then repulsed by the " Quasar Fire " - class bulk cruiser " Thurse " of the New Republic Defense Fleet . Droma and Solo returned to the galactic capital of Coruscant , where Solo delivered a report to New Republic Intelligence , and , thankful for having his life saved twice , vowed to help Droma find his clanmates . Co - pilot of the " Falcon " . In the newly - painted matte - black " Millennium Falcon " , Solo and Droma began searching for Droma ' s clanmates while also hoping to uncover information on Roa ' s whereabouts in the process . Their travels brought them to Vortex and a lush world of green and purple forests . As they prepared to depart the latter world for Sriluur , Droma confessed his hesitancy to travel near Hutt Space , as Hutts had historically enslaved the Ryn . On their way to Sriluur , Solo received intelligence from his wife that five of Droma ' s six clanmates had been evacuated from Gyndine , while his sister had been left behind . Above Sriluur , the " Falcon " was attacked by a group of coralskippers . Droma attempted to plot a hyperspace jump to Nar Shaddaa , but Solo insisted on challenging the ships in the planet ' s atmosphere . Droma immediately agreed to the task and proved himself a very able co - pilot in the ensuing firefight , even destroying several of the enemy craft himself . After finishing off its attackers , the " Falcon " entered hyperspace , and Solo complimented the Ryn on his shooting . However , a power converter that had been damaged in the firefight left the ship without enough power to get to Nar Shaddaa . Droma suggested Kashyyyk as a location to obtain a new power converter , but Solo insisted on Tholatin . With a damaged hyperdrive , the " Falcon " made a long , slow trip to Tholatin . Upon arrival , Droma and Solo landed in Esau ' s Ridge , a rift in the planet often used by smugglers on the otherwise uninhabited world . With Droma posing as the ship ' s captain and Solo acting as Miek , his first mate , they presented passcodes obtained from Solo ' s smuggling days to Plaan , the Weequay security chief . Droma claimed that they had received the codes from the mechanic Shug Ninx on Nar Shaddaa . Plaan informed them of a contractor who was paying freelancers to transport refugees to planets that the Yuuzhan Vong planned to attack and that a group of refugees was due to be transported off Ruan very soon . Following the trail , Solo and Droma headed to Ruan . After passing through Ruan customs , Droma was eager to begin the search , but Solo wondered if his clanmates would have joined the mercenaries who intended to transport them offworld . Droma , in response , insisted that his clanmates were far too clever . With over 100 refugee camps to search , the two checked the central databank on a tip from a BFL - series droid named Baffle and then hitched a ride on the droid ' s landspeeder to the camp which the databank claimed housed five of Droma ' s clanmates . Upon their arrival at the camp , Droma was mistaken for another Ryn and was arrested on charges of forgery of official documents , a crime which his clanmates had actually committed . Solo was advised to get offworld , else he would be charged as an accessory after the fact . Droma was forced into labor at a product enhancement facility , but was soon rescued by Solo . After convincing Bow , a sentry at the facility , to take Droma in for a medical evaluation , Solo drew a blaster on Bow in the turbolift of the facility ' s east wing and told Droma to hide him in a closet . The Ryn deposited the sentry in a room full of deactivated droids and rendezvoused with Solo , who , unbeknownst to Droma , had reactivated hundreds of the facility ' s droids as a favor to Baffle . Bow thus escaped his captivity and chased the two out of the facility ; Droma and Solo , in turn , commandeered Bow ' s landspeeder and escaped . Hoping to avoid the surface scans of the pursuing speeders , Solo dropped their landspeeder into an irrigation channel . Nevertheless , a gate in the channel was closed by Bow , which caused the pair ' s speeder to crash and deposit them in a muddy ditch . Manipulating weather control , Bow then caused a tidal wave to engulf them . After nearly drowning , Solo boarded the floating speeder and dragged Droma , who was a poor swimmer , aboard , just before the vehicle went tumbling over a waterfall . Solo and Droma were both forced by the water ' s current through white - water rapids before being caught in a fine - mesh net and picked up by a Scout Collector . Believing that they were about to be flash - frozen , the two were shocked to discover that they had in fact been rescued by Baffle and were directly beneath the spaceport where the " Falcon " was docked . Thanking Solo for his assistance in reactivating the droids , Baffle revealed that the refugee ship " Trevee " was headed for Fondor . Droma was surprised to learn that his clanmates were aboard and not still on Ruan . Baffle suggested that they save themselves three hyperspace jumps and use the Gandeal - Fondor Hyperlane . Finding his family . Remembering what Plaan had told them , Solo and Droma realized that the Yuuzhan Vong would soon be attacking Fondor , but headed there anyway . Upon arrival in Fondorian space , they gave New Republic First Fleet Command and Control a legitimate transponder signal and identified themselves as the " Falcon " . Despite their honesty , a New Republic controller told them that the " Trevee " had dropped its cargo in an area off - limits to unregistered ships and would not let them proceed . Thinking quickly , Solo and Droma figured that the mercenaries who had made the drop would want to flee as far away as possible from the Yuuzhan Vong ' s next targets . The two decided on Tholatin as the most likely location . While preparing to make a hyperspace jump to Tholatin , they located the " Trevee " at the edge of Fondorian space and decided to attack it . As Fondorian Flight Operations protested , Solo and Droma informed them that the Yuuzhan Vong were coming . As if on cue , the Yuuzhan Vong indeed arrived just then , and a large space battle ensued . Solo and Droma aided a group of X - wings in destroying a Yuuzhan Vong vessel , and the group of X - wing pilots turned out to be Kyp ' s Dozen . Squadron leader Kyp Durron , a Jedi Master and old friend of Solo ' s , assigned two of his craft to aid the " Falcon " in pursuing the " Trevee " . The outgunned crew of the " Trevee " agreed to help Droma and Solo recover the refugees from the empty shipyards where they had been deposited . Droma was dropped off by Solo at the shipyards , and , along with the pirates and one of the Dozen ' s pilots , set to work rescuing the refugees . Droma was reunited with five of his clanmates and stayed behind to locate fifty unaccounted - for refugees before blasting off in the " Trevee " . Meanwhile , Durron rescued a number of prisoners from the nearby Yuuzhan Vong clustership " Crèche " and brought them aboard the " Falcon " ; among the rescued were Roa and Sapha , Droma ' s sister and final missing clanmate . Duro . In 26 ABY , as world after world closed its doors to refugees , Droma joined Solo and his son Jacen on Duro , whose government had begun allowing refugees to live in camps on the planet ' s surface . Solo had registered with SELCORE — an organization founded by the New Republic in order to settle refugees from worlds ravaged by the Yuuzhan Vong — as a sponsor of the Ryn in order to settle them somewhere , and Droma had decided to aid the Solos in their efforts . The trio administered Settlement 32 , which contained two Ryn clans among other refugees . Droma , along with the Ryn Mezza and Romany , handled most of the administrative work , despite Solo ' s status as the official administrator . Droma and Solo often tinkered with the " Falcon " when not performing administrative duties . When Settlement 32 was infested by Naotebe wingling s brought onto Duro by the Yuuzhan Vong infiltrator Nom Anor , Droma aided in the evacuation of its refugees , remaining at the camp until everyone had boarded a land crawler . The refugees were taken to Gateway , the main SELCORE complex on Duro , where Droma held off having his fur shaved in the decontamination process until the quarantine order against the refugees from Settlement 32 was lifted . Wearing chemical suits , he and Jacen led a team of refugees back to the settlement to seek out any spaceworthy vessels that had survived the infestation , only to discover that the settlement had been overrun by Fefze beetle s . The team was forced to flee from the swarming beetles , but Droma remained behind with Jacen , using a vibroblade to kill several of the insects . Realizing that they were attracted to sources of light , Droma told Jacen to throw his lightsaber at the swarm . With the insects distracted , the two left the settlement and returned to Gateway . When it was discovered that the Yuuzhan Vong had infiltrated the settlements , the Solo family decided to evacuate the refugees from the planet as quickly as possible . Han Solo and Droma snuck around Gateway , looking for a cargo hauler that could be used to transport passengers , but ended up spotting and fleeing from the Yuuzhan Vong beasts Sgauru and Tu - Scart . Droma and Solo were soon located by Yuuzhan Vong warriors and hid in a pile of mowed grass . While hiding , they discovered a cavern housing an old WQ 445 transport . After gathering as many refugees aboard the transport as possible , Droma and Solo realized they were finally saying goodbye to each other , and both regretted having to do so . Droma also regretted that he had never been able to properly meet Luke Skywalker . The comm unit aboard the hauler was dead , which prompted Solo to give his comlink to the Ryn . Before the two parted ways , Solo suggested that at the end of their acquaintance , it was Droma who finally owed Solo . Droma piloted the hauler through a raging space battle above the planet and to a jump point outside of Duro ' s orbit , escorted by Solo in the " Falcon " . The Ryn took the hauler to the Senex - Juvex region , which he thought was still accepting refugees . The Ryn Network . Droma ' s association with Solo gave him high standing among his people . The Ryn had traditionally been leaderless nomads , but Droma began to turn what many others in the galaxy regarded as the species ' weaknesses into strengths . The species traveled to many places , saw many things , often stowed away aboard ships , spread news to each other via gossip , and were rarely stopped by security ; Droma used all of these habits to their advantage by founding the Ryn Network , an intelligence organization which helped undo the damage inflicted upon the galaxy by the Yuuzhan Vong . Near the beginning of 28 ABY , he began running the network out of the Thorny Toe , a cantina on Onadax , and only intended to stay there for three months , believing that dormancy would compromise the network ' s secrecy . However , it took six months for him to ensure that the network was running smoothly before he was able to leave . At the end of these six months , Droma received intelligence from Ryn Network agents on Galantos and Bakura that Han Solo had taken the " Millennium Falcon " on a diplomatic mission to make contact with areas of the galaxy that had been cut off from the Galactic Alliance — the galactic government which had succeeded the New Republic . Droma ' s agents also reported that the Yuuzhan Vong were planning to attack the planet Esfandia . Droma instructed his agent Goure Conor on Bakura to direct Solo to Onadax ; Solo arrived in the " Falcon " , accompanied by its escort ship , the Galactic Alliance Defense Force craft " Pride of Selonia " . Solo was summoned by Droma while playing a game of sabacc at the Thorny Toe and was interrogated by the Ryn , who remained hidden and spoke to Solo over speakers , not revealing his identity . After the interrogation , Droma followed Solo to the " Falcon " and banged on the side of the ship , demanding to be let in . The hatch was opened by his surprised friend , and with Droma as its newest passenger , the " Falcon " departed the planet . Droma was greeted by a confused Han Solo , as well as Leia and their daughter , the Jedi Knight Jaina Solo . Lying , he told the Solos that he had applied to be a part of the Ryn Network but had been rejected . Hoping to lead the Solos to Esfandia , he mentioned the impending Yuuzhan Vong attack on the planet and asked them to drop him off at Juvex , which was on the way . The Solos realized that Esfandia was one of only two places to contain a relay base servicing the Unknown Regions , which Luke Skywalker had recently led a search party into . As such , the " Falcon " and the " Selonia " headed to Esfandia , where they discovered a Yuuzhan Vong armada led by Commander B ' shith Vorrik and an Imperial fleet under the command of Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon that had been chasing Vorrik ' s fleet across the galaxy . Solo pledged the " Falcon " to Pellaeon ' s fight and took the ship planetside in order to locate the relay base . After the ship landed on the surface , Droma was the first to hear a strange noise , which turned out to be Esfandia ' s inhabitants , the Brrbrlpp , who were speaking in trinary code . After Solo ' s protocol droid , C - 3PO , spoke to the Brrbrlpp at length , a plan was hatched to protect the bystanders under the " Falcon " shields while presenting the ship as a cold target to the Yuuzhan Vong armada , which would in turn converge and become an easy target for Pellaeon ' s Star Destroyers . The plan made Droma nervous but was nevertheless set into motion . As the Yuuzhan Vong bombarded the area around the " Falcon " , it soon became apparent to the ship ' s crew that they were trapped . Droma suggested faking surrender and , believing that they were going to die , was ready to reveal himself as the head of the Ryn Network . However , the Brrbrlpp insisted that the " Falcon " hide in their nesting plains . Following the Brrbrlpp inside , the ship ' s crew discovered the hidden relay base , which was being overseen by Commander Ashpidar . Ashpidar gave Droma and Leia a tour of the base , during which she indicated that she believed a traitor to be in their midst . Droma was wary of Eniknar , Ashpidar ' s Noghri security chief , but joined Solo in taking Eniknar and two other members of Ashpidar ' s team on speeder bikes to reprogram the base ' s relay transponder . Arriving at the transponder , they rendezvoused with Jaina Solo and her comrades Jagged Fel and Tahiri Veila . Droma helped lay mines around the base while it was being reprogrammed before several Yuuzhan Vong appeared riding armed vehicles . A skirmish between the two sides ensued . Droma took a hit to the steering vane of his speeder , rendering the vehicle useless . As Jaina had been knocked unconscious during the skirmish , Droma took her on Fel ' s speeder back to safety while Fel and Veila remained at the transponder to cover his back . After waking up , Jaina neutralized one of their Yuuzhan Vong pursuers with a thermal detonator , but a second adversary managed to cover Droma and her with the sticky threads of netting beetles , forcing them to pull the speeder bike over . Droma told Jaina of a trick he had seen Veila perform earlier : using the Force to close the throats of the Tsik - Seru ' s plasma launchers . Jaina mimicked the move , and the vehicle exploded , but its Yuuzhan Vong pilot survived and continued to pursue them on foot . The warrior knocked Droma out of the way before a distraction by the Brrbrlpp allowed Jaina to kill him . Pellaeon ' s fleet then defeated Vorrik ' s , and in the aftermath of the victory , Droma offered Veila a role in the Ryn Network , having received positive reports about her from his agents on Galantos and Bakura . After Veila declined , he quietly slipped away on the Ryn ship " Fortune Seeker " , believing that the less evidence of the network and his position as its head that existed , the better . A short time later , Droma commed Solo , who was with the Galactic Alliance on Mon Calamari , and warned him of small , unpiloted drones that the Yuuzhan Vong had been developing . Although Droma didn ' t know what their function was , he did know that the Yuuzhan Vong were excited about them , and suspected that they were dangerous . After communicating as much to Solo , he quickly ended the call . Droma was on the run for the remainder of the war , but the Yuuzhan Vong were soon defeated at Coruscant , marking the end of a long and bloody conflict , albeit one that allowed the Ryn Network to benefit . The network was still active twelve years later . Personality and traits . Like many members of his species , Droma was a perceptive and shrewd observer , which allowed him to perform the various sleight - of - hand techniques for which the Ryn were famous , and to often finish others ' sentences . He felt that possessions were merely things to be lost , and shared many of his species ' superstitions , such as never sleeping twice in the same spot or eating thrice from the same bowl . He would , however , eat almost anything if it had the right spices . Droma was a self - proclaimed professional pilot , scout , and all - around spacer , and Leia Organa Solo observed that despite his deep concern for his family , he was a rogue and a drifter at heart , addicted to adventure . Droma displayed a knack for calming intense situations , including several instances where he convinced Han Solo not to strike out in anger . Droma was often sarcastic and bitter and , at times , challenged Solo , accusing him of such things as attempting to out - race tragedy and of using his anger to cover up heartache . Although Droma ' s sarcasm often irritated Solo , his companionship was a sobering experience , and Solo ' s wife thought of their relationship as not entirely amicable yet still perfectly natural . It was Droma ' s partnership and empathy that helped Solo realize he couldn ' t run away from his loved ones or from his loss . Droma believed that everyone lived for love . Droma was not a very strong swimmer but , owing to his tail , was well - equipped for acrobatics . He was a very able co - pilot and displayed skills as a mechanic , although he was better at intuitive problem solving than he was with hydrospanners or macrofusers . He was also fluent in several languages , including Basic , his native Ryn dialect , Huttese , and Binary . Physical appearance . Like most males of his species , Droma had short , smoke - colored fur covering most of his body , and sported a head of snow - white hair and a drooping white mustache . His nose was a chitinous beak that curved down over a thin - lipped mouth and was perforated like a musical instrument . He favored wearing a brimless cap of bright red and blue squares , which he wore at a rakish angle , as well as a brightly - colored vest , culottes , and ankle boots . Behind the scenes . Droma was created by author James Luceno as a major character in the " Agents of Chaos " Duology , two paperback books published in 2000 as part of " " series . In both books , " " and " " , Droma acted as a partner and co - pilot to a grieving Han Solo and helped Solo come to terms with the death of his longtime friend and partner , Chewbacca . Luceno found it tricky to design a character who would complement Solo by being more than a mere partner and co - pilot , which he felt would have cheapened Chewbacca ' s death . As such , he wrote Droma as guiding Solo through his grief and dislocation . Although " The New Jedi Order " planning team was unsure how readers would react to Droma , Luceno hoped for him to be a partner and co - pilot to Solo throughout much of the series . When reader response indicated that fans wanted to see Leia Organa Solo take Chewbacca ' s position at Solo ' s side , however , he revised his plans . Luceno was directly involved in planning much of the series , and saw to it that Droma faded into the background after " " , the next book in the series . When Kathy Tyers was writing " Balance Point " , no image of Droma or any member of his species existed yet . As such , Luceno provided Tyers with a sketch of Droma . Tyers praised the character and felt that Luceno ' s way of writing him could not be duplicated . Following " Balance Point " publication , Droma later appeared in 2003 ' s " " and " " . His major role in " The New Jedi Order " earned him entries in 2002 ' s " The New Jedi Order Sourcebook " and " The New Essential Guide to Characters " , as well as 2008 ' s " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " . James Luceno ' s inspiration for the Ryn species was Earth ' s , and " drom " is a meaning " road " or " way . " The plural of " drom " is " droma , " meaning " roads . "