Star Wars Droids 4 : Lost in Time Star Wars Droids 4 : Lost in Time is the fourth issue of the " " series of comics it was published by Marvel Comics on October 1986 . In Part 1 of a two - part crossover comic , the droids babysit an alien baby whose parents ' ship careens out of control and into a time warp . The droids find themselves on Endor , interacting with Wicket and the other Ewoks before their meeting in " " . The conclusion of this crossover took place in " " . Plot summary . R2 - D2 and C - 3PO have taken positions as diplomatic couriers . Upon arrival at the royal palace of the planet Sooma , they observe King Zornog engaged in a heated HoloNet conversation with King Gokus of Alzar . Prince Plooz , the son of King Gokus , stowed away on a freighter that ended up on Sooma , and his father demands his immediate return . Meanwhile on the planet Alzar , General Sludd and his lieutenant plot to ensure that Plooz never returns home as a means of inciting war between the two planets . Back on Sooma , Prince Plooz playfully grabs the scarf of King Zornog , accidentally choking him . R2 - D2 rescues the King by lifting Plooz into the air with his mechanical claw . King Zornog is thankful for the rescue , and C - 3PO helpfully offers to be of further assistance by escorting Prince Plooz back to his home world . While in transit to Alzar , the droids and Prince Plooz are attacked by General Sludd ’ s ships . General Sludd declares his intentions to start a war as means for him to conquer both worlds . The droids decide to make a run for it , but while R2 - D2 is preparing to make the jump to hyperspace , Prince Plooz adjusts the ship ’ s antimatter controls . He unintentionally disrupts the anti - matter pods , and with electron torpedoes bearing down on the ship , the droids attempt to engage the hyperdrive without full anti - matter power . At the moment the torpedoes hit , the ship attempts to jump into hyperspace , but instead the droids and Prince Plooz find their ship floating in nothingness . A rift in the darkness opens , and R2 - D2 flies the ship through , and they find themselves time warped to the future . Reacting to C - 3PO ’ s distress , Prince Plooz finds an escape pod , and ejects from the ship , hoping to find his way home . Instead he lands on the moon of Endor , where the Ewoks are alarmed to see his escape pod falling from the sky . The droids follow the escape pod , and land on Endor to find Prince Plooz . In the Ewok village , Chief Chirpa consults Logray about the strange object . Logray consults the fortune stones which foretell that a blinding flash of light will bring good fortune to the Ewoks on that very day . Indeed , that day is the planned signing of a peace treaty with the Duloks . Logray instructs Chirpa to investigate the object from the sky , and a search party is assembled . The search party includes Wicket who finds the escape pod in the swamp just as Prince Plooz emerges . The Ewoks believe Plooz to be a “ star child ” , a sign of good fortune . They feed Plooz honey and take him back to their village . Before traveling far Wicket and Princess Kneesaa find the droids , who they believe to be demons . The Ewoks try to escape , but run headlong into a Dulok trap .