Star Wars 50 : The Crimson Forever Star Wars 50 : The Crimson Forever is the fiftieth and first double - sized issue in the " Marvel Star Wars " series of comics . Plot summary . Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca pilot the " Millennium Falcon " from the site of a new Imperial base with TIE fighters in hot pursuit when a Rebel Blockade Runner fires into the TIEs ' midst . Leia is on board the Runner and compels Lando and Chewbacca to abandon their current search for carbonite - frozen Han Solo in light of a greater threat to the Rebel Alliance . At a former mining colony commandeered as the new Rebel base on volcanic planet Golrath , Leia shows Lando and Chewbacca 2 - 1B operating on a comatose Luke Skywalker whose only visible change is the crimson pallor of his eyes . On a routine X - wing patrol flight , Luke and his squadron came across a derelict Imperial Star Destroyer with all its personnel dead and turned crimson - skinned . Luke and the other pilots caught the unknown virus as well and were promptly quarantined after returning to base . The others died , but Luke remains only in suspended animation through his affinity with the Force . Leia remembers a story Han once told her about his and Chewbacca ' s mission on the edge of the galaxy that involved two red jewels ; one such jewel was found out of its canister on the Star Destroyer . He hesitates at first , but Chewbacca relates ( with C - 3PO translating ) how he and Han were shanghaied aboard a pirate ship and transported to the Red Nebula , an area of the Unknown Regions . With a crew of pirates and mercenaries , Han pilots the ship safely through the asteroid field that separates the Red Nebula from the rest of the galaxy . Upon landing on a planet orbiting a single sun , Han , Chewbacca , and several mercenaries descend on a temple to remove what ship ' s captain and exile Klysk says are two red jewels with worth beyond calculating . Upon arrival at the temple , three of the mercenaries encounter the priest and the temple ' s twelve - foot - tall shaggy guardian . In this distraction , Han reaches for the jewels himself , but the guardian reaches for Chewbacca instead , perceiving a childlike version of herself in the Wookiee . Han returns to Klysk with the jewels , but he takes them and strands Solo on the planet , dooming it in the priest ' s belief to their destruction by the Red Nebula . The jewels were believed to protect the planet from cosmic forces , and after Klysk pilots his ship into the sun , the priest believes them doomed . Solo then confesses that he replaced the jewels with rocks before he gave them to Klysk ; however , one of Klysk ' s crew tried to make off with a single jewel , and he ' s found dead with crimson skin - - the first known sighting of what the Alliance came to call the Crimson Forever . Han and Chewbacca are provided with a ship to leave the planet , and Chewbacca ' s story ends . Back in the present , Lando , Leia , and Chewbacca pilot the " Millennium Falcon " into the Red Nebula and find a battle - scarred House of Tagge mining explorer . The then - head of the House , Domina Tagge , explains to a captive Lando and Leia how she hired bounty hunters Bossk , Dengar , IG - 88 , and Zuckuss to help her find a power that would destroy the Empire and the Alliance in vengeance for her brother Orman Tagge ' s death at the hands of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker . The other jewel ' s on board the ship , but the whole area ' s been quarantined because the longer both jewels remain separate , the more organic lifeforms are affected by them . The Star Destroyer Luke ' s patrol encountered intercepted the Tagge explorer and confiscated one of the jewels . After Lando and Leia escape , Domina plays the last card she has ; by having droid IG - 88 reunite the two jewels , the effects of the Crimson Forever are reversed for Luke Skywalker . The jewels themselves are dispatched out of the galaxy , and Domina Tagge and the bounty hunters are given transport away from the Star Destroyer . In the last panel , Lando says he suggested to the bounty hunters that the Empire might offer a substantial reward for Domina Tagge for the destruction of a crew on one of their ships - of - the - line . " They seemed quite interested . " Behind the scenes . Last appearance in Marvel Star Wars of the House of Tagge . 1st appearance of Han Solo in the series following . Zuckuss ' name is misspelled as " Zuckass " in this issue , much to the amusement of fans .