Traitor's Gambit

Traitor's Gambit is a comic strip written by Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Al Williamson, originally published in 1982 by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. It was later reprinted in Amazing Heroes magazine #21–23.
It was republished by Dark Horse Comics, beginning on page 15 of Classic Star Wars 7, and ending on page 15 of Classic Star Wars 8. It was also republished on StarWars.com's webstrips section of Hyperspace.
==Plot summary==
After fleeing the starship graveyard, Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie and the droids get a message from the rebel leaders on Yavin 4 telling them not to return, because the planet is still under imperial attack. They decide to fly to Aquaris instead. Han Solo is hesitant at first, because Aquaris is a water planet and has no landmasses. When they are close to the surface of the planet, a platform rises from the oceaan, providing a landing spot for the Falcon. After landiing, they are told that the leader of the platform is a woman named Silver Fyre. After hearing this, Han tells Leia that Fyre is a leader of a group of pirates and that he doesn't trust her. Leia ignores this and tells Han to come inside the platform before it submerges again. When they get inside, they are greeted by Silver, who assures them that she is on the side of the Rebel Alliance. After this, Luke and Han talk about the secret information R2-D2 is carrying, unaware that they are being listened by the aide of Silver Fyre, Kraaken. Fyre invites her visitors to a hunting party, where they use Aqua-skimmers as their vehicle-of-choice. The skimmers only seat 2 people, and Luke decides to go with Kraaken while Han is stuck with Fyre and Chewbacca goes with another one of Fyre's pirates. While in the skimmer, Fyre tells Han that she and Kraaken had a plan in which Kraaken would ride his and Luke's skimmer into the tentacles of a demosquid, at which point Fyre would rescue him, winning over Han's trust in the process. Silver had abandoned the plan and was about to signal Kraaken, when suddenly he drove straight at the demosquid, at which point Han and Fyre had to actually save them. After the demonsquid had been driven away, Han checks the wreckage of Luke and Kraaken's skimmer. To everyone's surprise, the skimmer was empty, because Luke had been stun-blasted earlier to stop him from going on the trip, whilst Kraaken had stayed at the base to steal the plans hidden inside R2-D2. After Kraaken breaks into the droids' room, he stuns them to erase any safeguards in R2. At this point, princess Leia emerges from a closet with a gun and tries to stop Kraaken, but he uses his position to his advantage and gets the guards of the base to attack Leia. Kraaken escapes and raises the platform while melting the lock on the base's only elevator. At this point, Han has an idea. He takes one of the skimmers and Drives it onto the platform while it is still rising. He catches Kraaken, who throws the data plaque he got from R2-D2 into the ocean. Luckily, the real data plaque was safe with princess Leia the whole time and the one Kraaken threw into the ocean was just a booby-trapped decoy. After this, the rebels leave the base.
==Appearances==
==Collections==
*Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 2
*Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 2
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Category:Los Angeles Times comic strips