Mira Volz

Mira Volz was a Human female who was the daughter of the inventor Renn Volz, both inhabitants of the planet Little Kessel. Mira assisted her father from a hidden lab within the Giant Fungi Forest. During the height of the Galactic Civil War, Mira joined her father in testing out his latest invention, the Ionic Ring Ship, which could manipulate the climates of various worlds from space. During the demonstration, in which father and daughter transformed the world of Zerm into a paradise, they were confronted by the Imperial Captain Bzorn who took charge of the Ionic Ring Ship and imprisoned Mira to force Renn Volz to work for him. With Mira a captive of the Empire, her father was forced to use the Ionic Ring to devastate worlds that were harboring Rebels.

However, during a botched prison ship transfer, Mira escaped from Imperial custody and smuggled herself aboard the Millennium Falcon which was docked nearby. After escaping the world, the pilot of the ship, Han Solo, and his friend, Luke Skywalker, discovered Mira hiding in the ship's cargo. Mira pleaded with them to help rescue her father, and the two men agreed. They caught up with the Ionic Ring Ship at Little Kessel, and Mira used her father's lab and his sub-space image transmitter to contact her father and keep him from attacking her world. Though the use of her transmission and a rescue mission organized by Solo, her father was rescued from the Empire and the ship was destroyed, keeping the technology out of the hands of the Empire.

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