Star-Hoppers of Aduba-3

The Star-Hoppers of Aduba-3 was a group of spacers and rogues organized by smuggler Han Solo to defend a small farming village on Aduba-3 from a swoop gang. Solo and his Wookiee companion Chewbacca traveled to the Outer Rim world after their participation in the Battle of Yavin in 0 ABY, when they were asked by a emissary from the small community of Onacra to help fight off a menacing gang called the Cloud-Riders that had been threatening and extorting the village for years. Solo agreed and put together a posse formed from volunteers in the spaceport of Tun Aduban, ultimately finding six he dubbed worthy to join his cause. His "Star-Hoppers" were a motley crew, ranging from an infamous gunfighter in Amaiza Foxtrain, a deluded would-be Jedi in Don-Wan Kihotay, to a foul-mouthed, green rabbit-like smuggler named Jaxxon.

Although the Cloud-Riders outnumbered Solo's crew five-to-one, the Star-Hoppers met the gang in battle in the plains outside Onacra, suffering several casualties in the process. However, the tide of the battle shifted when a local village shaman summoned a massive monster from beneath the earth to protect the village, directing the beast to destroy the Cloud-Riders. When the shaman was killed in the crossfire, the behemoth went wild, threatening the Star-Hoppers and the village. Although one of his men was killed during the monster's rampage, Solo took up Kihotay's lightsaber and managed to slay the beast, saving Onacra. Although the surviving Star-Hoppers went their separate ways after the battle, a few of them reunited several months later, when Jaxxon and Foxtrain returned to Aduba-3 to save fellow former Star-Hopper Jimm Doshun, after unhinged bounty hunter Beilert Valance mistook the young farmboy for wanted Rebel Luke Skywalker.

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