"Puffer Problems" is a comic strip written by Martin Fisher, drawn by Bob Molesworth and edited by Gunther Nickel. The story was published in the twenty-first issue of the Star Wars Rebels Magazine series by Egmont UK Ltd, which was released on September 21st, 2016,[4] and was later republished in Volume 19, Number 1 of the Australian magazine K-Zone in January, 2018.
According to Fisher, the story is set after the short story "Rebel Bluff."[5]
Plot summary
Rikarda is transporting the gambler Lando Calrissian to the planet Klonoid aboard her ship, the Stellar Sun, where he would retrieve droid parts. En route to Klonoid, however, Calrissian learns from his droid W1-LE that his precious puffer pig had been stolen by the Varluk Organization and taken to the planet Zyzar. Although it meant a significant detour, Rikarda agreed to take her passenger there after he promised to make it worth her while.
Calrissian sets about a recovery mission, attempting to infiltrate the Varluk Organization headquarters, but is spotted by two guards. Calrissian surprises them, taking them both out and enters the facility. Searching the facility, he comes across his puffer pig in a cage and goes to comfort it where he is caught by a second pair of guards.
He and the puffer pig are taken before the head of the Varluk Organization, Ango Croom, who confronts Calrissian about the credits he owes the Organization. He informs Calrissian that he has taken the puffer pig as compensation. Calrissian promises to pay the debt, but Croom informs him that the organization is running out of materials and needs the puffer pig to find a new source. With Calrissian unable to pay immediately, Croom orders him to leave the planet, but Calrissian lunges at the puffer pig, with the act making the puffer pig expand, knocking the guards over and dropping their weapons. Calrissian grabs the fallen blaster and shoots the guards. He then pushes the puffer pig out the door while Croom orders the rest of his guard to intercept them.
As Calrissian makes his way through the base, he launches the puffer pig at guards, knocking them down. At the enclosure where he found the puffer pig initially, Calrissian launches a device through the window and then makes for the outside. As he exits the facility, the Stellar Sun and Rikarda picked him and his pig up, helping them escape a firefight.
Back on Zyzar, Croom discovers the device that Calrissian left behind. He activates the device which shows a map of new minerals that the Organization can mine for year. Croom considers Calrissian's debt paid.
Media
Collected in
- Star Wars Rebels Magazine 21
- Star Wars Rebels Volume 3: Rebellion at the Edge of the Galaxy
- Star Wars Rebels trade paperback
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Notes and references
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Star Wars - Rebels - Magazin 21 on Panini's official German website (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Rebels Magazine 21
- ↑ "Puffer Problems" takes place after "Idiot's Array," where Lando Calrissian got his puffer pig, but prior to Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal, when Lando left Lothal. As Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places "Idiot's Array" and Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal in 4 BBY, "Puffer Problems" must take place in the same year.
- ↑ Star Wars Rebels Magazine on www.newsstand.co.uk (backup link archived on August 2, 2016)
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Martin Fisher (@tronprogram2) on Twitter (post): "@LelalMekha it's set after the short story Rebel Bluff" (backup link)
