Circa 15 BBY, Zell, an ambassador from the planet Majoor, led a peace mission to the planet Armath.
However, the mission was curtailed when Zell's own son, Llez, freed the pirate Reddjak from the Majoor penitentiary out of a romanticized notion of piracy. Upon learning that his benefactor was the son of the ambassador, Reddjak decided to ambush Zell's convoy of ships.
Nevertheless, the timely intervention of the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, hired by Zell to watch Llez in his absence, along with Zell's own confrontation of the pirates, led to Reddjak's recapture and allowed the mission to Armath to continue.