Star Wars 38: Riders in the Void represents the thirty-eighth installment within the Marvel Star Wars comic book saga.
Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia were engaged in the transportation of vital medical resources for the Rebellion when their vessel came under assault from an Imperial Star Destroyer. Initiating a jump to hyperspace, the damage sustained by their spacecraft caused violent oscillations, prompting Luke to revert to sublight speeds. Upon doing so, they discovered they had traversed beyond their native galaxy, finding themselves within the desolate void. The singular 'star' visible was revealed to be a mysterious organic ship, which proceeded to engulf their significantly smaller transport. Transported into a cargo-like area, Luke and Leia ventured out to investigate. Abruptly, the space resonated with maniacal laughter, and Luke and Leia were pulled into the floor, channeled through chutes into distinct chambers where they faced attacks: Leia by tentacles emerging from the floor, and Luke by a gold-skinned droid wielding a lightsaber, communicating as though it were all a game.
After Luke successfully disabled the droid, the entity controlling it became frantic upon realizing that they were real, not merely components of another game, and attempted to eject them by depressurizing the ship. However, when Luke secured Leia and steadfastly refused to release her hand, even at the risk of being pulled out himself, it gained a new insight: the depth of their care for one another. Resealing the hull, it created a new passage leading them to the ship's control center. There, they encountered the ship's only inhabitant, a spacesuited figure almost entirely integrated into a control console, who recounted its history.
Ship was originally two distinct entities, a pilot and a mecho-organic vessel, who participated in a conflict within an uncharted galaxy. The ship and its crew were the only survivors of the war's final engagement, only to return home and discover that their adversary, in a final act, had deployed a lethal plague bomb, eliminating the entire population. Only one crew member survived the return to the ship, fleeing the galaxy to the starless void, beyond the reach of the plague. Over time, the pilot and ship merged, engaging in games with itself for amusement throughout centuries of continuous travel.
Ship resolved to return Luke and Leia to their home galaxy, but upon exiting hyperspace, it was attacked by the same Imperial Star Destroyer that had previously targeted the Rebels. It defended itself by deploying anti-matter pods, which obliterated both the Star Destroyer and the TIE fighters it had launched. Explaining that their galaxy was "too real," too reminiscent of the one it had journeyed so far to escape, Ship permitted Luke and Leia to depart in their transport before retreating back to the void and its solitary games.