In Bazarre from Star Wars #59, Luke and Lando are on a mission for the Rebel Alliance to purchase TIE Fighters from Orion Ferret on the station Bazarre. Chewbacca is left behind with Ferret to ensure there is no double crossing while Luke and Lando take one of Ferret's pre-programmed shuttles to the disposal planet Patch-4 where the fighters are located. On Patch-4, Luke and Lando depart the shuttle to retrieve the spaceships when they are attacked by a Watchbeast left by Ferret. The giant worm-like creature is impervious to blasters and succeeds in cutting off Luke and Lando from the safety of their shuttle. They try to contact Ferret without success and are lured into a cave where they meet Serja Kesselrook and other inhabitants of the garbage world. Refugees from the Empire, the group explains that Ferret's shuttle has a sonic pacifier that can be used to control the Watchbeast.
Meanwhile, on Bazarre, Ferret entraps Chewbacca in a rock-hard crystal. Back on Patch-4, Luke devises a plan to bury the Watchbeast with the help of Lando and Serja's group. When the beast is buried, Luke races to the shuttle as the creature emerges from the muck and Lando and the others believe Luke himself is buried and killed. On Bazarre, Chewbacca breaks free from the crystal enclosure while Ferret runs away. Lando is firing on the Watchbeast on Patch-4 and we learn that Luke ducked out of the way of the monster. Luke makes it to the shuttle as Lando fires more shots. When the creature lies motionless, Lando believe he fired the greatest shot ever that takes down the beast, but we learn that Luke activated the sonic pacifier. Ferret is prepared to escape Bazarre aboard a spacecraft, but Chewbacca takes out the craft with one shot from his bowcaster. Chewbacca pulls Ferret from the wreckage and is about to kill him when Luke and Lando arrive, successful in retrieving the TIE Fighters. They left the sonic pacifier with Serja's people and depart Bazarre in the Millennium Falcon towing the TIE Fighters, leaving Ferret behind on the station.
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Orion Ferret is one of several associates of Lando's we meet in the original Marvel run. Real life ferrets are related to weasels and Orion Ferret lives up to the name, not only in his actions during the story, but in his appearance. He is a tall, slender human with a gaunt face. He is dressed in an over-sized suit and much of his interaction with Chewy is played for laughs.
that's no watchbeast, it's a giant Dick!
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