when the imperials arrive, they are surprised by the coway tribe's resistance in battle. vader and grammel retreat with the handful of surviving stormtroopers, though vader loses patience with grammel for the defeat and kills him. luke and company steal a recently abandoned imperial transport, and travel to the temple, where they find the kaiburr crystal. they encounter a monster and unsuccessfully try to fight it off with blasters. luke cuts down one of the pillars holding up the temple, crushing the monster, but luke's leg is pinned under a boulder. vader then enters the temple, announcing that he killed hin and kee. leia takes up luke's lightsaber and begins fighting vader, who gives her multiple superficial burns with his own saber. hin, mortally wounded, shows up and lifts the rock off of luke before perishing. luke fights vader, showing more skill than expected, deflecting some force-based attacks and eventually slicing off vader's arm. despite this, the sith lord seems about to win, but then falls into a pit. luke senses that this is not the end of vader. he and leia, healed by the crystal, drive off with halla into the mists of mimban.