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Luke and Leia are placed in the maximum security cell with two drunken but friendly Yuzzem-hairy aboriginal creatures resembling squat Sasquatch-called Hin and Kee, while Grammel reports the incident and the crystal shard to Governor Bin Essada, in charge of the group of star systems including Circarpous. Grammel discovers and confiscates the crystal shard, along with Luke's weapons. The miners are taken away while Grammel continues questioning Luke and Leia. They are questioned by Captain-Supervisor Grammel. Imperial stormtroopers intervene and take Luke, Leia and the miners to the local jail. The miners claim that fighting in public is against the Imperial law here, and they all get into a brawl. Upon emerging, Leia retorts that Luke ought not to have struck her the two squabble as some miners emerge from the bar. Halla strikes a deal with Luke and Leia that if they help her find it, she will help them get off the planet. An old woman named Halla approaches them while revealing little of her own background, she identifies Luke as one who is strong with the Force and shows him a splinter of what she claims to be the Kaiburr crystal, a glowing crystal that magnifies and focuses the Force. Forced to keep their identities secret, Luke admonishes Leia to follow his lead, and in a nearby bar where they take refuge, claims she is his servant girl. Luke, after finding Leia, begins looking for a station that would allow them to get off the planet but instead find a town near which agents of the Empire have a secret energy mine. A strange energy storm forces them to crash land on the swampy planet Mimban. Luke and Leia are traveling to Circarpous IV to persuade the Circarpousians to join the Rebel Alliance. The book was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success. Han Solo and Chewbacca do not appear, and Solo is only referred to by Luke Skywalker as "a pirate and a smuggler" that he knows at the end of the book. The principal characters are Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Darth Vader. Originally published in 1978 by Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books, it was the first original full-length Star Wars novel to be published after the release of the 1977 Star Wars film, retroactively making it one of the earliest Expanded Universe works. It takes place between Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Splinter of the Mind's Eye is a 1978 science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back