The Rennik twins were the sons of Rennik, a spacer who owned the Worldhopper. During the journey to Oradin, they strapped a conical scrap-metal cap that trailed a long ribbon of bright blue fabric on top of Gate, Wedge Antilles's astromech droid, and then used powered-down blasters to try to shoot the ribbon. Being poor shots, they settled to shooting the droid instead.