De acordo com a novelização, eles acabaram por estar na mesma vizinhança geral.
Han explica que o Falcon tinha um farol ligado ao navio e que eles detectaram o farol.
Looking away from them for the first time since they had emerged from below, their captor addressed his towering cohort. “Told ya we should’ve double-checked the Western Reaches! Just lucky we were in the general vicinity when the ship powered up and its beacon snapped on.”