This is always the problem with giving bad guys big, expensive, powerful gadgets. The bad guys are there to lose to the PCs, so inevitably there ends up being piles of big, expensive, powerful gadgets left lying around. With no owners.

Yeah, you can see what's going to happen there.

This is why the bad guys should always booby trap their stuff.

Transcript

GM: The ship starts breaking apart and plummeting towards the planet.
Obi-Wan: The crew are abandoning ship.
R2-D2: Perfect!
Obi-Wan: We need to get out of here too.
R2-D2: No.
Obi-Wan: Our job here is done. Dookû's dead, and Grievous has abandoned the ship.
R2-D2: Exactly my point.
Obi-Wan: What?
R2-D2: That means the ship is up for salvage! If we land it, we keep it!
Obi-Wan: Don't be ridiculous. It's too dangerous!
[SFX]: Pssshh...
[SFX]: Pssshh...
R2-D2: Oops. Looks like all the remaining escape pods just jettisoned mysteriously.