Star Wars : Rebel Assault Star Wars : Rebel Assault was the first - only game published by LucasArts , set in the " Star Wars " universe during the early Galactic Civil War . The game was followed by " " . Plot summary . The game follows the adventures of an unnamed young person known under the handle of Rookie One . Who like Luke Skywalker , is a farmboy or farmgirl from Tatooine ( the player can choose the gender ) who decides to join the Rebel Alliance . The whole game happens during the events of " A New Hope " and begins with his / her flight training in the Beggar ' s Canyon , some hours before the " Devastator " captures " Tantive IV " above Tatooine . Rookie then joins a squadron to intercept the " Devastator " and after the mission is over they descend back to the planet in order to stop an Imperial assault on Tatooine . The Rebel base is destroyed and Mos Eisley receives an attack with AT - ST ' s which the player has to wipe out . The story then leads the player to the ice planet Hoth , where Rookie will have to stop the AT - AT walkers with a snowspeeder and then escape the Gamma Base ( which resembles Echo Base ) firing his / her way through the Stormtroopers in a sequence that reminds of the Battle of Hoth , escaping from the planet just before it is destroyed by the Death Star . The player eventually guides Rookie through the training on Yavin 4 preparing the attack on the trench run prior to the Battle of Yavin . The final missions follow the actions of the Blue Squadron ( Ironically Blue Squadron was the original script Red Squadron of " ANH " fame ) , simultaneously to the Red Squadron shown in the movie . They take place near and on the Death Star where the player has to destroy turrets , stop a gigantic laser gun and finally destroy it in place of Luke Skywalker . Canonicity . " Star Wars : Rebel Assault " was produced at a time when there was less strict attention paid to ensuring games were in continuity with the rest of canon . This has led to confusion for some over its canonicity ; for instance , with regard to Rookie One making a trench run against the Death Star , or a battle occurring on Hoth prior to the Death Star Assault . However , the only portion of the game that has been declared non - canon is the trench run by Rookie One . Indeed , many elements from " Star Wars : Rebel Assault " have been involved in later continuity , such as Anchorhead Base in " Star Wars Galaxies " and Jake Farrell in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , as well as many elements were also used in the sequel to " Rebel Assault " , " " . In reference to certain other LucasArts video games , Leland Chee , known as the Keeper of the Holocron , has stated that the " Story is S [ canon ] , but locations , characters , and technology are C [ canon ] . " This policy has never been stated to apply to " Rebel Assault " . Gameplay . Although the scenario , the plot and the variety of missions were neither original or rich , the game ' s value consisted mainly on the technical part , since it featured digitized footage and music from the original movies , full speech and high quality 3D - rendered graphics . The " chapters " of the game were meant to be reminiscent of events and battles of the movies . In fact , the game hinted mainly on impression giving us an alternative storyline of the Original trilogy by recreating famous scenes , rather than being accurate to " Star Wars " canon : it follows the events of , but it erroneously contains elements from the Battle of Hoth . The Battle of Yavin is significantly different while the Death Star is destroyed by a character other than Luke Skywalker . The gameplay consists of various spaceflight missions , mainly confined in a certain video looping . The course of the ship is predetermined and the player has to hit the targets ( usually TIE Fighters ) that show up and partially control and steer the ship so that it won ' t collide to some obstacles and lose hit points . In some cases , original footage was filmed for the game with actors , and in a case , a Star Destroyer model was digitized ( a mini camera " flew " around it ) for the needs of a certain mission . Most of the graphics were rendered in 3D . The cockpits were borrowed from the earlier " " .