Battle of Naboo ( Galactic Civil War ) A battle over and on the planet Naboo was fought between the forces of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War in 4 ABY , twenty days after the Battle of Endor . The battle was part of , a posthumous Contingency order from Emperor Palpatine to render his homeworld and countless other planet s uninhabitable in the event of his death . After the Empire launched weather - altering satellite s into orbit , Lieutenant Shara Bey led Prince ss Leia Organa and Naboo ' s queen , Sosha Soruna , in N - 1 starfighter s to destroy the satellites . Their mission was a success , in part due to the timely arrival of General Lando Calrissian and the Alliance Fleet . The Imperial forces who survived the Alliance Fleet ' s intervention retreated to the surface of Naboo , where Organa , defected members of Inferno Squad , and Alliance forces defeated the Imperial troops by activating Theed ' s ion pulse weapon . The surviving Imperial forces were subsequently taken prisoner . Prelude . Following a stream of Rebel successes in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor , Prince ss Leia Organa arrived on Naboo . Accompanied by her pilot , Lieutenant Shara Bey , Organa hoped to enlist the aid of Queen Sosha Soruna in forming a new galactic government . The Empire , however , had its own plans in place for the system as part of , which sought to create chaos by destroying key planet s across the galaxy . Following up the successful destruction of Vardos , Captain Lerr Duvat ' s part of the plan involved using weather - disrupting satellites to create powerful storms , which would destroy the surface of Naboo . The battle . Fight in orbit . With the system seemingly clear of all enemy presence , Duvat ' s Star Destroyer " Torment " began jamming sensor s and communications on the Naboo ' s surface , and deployed its climate disruption arrays to begin razing the planet ' s surface . These actions were immediately noticed on the surface , however , Naboo had no military forces to defend itself from the attack . Desperate to provide some measure of defense for the planet , Soruna , Bey , and Organa seized three N - 1 starfighter s that had been mothballed within the sealed hangar of the Theed Royal Palace . The three then personally flew the starfighter s to engage Imperial forces in orbit . Meanwhile , Soruna ' s head of security , Captain Korro , organized the evacuation of Theed . Despite the courage and skill of the three pilot s , they were quickly overwhelmed by the sheer number of Imperial fighter craft . Fortunately for the rebels , the Alliance had learned that Naboo was Operation : Cinder ' s next target , and had deployed forces to intercept the attack . Two large rebel ships , the cruiser " Restoration " and the " Mellcrawler II " , jumped into the system . Accompanying them was a small fleet of starfighters , including Danger Squadron and defected members of Inferno Squad . The reinforced rebels reengaged the Imperial forces , destroying the remaining satellite s . The starfighters then engaged the " Torment " , weakening its defenses before the " Restoration " dealt it a critical blow . However , before going down , the ship deployed its ground invasion force in an attempt to capture Theed and salvage the battle . Battle for Theed . Responding to this counterattack , Organa , now accompanied by many Rebel trooper s and Danger Squadron , returned to Theed to defend the city . Heavily outnumbered and outgunned on the ground , however , the rebels had little hope of defeating the invasion force conventionally . However , before the Clone Wars , the Naboo queen had installed a powerful ion pulse weapon which , if activated , would disable on electronics , including blaster s and vehicles , outside the palace . It was quickly decided that this device was the rebels ' best chance of stopping the invasion . However , the storms created by the climate disruption arrays had damaged Theed ' s power grid , preventing the weapon from charging . Rebel troop s fought their way to the city ' s power stations , engaging in tense urban warfare against Imperial forces , which included AT - ST and AT - AT walker s . Despite this powerful opposition , rebel forces were able to successfully restore Theed ' s electrical power . At this point , the core of the Imperial forces , backed by an AT - AT walker , were overrunning the rebels , pushing them back along Theed ' s main boulevard . However , Organa and a group of rebel trooper s managed to hold the entrance to the palace until Del Meeko managed to activate the ion pulse , disabling all Imperial weapons . Now defenseless , the surviving Imperial soldier s surrendered and were taken prisoner . Aftermath . The Alliance ' s victory in the battle secured the aid of the Royal House of Naboo . The defected Inferno Squad soldiers , Iden Versio and Meeko , initially reluctant to help the rebels , decided to join the Alliance in an effort to stop other worlds from suffering the same fate as Vardos . The victory at Naboo convinced them of the good they could do as part of the Alliance , and shortly after the battle , Inferno Squad was reformed as a New Republic military unit . With Commander Versio at the helm , the unit would go on to be a critical asset for the New Republic . Behind the scenes . The Battle of Naboo was depicted in the 2015 Marvel comic book " Shattered Empire , Part III " , written by Greg Rucka . It was released on October 14 , 2015 The battle was based around an Imperial remnant carrying out Emperor Sheev Palpatine ' s last orders of destroying different Imperial worlds using weather - altering satellites . It was again referenced in the fourth and final issue of the series , " Shattered Empire , Part IV " . The battle also appears in " Star Wars Battlefront II " as a playable level in the campaign which was released on November 17 , 2017 .