Attack on disabled base During the Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY , a temporarily disabled Trade Federation base was attacked as part of the Naboo resistance effort . Members of the Royal Naboo Security Forces ' Bravo Squadron , led by Captain Kael and his pilots , allied with a Hutt smuggling organization and planned an offensive against the Trade Federation . Their first victory was to destroy Comm 4 , an orbital component of the Federation communications web providing a control signal to the base down on the planet . With the control signal lost , the base went into hibernation and was vulnerable to attack . The pilots flew back down to the planet and attacked the base , which consisted of multiple platforms spread throughout the area . The pilots were ambushed when the base reactivated and had to destroy a wall of airborne mine s to proceed further into the base . The group fought through the complex , facing the base ' s defenses , before blowing up the deflector shield generator protecting the command center , which allowed Lieutenant Gavyn Sykes to land and steal a gunboat to use as a decoy . His wingmen then left the site as Federation reinforcements arrived . Prelude . In 32 BBY , the Trade Federation , led by a group of Neimoidians , invaded the planet Naboo in response to a trade dispute in the Galactic Senate , and the Royal Naboo Security Forces defended their homeworld . Acting on intelligence gathered by Borvo the Hutt , the leader of a smuggling organization , the Resistance group led by Bravo Squadron ' s Captain Kael went on their first offensive against the Trade Federation Droid Army . Borvo ' s mercenaries and the Naboo pilots knocked out Comm 4 , an orbiting satellite that , as part of the Trade Federation comm web , rerouted the control signal to a Federation base down on the planet . After knocking out the satellite and forcing the base to hibernate , the five fighter pilots , flying N - 1 starfighters and another type of ship , dashed down to destroy the base itself . Kael ordered them to destroy all Federation targets . The attack . Infiltration . Approaching the canyon in which the base ' s multiple platforms were situated , the pilots destroyed several inactive laser turrets . They were blocked from further travel , however , by a wall of airborne proximity mines . As they were attempting to disable the first three platforms of the base , the base reactivated much sooner than expected , and the turrets opened fire on the Resistance fighters . The pilots destroyed the turrets and the mines , and proceeded into the next section of the base . Destruction . The pilots found and destroyed another gun platform before moving on to destroy a platform supporting a building . The building was protected by two laser cannons in the water and a nearby missile launcher . When the area was cleared of Federation forces , Kael ordered his pilots to rejoin formation . As he led them toward the next part of the canyon , they were met by Vulture droid starfighters , about which Naboo pilot Vedd Deviss informed his compatriots . A C - 9979 landing craft took off from the base at the same time . The Naboo coalition engaged the droid starfighters as they continued on to the next section of the base . There they found buildings protected by turrets , which they cleared as well . Moving along the canyon , they destroyed the next platform , which was protected by " Ostracoda " - class gunboats in addition to laser turrets . Kael ordered his team to move on once the Federation presence in the area was annihilated . Naboo Lieutenant Gavyn Sykes then flew off the path and acquired advanced proton bomb technology in a burned - out building after clearing away the surrounding Federation defenses . As Sykes rejoined the formation , which was flying over a destroyed dome with Federation turrets nearby , the mercenary pilot Adela Tyché commented that the Trade Federation had been there already . Control Center . Flying through the next part of the canyon , the Naboo pilots reached the base control center , where they planned to steal a Federation gunboat . The command center was protected by a deflector shield , which Sykes had to disable to steal the gunboat while Tyché provided supporting fire . Once the defenses were destroyed , Sykes landed his N - 1 starfighter and absconded with a gunboat , shooting through a wall that blocked his path to the Andrevea River . The other fighters were unable to escort him , as Federation reinforcements were inbound . Kael ordered Sykes to continue , as the Captain surmised the Federation would think Sykes was an escaping Neimoidian . Aftermath . With his stolen gunboat , Sykes traveled down the Andrevea River and reached several Federation camps holding enslaved Naboo citizens , whom he and his team liberated . Eventually , Borvo betrayed the Naboo fighters and killed Captain Kael , taking control of the rescued slaves . Sykes and his wingmen in turn stopped the Hutt before returning to fighting the Trade Federation . Behind the scenes . The attack on the disabled base appears in the seventh mission of the 2000 video game " . " It is not necessary to destroy every Trade Federation emplacement , although this article assumes full game completion . During the course of the mission , picking up the advanced proton bomb upgrade will fulfill the bonus objective and provide a technology boost to the player ' s craft for the rest of the game . The battle is mentioned in Sykes ' entry in 2008 ' s " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia . "