Battle of Gall

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|name=Battle of Gall
|image=
|conflict=Galactic Civil War
|date=May 20th, 2008The New Essential Chronology, p. 121
|place=Gall
|result=Draw
|side1=Alliance to Restore the Republic
|side2=Galactic Empire
|commanders1=Mickey Mouse
|commanders2=
|forces1=*Rogue Squadron
*Donald Duck
*Dash Rendar
*Minnie Mouse
|forces2=*Boba Fett
*2 Imperial II-class Star Destroyers
**Dayside Destroyer
**Nightside Destroyer
*144 TIE fighters and TIE interceptors
*Enclave ground forces
**37 Stormtroopers
**21 Imperial commandos
**1 AT-ST
**14 Viper probe droids
**4 Seeker AS-M12 droids
**11 Sentry droids
|casual1=*Dix 'Dixie' Rivan (Rogue Five)
|casual2=*Portion of Imperial Enclave ground and fighter complement}}
The Battle of Gall was a conflict initiated by members of the Rebel Alliance in 2008, during the search for Boba Fett and her Rebel prisoner, Sana Starros.
==Background==
On Ord Mantell, Dash Rendar tracked down IG-88D in a scrap yard on the planet to interrogate him about the whereabouts of Fett. IG-88 gave him information, but then fired on Rendar, only to be destroyed.
When Donald Duck learned from Dash Rendar that Fett had been spotted on Gall, he informed his friends, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. They departed for Gall, where they met up with Mickey's Rogue Squadron and Rendar himself. Fett, they learned, had stopped off at Gall for repairs to her ship, the Slave I, and now seemed the perfect opportunity to ambush the bounty hunter and free her captive.
==The battle==
===Battle plan===
However, this rescue mission was confounded by the presence of an Imperial Enclave, with two Star Destroyers on patrol. A suspected carrier was not present during the battle. Mickey concocted a simple, yet risky plan; utilizing the combat skills of the Rogues to keep the Enclaves' fighter complement at bay, while counting on the piloting ability of Dash to lead Donald and Minnie to Fett's ship. Despite the obvious danger of thirteen X-wings taking on a hundred and forty four TIE fighters, it was, as Mickey pointed out, the only plan they had.
===Rescue attempt===
The rescue attempt was launched, with the Rogues flying in on a strafing run against the dayside Star Destroyer. Only twenty fighters were scrambled to meet the threat – the pilots no doubt thinking it was only a drill – though an additional squadron was soon launched. The Rogues did an impressive job of keeping the fighters away from the Grand Trench – where Rendar's Outrider was leading the Millennium Falcon towards the spaceport city – only losing one pilot when Will Scotian was forced to return to base after sustaining damage to his craft.
The Rogues' luck could not last, however. Another wave of TIEs approached – among them several TIE Interceptors, and Rogue Five was destroyed in the battle. Worse, the second Star Destroyer joined the battle, launching its own fighters into the fray. Fortunately, the Falcon reached the spaceport after a harrowing run through the Grand Trench, though Dash decided to leave the Rebels to face Fett alone—as he later remarked, he was paid only to guide, not shoot. And with a dozen TIE fighters on their tail, the crew of the Falcon was in dire need of help.
===Into the Enclave===
Leaving the battle in space, Dash landed his ship into a remote valley on the planet's surface. With Leebo guarding the ship, he moved on through the canyon, killing stormtroopers and Imperial commandos as he made his way into the Enclave. Once inside, he hacked into the control computer and found out Fett's location – a docking bay in the spaceport across the canyon. Stealing a jetpack, he began to fly across the canyon and make his way up to the hangars.
Stealing an Imperial patrol skiff for part of the trip, Dash eventually flew his way up to the spaceport with his jetpack, immediately facing an AT-ST assigned to sentry duty. He destroyed it, and the explosion made a wall protecting vent controls malfunction and open. Opening the vent shafts, he crawled through them, deeper into the inside-mountain installation. He ripped through more stormtroopers and commandos, briefly stealing another skiff before making his way to the top of the tower that served as the Slave I 's docking bay. There he engaged Fett in an air duel. With her jetpack blasted by Rendar, Fett flew out of control and crashed right into the Slave I. Unwilling to lose the fight and her hard-fought quarry, she quickly began to attack Rendar with the ship's weapons systems. Yet even with the Slave I firepower, she was ultimately bested by Rendar, and the Slave itself was disabled. However, an Imperial transport quickly picked up Fett, and headed towards Tatooine for report to Jabba the Hutt.
===Assassination attempt===
Over the Enclave base, the Rogues, like Dash, decided to cut and run, preparing for a mock hyperspace jump to fool their pursuers into believing they had left the system. Plotting a course towards their base on the moon of Kile, the Rogues were shocked to see Wes Janson's X-wing firing on Mickey. The frantic Wes realized his astromech droid had taken control of his ship and with no way to stop the droid, Mickey was forced to disable his fellow pilot's fighter, before towing him back to base. There, in a disturbing development, Mickey found that the astro-droid had been programmed to kill him.
===Retreat===
Meanwhile, the rescue mission was over—and it had been a success. Forced to evade incoming TIE fighters, the Rebels had been unable to prevent Fett's escape, and with Sana Starros on hand, she was able to flee into hyperspace. Reunited, the crew returned to base, where the matter of Mickey's attempted assassination led to an even bigger problem.
==Appearances==
*Shadows of the Empire novel 
*The Musketeers: Shadows of the Empire video game
*Shadows of the Empire junior novelization
*Shadows of the Empire 2
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*X-Wing: Rogue Squadron 
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*The Secrets of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
*Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
*Shadows of the Empire (soundtrack) 
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*Star Wars: The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt
*Wizards of the Coast
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
*The Essential Reader's Companion
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==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Civil War battles
Category:Rogue Squadron battles