Battle of Endor

The Battle of Endor, also known as the Mission to Endor, the assault on the Death Star II, or the attack on the Death Star II, was a major and decisive battle of the Galactic Civil War, one in which the Alliance to Restore the Republic shattered the rule of the Galactic Empire and saw the destruction of the second Death Star and the Sith Order with the deaths of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. The triumph of the Alliance over the Empire and the void left in the wake of Emperor Palpatine's demise gave the Alliance the opportunity to give rise to the New Republic, which ultimately prevailed over the Empire in the Battle of Jakku a year later. The legacy of the Battle of Endor reverberated for decades after the fighting ended. 
The origins of the Battle of Endor emerged from the discovery that the Empire was using the Forest Moon of Endor as a staging ground to construct the second Death Star, the first of which had been destroyed four years earlier during the Battle of Yavin. The Bothan spy network employed by the Alliance gained the intelligence needed to determine the Death Star II's exact location and learnt that the Emperor planned to personally oversee the final phases of construction and take control, though the Alliance was unaware that this was an elaborate plot to turn Luke Skywalker, one of the last Jedi and the son of Vader, and destroy the Alliance once and for all. The Battle began after the Rebel Fleet assembled near Sullust, and special operations ground forces were deployed to Endor to disable the shield protecting the armored battle station. 
The Rebel Fleet soon arrived to where the Imperial Navy waiting for them, along with a fully operational Death Star II. Allied with the native Ewoks, ground forces under the command of Generals Han Solo and Leia Organa destroyed the shield, allowing the Rebel Fleet to attack the superweapon. Meanwhile, Skywalker engaged Vader in a final lightsaber duel aboard the Death Star II. After defeating his father, Emperor Palpatine betrayed Vader by attempting to convince the Jedi Knight to kill Vader and turn to the dark side of the Force, only for Luke to refuse. To save his son from the wrath of Emperor Palpatine, Vader betrayed Palpatine, killing the Dark Lord of the Sith, and sacrificing his own life in the process — an act that fulfilled the Jedi prophecy of the Chosen One and brought balance to the Force. Shortly thereafter, the Rebel forces destroyed the second Death Star. Imperial forces were left in tatters, enabling the Alliance to form the New Republic and forge a new future free of the rule of the Sith and the Empire, thus allowing the Jedi Order to be restored.
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*The Chosen One 
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Category:Events
Category:Imperial Era
Category:Galactic Civil War