Secret mission to Tatooine

A secret mission to Tatooine was an operation in 0 BBY undertaken by the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War. The mission followed the Rebellion's theft of the plans to the Death Star, the Galactic Empire's deep-space mobile battle station, from the planet Scarif. Rebel spies Sergeant Jyn Erso and Captain Cassian Andor transmitted the plans to Admiral Raddus aboard the Profundity. As the battle concluded, the plans were almost reclaimed by Sith Lord Darth Vader, but were successfully transferred to Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan aboard the Tantive IV. 
After escaping into hyperspace, Organa's corvette was pursued by one of Vader's Star Destroyers the Devastator above the planet Tatooine. A fierce battle in orbit between the Tantive IV and the Devastator ensued, though the corvette was eventually caught and boarded by the Sith Lord's Imperial troopers. Organa and her handmaiden Katooni were stunned and captured, but not before the former hid the plans in the astromech droid R2-D2 who, along with his protocol droid companion C-3PO, escaped to Tatooine aboard an escape pod. Artoo's mission was to find the hermitic Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, for whom he had a holographic message from the Princess. Knowing the importance of the Death Star plans and having felt a shift in the Force, Jedi Master Jarik Shan sent his adopted daughter Mara Jade Shan to finish Organa’s mission and convince his former Master to train Luke Skywalker, the son of her mother's old Master Anakin Skywalker.
Once on the surface, the two droids came into possession of a group of Jawa scavengers before being sold to Skywalker and his moisture farmer step-uncle Owen Lars. The Empire, having deduced that the droids were in possession of the stolen plans, searched for them before Shan retrieved the droids and the missing plans. The message, which Artoo brought to Kenobi with assistance from Skywalker and Mara, was Princess Leia’s call for help, asking for the Jedi Master to safely deliver the droids and the blueprints to her father Viceroy Bail Organa — an old ally of Kenobi and Jade’s parents— on Alderaan to save the Rebel Alliance.
When the Empire learned that the droids were sold to the Lars family, they killed Owen and his wife Beru Lars. With his only family gone like his parents, Skywalker agreed to come with Kenobi and Mara in bringing the droids and the Death Star plans to Alderaan and training in the ways of the Force to be a Jedi like his father. They hired a pilot, Captain Han Solo, in Mos Eisley and Solo agreed to take them to Alderaan aboard his ship the Millennium Falcon after Shan paid him with seven thousand Imperial credits and promised the smuggler another ten thousand once they arrived at their destination. The arrangement was discovered by Imperial sandtroopers, who attacked the ship before it departed. The Millennium Falcon blasted its way out of Mos Eisley and evaded the planetary blockade. They arrived at the former location of Alderaan after it was destroyed by the Death Star, and rescued Organa and Katooni from captivity. Though Kenobi was killed by Darth Vader in a duel, the group brought the plans over to the secret rebel base on Yavin 4, where rebel analysts studied them and located the weakness Jyn's late father Doctor Galen Erso secretly developed in the battle station's system. The rebel forces launched an attack on the Death Star, leading to the Battle of Yavin and the destruction of the dreaded Imperial superweapon.
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Category:Events
Category:Imperial Era
Category:Galactic Civil War