Rescue from Stars' End

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|name=Rescue from Stars' End
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|conflict=Galactic Civil War (Operation Skyhook)
|date=February 26th, 2003
|place=Kashyyyk system
|result=*Alliance to Restore the Republic victory
*Prisoners recovered
|side1=Alliance to Restore the Republic
|side2=Galactic Empire
|commanders1=*Captain Keyan Farlander
*Lieutenant Cardacs †
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|forces1=*Red Squadron
**2 R-22 Spearheads
*1 Lambda-class shuttle
**Drago
|forces2=*1 Imperial I-class Star Destroyer
**Intrepid
*1 BFF-1 bulk freighter
**Genue
*1 Delta-class DX-9 stormtrooper transport
*12 TIE/LN starfighters
**Beta SquadronX-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide
**Delta Squadron
*12 TIE Interceptors
**Gamma Squadron
*9 TIE bombers
**Eta Squadron
|casual1=*1 R-22 Spearhead
*Cardacs
|casual2=Medium
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In 2003, during the months leading up to the Battle of Yavin, the Alliance to Restore the Republic mounted a rescue mission to recover several Rebel pilots who had escaped from the Corporate Sector Authority's infamous Stars' End prison on Mytus VII aboard the BFF-1 bulk freighter Genue.
The prisoners' escape was quickly discovered and a Delta-class DX-9 stormtrooper transport sent to board and search ships near Kashyyyk in an effort to recapture the prisoners.
The Rebel Alliance also learned of the escape and dispatched Captain Keyan Farlander with Lieutenant Cardacs, a friend of Raider, in R-22 Spearheads to lead a rescue mission. Farlander destroyed the Imperial transport just before it boarded the Genue and the Rebel Lambda-class T-4a shuttle Drago soon came and boarded the freighter in order to lead it to hyperspace, while the two R-22s repelled TIE fighter assaults from the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Intrepid. Cardacs was killed while protecting the boarding operation.
Documents recovered from the Toral revealed that it was due to rendezvous with a larger convoy near Orron III before proceeding to the site of the construction project. In a subsequent mission, Rebel forces destroyed the convoy in the hopes of delaying construction while Alliance Intelligence uncovered more information about the nature of the project. The Rebels eventually learned that the construction project was the Death Star, a battlestation equipped with a superlaser capable of destroying a planet.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: X-Wing 
==Sources==
*X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide
*X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM: The Official Strategy Guide
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Civil War battles