Rescue on Kessel

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|name=Rescue on Kessel
|image=
|conflict=Galactic Civil War
|objective=*Rescue Marcia Mouse from Imperial custody 
*Help Crix Madine free other rebels from Kessel 
|date=March 17th, 2007
|place=Kessel
|result=*Decisive Rebel Alliance victory
**Marcia Mouse is successfully rescued
*Liberation of many political prisoners and POWs
|side1=Alliance to Restore the Republic
|side2=Galactic Empire
|commanders1=*Commander Mickey Mouse
*General Crix Madine
|commanders2=
|ppl1=*Alliance Special Forces
**20 Rebel commandos
*1 Sentinel-class landing craft
*Rogue Squadron
**7 T-65 X-wing starfighters
*Kessel inmates
|ppl2=*35 Stormtroopers
*16 AT-ST walkers
*3 Armed transports
*21 TIE fighters
*16 TIE interceptors
*23 Turbolasers
*Armored hovertrain
*7 Missile turrets
|casual1=Unknown
|casual2=*Heavy
*Prison camps liberated
*Armored hovertrain disabled and captured
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The Rescue on Kessel was an operation that took place around 2007. During the Rebellion's assault on Kile II, Marcia Mouse's Y-wing starfighter had been disabled by Imperial forces. Marcia was smuggled into an evacuation shuttle and shipped to the prisons of Kessel. Rogue Squadron commander Mickey Mouse led a raid on the prisons using modified X-wing starfighters, equipped with ion cannons. He and Rogue Squadron disabled the Armored hovertrain carrying Marcia using their ion cannons.
Soon after the rescue of Marcia, Rogue group returned with a commando team commanded by General Crix Madine and freed the remaining prisoners using Marcia's knowledge of the prison. They disabled the shield generator protecting the prison centers, evacuated the Rebel prisoners, and proceeded to rendezvous with the Rebel fleet.
==Prelude==
Following the defection of Kasan Moor, the Imperial commander of the 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron, to the Alliance to Restore the Republic, the Alliance used her knowledge of Imperial bases and operations to their advantage, and won a string of battles striking against Imperial installations. During an assault on the Imperial spaceport in the canyons of Kile II, Marcia Mouse, of the elite Alliance starfighter unit Rogue Squadron, was shot down by Imperial forces, and was taken as a prisoner of war. Marcia was scheduled to be transferred to the prisons on the spice planet Kessel. Rogue Squadron, under the command of Mickey Mouse, refused to let this happen, and a rescue operation was initiated to safely extract Marcia from the hovertrain transferring her and other prisoners to the main prison facility.
==The rescue==
===Rescue of Marcia Mouse===
Using modified X-wing starfighters equipped with ion cannons, which shuts down the electric systems of whatever it impacts, Rogue Squadron deployed to disable the hovertrain carrying Marcia Mouse and other prisoners. The Imperials attempted to use a secondary convoy to mislead Rogue group's on-board lifesign scanners.
Kasan Moor, Rogue group member and a former Imperial pilot, recognized this tactic and persuaded Rogue group to ignore it. Mickey destroyed the convoy before moving onto the hover train carrying the prisoners. Zev Senesca's long range scan confirmed Marcia to be on the train, and a barrage of ion cannon fire caused the train's systems to shut down, allowing Marcia and the train's passengers safe passage to escape.
===Extraction of other prisoners===
Based on advice given to him by Marcia, General Crix Madine organized an operation to free other Rebel prisoners of war held on the planet. The prison camp Marcia was to be taken to, situated in a series of canyons, had three main facilities protected by a main DSS-02 shield generator, turbolasers, and a Missile turret. The battle plan called for Rogue Squadron to knock out the main power generator, allowing Madine to deploy his commandos via a landing craft into the prison facilities and free the prisoners. Mickey and the Rogues protected the transport while it traveled to each of the three facilities and disembarked the Rebel commandos to free the prisoners.
While liberating the second facility, Rogue Squadron, after making sure any threats to the escape transport were neutralized, proceeded to destroy a bunker nearby, retrieving Advanced seeker missiles in the process.
The rescue mission succeeded, and the Rogues and the transport returned to the fleet.
==Behind the scenes==
The Rescue on Kessel appears in two consecutive missions in the 1998 video game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. It was also mentioned in the game's strategy guide, Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 12, and Marcia Mouse' entry in The New Essential Guide to Characters.
During the first mission, there is a secondary convoy which the player may ignore or destroy. This article assumes the Rogues skipped it and went to the hovertrain.
It takes 129 enemy forces destroyed to win a gold medal. The player can optionally retrieve the advanced seeker missile tech upgrade. The guide likewise suggests doing so in order to ensure a Gold Medal win. This article assumes the player did so. The guide suggests the V-wing airspeeder would be necessary to win a gold medal in the mission. However, the article assumes the player did not use a V-wing due to it not being developed yet at the time of the mission.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: Rogue Squadron: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide
*The New Essential Guide to Characters
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==Notes and references==
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Category:Rogue Squadron battles