Raid at the Wretch of Tayron

The raid at the Wretch of Tayron was a battle waged by the Pathfinders, an elite force within the Alliance to Restore the Republic, against an Imperial Security Bureau black site at the Wretch of Tayron in 4 ABY. As the operation commenced, two of the Pathfinders, Sergeant Kes Dameron and Sakas, shot down an All Terrain Scout Transport, the downing of which caused a breach in the facility's wall and allowed General Han Solo and his Pathfinders to enter the base. Once inside, they secured the surrender of the base's commander and used the protocol droid C-3PO to hack into Imperial intelligence files. The files revealed that the Empire had begun executing Operation: Cinder, a posthumous order from the Emperor commanding Imperial forces to devastate several worlds as retribution for his demise.
The Alliance took the intelligence they gained and fought back against Operation: Cinder on countless worlds, including the Emperor's homeworld, the planet Naboo. Intelligence gathered from the raid also allowed Commander Luke Skywalker and Lieutenant Shara Bey to gain the clearance codes necessary to recover the last-remaining fragments of a Force-sensitive tree that once dwelled at the heart of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
==Prelude==
In 4 ABY, during the Galactic Civil War, the Alliance to Restore the Republic launched the Battle of Endor in a successful attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's second Death Star. The attack resulted in the death of the Emperor, Darth Sidious. Afterward, Imperial commanders were given a posthumous contingency order to launch Operation: Cinder, a campaign designed to render countless worlds uninhabitable upon the Emperor's death. One such world was the Emperor's homeworld, the planet Naboo, which the Empire assaulted using over a dozen satellites designed to disrupt and destroy the planet's climate.
==The raid==
While the Empire attacked Naboo, an Rebel Alliance Special Forces team known as the Pathfinders, under the command of General Han Solo, prepared for an unrelated raid on an Imperial Security Bureau black site at the Wretch of Tayron in the Outer Rim Territories. Before the assault began, Pathfinders such as Sergeant Kes Dameron and Sakas carried out reconnaissance while overlooking the base. While spying on the base, Solo, acting as Strike Leader, commanded his strike teams—Strike One, Strike Two, Strike Three, and Strike Four—to report in with their status. All teams reported that they were ready to begin, and, on Solo's order, they fired rockets at the base. The attack took out many stormtroopers and an All Terrain Scout Transport, leaving Imperial forces scrambling once they realized they were under attack.
The initial attack allowed the Pathfinders to gain entry to the base, after the AT-ST crashed and caused a breachBefore the Awakening on the southeast side of the facility. The Pathfinders fought their way in and eliminated several stormtroopers, scout troopers and a 74-Z speeder bike before finally securing the exterior. Solo soon arrived and asked where the rebel protocol droid C-3PO was, as Threepio was critical to hacking into the Imperial computers to gain new intelligence. Chewbacca, Solo's Wookiee companion, found the droid, and the group entered the base.
Once inside the base, the rebels fought against the Imperial stormtroopers stationed there. The base's commander attempted to flee to the base's computers so he could wipe their data before the Pathfinders could find it, but the rebel team confronted him first and he offered his surrender. The rebels soon secured the base and Threepio was able to break Imperial encryption codes to access the computers. In doing so, he uncovered information about Operation: Cinder, including its attack on Naboo.
==Aftermath==
The rebels used the intelligence about Operation: Cinder to send a fleet to Naboo, where three N-1 starfighters, piloted by Lieutenant Shara Bey, Princess Leia Organa, and Queen Sosha Soruna, were already in the process of destroying the satellites. The Rebel fleet, commanded by General Lando Calrissian, fought against the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer and the dozens of TIE/ln space superiority starfighters that were attempting to stop the N-1 starfighters. The combat operations were successful; the satellites were destroyed, Naboo was saved from Operation: Cinder, and the three pilots all survived. Over the next several months, the Rebellion continued to fight back against Operation: Cinder, saving countless worlds from Imperial retribution.
Three months after the raid at the Wretch of Tayron, Commander Luke Skywalker, a Jedi Knight, recruited Lieutenant Bey for a mission to the planet Vetine in order to retrieve the two remaining fragments of a Force-sensitive tree that the Emperor had stolen from the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant many years prior. Bey posed as Commander Alecia Beck of the Imperial Security Bureau, using the commander's clearance codes that were obtained at the Wretch of Tayron. Although the commander of the base on Vetine, Commandant Hurron, knew that Bey was not actually Commander Beck, Bey and Skywalker were able to retrieve the tree fragments and escape Vetine.
Not long after the Tayron raid, Solo authored a missive to Madine extensively lauding Dameron's heroics during the endeavor, including how the latter had led the charge into the Imperial base. Solo further recommended him for a compensation package upon retirement, wishing for him to spend time with his family and live to see his future. Madine processed the requestPoe Dameron: Flight Log following Dameron's own request to be discharged and replied to Solo's message affirmatively.Shattered Empire 4 At some point afterward, Kes told his son, Poe Dameron, about the Tayron raid. Poe later kept a copy of Solo and Madine's messages mentioning the raid in his flight log compiled after the Battle of Starkiller Base of 34 ABY.
==Behind the scenes==
The raid first appeared in the third issue of the Star Wars: Shattered Empire comic-book miniseries. The issue was written by Greg Rucka, illustrated by Marco Checchetto, and published by Marvel Comics on October 14, 2015. It was first identified as the raid at the Wretch of Tayron in the following issue, which was released on October 21 of the same year.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars Battlefront II 
*Shattered Empire 3 
*Shattered Empire 4 
*Before the Awakening 
==Sources==
*Poe Dameron: Flight Log
*Star Wars: Timelines
*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy 
==Notes and references==
Category:Battles in the Outer Rim
Category:Battles of the Galactic Civil War