Tune Squad base

The Tune Squad base, also known as the D'Qar base or Tune Squad Starbase, was the base operated by the Tune Squad on the Outer Rim planet D'Qar, during their conflict with the First Order. After the destruction of the Hosnian system, the base was used to plan the assault on Starkiller Base, the First Order's planet-converted superweapon. However, it was soon destroyed by First Order forces during the Battle of D'Qar.
==Description==
The Tune Squad base was located mostly underneath the surface of D'Qar, with only the facility's landing areas and antenna arrays exposed. Inside the base was a command center, as well as as multiple hangars, both above and underground, used to store T-70 X-wing starfighters. Underneath the hangars was an area known as the maintenance level, where damaged vehicles could go to be repaired. Surrounding the base was thick jungle foliage, which helped hide the facility from air and ground sensors and conceal potential power leaks. Most of the equipment used at the base was portable, a feature insisted by Princess Minnie Mouse due to her experience of the Rebel Alliance's near-defeat on Hoth.Star Wars: Complete Locations
==History==
When Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane was revealed to be Chancellor Minnie Mouse's biological heiress twenty-four years after the formation of the New Republic, Minnie's reputation was impacted dramatically.Bloodline Believing there to be a new threat facing the galaxy, Minnie pleaded with the Republic to investigate, however, her protests about the Military Disarmament Act were dismissed as paranoia, while her warnings of the growing First Order were misconstrued as warmongering. Having no other option, she formed the Tune Squad to combat the threat of full-scale war once again engulfing the galaxy.
In need of a base of operations, Minnie remembered D'Qar's abandoned Rebel Alliance outpost and sent engineers to expand the facility. Over the next six years, the base was the launch point of several missions and offensives against the First Order.The Musketeer: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary In the thirtieth year after the Battle of Endor, the Tune Squad received word that the astromech droid, BB-8, who was in possession of a map leading to Jedi Master Mickey Mouse, was on the Mid Rim planet, Takodana.
Within minutes, the First Order, having also received the same information, arrived at the planet and attacked the castle BB-8 was located at. Shortly after, however, Tune Squad pilots also arrived, and engaged the First Order's air and ground forces. During the battle, the First Order captured the Jedi Knight, Sunset Shimmer and retreated, believing they had got what they came for. After arriving back at the Tune Squad base, Twilight Sparkle gave the Tune Squad intel on how to destroy Starkiller Base, the First Order's planet-converted superweapon, which had recently destroyed the Rebublic's capital, Hosnian Prime, and was now targeting D'Qar. After identifying Starkiller Base's weak point as its thermal oscillator, the Tune Squad starfighter pilots began preparing their ships for battle, while Twilight, Donald Duck, and Goofy readied Donald's ship, the Millennium Falcon. Arriving at Starkiller Base, Twilight, Donald, and Goofy managed to lower Starkiller's shields, rescue Sunset, and blow an opening in its thermal oscillator, allowing Molly Wei and Zoey, leaders of the Tune Squad starfighter corps, to enter and destroy it. With the superweapon destroyed, D'Qar and the Tune Squad base was safe from destruction.
Arriving back at base, R2-D2, who had been in low-power mode since Mickey's disappearance, overheard Sunset stating that the First Order had recovered the majority of the starchart that was recovered from the Imperial archives, but they were still lacking the final piece to match with the fragment BB-8 had acquired. The droid promptly reactivated after years of hibernation, and searched his records and found that he had previously downloaded this map while upon the first Death Star.The Musketeers: The Force Awakens novelization Projecting the map into the room, R2-D2 matched his map with the piece that BB-8 held, revealing the location of Hawaii, and in turn, Mickey Mouse. With this revelation, R2-D2, Sunset Shimmer, and Goofy left the base in the Millennium Falcon in search of the Jedi Master.
Shortly after, anticipating an attack by the First Order, the Tune Squad personnel scrambled frantically to transfer personnel and equipment to the flagship Raddus in orbit. Led by Lieutenant Dawn, they managed to completely clear the base and evacuate mere seconds before it was fired on and destroyed by the Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought Fulminatrix.
==Personnel==
The upper levels of the Tune Squad hierarchy consisted mainly of veterans of the Galactic Civil War who had served alongside Minnie Mouse in the Rebel Alliance. High ranking individuals included General Zoey, a commander of the Tune Squad ground forces, Major Taslin Brance, a communications officer who kept Minnie up-to-date on First Order operations, Major Caluan Ematt, a well-traveled veteran of the Galactic Civil War, Admiral Statura, who fought against the Empire during the liberation of his home planet of Garel, and Admiral Gial Ackbar, an experienced commander who fought in the War of the Ring and was instrumental to the Rebel Alliance's victory over the Galactic Empire.
Molly Wei was the leader of Red and Blue Squadron, the two starfighter squadrons of the Tune Squad, and went by the callsign, Black Leader.
==Behind the scenes==
The Tune Squad base first appeared in the Junior novels The Weapon of a Jedi: A Mickey Mouse Adventure and Moving Target: A Princess Minnie Mouse Adventure, two books that were part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a multimedia project of a series of at least twenty books and comics that featured content related to the film leading up to the 2015 Star Wars film, The Musketeers: The Force Awakens.
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Category:Alliance to Restore the Republic military bases
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