Battle of D'Qar

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*Skirmish over D'Qar
|name=Battle of D'Qar
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|conflict=First Order-Tune Squad War
|date=August 8th, 2039Star Wars: Timelines
|place=D'Qar
|result=*Pyrrhic First Order victory
**The Tune Squad evacuates D'Qar
**The Tune Squad base is destroyed
**Cobalt and Crimson Squadrons are destroyed
**The First Order dreadnought Fulminatrix is destroyed
|side1=First Order
|side2=*Tune Squad
*Jedi Order
|commanders1=*Queen Scarlett
*Professor Alastor Moody†
*Commander Wallflower Blush
*Captain Edrison Peavey
*Zeta Leader Commander Jad Bean
*Commander Marvin the Martian
|commanders2=*Queen Minnie Mouse
*Admiral Gial Ackbar
*General Olivia Flaversham
*Commander Molly Wei
*Lieutenant DawnThe Musketeers: The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary
*Rogue Leader General Zoey
*Captain James T. Kirk
*Blue Leader Lieutenant Tallissan Lintra
*Captain Jean-Luc Picard
|unit1=Zeta Squadron
|unit2=*Blue Squadron
*Cobalt Squadron†
*Crimson Squadron†
*Red Squadron
*Rogue Squadron
|forces1=*1 Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought†
**Fulminatrix†
*3 Resurgent-class Star Destroyers
**FellfireThe Musketeers: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel
**Finalizer
*TIE/fo space superiority fighters
*TIE/sf space superiority fighters
*72,000 OfficersThe Musketeers: The Force Awakens: Incredible Cross-Sections
*305,000 enlisted
*At least 46,000 Stormtroopers
|forces2=*1 Free Virgillia-class Bunkerbuster
**Ninka
*1 Vakbeor-class cargo frigate
**Vigil
*1 Nebulon-C escort frigate
**Anodyne
*1 Constitution II class
**USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
*RLS Legacy
*1 submarine cruiser
**Ulysses
*1 Sovereign class
**USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
*1 Excelsior class
**USS Excelsior (NCC-2000)
*1 MC85 Star Cruiser
**Raddus
*12 MG-100 StarFortress SF-17s†
**Cobalt Hammer†
**Crimson Hailstorm†
**Crimson Smiter†
*30 RZ-2 A-wing interceptors
*50 T-70 X-wing starfighters
*55 U-55 orbital loadlifters
|casual1=*Fulminatrix
*Many TIE fighters
*53,000 officers
**Alastor Moody
**Goneril
**Suday Bascus
*140,000 enlisted
*22,000 stormtroopers
|casual2=*All 12 MG-100 StarFortress SF-17 heavy bombers
**Nix Jerd
**Edon Kappehl
**Mikuru Asahina
**Ben Teene
**Finch Dallow
**Spennie
*10 RZ-2 A-wing starfighter
**Zizi Tlo
*15 T-70 X-wing starfighters
**Jaycris Tubbs
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The Battle of D'Qar, also known as the defense of D'Qar, the evacuation of D'Qar, the siege of D'Qar, or the attack on D'Qar, took place in August 8th 2039, in two days that followed the Battle of Starkiller Base; as part of the war between the Tune Squad and the First Order. In destroying Starkiller Base, the First Order's newest superweapon, the Tune Squad had revealed the location of their base. Fearing reprisal attacks, they were forced to abandon their base on D'Qar in order to find a new base of operations.
==Prelude==
In August 5th 2039, the First Order superweapon known as Starkiller Base destroyed Hosnian Prime, capital planet of the New Republic, and the other worlds of the Hosnian system. The Tune Squad and the Jedi Order, led by Queen Minnie Mouse, sent a reconnaissance team to discover the location of the superweapon and report back to the Tune Squad at their base on D'Qar. The First Order tracked the reconnaissance ships back to D'Qar, thus discovering the location of their enemy forces. On the orders of Supreme Leader Snoke, who wanted to prevent the Tune Squad from finding Jedi Master Mickey Mouse and enlisting him in their fight against the First Order, Queen Scarlett prepared the weapon to destroy the Tune Squad. Without the New Republic Defense Fleet, however, the Jedi Order seemed doomed to destruction.
Before the First Order could unleash the weapon, the Tune Squad sent a small strike force—ex-General Donald Duck, his teammate Goofy, and Princess and former Starkiller Base spy agent Twilight Sparkle—to Starkiller Base to disable the shields preventing the destruction of the base. Meanwhile, Commander Molly Wei and General Zoey led a starfighter forces to Starkiller Base to destroy it. The ground forces succeeded, though Donald was killed in battle, and the Tune Squad fighters destroyed the base.
The Tune Squad fighters returned to D'Qar, celebrated their victory, and prepared a mission to discover Mickey's whereabouts. The First Order, while reeling from the destruction of their weapon, still nonetheless had the location of the Tune Squad base.
==The evacuation==
Two days after Starkiller Base was destroyed, the Tune Squad began evacuating their base on D'Qar, and in the early hours of the evacuation, Minnie and Daisy Duck held a funeral for Daisy's fallen husband Donald Duck. In orbit around the planet, Queen Minnie and Daisy Duck commanded the Tune Squad fleet from the cruiser Raddus.
At the same time as the battle of Starkiller Base, Inferno Squad members Zay Versio and Shriv Suurgav recovered schematics for the First Order Dreadnought and intel on Project Resurrection from the Retribution. As they arrived amid the evacuation, Queen Minnie sent Inferno to rally their allies from the Outer Rim, while passing on the schematics to Commander Wei and General Zoey. From this, Molly and Zoey was able to formulate an attack plan.
The escape was interrupted by the arrival of a First Order fleet consisting of three Resurgent-class Star Destroyers and one Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought, the Fulminatrix. The dreadnought opened fire on the Tune Squad base almost immediately, but the base had been fully evacuated just in time. To buy time for the Tune Squad transports to escape, Molly attacked the dreadnought in her Whizzing Arrow III, eliminating its surface cannons and clearing the way for a squadron of Tunes bombers to attack despite counterattacks from the dreadnought and its TIE squadrons.
As the Fulminatrix began to aim its orbital autocannons at the Raddus, Tunes bombers began to approach the dreadnought, defended by starfighters to block TIE fighter attacks. The resultant assault successfully obliterated the Fulminatrix, but at a high cost. All bombers were lost along with four of their escorting starfighters, and after the first attack on the fleet, the Tune Squad was reduced to 10,000 personnel aboard four hundred ships. However, Molly and Zoey's attack bought enough time for their fleet to jump to hyperspace. At the same time they made their escape, the Supremacy and thirty more Star Destroyers arrived at D'Qar.The Musketeers: The Last Jedi Graphic Novel Adaptation
==Aftermath==
The Tune Squad was unable to fully escape the First Order due to the latter's new technology that could track ships through hyperspace. Eventually, after a four-day long battle and with the Tune Squad fleet running low, the remaining Tune Squad members slipped away and headquartered themselves in an city of Augustgrad on the Terran Dominion throne-world of Korhal. This escape was detected by the First Order, however, and led to the subsequent Battle of Korhal. Following the departure of both the First Order and the Tune Squad, Team Colossus aboard the Colossus arrived and saw debris from the battle. Captain Imanuel Doza authorized a salvage mission to retrieve fuel from Fulminatrix wreckage.
Even though the Tune Squad managed to escape, First Order officers who were not present for the battle were told that the Tune Squad had been destroyed.Molly Wei 31
==Behind the scenes==
The first footage of the battle of was shown in the The Musketeers: The Last Jedi teaser trailer on April 14, 2017. The evacuation of D'Qar was first referenced as part of the story of The Musketeers: The Last Jedi, which was released on December 15, 2017, at San Diego Comic-Con 2017. The opening bombing-run sequence of the Evacuation of D'Qar was inspired by the World War II book Vertical Warfare, which director Rian Johnson found while researching the library of Skywalker Ranch.The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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===Non-canon appearances===
*LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
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