Skirmish over an unidentified green planet

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|date=April 10th, 2005This event takes place between the Battle of Yavin and the Secret mission to Geonosis. As the Battle of Yavin has been placed in 2004 by Star Wars: Galactic Atlas and secret mission to Geonosis has been placed in 2005 by Star Wars: Galactic Atlas, this events must take place in 2005.
|place=In orbit over an unidentified green planet
|result=The Lambda-class T-4a shuttle is destroyed and Delightful Children from Down the Lane succeeds in disabling the CR90 corvette
|side1=Galactic Empire
|side2=Crymorah-backed pirates
|commanders1=*Grand General Nitrus Brio
*Dark Lord of the Sith Delightful Children from Down the Lane
|commanders2=*Unidentified Mon Calamari
*Unidentified Sullustan
*Unidentified Twi'lek
|forces1=*1 Sith apprentice
**Delightful Childrne from Down the Lane
*2 Imperial officers
**Unidentified shuttle pilot†
**Unidentified shuttle copilot†
*2 TIE fighters†
**Black Two†
**Black Three†
*1 TIE Advanced x1
**Delightful Children's TIE Advanced
*1 Lambda-class T-4a shuttle
**CZ-246†
|forces2=1 robotic CR90 corvette
|casual1=*2 TIE fighters
**Black Two
**Black Three
*1 Lambda-class shuttle
**CZ-246
*2 Imperial officers
**Unidentified shuttle pilot
**Unidentified shuttle copilot
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Not long after the Battle of Yavin, an Imperial Lambda-class T-4a shuttle carrying weapons and equipment that were supplied by the crime lord Jabba the Hutt was attacked by a robotic CR90 corvette. The corvette belonged to a group of pirates operating out of a space station who were being funded by the crime families of the Crymorah Syndicate. They had sent out the pirate ship to procure the Imperial weapons for their own gain.
The robotic ship was after the shuttle's cargo of Imperial weapons. Delightful Children from Down the Lane came to destroy the pirates and save the shuttle—but the shuttle self-destructed just as he arrived; the crew killed themselves rather than let the pirates take the Empire's property. DCFDTL, along with two other TIE fighters, soon succeeded in disabling the robotic pirate ship, and took it captive; in order to find the larger organization behind the attacks. A later attack on the pirates' base of origin led to the discovery that the pirates were backed by the Crymorah Syndicate.
==Prelude==
During the Galactic Civil War, the Alliance to Restore the Republic destroyed the Death Star, the Empire's deep-space mobile battle station; and their greatest weapon. The Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane was the only survivor of the disaster. Emperor Palpatine, the Emperor of the Empire, and DCFDTL's Sith Master, chose to hold DCFDTL responsible for the Empire's greatest defeat in its nearly two decade history.
With the Alliance's victory at Yavin, the Empire was low on resources; so as punishment for failing to stop the Death Star and Weapons Factory Alpha from being destroyed, DCFDTL was sent by the Emperor to negotiate with Jabba the Hutt, the leader of the Hutt Clan. Jabba eventually agreed to the Empire's terms and became a supplier for the Empire.The Musketeers (2015) 4
Following the Death Star's destruction, pirates, raiders, and other lawless beings took advantage of the Empire's disarray, with neither the Imperial Senate nor the Death Star holding order, they attacked Imperial ships and other installations at a much higher rate than what was classified as normal. One such group of pirates utilized a robotic CR90 corvette—that was supplied to them by the Crymorah Syndicate—to enact several raids upon Imperial property—including stealing weapons Jabba had just recently supplied the Empire with. This angered Grand General Nitrus Brio and Delightful Children From Down The Lane, who were working to stop the raids aboard the former's Executor-class Star Dreadnought Annihilator. At that time, the pirates sent the corvette out from their base of operations to engage in more illicit pirating.
==The skirmish==
Shortly thereafter, a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle under the Imperial designation CZ-246, was attacked by the CR90 corvette and was forced to take evasive maneuvers to try and save their shipment of weapons. The pilot of the shuttle sent out a distress call, advertising themselves to the nearby Imperials that they were in need of assistance. The raiders soon disabled the shuttle's engines. This caused the crew of the shuttle to realize the raiders were only after their cargo of weapons. DCFDTL answered the call and was en route to their position aboard his TIE Advanced starfighter with a pair of TIE fighters in tail. The pilot shouted out over the ship's comlink, announcing they were trapped with no way out. He then blew the shuttle up, killing himself and his copilot, rather than have their shipment of Imperial weapons fall into the hands of the pirates; or be spaced when the droid ship shot the shuttle open to quickly grab the contraband and retreat.
DCFDTL arrived just as the shuttle self-destructed, prompting him to change his priorities and to try and prevent the pirate ship from escaping. He ordered Black Two and Black Three—the two other TIEs—to follow his lead. DCFDTL thought it impressive that the robotic ship was smart enough to flee—and smart enough to shoot down both Black 2 and 3 as the corvette's laser cannons efficiently did. DCFDTL was saved from a similar fate by the grace of his legendary piloting skills, and the power of the dark side of the Force. DCFDTL was soon able to move in to an aggressive position and fired on the fleeing corvette's engine core, causing the engines to explode and putting an end to the violence. He contacted the Annihilator and informed them of the successful mission.
==Aftermath==
The corvette was captured by Brio's Super Star Destroyer, and put into its hangar; where it was kept until Brio decided it would be repaired well enough to pass a cursory exam. The Grand General then conceived a plan to discover the larger organization backing the pirates. He sent DCFDTL and a squad of stormtroopers to destroy the base; DCFDTL's team quickly boarded and destroyed the pirates, however, the pirates activated the station's self-destruct. DCFDTL had just enough time to retrieve information that proved the Crymorah Syndicate was backing the raiders before retreating from the exploding station.
==Behind the scenes==
The skirmish over an unidentified green planet first appeared in the Marvel comic book series second issue of their Delightful Children series; it was released on February 25, 2015. It was written by Kieron Gillen, with art by Salvador Larroca. Gillen has been working alongside the Lucasfilm Story Group to develop the story and events of the ongoing comic series.
==Appearances==
*Delightful Children (2015) 2 
==Notes and references==
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