Assault on Cymoon

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|name=Assault on Cymoon
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|conflict=Galactic Civil WarThe Musketeers (2015) 1
|date=April 6th, 2005
|place=Weapons Factory Alpha, Cymoon 1
|result=The Rebel Alliance destroys Weapons Factory Alpha, causing a significant setback in the operations of the Imperial MilitaryDelightful Children (2015) 1
|side1=Alliance to Restore the Republic
|side2=*Galactic Empire
*Sith
|commanders1=*Princess Minnie Mouse
*Commander Mickey Mouse
*Captain Donald Duck
|commanders2=*Delightful Children from Down the Lane
*Overseer Aggadeen
|forces1=*Heroes of Yavin
**Huckle Cat
**Lowly Worm
**Goofy
**Minnie Mouse
**Daisy Duck
**R2-D2
**Mickey Mouse
**Donald Duck
*Several freed slaves
*1 YT-1300 light freighter
**Millennium Falcon
*1 commandeered AT-AT
|forces2=*1 Dark Lord of the Sith
**Delightful Children From Down The Lane
*1 Overseer
**Aggadeen
*At least 1 CaptainThe Musketeers (2015) 3
**Kronn
*Cymoon regiment
*Cymoon system battle group
**3 Imperial II-class Star Destroyers, including:
***Adjudicator
|casual1=Multiple slavesThe Musketeers (2015) 2
|casual2=Multiple stormtroopers
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The Assault on Cymoon, also referred to as the attack on Cymoon 1, took place during the Galactic Civil War, and shortly after the Battle of Yavin when the Rebel Alliance carried out an attack on the Imperial Weapons Factory Alpha on Cymoon 1. The assault began as an infiltration, with Donald Duck posing as an emissary for Jabba the Hutt in a weapons deal with the Empire; Mickey Mouse, Daisy Duck and Minnie Mouse posed as his bodyguards. Once inside the factory, the Rebels revealed themselves, attacked the Imperials, freed a number of slaves, and set the facility's power core to overload. Their plans changed, however, when Delightful Children from Down the Lane arrived at the factory and ordered the facility into full alert. The Rebels hijacked an AT-AT to use in their escape, while Mickey briefly confronted the Dark Lord of the Sith in lightsaber combat before the walker arrived.
Donald crashed the AT-AT through the factory's walls, giving the Rebels and the slaves an opening to escape from the facility. As they made their escape, the Rebels engaged in open combat with DCFDTL and the Imperial forces, and the Dark Lord killed a number of the freed slaves. Mickey took out some of the Imperial forces using the weapons on a speeder bike, while Donald used the AT-AT to fire on, but only slightly injure, the Dark Lord.
The assault ended with the destruction of Weapons Factory Alpha, and the Rebels were able to escape. DCFDTL informed the Emperor, Darth Sauron, of what happened, and the Dark Lord was stripped of some power for allowing the Rebels to destroy the facility. DCFDTL soon began investigating who Mickey was, eventually leading him to learn that the mouse was his ringbearer.
==Prelude==
During the Galactic Civil War, the Rebel Alliance stole the plans to the Death Star, the Galactic Empire's deep space mobile battle station that was capable of destroying entire planets. They used the data, which was brought to the Rebel base on Yavin 4 by Princess Minnie Mouse of Earth, to plan an assault against the station. This plan led to the Battle of Yavin, which began after the Death Star located the Rebel base. During the battle, Rebel starfighters mounted an attack against the Death Star in an attempt to destroy it, using a vulnerability found in the Death Star plans. Most of the Rebel forces were destroyed, but X-wing pilot Mickey Mouse—with help from Donald Duck and Goofy aboard their ship, the Millennium Falcon—fired a proton torpedo into the Death Star's exhaust port. The torpedo entered the station's main reactor and the Death Star exploded, giving the Rebellion a decisive victory against the Imperial war machine.
The destruction of the Death Star gave the Rebellion a new hope in their war against the Empire. Realizing that the loss of the Death Star also likely meant the loss of a large number of support vehicles such as TIE Fighters, shuttles, and combat vehicles, Rebel General Davits Draven chose to press the advantage and strike a crippling blow against the Empire's industrial capacity before those losses could be replaced.Star Wars: The Rebel Files
To this end, they targeted Weapons Factory Alpha on Cymoon 1, a moon in the Corellian Industrial Cluster. The weapons factory was the largest in the galaxy, and it was made all the more critical after the loss of the Death Star. The Rebels learned of impending talks between the Empire and Outer Rim crime lord Jabba the Hutt, as the Empire wanted Jabba and the Hutt Clan to provide raw materials to be used in creating weapons and starships for the Empire. A team of Musketeers—Donald, Daisy, Mickey, Minnie, Huckle Cat, Goofy, the astromech droid R2-D2, and Lowly Worm—intercepted a shuttle from Tatooine that carried Jabba's emissary. They stole the shuttle and continued towards Cymoon 1, where Donald would pose as the emissary due to his previous connection to Jabba, while Mickey, Daisy and Minnie posed as his bodyguards. In a minor deviation from the attack plan, Donald had Goofy, Huckle and Lowly make their own way to Cymoon 1 aboard his personal ship, the Millennium Falcon, where it landed in a refuse field that surrounded the factory, while Artoo remained with Donald.
The Rebels arrived in orbit of Cymoon 1 and were given permission to land at Weapons Factory Alpha, where an Imperial delegation awaited them; the delegation included Overseer Aggadeen, a LOM-series protocol droid, and several stormtroopers. Donald introduced himself upon arrival, claiming to still be in Jabba's employ. The protocol droid was able to verify his identity and so-called affiliation, and, at Aggadeen's request, the Rebels handed their weapons over to the Empire. As Aggadeen led them into the facility, Daisy contacted Goofy, Huckle and Lowly, telling them to hold their positions.
==The assault==
===Infiltration===
Once inside the facility, the Rebels were led through a TIE/LN starfighter assembly area, as the Overseer explained that the factory was fully automated. Donald boasted that Jabba would be hard to bargain with, to which Aggadeen told him that there would be no negotiations. The Imperial negotiator—who, unknown to the Rebels, was Delightful Children from Down the Lane, the Dark Lord of the Sith—would instead present terms to Donald which the Empire expected Jabba to accept. The Overseer led them to a conference room where he intended them to wait until DCFDTL's arrival, but Donald told him that he was right and that there would indeed be no negotiations. Instead, Artoo sprayed a liquid onto the facility's floor and electrocuted it, which shocked the stormtroopers who were standing in it. Mickey, Daisy and Minnie fought the stormtroopers who remained standing, while Donald grabbed a blaster from one of the fallen troopers and pointed it at the Overseer. Donald demanded to know where the factory's power core was, but Aggadeen refused to tell him. Artoo threatened to electrocute him, however, and Aggadeen promptly pointed them in the right direction before Minnie struck him across the jaw and knocked him unconscious.
The Rebels made their way through the facility and towards the power core. En route, Solo contacted Threepio, who was still aboard the Millennium Falcon, for a status report. The droid told him where they landed and that he was unsure as to whether he could stay hidden much longer, as automated scanners were in the area. Solo nonetheless ordered him to remain on alert, as the plan called for Threepio to engage the ship's autopilot and pick the Rebels up once they were ready to make their escape. They ceased communications once the Rebels arrived at the power core, where Organa told Artoo to hack into the Imperial computer and shut down the safety restraints surrounding the core.
Mickey, meanwhile, watched for more stormtroopers, and he attempted to use the Force in order to sense any nearby presences. The Force led him towards a cage filled with slaves being held by the Empire, suggesting that the factory was not as automated as the Overseer had claimed. While at the cage, Mickey was confronted by a guard who demanded to know who Mickey was. The Jedi trainee attempted to use a mind trick on the guard to manipulate him into leaving, repeating the same action he had once seen Sam Gamgee use on stormtroopers in Mos Eisley on Tatooine. Because of his Jedi training, however, Mickey failed to manipulate the guard. Instead, Mickey ignited his lightsaber and cut off the guard's hand, allowing him time to break the slaves out of their cage and lead them back to the other Rebels.
Artoo successfully lowered the safety restraints and Donald set the power core to overload in ten minutes time, giving the Rebels a chance to escape to the Millennium Falcon. Mickey returned to the group, accompanied by the slaves. Donald ordered Huckle to activate the ship's autopilot so the Falcon could pick them up before the core overload, but the two were interrupted by Goofy, who told Donald that an Imperial shuttle had arrived. DCFDTL disembarked from the shuttle and, over Donald's objections, Minnie ordered Goofy to fire upon and kill the Dark Lord. Goofy took the shot, but DCFDTL was able to use his lightsaber to deflect it. The dog continued firing on the Dark Lord, but DCFDTL threw stormtroopers into the line of fire, causing them to be hit while DCFDTL remained unscathed. The Dark Lord used the Force to tear apart the building that Goofy stood upon, forcing Goofy to flee. On DCFDTL's orders, the facility and the entire moon were put onto high alert. DCFDTL was also able to sense Mickey, recognizing his presence as the same person who destroyed the Death Star.
===Confrontation with Delightful Children===
The Rebels lost contact with Goofy, and Donald ordered Huckle and Lowly to engage the autopilot and pick them up. The animals was unable to do so, however, as native scavengers located the Falcon in the refuse and began tearing apart its systems, one of which was the autopilot. With their escape plan jeopardized, the Rebels were confronted by a squadron of stormtroopers, forcing them to fight their way towards safety. They retreated, along with the slaves, from the Imperial troops and entered a hangar, one which housed a group of AT-AT walkers. Donald told the others to get aboard one of the walkers, as he intended to pilot one and fight their way out of the factory before it exploded.
While Donald, Daisy and Minnie boarded a walker, Mickey remained in the facility, where he searched for DCFDTL; Mickey was unaware that DCFDTL was Frodo Baggins, just as DCFDTL was unaware Mickey was his heir, and still believed—as Gamgee had told him—that Gamgee had defeated Frodo. As the Jedi trainee approached DCFDTL, Gamgee called out to Mickey from beyond and warned him to run from the Dark Lord. Despite the warning, Mickey briefly engaged the Dark Lord in lightsaber combat, but the young mouse was quickly and easily bested. DCFDTL used the Force to disarm Mickey, and demanded the identity of the pilot who had destroyed the Death Star. Mickey refused, and DCFDTL prepared to execute him. As he did so however, he noticed that the weapon that he had taken from Mickey had once been his own. He did not yet know, however, that Mickey was his ringbearer or the Rebel who destroyed the Death Star.
Mickey was able to escape from the Dark Lord when Donald brought the AT-AT's foot crashing down into the middle of the confrontation. The slaves Mickey freed also rebelled against the Imperial forces, and Donald piloted the walker through the facility. The Dark Lord, meanwhile, killed the slaves who were in his path—using Mickey's lightsaber—and ordered all stormtroopers to his position so the Rebels could be eliminated. Inside the AT-AT, Artoo and a pair of freed Jawas attempted to enable the walker's weapons, which had not yet been fully assembled inside the factory. The Rebels contacted Huckle and Lowly in the hopes that the threat to the Falcon had been ended, but the native scavengers were still ripping the ship apart. Following the Rebels' orders, Huckle and Lowly went outside of the Falcon in an attempt to stop the scavengers, but they surrendered and was captured after dropping his weapon.
The slaves and Mickey continued fighting against DCFDTL and the stormtroopers, but the Dark Lord was able to kill many more slaves. Mickey doubted his ability to protect the slaves, questioning whether a mouse boy from Tatooine could be a Jedi, until he saw a speeder bike he knew he could pilot. He mounted the bike and sped towards DCFDTL and his forces, taking out the stormtroopers in his path. DCFDTL remained standing, however, and was confronted by the AT-AT. Donald, at Minnie's urging, aimed the AT-AT's foot at the Dark Lord, but DCFDTL used the Force to hold the walker's leg in place and prevent it from stepping on him. As the power DCFDTL used began tearing the walker apart, Artoo and the Jawas successfully enabled the AT-AT's weapons. Minnie fired on DCFDTL's position, but the Dark Lord, although slightly injured, survived the encounter.
Mickey retrieved his lightsaber from where DCFDTL dropped it and sped towards the AT-AT, which exited the factory. After he did so, Aggadeen contacted DCFDTL and told him that they were unable to stop the power core's meltdown. Aggadeen requested permission for his forces to evacuate, but DCFDTL denied the request, saying that if the factory was to explode, the Imperials would explode with it for their failure. DCFDTL intended to kill the Rebels, but had other plans for Mickey.
===Escape===
As Minnie, Daisy and Donald continued on, they encountered more Imperial reinforcements. Donald contacted Mickey, who was busy fighting several pursuing stormtroopers and walkers, for assistance. Minnie then realizes that the factory hasn't exploded yet and that the Imperials must have stopped the meltdown. Just then, Aggadeen contacted DCFDTL and reported that the meltdown has been halted. DCFDTL then ordered Aggadeen to send troops to his location to prevent the rebels from escaping. DCFDTL proceeded to attack the AT-AT Minnie, Daisy and Donald are in by slicing its legs. Mickey looked on in horror as the AT-AT's legs were destroyed, causing it to collapse with Donald, Daisy and Minnie inside it.
With the AT-AT down, DCFDTL orders his troops to move in for the kill. Mickey quickly arrives and strikes down DCFDTL's troops. Minnie and Daisy then pulls an injured Donald out of the wreckage and orders the slaves to head for the trash fields. DCFDTL orders his troops to ignore the slaves and capture the rebels. As Minnie, Daisy, Donald and the slaves head to the Falcon, Mickey decides to go back and destroy the factory. Commandeering a speeder, DCFDTL then orders his troops to go after the rebels and slaves while he deals with Mickey. With DCFDTL in pursuit, Mickey re-enters the factory and fires his speeder's blasters on the power core, causing it to overload. DCFDTL relentlessly continues his pursuit, inadvertently striking Aggadeen in the process. He manages to damage Mickey's speeder, but Mickey is able to escape when the reactor explodes, burying DCFDTL's speeder.
DCFDTL emerges from the wreckage and sees Mickey's destroyed speeder. DCFDTL then sees the Millennium Falcon flying off. With an injured Mickey in tow, Minnie pilots the Falcon out of Cymoon 1. Coming across the Imperial blockade, Minnie activates the hyperspace drive and makes the jump to lightspeed.
Captain Kronn of the Adjudicator then informs DCFDTL that the rebels have escaped the blockade, to which the Dark Lord responds by telekinetically strangling Kronn. DCFDTL realizes that the mouse is Gamgee's last hope and why he sacrificed himself to protect him. DCFDTL reminds Gamgee that the mouse was still untrained and that there was no one left but the Dark Lord to train him and he vows to find Mickey and make him his weapon, assuring Gamgee that the Dark Side always wins.
==Aftermath==
After the assault ended, DCFDTL returned to the Imperial Palace on Coruscant, where he delivered each reports to the Emperor, Darth Sauron. He also informed his master that the Rebels were able to destroy Weapons Factory Alpha. Sauron berated DCFDTL for his failures, both for having let the Rebels destroy the Death Star and then Weapons Factory Alpha, causing a setback on Imperial Military operations. DCFDTL, who brought Overseer Aggadeen with him to Coruscant, brought his master before the Overseer, who was being tortured for his failures to stop the Rebel assault. As a result of his own failures, DCFDTL was relieved of some of his authority and sent to India to deal directly with Jabba, rather than using an envoy as a middle-man. The Dark Lord agreed, however, and told his master about Mickey or his suspicions about why the mouse had been trained by Sam Gamgee.
DCFDTL traveled to India one day ahead of schedule, using the earlier time to negotiate a personal mission with Jabba: the acquisition of two bounty hunters. One, Krrsantan, was hired to track down an Imperial agent that the Emperor was withholding information about from DCFDTL. The other, Boba Fett, was hired to find Mickey. Vader returned to Jabba's Palace the next day and negotiated the Empire's terms for gaining Hutt resources. Jabba agreed to the demands in exchange for compensation that the Empire deemed appropriate.The Musketeers (2015) 4 The Empire was able to use these supplies to further their war machine in the wake of the disasters on Yavin 4 and Cymoon 1.Delightful Children (2015) 2
Fett tracked Mickey to Tatooine, where he learned the mouse's name and reported it to DCFDTL.The Musketeers (2015) 6 The Dark Lord concluded that Mickey was the ringbearer, which he kept the One Ring from his own,Delightful Children (2015) 6 and he gained further proof of this when his associate, the Xiaolin japanese warrior Kimiko, learned that DCFDTL's deceased wife, Padmé Amidala, did die while Mickey was not yet born a year later as DCFDTL had been led to believe.Delightful Children (2015) 10 Eventually, DCFDTL began a fierce rivalry across the galaxy and the world to defeat the ringbearer, and reclaiming the One Ring. The Emperor further ordered that Mickey either be converted to the dark side or destroyed, though DCFDTL intended to convince Mickey to join him and overthrow the Emperor. This rivalry led to massive confrontation between Mickey and DCFDTL on the planet Ryloth in September 25th, 2009, where Mickey lost his ring and his Elder Wand to DCFDTL and learned that DCFDTL was Frodo and the Half-Blood Prince. Two months later in November 1st, Mickey redeemed Frodo during the Battle of Endor, and Frodo sacrificed himself to kill the Emperor and DCFDTL.
==Behind the scenes==
The Rebel attack on Cymoon 1 first appeared in The Musketeers (2015) 1, the first issue of the Marvel comic book series Star Wars. The comic, released on January 14, 2015, was written by Jason Aaron, with art by John Cassaday; Aaron worked with the Lucasfilm Story Group in developing the comic's storyline, including the assault.
The events of the story were written by Jason Aaron for the Star Wars comic, with art by John Cassaday. It also marks the first confrontation between Mickey Mouse and Delightful Children from Down the Lane.
==Appearances==
*The Musketeers (2015) 1 
*The Musketeers (2015) 2 
*The Musketeers (2015) 3
*Delightful Children (2015) 1 
*The Musketeers (2015) 4 
*The Musketeers (2015) 5 
*Delightful Children (2015) 6 
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*Delightful Children from Down the Lane: Sith Lord
*Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
*Star Wars: The Rebel Files 
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*The Star Wars Book
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*Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy
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*Star Wars: Timelines
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==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Civil War battles
Category:Duels