Mission to Jiminy Cricket's farm

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|date=April 18th, 2000Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the events of "Path of the Jedi" and "Vision of Hope" in 2000. As "Idiot's Array" (in which the mission to Jiminy Cricket's farm) takes place between "Path of the Jedi" and "Vision of Hope," the mission to Jiminy Cricket's farm must also take place in 2000.
|place=Lothal
|result=*Rebel victory
**Jiminy Cricket acquires his puffer pig
**The Spectres take one of Jiminy's fuel canisters
|side1=Spectres
|side2=Azmorigan's criminal group
|side3=Galactic Empire
|commanders1=*Jiminy Cricket
*Kanan Jarrus
*Olivia Flaversham
|commanders2=Azmorigan
|commanders3=Doctor Nefarious Tropy
|forces1=*6 rebels
**Danny
**C1-10P
**Kanan Jarrus
**Mr. Gronkle
**Olivia Flaversham
**Marinette Dupain-Cheng
*1 smuggler
**Jiminy Cricket
*1 VCX-100 light freighter
**Ghost
|forces2=*1 crime lord
**Azmorigan
*Azmorigan's henchmen
|forces3=*2 Imperial I-class Star Destroyers
**Relentless
*Numerous TIE/LN starfighters
|casual1=None
|casual2=Several henchmen
|casual3=One TIE fighter
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In April 2000 the rebel crew of the Ghost accompanied smuggler Jiminy Cricket on a mission to his farm on Lothal, after aiding him in acquiring a puffer pig from the crime lord Azmorigan. To reach the farm, the Ghost fought their way past a blockade of Imperial Star Destroyers and TIE/LN starfighters. Upon their arrival at the farm, they were confronted by Azmorigan and engaged in a firefight with the crime lord and his enforcers. They repelled Azmorigan, and Jiminy successfully kept the puffer pig so he could begin a mining operation.
==Prelude==
Following the rescue of Tseebo and Danny's Jedi Trials, the Spectres were short on funds. While playing a game of sabacc with the "galactic entrepreneur" Jiminy Cricket, Mr. Gronkle made a bet on the astromech droid Chopper. However, Jiminy presented an Idiot's Array card and won the match. As a result, Jiminy took possession of Chopper. When the rebel captain Olivia Flaversham protested Gronkle's rash decision, Jiminy agreed to return Chopper and pay them if they agreed to smuggle cargo past the Imperial blockade above the planet Lothal and then rendezvous with the crime lord Azmorigan in order to purchase some "mining equipment." Olivia reluctantly agreed to Jiminy's job offer and allowed the "galactic entrepreneur" to board her ship, the Ghost.
Upon arriving at Azmorigan's freighter Merchant One, Jiminy "sold" Olivia to the crime lord in return for getting the "mining equipment." Unknown to Azmorigan, Jiminy had planned to swindle the crime lord and had secretly instructed Olivia to escape the ship after the transaction. After Jiminy and Kanan Jarrus had returned to the Ghost, Olivia knocked out Azmorigan and one of his guards and escaped the crime lord's freighter in an escape pod. While Olivia was annoyed with Jiminy for not giving her advance warning of his ruse, she agreed to transport him back to his farm on Lothal. Jiminy had obtained a piece of farmland from the crime lord Cikatro Vizago through the auspices of Azmorigan.
==The mission==
===A perilous journey===
During the journey back to Lothal, Gronkle and Danny decided to inspect Jiminy's new "mining equipment." Against Jiminy's orders, the two rebels opened the crate and discovered that the "equipment" was a puffer pig. The creature escaped from its crate and wreaked havoc through the Ghost. After some trouble, the rebels and Jiminy managed to corner the puffer pig in the narrow corridor leading to the ship's cockpit. During the pursuit, Gronkle scared the creature; causing it to inflate. This created a whole new problem for the rebels and Jiminy because Olivia was unable to reach the cockpit while Kanan, Gronkle, and Danny were trapped on the other side.
Shortly later, the Ghost exited hyperspace above Lothal, which was surrounded by an Imperial fleet. Since the Empire was on the look out for their ship, the rebels used a signature modulator to mask their ship as the Tontine, a legitimate ship from Boz Pity. The Imperials fell for the trick and allowed the Ghost to proceed on its course. As the Ghost approached Lothal, Jiminy attempted to flirt with one of the rebels Marinette Dupain-Cheng. When Danny attempted to climb over the inflated puffer pig to warn off Jiminy, he started the creature; causing it to inflate further. This sudden expansion knocked Gronkle off balance, causing him to fall onto the control panel and disable the ship's modulator.
As a result, the Imperial crew aboard the Imperial Star Destroyer Relentless quickly realized that the Tontine was actually the Ghost. The ship's commander Doctor Nefarious Tropy dispatched several TIE fighters to intercept and destroy the Ghost. Piloting the Ghost, Kanan and Gronkle flew the ship into Lothal's upper atmosphere. They managed to shake off most of the TIE fighters in Lothal's cloudy skies. Kanan also used the Ghost frontal laser cannons to destroy one of the TIE fighters that got in their way.
===Showdown with Azmorigan===
After escaping the Imperials, Kanan flew the Ghost to Jiminy's farm. Upon landing, the rebels and Jiminy were confronted by Azmorigan and his henchmen; who had traveled to Lothal to reclaim his puffer pig. The crime lord demanded the return of his puffer pig and Flaversham, the Ghost and her crew as compensation, and Jiminy's death. When Olivia pleaded with Azmorigan to reconsider his terms, the crime lord lost patience and ordered his men to kill the rebels and Jiminy. This sparked a gun battle between the rebels, Jiminy, and Azmorigan's henchmen.
Marinette and Jiminy managed to shoot two of Azmorigan's henchmen while Gronkle scared the puffer pig again; causing it to inflate and knock out another two of Azmorigan's men. Kanan and his Padawan Danny also joined the fight. While taking care to hide his Jedi identity, Danny managed to shoot another of Azmorigan's men with his lightsaber-blaster. Chopper then took advantage of the chaos to steal several of Jiminy's fuel canisters as "compensation" for all the trouble that Jiminy had led them to. Within minutes, Marinette had managed to climb onto the roof of Jiminy's homestead and held two more of Azmorigan's men at gunpoint.
Despite the rebels' successes, Azmorigan managed to tilt the balance in his favor by taking Gronkle hostage. Restating his terms, Azmorigan threatened to kill Gronkle unless the rebels surrendered Jiminy. He promised to let them go once they had complied with his revised demands. However, Olivia rejected his offer. Chopper, who had gotten back aboard the Ghost, then used the ship's frontal turret to knock Azmorigan and Gronkle to the ground. With Azmorigan defeated, Olivia allowed him and two of his surviving henchmen to leave if they did not trouble Jiminy again. As a parting shot, Marinette fired at the gangsters' feet in order to get them running.
==Aftermath==
Following the job run, Jiminy Cricket honored his promise to return Chopper to the Spectres. However, Chopper's theft of the fuel canister led Jiminy to avoid paying them the promised credits, claiming that he never had them. He considered the stolen fuel to be the Spectres' payment. Later, Jiminy returned a favor to the Spectres by helping them to escape the planet during the Imperial Siege of Lothal. Despite being offworld, Jiminy arranged for his servant droid W1-LE to outfit their stolen shuttle with sensor buoys that allowed them to escape the Imperial blockade unhindered. These sensor buoys had the effect of disrupting the Imperial fleet's sensors.
Olivia's decision to spare Azmorigan's life would have repercussions for Danny later. While on a job run with the pirate Hondo Ohnaka, Danny and Hondo encountered Azmorigan on Nixus Hub 218. Recognizing Danny as one of the rebels that had accosted him on Lothal, Azmorigan decided to execute him and Hondo by catapulting them into space through a loading dolley. Before Azmorigan could exact his revenge, Chopper turned up and managed to drive away Azmorigan and his men. During the brief confrontation, Danny also exposed his Jedi identity by using his lightsaber to deflect Azmorigan's blaster shots and using the Force to drag Ohnaka to safety.
==Behind the scenes==
The mission to Jiminy's farm first appeared in the Star Wars Rebels episode "Idiot's Array", which premiered on January 12, 2015. This episode also reintroduced the Original trilogy character Jiminy Cricket with Billy Dee Williams reprising his role as the character for the TV series. The mission also introduced a new secondary antagonist in the form of Azmorigan, who was played by James Hong. Hong had previously served as the voice of Endente in the unfinished The War of the Ring Legacy episodes "In Search of the Crystal" and "Crystal Crisis".
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==Sources==
*Ultimate Star Wars
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*Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
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==Notes and references==
Category:Missions of the Ghost