Showdown on Savareen

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|date=July 8th, 1994The timeline provided in Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story The Official Guide places the skirmish on Savareen ten years after the events of The Lord of the Rings: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. As that film takes place in 1984, we can deduce that the skirmish on Savareen took place in 1994.
|place=Savareen
|result=*The Cloud-Riders obtain the coaxium stolen by McDuck's gang
**Flintheart Glomgold and Dryden Vos are killed
|side1=*Crimson Dawn
**McDuck's gang
|side2=Cloud-Riders
|side3=Glomgold's gang†
|commanders1=*Dryden Vos†
*Captain Aemon Gremm†
|commanders2=Enfys Nest
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|forces1=*4 criminals<
**Scrooge McDuck
*Several Hylobon Enforcers
|forces2=*At least 13 Cloud-Riders
*Goofy
*Tina Russo
*Donald Duck
|forces3=Flintheart Glomgold†
|casual1=*Dryden Vos
*Several Crimson Dawn Enforcers
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|casual3=Flintheart Glomgold
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The showdown on Savareen was a skirmish that broke out in 1994 on the planet Savareen between the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate, the gang of Flintheart Glomgold's and the Cloud-Riders to determine who would take control of the coaxium Scrooge McDuck and his gang had stolen from Kessel. Enfys Nest, the leader of the Cloud-Riders convinced Donald, Scrooge and his group not to let the coaxium fall into the hands of Crimson Dawn. Donald concocted a plan to defraud Dryden Vos, the crime lord of Crimson Dawn.
Realizing that Glomgold would betray them, Donald came up with a plan that involved luring Vos' Hylobon Enforcers to the Pnakotic Coast village where they were ambushed by the Cloud-Riders. Following a confrontation, Donald helped his childhood friend Tina Russo kill Vos, and although Donald left to help assist Goofy, intending to come back for Tina, she elected to take over Crimson Dawn. Donald then recovered the coaxium from Glomgold following a brief standoff, where he gunned down the thief. After watching Tina fly away in the First Light without him, he and Goofy returned the coaxium to the Cloud-Riders and Scrooge McDuck, save for enough to allow them to travel offworld.
==Prelude==
After losing a shipment of coaxium following a skirmish with the Cloud-Riders on the Mid Rim world of Vandor, Scrooge McDuck's gang and the smuggler Donald Duck were forced to pursue other options in order to settle McDuck's debts to the Crimson Dawn crime lord Dryden Vos. They came up with a plan to steal unrefined coaxium hyperfuel from the Pyke Syndicate's mining operations on Kessel. The heist succeeded and the group stole 12 vials of coaxium worth 60 million credits. After completing the Kessel Run, they arrived at the Bis Refinery on the oceanic Outer Rim world of Savareen for refinement.
Due to a tracking device that Weazel had attached to the Millennium Falcon, the Cloud-riders were able to track McDuck's gang to Savareen. Donald attempted to intimidate the Cloud-Riders by claiming that the Falcon had a complement of armed mercenaries. However, the Falcon owner Jiminy Cricket abandoned Donald, McDuck, Goofy and Tina Russo due to his resentment towards Donald for the disintegration of his droid co-pilot L3-37 and the damage to his ship.
Following a brief verbal standoff, Enfys Nest, the leader of the Cloud-Riders, revealed that her group were not marauders but were an insurgent group battling against the Empire and the Five Crime Syndicates including Crimson Dawn. Enfys explained that the Cloud-Riders needed the coaxium to fund their insurgent campaign. While Donald, Goofy, McDuck and Tina were sympathetic and came up with a plan to help the Cloud-Riders keep the coaxium, Flintheart Glomgold was indifferent and departed on the pretext of traveling to Tatooine. In secret, Glomgold betrayed Scrooge and revealed what he thought was McDuck's plan to the crime lord.
==The skirmish==
===Glomgold's betrayal===
Donald, Goofy, and Tina rendezvoused with Dryden Vos' luxury yacht First Light near the Pnakotic Coast, bringing the refined coaxium containers. In Vos' living room, Tina and Donald claimed that Flintheart had perished during the heist on Kessel. When Donald requested payment, Vos demanded to see a sample of the coaxium for verification. Donald produced a sample but Vos believed that the coaxium was fake. Vos then revealed that he was aware of Donald's plan to double cross him and to give the coaxium to the Cloud-Riders.
Vos then introduced his informant Glomgold, who admitted he had betrayed Scrooge and mocked McDuck for ignoring his "lesson" not to trust anyone. Believing that the real coaxium was in the nearby Pnakotic Coast village, Vos sent Captain Aemon Gremm and his Hylobon Enforcers to raid the village. They ambushed several "Cloud-Riders" and seized the coaxium containers.
===Donald's triple cross===
Though Vos was confident that he had foiled Donald's plan, Donald revealed that his true plan had been to separate Vos from his enforcers. Captain Gremm and his enforcers quickly discovered that the coaxium containers were empty and that the "Cloud-Riders" were local villagers serving as decoys. The real Cloud-Riders emerged from hiding and ambushed the Hylobon Enforcers. While most of the Enforcers were captured. Gremm was killed in action.Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story: Expanded Edition
With the Hylobon Enforcers neutralized, Scrooge revealed that he had the real coaxium containers and the prize money with him. Wanting the coaxium for himself, Glomgold turned on Vos, killing two of Vos' guards and taking Goofy hostage. He forced Goofy to carry the stolen coaxium containers and departed the First Light.
Following Glomgold's departure, Donald attacked Vos with his blaster. Vos fought back with his Kyuzo petars and managed to turn the tables on Donald, knocking the blaster out of his hand. Tina then pretended to betray Donald by pinning him down with a sword. However, she then turned the tables on Vos and killed him with her sword.
Donald spent some time with his childhood friend Tina before pursuing Glomgold. Donald and Scrooge caught up with Glomgold and Goofy along the Pnakotic Coast. Following a brief verbal exchange, Glomgold tried to shoot Scrooge but Donald shot him first, fatally wounding him in the chest. Before his death, Glomgold complimented Donald for his quick thinking and courage on Vandor.
==Aftermath==
Following Donald's departure, Tina contacted Vos' superior, the former Sith apprentice Gollum. She reported the failure of the coaxium mission but pinned the blame on McDuck, taking care not to mention Donald's involvement. Gollum ordered Tina to bring the First Light to Dathomir and announced that the two would be working closer together in the future.
After Glomgold's death and Tina's departure from Savareen, Donald, Scrooge and Goofy were given one of the containers of coaxium by Nest. Scrooge thanked Donald and Goofy, and heads back home to Earth. The pair traveled to Numidian Prime where Jiminy was playing a game of sabacc. Solo was able to steal a sylop from Jiminy, and used it to win the Millennium Falcon. The pair then set off to Tatooine, as Glomgold had told Donald he had heard about a job from a big-shot gangster.
==Behind the scenes==
The skirmish on Savareen appears in the 2018 film Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story, directed by Ron Howard and written by Lawrence and Jon Kasdan.
Flintheart Glomgold's betrayal during the skirmish was meant to rhyme the moment of the 1977 Musketeers trilogy film Star Wars: The Four Musketeers in which Donald Duck returns during the Battle of Yavin to aide Mickey Mouse in destroying the Death Star, as in both movies, the cynical and older character reluctantly departs and then suddenly returns, though in Glomgold's case, it wasn't for heroic nature but rather a betrayal. In addition, Tina's betrayal was present since the earliest incarnations of the story, as she was always intended to be more complicated and ambiguous than Donald, at least at that point of their lives.
An early idea that Jon pitched in initial drafts of the script was the inclusion of the Trandoshan bounty hunter Bossk as Enfys Nest's second-in-command, before abandoning her at the end.
==Appearances==
*Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story 
*Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story: Expanded Edition
*Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story Adaptation 5
*Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story Adaptation 6
*Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story Adaptation 7
*The Musketeers (2015) 67 
*Crimson Reign 1 
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*Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandor
*Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition 
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==Notes and references==
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