Assault on the Mako-Ta Space Docks

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|conflict=Galactic Civil WarThe Musketeers (2015) 50
|date=December 7th, 2007Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy states that the Assault on the Mako-Ta Space Docks took place twenty-three years after the formation of the Galactic Empire, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 1984. Therefore, the assault must have taken place in 2007.
|place=Mako-Ta Space Docks
|result=*Imperial tactical victoryThe Musketeers (2015) 55
**Heavy casualties to the Alliance High Command and the Jedi High Council
**The Rebel Alliance loses more than half of its cruisers and 90 percent of its starfighters
|side1=Alliance to Restore the Republic
*Jedi Order
|side2=*Galactic Empire
*Kingdom of Shu-TorunThe Musketeers (2015) 51
|commanders1=*Chancellor Mon MothmaThe Musketeers (2015) 53
*Admiral Gial Ackbar
*General Oppo Rancisis
*General Davits Draven†
*General Bandwin Cor†
*General Bob Hudsol†
*General Gandalf
*General Hera Syndulla
*General Vanden Willard†
*Commander Lajaie†
*Princess/Commander Minnie Mouse
*Captain Donald Duck
*Rogue Leader Mickey MouseThe Musketeers (2015) 52
|commanders2=*Delightful Children from Down the Lane
*Grand Admiral Technor
*Admiral Kendal Ozzel
*General Blinky Bill
*Captain Kriszta
*Lieutenant Wallflower Blush
*Captain Baron Greenback
*Heylin Witch Wuya
*Kimiko Tohomiko
|unit1=*Rebel Alliance Intelligence Service
*Rebel Alliance Navy
**Alpha Group
**Beta Group
**Delta Group
**Gamma Group
**Rogue Squadron
*Rebel Alliance Special Forces
*Heroes of Yavin
|unit2=*Imperial Navy
**Death Squadron
|forces1=*At least 39 Star Cruisers
**At least 4 MC80A Home One Type Heavy Star Cruisers
***Defiance
***Home One
***Independence
***Republic†
**At least 12 MC80 Liberty Type Heavy Star Cruisers
***Liberty
**At least 7 MC75 Star Cruisers
**At least 8 Mon Calamari cruisers (Geist types)
***Geist
***Lajaie's cruiser†
**At least 3 Mon Calamari cruisers (Yavin's Hope types)
***Yavin's Hope†
**At least 6 three-engined Mon Calamari cruisers
**At least 1 three-pronged Mon Calamari cruiser
**Bob Hudsol's starship†
*1 Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier 
*Heroes of Yavin
**Huckle Cat
**Lowly Worm
**Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner
**Daisy Duck
**Goofy
**R2-D2
*Rebel troopers
*T-65 X-wing starfighters
*BTL-A4 Y-wing starfighters
*1 YT-1300 light freighter
**Millennium Falcon
*1 shuttle†
*Several Rebel Alliance transports
|forces2=*1 Dark Lord of the Sith
*1 TIE Advanced x1
**Delightful Children's TIE Advanced
*1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought
**Executor
*3 Imperial II-class Star Destroyers
**Avenger (Kriszta's flagship)
**Tyrant (Xamuel Lennox and Wallflower Blush's flagship)
**Chimaera (Baron Greenback's flagship)
*2 Imperial I-class Star Destroyers
**Devastator (Blinky Bill's flagship)
**Grey Wolf (Technor's flagship)
*TIE/LN starfighters
**Multiple fighter wings
*Stormtroopers
*Many Shu-Torun War-Faith
*Wuya' ship
|casual1=*At least 19 cruisers
**Bob Hudsol's cruiser
**Lajaie's cruiser
**Republic
**Yavin's Hope
*90% of starfighters
*Many rebels including:
**Bandwin Cor
**Davits DravenThe Musketeers (2015) 54
**Bob Hudsol
**Lajaie
**Vanden Willard
|casual2=*Many TIE fighters
*Several Shu-Torun soldiers
*Several stormtroopers
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The Assault on the Mako-Ta Space Docks, also known as the Battle of Mako-Ta, was a major battle during the Galactic Civil War between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire when the Empire launched an attack on the Alliance's Mako-Ta Space Docks after the Imperial spy Heylin Witch Wuya revealed to Delightful Children from Down the Lane the location of the Jedi. Death Squadron launched its attack on the rebel dock base, and while Rogue Squadron was eventually deployed, DCFDTL and his forces destroyed the majority of the rebel fleet and killed numerous rebel officers. The remaining rebel survivors were retreated back to Bespin from their high losses.
==Prelude==
In conference with Kendal Ozzel, Technor, Kriszta, Kimiko Tohomiko and Blinky Bill on Mustafar, Delightful Children from Down the Lane determined that the Rebel Alliance's scattered nature made it difficult for the Empire to get a hold on them. With this in mind, DCFDTL developed a risky plan: Allow the Rebel Alliance to grow in strength, then crush them when their power was concentrated in one place.
To this end, he contacted Heylin Witch Wuya of Shu-Torun, instructing her to take over mining operations in the ruins of Jedha, and from there defecting to the Alliance and sabotage them from within.
After the mutiny on Mon Cala, the Rebel Alliance found itself with several Mon Cala cruisers that could easily be refitted into full-fledged warships. The ships were brought to the Mako-Ta Space Docks to be refitted, where Wuya provided many Shu-Torun engineers to help with the work, providing many critical components and systems.
As work on the ships concluded, Mon Mothma called many dignitaries who supported the Alliance to the station to celebrate their victories against the Empire over three years and show their fleet to their allies. During this party, Minnie Mouse spoke with Wuya, thanking her for providing the materials and technology to outfit the fleet. Alliance starfighters, which included Mickey Mouse among its pilots, did a flyby before landing in the hangar of Jedi General Oppo Rancisis's Republic. The mood among the Rebels was high and some believed the Empire did not stand a chance against the Rebellion now.
At the same time of the party, Donald Duck, Goofy, Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner, Huckle Cat, and Lowly Worm traveled to the Ring of Kafrene. There Donald negotiated a deal for a set of transponder codes. They had a run-in with two of Jabba the Hutt's bounty hunters, and as they escaped Donald promised them he would pay Jabba the money he owed him.
As the rebel sub-groups reported to Minnie, and General Vanden Willard, of Delta Group, told Minnie to wish Mothma good luck in her speech. Mothma gave her speech and promised that the fleet would help their allies whenever they needed it, but when the ships were about to jump to hyperspace they could not. Minnie asked where Wuya was but she had already left for her ship. The party was then interrupted by the arrival of Death Squadron, which had been secretly contacted by Wuya shortly before.
==The battle==
After the Empire's arrival at the docks, Delightful Children From Down The Lane told his ships to wait for the rebels to take in their situation. The cruisers attempted to scramble their fighters and realized that their cargo bay doors would not work, neither would their turbolasers or their propulsion engines. Now satisfied, DCFDTL ordered the closest cruiser to be destroyed, the closest being Yavin's Hope. Willard had his crew to divert all power to the shields, but they didn't hold and they were incinerated as his ship blew into a fireball. Admiral Ozzel asked DCFDTL what their next target was and he told him hope, before saying that hope was to die.
===Hope dies===
As the Star Destroyers began engaging the rest of the cruisers, Queen Wuya made it to her ship and they attempted to flee the spacedocks. However, the rebel command refused its departure and Minnie sent on a boarding party, led by her and General Bandwin Cor, to capture Wuya and find a way to regain control of the cruiser's systems. Wuya ordered a defensive line and her soldiers engaged the rebels. Minnie was almost killed but Cor pulled her back, telling her she was too valuable to lose. They broke the defensive line and the remaining Shu-Torun soldiers fled the scene. Wuya was notified of this and she made for an escape pod as the rebels entered the room. Daisy Duck chased Wuya but she made it into an escape pod before she could catch her and launched it.
Generals Cor and Davits Draven began looking into the database on Wuya ship but could not find a way to regain control of all of the cruiser's systems. However, he discovered that while the hanger doors could not be opened manually, they would still open automatically when a ship with a rebel transponder flies towards the cargo bay doors, meaning there was still a chance to get the fighters out of the cruisers. Cor volunteered to take his shuttle there and try. He flew it towards the cruiser but was soon shot down by TIE fighters. Shortly after, another cruiser exploded after taking too much turbolaser fire from the Star Destroyers. Minnie said that they had to keep trying if they wanted to survive.
===A spark of hope===
Shortly after, the Millennium Falcon arrived after escaping the Ring of Kafrene. Donald Duck was surprised to see Death Squadron there and raised Daisy on the comms. She told him to fly at the hanger doors of the cruiser in order to have them open. Donald complied and they were soon engaged by TIE fighters. DCFDTL was notified of the Falcon's arrival and he left the bridge to reach his TIE advanced. The Falcon managed to shoot down at least one of the TIE fighters and destroyed a couple of the turbolasers on one of the Star Destroyers. It then flew towards General Rancisis's flagship, the Republic, to get it's hanger doors open. However, DCFDTL engaged the light freighter in his TIE Advanced before it could make it to the cruiser.
The Millennium Falcon tried to evade DCFDTL's TIE Advanced but could not shake it off. At that same time, Commander Lajaie's cruiser was being crippled under fire. Lajaie ordered his men to abandon ship and they jettisoned on the escape pods. As they did that, DCFDTL told Ozzel to get rid of the escape pods. As TIE fighters massacred the pods, Lajaie's cruiser exploded and Donald saw an opportunity from it. He flew into the fireball to lose DCFDTL. DCFDTL followed him in and tried to follow the Millennium Falcon. However, he failed to do so and Donald made some distance between the two ships. Donald then put a plan into action: he had Goofy put Lowly Worm into an escape pod and launched him into Rancisis's cruiser. Though smaller size by the impact, Lowly managed to stay on the ship and crawled his way into an airlock, where he made contact with Mickey and R2D2 and told him about how the hanger doors could open automatically.
Mickey rushed to his X-wing starfighter and Rancisis ordered him to stand down. Mickey, disobeying orders, flew at the doors which opened for him. The rest of the pilots followed in their X-wings and Rogue Squadron forms up to attack. As the fighting began, Alliance command scrambled all Rebel Alliance Intelligence Service agents to find a solution and bring their ships back online. Mickey, determined that more time was needed and opted for Line Of Sight communication. He activated his trail and flew towards Ackbar's ship, demonstrating that the hangar bay doors have a fail-safe system that opens them up. Upon seeing this, Ackbar ordered his crew to launch probes close to the hangar bay doors to see if they would open, and ordered all fighters to launch should that happen. Meanwhile, Donald Duck was forced to land the Falcon, albeit upside-down, and man an X-Wing.
===Finding an answer===
Alliance Intelligence managed to find an answer. They discovered that there were codes that would reboot all systems and bring the ships online, yet there was just one issue: the codes were in the computer data-banks aboard the Executor. With the intel, Minnie, Draven and his commandos boarded the Executor using Queen Wuya' ship. Minnie impersonated the queen and successfully fooled the control tower into allowing them to land. The ruse worked too well, however, as when DCFDTL was informed of the supposed arrival of Queen Wuya, he broke off combat to return to the Executor and receive her. Leaving a rear guard to slow DCFDTL down, Minnie and her team began their mission. When DCFDTL arrived, he realized he had been tricked and proceeded to cut down the rebels with ease.
When the commando team reached the main computer, they quickly downloaded the codes. With DCFDTL fast approaching, Minnie and Draven bid each other an honorable farewell, with Draven remarking that this was his chance to atone for his mistakes regarding Jyn Erso. He stated that Jyn proved him wrong about her, something of which he felt guilty of being unable to tell her in person. He told Minnie to board a TIE fighter and get the codes back, and he joined his doomed commandos to slow DCFDTL down further, sacrificing himself and buying Minnie time to get the codes back to the ships.
===Escape===
Flying out into a space battle in a TIE fighter, Minnie was nearly shot down by Mickey and Donald. Unable to communicate with them as the systems were built into the pilot's helmet, she managed to convince them due to Mickey's connection to the Force and shooting down a TIE of her own. Mickey and Donald escorted her to Rancisis's ship, the Republic, which was brought back online. The ship promptly jumped to hyperspace, but Mickey and Minnie changed Rancisis's mind about escaping, convincing him to bring the Republic back into the fight to draw fire from support ships relaying the counter-codes to the other ships of the fleet. As Mickey's fighter was damaged while escorting Minnie's TIE, Mickey transferred Artoo to Donald's X-Wing while he and Minnie took a ship to Mako-Ta to rescue Mothma and the Alliance dignitaries.
Making their return, the Republic performed a strafing run on the Executor whilst Donald, Mickey and Minnie took the support ships to the surviving starships. Hera Syndulla's cruiser, the Geist, was one of the first cruisers to come back online. Starting with the Geist, the Alliance ships rejoined the fight one by one as they rebooted and came online, then immediately jumped to separate secure locations as soon as they were all capable. However the Republic's engines were hit, immobilizing her. Rancisis and Gandalf were able to extract and returned to the Falcon.
At the same time, the X-wing piloted by Donald and R2-D2 was damaged, preventing them from escaping. Minnie and Mickey commandeered a Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier to rescue them, but were also damaged by TIE fighters. They managed to Hyperspace out, but needed to set down on soon due to damage.
==Aftermath==
Landing on Cloud City, Minnie, Mickey, and the Musketeers managed to get into contact with Mothma, who informed them that the Rebel Fleet was under order to reorganize themselves, and carry on the fight separately. To get back to Ackbar's cruiser, and the Millennium Falcon still on board with Goofy, they would have to find their own way back. To honor their actions taken in the battle(and fill positions lost), Mothma also gave each of them promotions. Minnie Mouse was promoted to general, and Donald Duck was promoted to colonel, although he rejected the promotion. The trio made their way to Nar Shaddaa, where they were able to get assistance from Sana Starros.
The Alliance lost over half the cruisers they gained from the Mon Cala, as well as several experienced and talented commanders. The loss was also a severe blow to their morale, as the Empire showed they still held the upper hand in this conflict. Despite these losses, however, the Rebel Alliance still gained a substantial number of warships and material. Nonetheless, Emperor Palpatine deemed DCFDTL's efforts satisfactory.
==Behind the scenes==
The assault on the Mako-Ta Space Docks is the main event in The Musketeers Book XI: Hope Dies, the eleventh story arc from the Marvel Comics' The Musketeers comic book series. The story arc saw the death of several Rebel high-ranking officers who appeared in Rogue One: A Musketeers Story and The Four Musketeers but were absent in the next movies of the The Musketeers trilogy. Lead writer Kieron Gillen conceived the attack as a way to kill off characters such as Lajaie or Davits Draven, as he thought about how the heroes rose through the ranks so quickly.
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*Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Civil War battles
Category:Rogue Squadron battles