X-Wing Rogue Squadron 7

X-Wing Rogue Squadron 7, also labeled as "The Phantom Affair, Part 3", is the seventh issue in the Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron series of comics. It was released on April 14, 1996 by Dark Horse Comics.
==Publisher's summary==
A cloaking device isn't easy to come by—even a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But when the members of Rogue Squadron try to pick one up from the super-scientific alien inventors known as the Mrlssi, they find they've been accused of every crime from burglary to murder, and that the Empire will stop at nothing to bring them in!
==Plot summary==
At the Central Academic Hospital on Mrlsst, members of Rogue Squadron check on the condition of Wes Janson. Dee Savyest, a Mrlssi researcher implores Tycho Celchu and the others about the Death Star, disbelieving and guilt-ridden over its effectiveness, as the Mrlssi had worked on the Death Star's equipment. Koyi Komad suddenly storms into the room, warning the group of incoming stormtroopers coming to arrest them for their apparent involvement in the theft of the Phantom Project data. The Rogues flee, pushing Janson's hoverbed along with them. 
Elsewhere, Wedge Antilles has been imprisoned by the Mrlssi and the Empire. Loka Hask torments him, asserting that he did something good in "removing" Antilles' parents from him. Antilles tries to grab Hask from behind the prison bars, but is electrocuted. Gade Yedan arrives, allowing Antilles to deduce that he and the Ante-Endor Association were responsible for the theft. Hask brings Antilles to the bars, electrocuting him again, leaving him incapacitated on the ground. Later, a bright light shines in Wedge's cell. 
The ghostly visage of a Jedi-like figure appears to Antilles, claiming to have destroyed the Phantom Ship datacards. The apparition demands Antilles to leave Mrlsst and take the war back with him. Antilles tries to explain that he was not the source of the corruption or war on Mrlsst, but the apparition vanishes after cutting away the bars of Antilles' cell, allowing him to escape. 
The other Rogues escape the hospital as several stormtroopers pursue them. Komad informs them of Celchu's apparent involvement with the Phantom Ship theft, which he remarks as absurd. The group overloads Janson's hoverbed to reach Mrlsst's "underground", a society of the planet's misfits living among the planets enormous greenstalk forests. Komad takes the Rogues to see Nasta, who aids them in viewing the security feed from the day of the theft and of a concurrent Imperial conference discussing the recent destruction of the datacards. At the conference, the Imperials examine footage of droids attacking them to reach the datacards, which are identified as the ones used by the band Ghost Jedi. 
Antilles escapes the campus just as Celchu and Plourr arrive to rescue him. Elscol Loro and Groznik encounter the Jedi apparition, who takes its helmet off to reveal the face of Loro's late husband Throm. The apparition commands Groznik, who was tied to Throm by a life debt, to knock Loro unconscious, taking the Wookiee with him to make use of his piloting skills. 
As Tirrek and Dllr Nep move to steal Rorax Falken's ship, they are ambushed by students but easily overpower them. It is revealed that the Phantom Ship project was fake, a ruse to bleed money from the Empire. After the Emperor's death, the Empire began construction on a "Phantom Ship", which utilized durindfire gems that could be tracked by the Rebel Alliance. At the asteroid base used for the Ghost Jedi band's holographic performances, Terrik and Nep discover that the apparition of the Jedi/Throm (and by extension Groznik) seem to be controlled by Rorax Falken. Imperial forces approach the base, but the base appears to detonate itself. Back on the planet's surface, TIE bombers begin bombarding the Mrlsst undergound. 
==Cover gallery==
File:Xwing7.jpg|Cover
File:XWRS7-FC.jpg|Cover art
==Appearances==
==Collections==
*Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair (TPB)
*Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rogue Squadron Volume 1
*Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The New Republic Vol. 2
*Star Wars Legends: The New Republic Omnibus Vol. 1
==Notes and references==
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