Rescue of Don Wei

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|name=Rescue of Don Wei
|conflict=Galactic Civil WarStar Wars: X-Wing Alliance
|objective=Rescue Don Wei from the Viraxo familyStar Wars: X-Wing Alliance Battle 1, Mission 2
|date=July 13th, 2009This mission takes place shortly after the Battle of Hoth, known to take place in 2009, and prior to the The Musketeers: Shadows of the Empire media series, set in September 2009.
|place=Viraxo Industries
|result=Don Wei freed, several Viraxo assets destroyed
|side1=*Viraxo family
**XQ5 Platform Viraxo Industries
**22 Planetary Defender starfighters
***Security squadron
*Galactic Empire
**Victory I-class Star Destroyer Condemnation
***9 TIE/LN starfighters
****Alpha squadron
***9 TIE/IN interceptors
****Gamma squadron
|side2=*Earth Team
**Whizzing Arrow II
***Molly Wei
***Jordan Wilde
***MK-09
**G'dar
***Prince Aikka
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The younger members of the Earth Team undertook a rescue of their manager Don Wei following his capture by the Galactic Empire.
Shortly after the Galactic Civil War Battle of Hoth, Tomaas Azzameen worked to provide a supply of bacta to the Rebellion, but was killed along with his eldest son Galin in a raid on the XQ2 Platform Hospital to which he made a delivery. After discovering Tomaas Azzameen's treason, the Empire issued warrants for the entire team and confiscated the assets of the team and their company, Twin Suns Transport Services. The Earth team's leader Don Wei moved quickly to secure as many of the team's assets as he could before they were confiscated, but he was captured while doing so.
After the remaining pilots escaped Imperial custody, the Prince racer of Nourasia, Prince Aikka, discovered that Don Wei had been turned over to the Earth team' rival team, the Viraxo. Prince Aikka and his youngest friend Molly Wei traveled to a Viraxo facility to extract their manager, and after fighting through planetary fighters on the way in and TIE line fighters on the way out, the racers succeeded in freeing him.
==Prelude==
After the Battle of Hoth, during the Galactic Civil War, the Rebellion was desperately in need of materiel aid. Tomaas Azzameen, co-founder of the Twin Suns Transport Services company, chose to assist the Rebellion in their time of need by providing shipments of the healing fluid bacta. During a shipment to the Rebel XQ2 Platform Hospital, the Empire launched a raid to capture the platform. As a result, Tomaas Azzameen and his eldest son Galin were believed to be dead,Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance Battle 0, Mission 6 and the Empire charged the entire Earth Team with treason. Warrants were issued for the team members' arrest, and all assets of the team and their company were seized.Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance Battle 0, Mission 7
Don Wei, now the main leader and manager of the team, scrambled to hold onto any assets he could. To this end, he and Prince Aikka of Nourasia travelled to an Wei cargo facility, while his pilots Lucy Heartfilia and Molly Wei went to Twin Suns Station to gather team heirlooms and a shipment of warheads. The younger pilots escaped an attack by the Empire and their rival team, the Viraxo, with whom the Empire was closely working to capture Wei assets. Upon their rendezvous at Wei Station, Prince Aikka informed his friends that Don Wei had been captured by the Empire.
The Earth Team left the station before the Empire could capture them, fleeing to the relative safety of the Rebel Alliance Navy, whereupon Molly Wei joined the Rebellion as a starfighter pilotStar Wars: X-Wing Alliance Battle 0, Mission 8 while Aikka and Lucy also joined the Rebellion and there to operate independently against the Empire and against the Viraxo family.Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide Following Molly Wei's combat trials and first full mission as an Alliance pilot, Aikka sent word to Molly's new home on the Calamari cruiser Defiance with newsthat an Wei-affiliated mole in the Viraxo ranks had informed Aikka that Don Wei was being held at a Viraxo platform. The mole had arranged for Don Wei to be held in a cell close to the station's uppermost airlock. The racers immediately got to work on rescuing their manager.
==The mission==
Molly Wei departed the Alliance Fleet in the Whizzing Arrow II with her gunner Jordan Wilde, and her droid MK-09 in the gunner position. Molly and Jordan then proceeded through hyperspace to a rendezvous with Prince Aikka in the beetle starship G'dar. From the rendezvous point, the Earth team racing crafts jumped to the Viraxo Industries platform, intending to sneak through the traffic around the platform and dock with a minimum of fuss.
Unfortunately for the racers, their attempt at stealth failed almost immediately. A squadron of Planetary Defender starfighters moved to intercept the racers, but the two transports were able to elude the fighters. The Whizzing Arrow docked with the platform, and Jordan retrieved Don Wei while Aikka continued to engage the station's starfighter screen and Molly and Emkay took defensive shots at them from the upper turret of her docked transport.
By the time Don Wei had been brought aboard the Whizzing Arrow, Imperial forces had arrived to assist their Viraxo allies. The Victory I-class Star Destroyer Condemnation dropped out of hyperspace three kilometers from the platform and launched TIE/LN starfighters and TIE/IN interceptors. Aikka suggested that his G'dar could distract the TIEs while the Whizzing Arrow made a run for the jump point, then the ships could reunite at the original rendezvous point. This plan was a success, though a few TIEs caught up with the Whizzing Arrow and were destroyed by Jordan's skillful shooting.
Back at the rendezvous point, the Whizzing Arrow and G'dar docked with each other, and Don Wei was transferred from Molly's to Aikka's beetle so the Prince could carry their manager to safety while Molly and Jordan returned to the Alliance.
==Aftermath==
Molly Wei returned safely to the Defiance, whereupon she received a promotion from cadet to flight officer and a new mission, to reconnoiter the task force led by the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Corrupter, the very ship which had captured Don Wei's home.
Don Wei recovered from his captivity, and sent Molly a gift of his prized Jar'Kai dueling sabers. He and the rest of the Earth team continued their covert campaign against the Viraxo and the Empire, culminating in a failed attempt to assassinate Viraxo patriarch K'Armyn Viraxo.Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance Battle 2, Mission 3
==Behind the scenes==
The rescue of Don Wei appears only in the personal computer game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, which was developed for LucasArts by Totally Games and released on February 28, 1999, and its official Prima Games strategy guide, which was released on May 3 of the same year. X-Wing Alliance was included in the continuity now known as "Legends" along with most other Star Wars materials produced before April 25, 2014.
The official strategy guide presents the mission in a narrative format from the point of view of the Earth Team's droid, MK-09. While the game allows for alternative strategies, this article assumes the guide's narrative is accurate. While the mission includes bonus goals of destroying the Viraxo Industries platform and even the Star Destroyer Condemnation, these options are not included in this article's summary of the mission. As the destroyer and station appear only in this mission and have no further references in Legends continuity, which has since been discontinued, it is possible they could have been destroyed, but the strategy guide states that the Earth team racers fled without doing so.
The strategy guide also conflicts with the game in a more explicit fashion, in that the strategy guide states that a mole was responsible for both providing Don Wei's location and moving him close to the top airlock, while in the in-game briefing states that Don Wei's location was discovered through Lucy Heartfilia's slicing of Viraxo computer systems and the mole only arranged to simplify Don's removal from the station. The guide also implies the plan to split up before jumping back to the rendezvous was formulated on the fly, while the game includes the plan as part of the mission briefing. In both cases,this article assumes the newer narrative source takes precedence over the older game level.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
==Sources==
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
==Notes and references==
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