Attack on Ryloth

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|conc=*Mission to BraccaTune Squad Reborn
*Mission to Corellia
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|name=Attack on Ryloth
|conflict=First Order-Tune Squad War
|date=September 23-25, 2039Star Wars: Timelines
|place=Ryloth
|result=The Tune Squad retreats from Ryloth
|side1=First Order
|side2=*Tune Squad
*Ryloth Defense Authority
|commanders1=
|commanders2=*Queen Minnie Mouse
*Ambassador Yendor
|forces1=First Order forces
|forces2=*Tune Squad members, including:
**Carlist Rieekan
**Orrimaarko
**Olivia Flaversham
**Ursula
**Jedi General Zoey
**Jedi Knight Sunset Shimmer
**Goofy
**Lucy Heartfilia
**Nien Nunb
**Daisy Duck
**Lieutenant Dawn
*Ryloth Defense Authority members, including:
**Yendor
**Hahnee Brethen†
*1 YT-1300 light freighter
**Millennium Falcon
*X-wing starfighters
|casual1=
|casual2=*At least 2:
**Hahnee Brethen
**At least 1 Phantom Squadron pilot
}}
In September 2039 during the war between the First Order and the Tune Squad, the Attack on Ryloth was launched by the First Order after they discovered the Tune Squad's base on the planet Ryloth.
After Queen Minnie Mouse went to an old friend, Ambassador Yendor of Ryloth, for aid, the Tune Squad was allowed to set up in a Ryloth Defense Authority cave base. However, the First Order arrived in Ryloth's capital of Lessu, and someone there eventually betrayed the Tune Squad. In the fighting, at least 1 pilot and Yendor's daughter, Hahnee Brethen, were killed. After Minnie and Sunset Shimmer fought side by side, the queen informed Yendor that Hahnee had died. While he initially intended to die while directing a cannon, Minnie learned about the Tune Squad pilot's death, so Yendor took control of the fallen pilot's X-wing starfighter. After the Tune Squad escaped Ryloth, Commander Molly Wei believed it showed that the Tune Squad was at risk wherever it gathered.
==Prelude==
Following their loses in the Battle of Cardassia and the Battle of Korhal, the Tune Squad had lost the majority of its forces, although its leader, Queen Minnie Mouse, and several other members survived the battles and traveled in the Millennium Falcon. At least three other Tune Squad groups, Team Colossus, Black Squadron, and Inferno Squad, also survived by being elsewhere. Aboard the Falcon, Minnie realized the starship could find refuge on the Outer Rim world of Ryloth. While Lieutenant Dawn initially guessed there was an old rebel stronghold there, Minnie clarified that they would be going because of an old ally and friend, as she hoped Ambassador Yendor would help them. While the Falcon was low on fuel, they were able to make the jump to lightspeed and arrive near the planet. When they were contacted by Lessu command, Sunset Shimmer, a Jedi apprentice and a Jedi member of the Tune Squad, claimed the Falcon was carrying medial supplies for the southern region, although operations were then taken over by the Ryloth Defense Authority ("RDA").
RDA One, piloted by Yendor's daughter Hahnee Brethen, guided the Falcon to a Ryloth Defense Authority base built into a cave. Once inside, Charth Brethen informed the Tune Squad that they were at risk of joining the war for helping and that the decision to help had come from Yendor. After the crew of the Falcon was able to eat, Minnie, Sunset, Daisy Duck, Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat were brought to Yendor. While he did not want Ryloth to be involved, Minnie told him all they wanted shelter, foodstuff, and communications, and she revealed that they had very few ships left. While he understood that Chancellor Drelomon and General Ishel would be opposed to the idea, and he believed the First Order would attack them if their actions was discovered, Yendor believed that helping the Tune Squad refugees was the right thing to do. Sometime after he agreed, however, the First Order arrived in the capital city of Lessu for what appeared to be unrelated reasons, and they gave the Ryloth shipping guild 5 standard days to tithe to them before the shipping lanes were blockaded. Despite having less time to stage a mission out of the planet and Yendor fearing that Drelomon could betray the Tune Squad, Minnie stuck to the plan of having their other ships arrive.
Minnie's few reinforcements, Commander Molly Wei in a Whizzing Arrow III, Black Squadron, Inferno Squad, and the individuals the groups had gathered, were able to arrive. After breaking up a fight between pilot Pacer Agoyo and ex-Imperial officer Teza Nasz, the Tune Squad planned out their next move in Yendor's library, which had become their war room. There, they decided to split their forces, as Shriv Suurgav would lead a group to Bracca to obtain starships, Corellian Team One would head to Corellia to an auction of a list of First Order subversives and prisoners, and Corellian Team Two would also head to the planet to rescue prisoners in Coronet City. After they had began their tasks, Sunset asked Minnie how the missions were going, as the Force gave her a feeling she could not explain. After speaking about the crews's progress, however, Sunset still had the feeling, but she then realized that the First Order had arrived.
==The battle==
After metal doors covered the windows, Yendor ordered that the alarm be sounded, although a proximity alarm had also began. Hahnee was the first to enter war room's door and revealed that they had been betrayed in Lessu. On Corellia, Suralinda Javos of Team One needed to contact Dawn on Ryloth to locate Marcia Mouse, a veteran of the Galactic Civil War and member of Team Two. Suralinda was given Team Two's coordinates, but Dawn also warned her that they were evaluating Ryloth, which concerned Commander Wei. However, while she felt like she should be protecting Minnie and helping her friends on that world, she understood that she needed to complete her current mission. A message via Ryloth was also sent to Team Two, informing them that the other Corellian group had lost their ship.
During the initial attack, one of Phantom Squadron's X-wing pilots was also killed, although, according to what Minnie saw, Hahnee was the first to fall, having been shot in the chest. While Minnie witnessed it, Yendor was unaware of his daughter's death, as he and other RDA fighters were holding the First Order back at the hangar's south end so Minnie, Daisy and the rest of the command base could escape. Doing what came naturally to her, Minnie activates her lightsaber and attacked at the incoming enemies. Although her opponents took shelter, she understood the weakness of her position and that her close to her lightsaber would not hold for long. However, Minnie was only working to hold long enough for her allies to make it to their ships. She called for Sunset's help and fought side by side with her. Eventually, the attack on their position ended, although Minnie believed it was more likely that the enemy was looking for an alternate route. She also believed they would wait and attack as the Tune Squad left the cave. After Goofy informed them that it was all-clear, Minnie, with Sunset covering her, was able to make it aboard the Falcon.
With everyone in their ships and accounted for, Minnie believed it was time for the Tune Squad to escape. Her anger at whoever in Lessu betrayed Yendor resurfaced, and Minnie believed she needed to be one who told Yendor about his daughter's death, with the queen also thinking Hahnee's death was her fault. Speaking to him with her comlink, she learned Yendor was having two men activate a secret cannon, which he hoped would give covering fire. After learning his daughter had died, he was informed that Charth's two children were safe. Yendor intended to die directing the cannon, but, after learning about the death of the Phantom Squadron pilot, Minnie offered for him to pilot the leftover X-wing, which he agreed too. After this, Minnie ordered Nien Nunb and Dawn to the Falcon's turrets. In the cockpit, Sunset explained the X-wings could led the other ships, and Minnie agreed to her plan. Soon enough, the Falcon was airborne and leaving Ryloth.
==Aftermath==
By the time they were in the united Corellia teams were aboard ships and escaping the planet, they received word about the evacuation, so Molly asked a new ally, Nifera Shu of the Collective, for a new location for the Tune Squad's forces. While they did set up at this safe house, Molly believed Ryloth showcased that nowhere was safe for the Tune Squad. He believed they needed to scatter throughout the galaxy to grow their movement and that, eventually, they would rise up and destroy the First Order. Ultimately, in 2040,The Musketeers: The Rise of Sunset Shimmer: The Visual Dictionary dates the events of The Musketeers: The Rise of Sunset Shimmer as taking place one year after the Starkiller Incident, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 2039. Therefore, the events of The Musketeers: The Rise of Sunset Shimmer must take place in 2040. the Tune Squad and Citizens' Fleet triumphed over the First Order, led by the resurrected Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine that the First Order had joined, in the Battle of Earth. Following this victory, the people of the galaxy began to rise up against the First Order.
==Behind the scenes==
The Battle of Ryloth first appeared in Rebecca Roanhorse's 2019 novel Tune Squad Reborn and its audiobook adaptation.Tune Squad Reborn audiobook
During the novel, it describes some of the Tune Squad's advertises in the battle as simply being enemies. For these characters, this article does not assume whether they are part of the First Order or another faction, as they could have been from Lessu.
==Appearances==
*Tune Squad Reborn 
*Tune Squad Reborn audiobook 
==Sources==
*The Star Wars Book
*Skywalker: A Family at War 
*Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy 
*Star Wars: Timelines 
==Notes and references==
Category:First Order-Tune Squad war battles