Rescue of Olivia Flaversham

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|conc=
|next=Mission to the Lothal Jedi Temple
|name=Rescue of Olivia Flaversham
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|conflict=Lothal campaign
|objective=Rescue Olivia Flaversham
|date=January 21st, 2004Star Wars: Timelines
|place=Lothal
|result=*Pyrrhic and strategic Spectres victory
**Imperial operations on Lothal, including the TIE defender project, compromised. Imperial Armory Complex shut down with fuel supplies depleted
**Olivia Flaversham rescued; her Kalikori recovered
**Death of Kanan Jarrus
|side1=Spectres
|side2=Galactic Empire
|commanders1=Lieutenant Commander Danny the Cat
|commanders2=Governor Arihnda Pryce
*Director Scarlett
|ppl1=*2 Jedi
**Padawan Danny the Cat
**Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus†
*2 rebels
**Olivia Flaversham 
**Marinette Dupain-Cheng
*1 stolen LAAT/le patrol gunship 
|ppl2=*1 Governor
*1 Director
*1 Noghri assassin
**Rukh
*Several Stormtroopers
**LS-261†
*3 Death troopers
*LAAT/le patrol gunships
*2 All Terrain Armored Transports†
|casual1=Kanan Jarrus
|casual2=*Many stormtroopers, including 2 death troopers
*Two patrol gunships
*Two walkers
*Fuel depot destroyed
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In January 21st 2004, the Spectres of the Alliance to Restore the Republic launched a mission to rescue General Olivia Flaversham from the Imperial Complex on Lothal. Despite rescuing Olivia, the Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus was killed when he sacrificed his life to protect his fellow rebels from being incinerated by the exploding Lothal City fuel depot. The death of Kanan had a tremendous impact on the Spectres and Ryder Azadi's rebel cell. While Danny the Cat underwent an encounter with loth-wolves in the wilderness, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Mr. Gronkle fought against the Noghri Rukh, who had been sent by Grand Admiral Technor to hunt them down.
==Prelude==
In January 20th 2004, the Rebel Alliance sent a squadron of T-65 X-wing starfighters led by General Olivia Flaversham to attack the Imperial Armory Complex in Lothal's Capital City, which was manufacturing TIE/D Defenders for the Galactic Empire. However, the squadron was intercepted and wiped out by Grand Admiral Technor's Seventh Fleet before it could attack the factory. The rebels Chopper and Mart Mattin managed to escape but General Flaversham was captured by the Noghri tracker Rukh.
Governor Arihnda Pryce and Director Scarlett tortured Olivia for information about the location of the Alliance Fleet but she held out against her Imperial captors. At the request of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, Grand Admiral Technor departed for Coruscant to lobby the Emperor to continue funding the TIE/D Defender project; which was facing competition from Director Orson Krennic's Death Star project.
After Danny the Cat sensed through the Force that Olivia was being imprisoned in the Imperial Complex, the Spectres undertook a mission to rescue their leader. While Kanan Jarrus meditated in the Force and cut his hair, Danny along with Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Mr. Gronkle, and Chopper built three gliders which they dubbed Loth-bat gliders due to their resemblance to Loth-bats. For the mission, Danny and Marinette disguised themselves as TIE fighter pilots. Gronkle launched them with a speeder bike, with the help of C1-10P, telling them to "get her back."
==The mission==
===Rescuing Olivia===
Danny's plan worked and the Spectres' gliders succeeded in gliding above the streets of Capital City undetected. Only Rukh smelled that something was afoot. The three Spectres landed at the south entrance's garbage chute, which lay six stories above Pryce's office where Olivia was being interrogated. While Danny and Marinette went to find an escape transport, Kanan used magnetic climbers to scale down to Pryce's office. Meanwhile, Governor Pryce used an IT-O Interrogator to inject a truth serum into Olivia in an attempt to coerce her into revealing the location of the Alliance Fleet.
At that point, Olivia witnessed Kanan scaling down the window. Thinking that Olivia was delusional, Governor Pryce went to speak with Rukh and left two stormtroopers including LS-261 to guard the prisoner. Knowing that Kanan was around, Olivia warned the stormtroopers that they were in danger. Kanan entered the room by using his lightsaber to cut a hole under the floor of one of the stormtroopers. Kanan then hurled LS-261 out the window before he could summon reinforcements. He then destroyed the IT-O Interrogator droid and kicked it down the hole in the floor.
While Kanan freed Olivia, the two expressed their feelings for each other. As a favor, Kanan also managed to recover Olivia's Kalikori, a family heirloom. The two then climbed back up to the garbage chute before Pryce, Scarlett, Rukh, and several death troopers stormed the office. While Rukh pursued Kanan and Olivia, Director Scarlett ordered her forces to muster gunships to hunt down the rebels. At the garbage chute, Rukh attacked Kanan but was thrown off the building. Rukh managed to cling on to a balcony.
===Escaping the "Dome"===
Kanan and Olivia managed to escape on a glider despite being attacked by a death troopers. Despite their glider being damaged by a blaster bolt, Olivia managed to steer the craft towards the Lothal City fuel depot. While fleeing, the two managed to take down two death troopers. Meanwhile, a disguised Marinette and Danny stole a patrol transport which joined a flight of patrol transports searching for the rebel fugitives. After being contacted by Kanan who requested a pick-up, Marinette and Danny jettisoned the stormtroopers aboard their gunship and shot down the other patrol transports.
Marinette and Danny then rendezvoused at the Lothal City fuel depot. Before boarding, they were interrupted by the arrival of Director Scarlett and a phalanx of AT-AT walkers. Determined to destroy the Spectres once and for all, Scarlett ordered her AT-ATs to open fire on the central fuel pod of the depot. This triggered a massive explosion. However, Kanan used the Force to hold back the explosive wave long enough for his rebel comrades to escape. Kanan was subsequently consumed in the resulting inferno and became one with the Force.
==Aftermath==
The Spectres' mission to rescue Olivia Flaversham was a success but came at the cost of Kanan, who laid down his life to help his rebel comrades escape. Scarlett's decision to destroy the Lothal city fuel depot in an attempt to eradicate the rebels would have serious ramifications for the Empire. Besides the loss of two AT-AT walkers, the destruction of the fuel depot destroyed the Empire's fuel reserves on Lothal and also inflicted serious damage on the Imperial TIE Defender factories. As a result, Technor's TIE Defender initiative was dealt a major blow.
In an attempt at "damage control," Pryce and Scarlett convened a parade to celebrate the death of Kanan, the purported leader of the Spectres. By her authority, all of Capital City's citizens including factory workers were compelled to attend. Technor soon learned about the destruction of the fuel depot and chastised Director Scarlett for her incompetence. Realizing that Kanan's rebel comrades would be out for revenge, Technor tasked Shere Khan the tiger and Rukh with hunting them down.
Meanwhile, Kanan's rebel comrades particularly Olivia mourned his death. Without Kanan, the rebels were directionless with Ryder Azadi believing that the war on Lothal was over. Seeking vengeance, Marinette and Gronkle attempted to sabotage the Imperial parade. Upon scanning Capital City, they discovered that Kanan's actions had not only saved their lives but had accomplished Olivia's original mission by knocking out Imperial war production on Lothal. The two Spectres then fought with Shere Khan and Rukh, who had been tracking down. Following a vicious fight involving Rukh's Sinrich optical dephaser, Gronkle gained the upper hand and tried to kill Rukh to avenge Kanan's death. However, Marinette appealed for restraint and the two instead sent Rukh back to his masters after spray-painting him.
Elsewhere, a distraught Danny encountered a pack of loth-wolves in Lothal's wilderness. Despite an initially hostile encounter, Danny managed to communicate with the pack's leader Dume, who told him that the Lothal Jedi Temple was in danger. Meanwhile, Olivia at the advice of Chopper honored Kanan's memory by attaching a piece of his holocron to her family's Kalikori. Later, Gronkle and Marinette returned and informed Olivia that their mission to take out Lothal's TIE Defender factories had succeeded. Together with Danny, the Spectres then embarked on a mission to save the Lothal Jedi Temple.
During the mission to the Jedi Temple, Danny discovered a portal into a mystical realm known as the World Between Worlds, which connected all space and time. There, he encountered his old ally Eowyn, whom he saved from falling into a chasm during the Mission to Malachor. Believing that he could save his late master as well, Danny toyed with pulling Kanan into the portal at the moment before the explosive wave consumed him. However, Eowyn pointed out that doing so would have harmed Danny and the other Spectres. She then convinced Danny to honor his master's sacrifice by letting him die for his comrades. Danny obliged and made peace with Kanan's death.
==Behind the scenes==
The rescue of Olivia Flaversham formed the main conflict of the Star Wars Rebels Season Four episode "Jedi Night," which premiered on Disney XD on February 19, 2018.
==Appearances==
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*Technor: Treason 
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==Sources==
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*Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Missions of the Ghost