Mission to Scarif

### Result

Boba Fett successfully recovers the *Black-Saber* data tape from the remains of the Citadel Tower

Commanders| Boba Fett | * Maximilian Veers
* Stormtrooper Commander

Participants| * Boba Fett
* *Slave I*
	+ *Avenger*
	+ Another Imperial II-class Star Destroyer
* 1 Arquitens-class command cruiser
	+ Unidentified Arquitens-class command cruiser
* Unidentified TIE Fighter squadron
	+ TIE/ln space superiority starfighters
* 4 TIE/IN Interceptors
* 2 Imperial transports
* 1 Sentinel-class landing craft
	+ Unidentified Sentinel-class landing craft
* 1 Lambda-class T-4a shuttle
* Stormtroopers
	+ Unidentified stormtrooper squadron (Citadel Tower)
* 1 Stormtrooper Commander
* Several Jumptroopers
* At least 2 Imperial shock troopers
* At least 1 scout trooper
	+ Unidentified Imperial sharpshooter
* 1 old Viper probe droid
	+ XJ9-CS15

Casualties| None | * At least 83 stormtroopers
* The Stormtrooper Commander
* 2 Imperial shock troopers
* All jumptroopers
* 1 scout trooper
* Many TIE Fighters
* All TIE Interceptors
* Both Imperial troop dropships
* The Sentinel-class landing craft
* The Lambda shuttle

The **Mission to Scarif** happened when Boba Fett went to the planet Scarif to retrieve a data tape codenamed *Black-Saber* from the remains of the Citadel Tower, under orders from Andressa Divo. However, Fett wasn't the only one after the data tape, as the Dark Empire intended to claim it as well. In the end, Fett was able to complete his mission, fighting his way through the Dark Empire's forces that arrived at Scarif, and successfully delivering the *Black-Saber* data tape to Divo on Denon.

## Prelude

Around 8 ABY-9 ABY, Andressa Divo contacted Boba Fett, the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, telling him that she had an assignment. After Boba met with her, Divo explained that the assignment was to recover a data tape called *Black-Saber* from the remains of the Citadel complex on Scarif, as it had highly classified information. Fett accepted, knowing of the reward that he would be paid.

## The mission

### Fett goes to Scarif

Boba, in *Slave I*, flew all the way to Scarif. As he emerged from hyperspace, Fett encountered a debris field left over from the Battle of Scarif from eight years earlier. He flew among the remains of the Shield Gate, as well as passing the wreckage of the Star Destroyers *Intimidator* and *Persecutor*. Touching down on Landing pad eight at the remains of the Imperial security complex, Fett saw the remains of the Citadel Tower, noting that it would be unstable to walk on. Boba walked past the corpses of both Rebel Troopers and Imperial Troopers, wondering how they were still there after all these years of being out in the open.

### Recovering the data tape

However, as Fett entered the remains of the citadel via a railspeeder, he was being watched by the viper probe droid XJ9-CS15, who had been dispatched there years earlier to search for the Rebel Alliance's new base. After spotting the bounty hunter, XJ9 transmitted its findings back to General Maximilian Veers of the Dark Empire. After this, Veers knew that Fett was going for the *Black-Saber* data tape. So, the General took the *Avenger*, along with another Imperial II-class Star Destroyer and an Arquitens-class command cruiser to go to Scarif.

Meanwhile, Fett had entered the abandoned corridors, walking past scattered objects alike. The corridors were unstable due to damage to the tower caused by the fireball at the end of the Battle of Scarif, and there were rumbling noises caused by the tower's damaged state happening at all times. As Boba entered an elevator, he had to press the start button three times to get it working, as it had been unused and partly broken down for nearly nine years. Later, Fett, using a salvaged map of the tower, got to the area where the entrance to the data vault was. He passed several stormtrooper corpses, even coming across the unmoved body of K-2SO. Fett noticed that the data vault's entrance was locked, as K-2SO had destroyed the controls to it during the Battle of Scarif to ensure that Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor would succeed in stealing the Death Star plans. So he attached a specialized thermal detonator to the vault entrance, blowing it open.

#### General Veers arrives

In orbit of Scarif, Veers and his ships dropped out of hyperspace. Veers dispatched two Imperial transports and a Sentinel-class landing craft to the planet's surface. There, the stormtroopers aboard the crafts would be tasked with recovering the *Black-Saber* data tape. A squad of the troopers was deployed to enter the Citadel Tower in order to do this.

#### Fett succeeds in getting the data tape and fights the stormtroopers inside

Upon entering the vault and seeing the partially-destroyed data tower, Fett skimmed through the files in search of the plans and stopped at *Black-Saber*, and realized that they must be the plans he was looking for. However, he had to go outside the vault to use the near-destroyed control computer outside, partially repairing it using his tools; to highlight the data-tape's position. After he did this, he proceeded to use the still-functioning retrieving mechanism to get it, and succeeded, even though there were small objects collapsing and rumbling noises. As Fett prepared to leave, he turned around and saw a stormtrooper, who was part of the squad dispatched to enter the tower, holding him at gunpoint and telling Fett to raise his hands. Fett grabbed the trooper, wrestling him down and pushing him out of the broken window. The stormtrooper fell to his death below as a result. Boba then encountered the rest of the stormtrooper squad, engaging them in combat.

### The battle rages outside

After disposing of the stormtroopers, Boba then went outside onto the ruined forward landing pad of the tower. He noted that there would be more Imperial Troopers in the surrounding grounds, following the squad he just fought inside the tower. Suddenly, a group of Jumptroopers appeared out of nowhere and attacked Fett. During the confrontation, both Fett and the troopers used their jetpacks and weapons to fight each other both on the ruined pad and in the sky. After he disposed of the jumptroopers, Fett then rocketed away, hoping to ambush the stormtroopers who were in the surrounding grounds.

Out in the surrounding area, stormtroopers were patrolling the waters and grounds outside for any trace of Fett's presence. Suddenly, a grenade appeared at their position, where it exploded, killing several of the troopers. Fett then appeared, engaging the stormtroopers, viciously killing several of them. Two Imperial shock troopers arrived, engaging the bounty hunter in close quarters. Despite their heavy weapons, Fett was able to kill one of them using his flamethrower, and blasted the other in his head, knocking the trooper into the water, where a few shoretrooper and stormtrooper helmets left over from the Battle of Scarif were lying in the water. Then, Fett engaged the Stormtrooper Commander of the deployment, easily killing him with a blaster. Fett then went to landing pad eight, hoping to leave with the data tape as his mission was done, but he saw that a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle containing reinforcements had landed there, and its troopers were securing the landing pad. Fett appeared, and one of troopers stated that they didn't want Fett, as they wanted the data tape. Fett got out a blaster pistol and shot a fuel container, causing it to explode and knocking the troopers aside. Fett then proceeded to again engage the stormtroopers, defeating them all. As Fett prepared a grenade in order to destroy the shuttle, an Imperial sharpshooter climbed onto the top of the bunker entrance, taking aim at Fett. However, Fett sensed the sniper and shot him down, causing the trooper to fall onto the ground. Boba successfully lobbed the grenade into the shuttle, destroying it instantly.

### Boba's departure

Meanwhile, the remaining stormtroopers retreated after seeing smoke rising from the destroyed Lambda shuttle from afar, heading back to the Imperial transports. Fett watched the transports leaving, and launched his jetpack missile into one of the transports, causing it to crash into the other transport, destroying them both. At that same moment, Fett saw the Sentinel-class craft escaping from another position within the trees, and gave pursuit in *Slave I*. Fett gave chase, chasing the Sentinel-class shuttle into the sky. After some time, he had his target locked, but was then attacked by four TIE/IN interceptors. Fett quickly shot at the landing craft's engines, disabling one of it's engines before breaking off to fight the TIE interceptors. Boba and *Slave I* went into the clouds, confusing the interceptors, and then suddenly came out and destroyed one of the TIEs with the laser cannons. Fett, with this advantage, gained the upper hand and resumed his pursuit of the damaged landing craft. Finally, Fett disabled the Sentinel-class craft with a single ion torpedo, sending it plunging into the oceans of Scarif. Still, the remaining three TIE Interceptors were in pursuit, so Fett unloaded a seismic charge from *Slave I*, causing it to fall to the interceptors' vicinity, where it exploded, destroying them.

Boba Fett blasted into space, where he encountered the *Avenger,* the other Star Destroyer, and the light cruiser in orbit. Fett noticed that the ships were positioned to prevent the possibility of him escaping from Scarif. General Veers ordered a squadron of TIE Fighters to engage Fett's ship, and the squadron was deployed from the *Avenger*. Fett would then engage the TIEs in combat in space, around the ships, and also around the space debris left over from the Battle of Scarif. After destroying several of the fighters, Boba detected several New Republic ships emerging from hyperspace, and jumped to lightspeed, fleeing the Scarif system a few moments before the New Republic forces arrived.

## Aftermath

> "*I brought you the data tape, Andressa Divo. If you want to keep it...*pay me*.*"
> ― Boba Fett
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Fett then met with Divo on Denon, where he handed over the *Black-Saber* data tape. When Divo explained that this was a trying time in the Age of the New Republic, Fett remained focused on the money he was owed, demanding to be paid after all he had been through at Scarif. After this, Fett received his reward, departing Denon in *Slave I*.

In 9 ABY, during a skirmish on Tython, as Boba shot two Imperial transports out of the sky with his jetpack missile, he recalled in his mind how he had done the same thing to the two Imperial transports on Scarif.

## Appearances

* Into the Great Unknown (First appearance)
* *Boba and Fennec* (Indirect mention only)
* Gambit on Geonosis (Indirect mention only)