Jungle Convoy Ambush

The **Jungle Convoy Ambush** on Onderon was a mission assigned by Onderon Command and carried out by Strike Team 42 to capture intelligence on an Imperial high value target.

## **Ambush!**

### **Prelude**

After being ordered to inspect and recover information on Imperial movements from a downed Imperial transport by Lieutenant Ollins, Strike Team 42 went deep into the jungles of Onderon with the secondary objective to find a Rebel pathfinder team lead by Natala Stannick. While Calo Pliskin and Kodrick Zusk stayed behind, the rest of the team moved into the jungle, eventually finding a crashed *Carrack*-class light cruiser. Eventually discovering the location of this crashed ship, they found only the back half. After being ambushed by an Imperial team, Jonaa Duelian, Marco, and Domino quickly dispatched them and began to enter the ship. While Jonaa stayed outside and provided security, Marco and Domino scavenged the cruiser, which was littered with bodies. They eventually came across a terminal, and recovered information on an Imperial convoy passing through back roads in the jungle to avoid detection. They set out into the jungle and eventually ran into the pathfinder team, taking them back to the *Liberator One* and returning to Delta Base after a long and exhausting mission. Rejoined by Calo and Kodrick, the team was ordered to intercept the convoy.

### **The Battle**

After landing a distance away, the team made their way to the road that the convoy would be traveling on. They noticed that, based on a lack of swept up dust and tracks, the convoy had yet to pass through. Quickly assembling a road block of cut down palm trees, Jonaa stood at the front near the road block while the rest took up position in the jungle. As the convoy of three K79-S80 Imperial Troop Transports pulled up, a pair of stormtroopers came out, ordering that he remove himself from the vicinity. Jonaa, however, determined to bluff his way through the stormtroopers, failed to do so, and the stormtroopers opened fire while Jonaa charged them with his vibrosword and rushed to the side of the ITT, and Marco quickly moving to engage the middle transport. After the stormtrooper sergeant ordered the middle transport be protected, Marco lunged a thermal detonator inside of it, blowing the interior of the transport into pieces. Calo rushed forward, trying to recover whatever vital intelligence might be inside of the transport, but failed to do so, and rushed into the front transport with Jonaa and Kodrick. Jonaa managed to clear out the vehicle, and Kodrick took a seat inside. Kodrick instinctively backed into the other transport, which threw Jonaa off as he tried to fire off the blaster cannon built into the ITT. The fight continued for several minutes before the sound of TIE fighters could be heard, and they rushed overhead. Strike Team 42, knowing that Imperial air support meant bad news, quickly rushed into the jungle towards the *Liberator One* and boarded it, soaring off. However, due to a lack of munitions inside the transport's weapons, they had only one volley of blaster fire, and were being chased by three TIE/ln fighters. Marco, who had found a vial of coaxium on an Imperial Officer earlier, worked with Jonaa to attempt to throw it at the TIEs and make a massive explosion they would fly into. However, Jonaa threw it into the *Liberator One*'s wing instead, leaving a small mark in the transport. Eventually, Domino spotted a rock formation, and as they soared through, Calo blasted it with the one volley of laser cannons on the starfighter, and managed to shake the pursuing TIE fighters.

### **Aftermath**

Managing to return to Delta Base safely, the team has recovered the intelligence on an Imperial Advisor coming to Onderon for a short while, and would be staying at Iziz. After deciding this mission was of great importance to the Rebellion in order to capture what was inside the Iziz palace, Raith Gensly personally saw the operation through at Delta Base, placing Agent Foxtrot as mission lead of what would be known as "Operation Eclipse."

## **Appearances**

*Star Wars: Age of Rebellion II*

* Episode II: Jungle Ambush! (First appearance)
* Episode III: The Iziz Infiltration (Mentioned only)