Attack on Phoenix Squadron

The **Attack on Phoenix Squadron** was a major yet small battle from *Star Wars Rebels*. It deals with the Rebel fleet fighting against an Imperial fleet led by Darth Vader. The battle takes place in the Season 2 premiere, "The Siege of Lothal."

## History

### Background

It all started after a team of Rebels from the planet, Lothal called the Crew of the Ghost which consisted of Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren, Zeb Orrelios, Ezra Bridger, and an Astromech Droid named Chopper joined the Rebellion and the Rebel fleet known as Phoenix Squadron which was led by Commander Jun Sato and even included Ahsoka Tano. But during that time, Darth Vader came to Lothal to try and capture the Rebels, especially their Jedi members, Kanan and Ezra after they killed the Grand Inquisitor who Vader dispatched to hunt them down. So Darth Vader and Governor Tarkin threatened the life of the Imperial Minister of Lothal, Minister Tua for her failure to find the Rebels by meeting with them the next day so Minister Tua secretly called the Rebels to help her get off Lothal for her own safety, and in exchange, she would give the Rebels secret Imperial information of a list Rebel synthesizers on Lothal and in other systems which the Rebels reluctantly agreed to do. However, during the Crew of the Ghost's attempt to help her from the Lothal capital city, both Darth Vader and Agent Kallus who were aware of what Minister Tua was doing, killed her on the Imperial shuttle she was going to leave Lothal on by blowing it up and framed the Rebels for it. The Rebels tried to escape Lothal, but their Rebel ship was shot down by some Stormtroopers, forcing them to try and leave Lothal for good. They tried to escape on another Imperial shuttle with some Imperial shield generators but then they were confronted by Darth Vader who attacked Kanan and Ezra but the Rebels barely escaped from him on the shuttle. Then with help from Lando Calrissian and his Protocol Droid, Willie, the Rebels were able to get off Lothal and smuggle the Imperial shield generators past the Imperial blockade around Lothal and back to Phoenix Squadron using transponders to hide their signal. But which, the Rebels discovered that a refugee town on Lothal called Tarkintown had been burned down by the Empire under orders from Darth Vader and all the people there had been captured by the Empire as punishment for receiving aid from the Rebels in the past just to crush the Rebel's hope. However, a tracking device was placed upon the shuttle the Rebels were using which the Empire used to track them back to Phoenix Squadron. When the Rebels found out about it, they tried to get the whole fleet to escape before the Empire could find them but were too late.

### The Battle

Darth Vader arrives at Phoenix Squadron's position in his TIE Fighter to attack the fleet alone which the Rebels find out but don't know that it's Darth Vader on the TIE Fighter. So Commander Sato sends out some Rebel fighter ships to fight him off but Darth Vader is able to wipe most of them out all by himself for they were outmatched by him. Darth Vader then attacks the Rebel command ship of Phoenix Squadron so the Crew of the Ghost and Ahsoka go out to fight him off using the Rebels' main ship, the Ghost. However, when the Rebels fight off Darth Vader, he is able to dodge their blasts and damage the Rebel command ship's shields and hyperdrive core so the command ship is on the verge of being destroyed. But Hera takes charge of the surviving Rebels' fighter ships to fight off Vader while Ahsoka and Kanan try to probe Vader's mind using the Force to find out who he is after sensing the Force within him. But during the fight, Ezra senses with the Force that it is Darth Vader they are fighting on the TIE Fighter then Ahsoka discovers during the mind probe that he is her former Jedi master, Anakin Skywalker which causes her to fall unconscious. But the Rebels are able to get Darth Vader to break off from his attack on the Rebel fighter ships then Kanan tells Commander Sato that he must get Phoenix Squadron to safety but he doesn't want to abandon the Rebel command ship despite Hera's urges to do it. But then an Imperial fleet of three Star Destroyers arrive led by Admiral Kostantine to help Vader attack Phoenix Squadron then Darth Vader orders the Star Destroyers to block off Phoenix Squadron's escape and to hold their fire on it because he wants the all Rebels on the fleet alive. So Commander Sato eventually complies with Kanan and Hera's requests and orders the Rebel crew on the Rebel command ship to evacuate into escape pods while ordering the Crew of the Ghost to keep Darth Vader occupied while the Rebel Crew evacuates. Then after Phoenix Squadron manages to escape into hyperspace to safety after securing the escape pods from the Rebel Command Ship after it gets destroyed. Hera has Chopper divert all power from the Ghost to the hyperdrive which she uses to trick Darth Vader into getting his TIE Fighter captured by the tracker beam of one of the Star Destroyers which Admiral Konstantine was using to try and capture the Ghost while the Crew of the Ghost and Ahsoka manage to escape from the Empire into hyperspace too before they are captured by tracker beam.

### Aftermath

After the Rebels regrouped with Phoenix Squadron, Ezra and Kanan talked to Ahsoka about Darth Vader, and Ezra questioned her about who he was but Ahsoka denied knowing his identity in order to protect the Rebels. Meanwhile, after Darth Vader's TIE Fighter was freed from the tracker beam, Darth Vader boarded one of the Star Destroyers where he talked to his master, Emperor Palpatine alone on the main bridge who revealed to him that Ahsoka was alive and in league with the Rebels. So Palpatine ordered Darth Vader to dispatch another Inquisitor to hunt the Rebels down, hoping to capture Ahsoka so they could use her to find any remaining Jedi like Obi-Wan. While the Rebels would have to find a new base due to the Rebel command ship being destroyed which would eventually lead to the Assault on Seelos.

## Belligerents

### Rebellion

* Ezra Bridger
* Kanan Jarrus
* Hera Syndulla
* Sabine Wren
* Zeb Orrelios
* Chopper
* Ahsoka Tano
* Commander Sato
* Rebel Pilots
* Other Rebels

### Empire

* Darth Vader
* Admiral Konstantine
* Imperial Officers

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