Death Star Attack
TIME: 10 minutes
BACKGROUND
- THE REBELLION
When Princess Leia became the youngest senator
ever in the Imperial Senate, representing Alderaan she ran a
number of "diplomatic aid missions" that were fronts for Rebel
resupply missions. She used her diplomatic immunity and her consular ship to
gain access to restricted areas.
One such mission saw Leia's ship intercepting
vital Imperial plans stolen by Rebel spies. These plans, the complete
technical readouts of the Death Star battle station, could be exploited by
the Alliance to secure a sizable victory over the Empire.
Armed with the
Death Star plans, Leia was given a mission by her adoptive father to find
one of the Republic's greatest heroes and recruit him into the Alliance. En
route to the planet Tatooine to find General Obi-Wan Kenobi, Leia's ship was
attacked by Imperial forces, and she was taken prisoner by Lord Darth Vader.
She barely had time to hide the stolen plans into the memory systems of an R2
unit, and ordered it to find Obi-Wan on Tatooine.
As a prisoner of Vader, Leia underwent
terrible torture aboard the Death Star. In addition to the mind probes, the
Imperials forced her to witness the destruction of her home planet of
Alderaan. Despite this, she refused to reveal the location of the hidden
Rebel base, or the whereabouts of the stolen plans. Shortly thereafter, Luke
Skywalker and Han
Solo rescued her from the battle station and carried her and the stolen
plans to the Rebel base on Yavin's fourth moon.
Using
the stolen plans, Rebel intelligence analysts have discovered two
small, but crucial weaknesses.
The defences onboard the Death Star are designed to repel
large scale attack forces of capital ships.
A small strike force of Starfighters (either Y-wings, or
X-wings) should be able to penetrate these defences, assuming they
can fight past the TIE Starfighter squadrons the Imperials are
sure to station on the Death Star.
Also, a single proton torpedo, launched into the secondary
exhaust port, will start a chain reaction in the main power
generator that will destroy the Empire’s latest terror weapon.
All it takes is one good shot…
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