The EMP successfully disabled the station's defenses long enough for Rebel search teams to raid the station. Solo undertook a mission to infiltrate the Imperial shipping facilities in the Vergesso Asteroids, planting a tracking device and EMP emitter in a cargo container bound for an Imperial research station in Corulag. Solo, originally extremely reluctant to involve himself in Rebel affairs, was forced to comply after Antilles made assisting him the condition for rescuing him from Imperial custody over the surface of Corellia. Various missions were undertaken by the Rebel Alliance with this purpose, but while some of them succeeded, others simply confirmed the Death Star's existence, name and purpose, which were in fact already known to the Leader of the Alliance.įor the raid on Vergesso facilities Captain Raymus Antilles secured the assistance of Han Solo's smuggling skills. The Alliance set into motion the biggest anti-Imperial offensive it had ever attempted: a complex, coordinated operation to compile a complete set of plans for the Death Star and transmit it to the Tantive IV. If their engineers could pinpoint a weakness in the battlestation, then the Rebels might be able to destroy it. As the construction of the Death Star drew closer to completion, Mon Mothma and Bail Organa knew that Rebels needed to obtain a complete technical readout of the Death Star. There Emperor Palpatine revealed them the name and the purpose of the battle station before executing them, but the Rebel leaders were saved by Galen Marek, who sacrificed himself to allow them escape. The first vital piece of information about the Death Star was obtained during the mission to Darkknell, which took place sometime before the signing of the Corellian Treaty in 2 BBY, during which Darth Vader captured the Rebel Leaders Bail Prestor Organa, Mon Mothma and Garm Bel Iblis and sent them to the unfinished Death Star I for execution. The top-secret Imperial weapons project headed by Wilhuff Tarkin was hinted at by several high officials, including Tarkin himself, but its true nature remained unknown for some time. History The Rebel Alliance acquires the plans First encounter
In large part because of this, the Empire split up the plans and sent it to various places of the galaxy to prevent enemy hands from acquiring it. Blueprints were used as a basis for construction of the station, and, after the Death Star's completion, the plans became a prime target for the Rebellion, whose members hoped to find and exploit a weakness in the superweapon. Once the Clone Wars were over, Palpatine shaped this idea for his own purposes. Tyranus managed to arrive at the Works of Coruscant and he delivered the schematics personally to Darth Sidious. The future of the galaxy was strongly affected by this decision. Tyranus defeated the two Knights however, Yoda, in order to save the other two, let Tyranus escape with the plans. Poggle the Lesser possessed the original (or a copy of the) plans, which he handed to Count Dooku during the First Battle of Geonosis.ĭarth Tyranus attempted to flee the planet and go to Coruscant, but he was intercepted by Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Yoda who sought to capture him. The idea for the Death Star began when the Confederacy of Independent Systems designed the Ultimate Weapon, using plans and concepts provided by Wilhuff Tarkin. The plans given to Count Dooku at the start of the Clone Wars.
If they find out what we are planning to build, we're doomed.»" ―Poggle the Lesser «The Jedi must not find our designs for the Ultimate Weapon.
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