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The Battle of Scarif, also known as the action on Scarif, the mission to Scarif, or the raid on Scarif, was the first major battle fought in 0 BBY between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. The battle was preceded by years of attacks by the fledgling Rebel Alliance against the Empire and began the five-year period in which the Alliance successfully fought to replace the Galactic Empire with the New Republic. Prior to the battle, Rebel Alliance Intelligence Service intercepted information suggesting that renowned scientist Galen Erso was building an Imperial superweapon capable of destroying entire planets. Alliance leadership sent Galen Erso's daughter, Jyn Erso | Jyn Erso(Human)CharacterMajor Characters |
, and Captain Cassian Andor | Cassian Andor(Human)CharacterMajor Characters |
to learn more about her father's involvement, and their subsequent efforts saw the Alliance discover the existence of the Death Star | Death StarStarshipSpace Stations |
, as well as a fatal flaw in the design placed there by Galen Erso. Though the Alliance High Command refused to openly oppose the Empire, Erso and Andor led a small unit of Rebel Marines and other allies and defied orders, taking it upon themselves to launch an incursion of the Scarif Citadel, as the rebels planned to infiltrate the heavily guarded Citadel Tower base on Scarif | ScarifPlanet |
to retrieve the Death Star plans. Under the callsign Rogue One, the unit infiltrated Scarif's planetary shield in a stolen Zeta-class cargo shuttle.jpg) | SW-0608(Zeta-class Cargo Shuttle)StarshipNamed Starships |
and proceeded to wage a guerrilla assault on the Citadel's outskirts, drawing away Imperial forces so that Andor, Erso, and the droid K-2SO | K-2SO(KX-series Security Droid)CharacterDroids |
could infiltrate the facility. Director Orson Krennic | Orson Krennic(Human)CharacterSupporting Characters |
, the former commander of the Death Star, attempted to stop Erso and Andor from stealing the plans, but the heavily outnumbered Rebels received support from the Alliance Fleet under Admiral Raddus | Raddus(Mon Calamari)CharacterSupporting Characters |
, whose forces engaged the Imperial Star Destroyers | Imperial-class Star DestroyerStarshipStarship Models |
above Scarif and worked to destroy the Shield Gate | Scarif's Shield GateStarshipSpace Stations |
protecting the planet. With the Shield Gate's destruction, Rogue One was able to transmit the stolen plans to the fleet above, though all remaining Rebel ground forces were eradicated by a low-powered blast from the newly arrived Death Star that destroyed the Citadel and surrounding area. The Sith Lord Darth Vader | Darth Vader(Human)CharacterMajor Characters |
's forces made short work of the rebel ships that did not manage to retreat, but Princess Leia Organa | Leia Organa Solo(Human)CharacterMajor Characters |
escaped the battle in the Tantive IV.jpg) | Tantive IV(CR90 Corellian Corvette)StarshipNamed Starships |
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