Death Star: episode #22 The Death Star Plans
Previously: the Maurders left the place where they had conversed with Boba Fett and were now all off in separate places. Jabba decided to go to his palace on Tatooine. Dash Corta and Han Solo, both smugglers, were waiting for Jabba�s return in his palace. Jabba asked Han to do a special smuggling assignment for him. The contents were worth 99 million credits! While on their way, and Imperial ship stopped them, which meant boarding, so Han was forced to dump the spice. Boba Fett had been on that ship and had tracked Han down. Fett could do nothing to get Chewie though because the Imperials had restrained him. Lando, on a special assignment for Bail Organa, which involved the use of R2-D2 and C-3PO.
�Lando Calrissian? This is Bail Organa.� Lando says, �I�m her.� Then Bail continues, �good, I need you to do something for the rebellion. I understand that there is to be an Imperial Cruiser coming through your sector. They are carrying something vital to the survival of the Rebellion�I need you to use those droids I sent you earlier for the job. There is certain information in the ship�s computer that we must have It is a detailed plan of something they�re calling The Death Star. Use the R2 unit to retrieve the information, then send it to Tatooine to Obi-Wan Kenobi. There is as pre-recorded message on there for him. IF you run into any problems, drop the droids at the nearest planet�the mission has been programmed into them.� Lando says, �all right, got you. I�ll be right on it as soon as I get things set up her.� Lando was a Rebel already and had helped in certain things having to do with the Rebellion before, but this was the biggest thing he�d been involved with. The Rebellion was fairly new. I mean it had existed before the Emperor took over the republic, but a person had t be very careful. IT had started as soon as everyone realized what was going on�and there was nothing anyone could do about it by that time. The few people that tried to oppose the Emperor directly were found dead. Pretty soon the resistance groups had gone together to form the rebellion. In the very early stages, it had to be a secret. It had only been recently, when there was enough support through the galaxy, that the Rebellion revealed itself. They had done little things, but this was the biggest. And Lando was a key player in it. The first thing Lando did was check the schedule of Imperial cruisers carrying anything unusual. Lando knew that R2-D2 could splice any computer, so he plugged him in. After a couple minutes R2-D2 beeped. Lando glanced at the screen. �Hmmm�Bail was right. O dear, it�s scheduled to show up in 5 minutes. We�d better get ready for this!� Grand Moff Tarkin, the main in charge of the Death Star and all activities having to do with it was the commanding officer aboard the ship. Lando had sent his men in their own ships to disable the ship. Tarkin had decided that this mission was so important that he should pretend it was nothing. Like having no other ships with him. He felt that if it were well guarded, someone would know something was really going on (The Rebellion), and would try to take it down. He hadn�t cleared that with the Emperor, but he was hoping everything would go as planned. Also, as part of the plan, Tarkin was planning to go out of hyperspace every once in a while and to just be causal. So, when Tarkin came out of lightspeed, he found himself surrounded by Lando�s men. It didn�t take much to board Tarkin�s ship. You see the Empire revolved around fear. So, why not give them a taste of their own medicine. Lando, knowing the importance of what Tarkin was carrying, says, �We�ll blow apart your ship if you don�t let us pirates on.� Pirates were coming things in the galaxy these days. They would do things like this. Tarkin felt he had no choice but to let hem on. AS soon as Lando and his men were on, he says to one small group, �restrain him for now.� But it had already been too late�right before Lando�s crew boarded, Tarkin had sent out a message directly to the Emperor. �I�m being barded.� The Emperor says, �We�re sending troops there now�.they should be their in 10 minutes.� Lando had heard this, so he says, �We don�t have much time. We�ve got to get to those plans!� Tarkin was restrained, but they all knew that the Empire would hear of it being the Rebellion, and that they�d better not be there! C-3PO spoke up, �Might I suggest something, sir? It seems as if there is a huge compute rover to the right.� (3PO points) Lando nods, �thanks, we�ll check it out.� Sure enough, it was obviously the computer that had the plans. A minute later, R2-D2 extracted the entire computer file. They left the ship and the area. They all pretended to go off in a different direction other than Cloud City. They returned to cloud City via a longer route. Tarkin immediately checks the computer ad found that the whole file was missing. Tarkin was mad! He kicked the useless computer. He had to report this to the Emperor. Tarkin decided the best place to do that would be form the Death Star. Tarkin had contacted the Emperor to report the missing plans before Darth Vader�s ship arrived at the same time. But that event is not next. Next time has to do with the Emperor�s daughters.
Until next time!
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Death Star: episode #22 The Death Star Plans