#battle of yavin

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Trust Your Feelings by Alexandr Elichev

[alphamecha-mkii]

Death Star is Cleared to Fire by Joe Wight

[star-wars-forever]

[errantindy]

Ya wanna know what truly makes Galen Erso’s planned weakness and all the effort of getting the Death Star plans in Rogue One darker but still full of hope?

Galen Erso secreted the flaw deep into the Death Star’s construction to get revenge for what the Empire did to his family and to give the galaxy a chance to end this threat to liberty.

Jyn Erso, Rogue One, an entire Rebel fleet and part of Yavin’s fighter wing sacrificed themselves at Eadu and Scarif to get the plans and pass them onward like a torch of hope to Leia and then to R2 and Luke and the gang. More died on Tatooine, Owen, Beru, a clan of Jawas, to keep that hope moving. Ben Kenobi gave his life on the Death Star to push hope further onto Yavin.

Then, the plans were analyzed, a battle plan was made, a plan with LONG, SUICIDAL ODDS, but that’s the hope they have, the torch guttering as it’s passed on. Luke and 29 remaining pilots in the surviving 30 fighters go up while Yavin and almost the heart of the Rebellion is in the crosshairs. 27 pilots die trying to act on the hope they’ve been delivered. And one of the most important, experienced pilots they have left, Red Leader Garven Dries, tries to make the shot…and misses.

All the hope THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS have died for rests on the shoulders of a farmboy swept up by uncaring destiny. And all that leads to that farmboy trying to follow the plan set out for him…and coming to a realization whispered by ghosts:

The targeting computer wielded by a mundane being could never have hit the exhaust port.

All that work, all the blood, sweat, tears, and lives expended to carry hope forward to this point, and only a fledgling chosen one of a sort almost purged from the galaxy, with the barest of training and relying on instinct and ability honed in his daredevil freetime could make the shot that mattered.

[swtechspecs]

Incom Corporation T-65C-A2 X-Wing Space Superiority Fighter

Source: The Star Wars Sourcebook (West End Games, 1987)

[gwempire]

Imagine, for a moment, that you're an evil sinister Dark Lord battling an uprising against your empire, and you notice a young pilot with the same magic powers as you, is the age that your child who died when your wife gave birth would be, shares your old surname, and has the preferred boy name you and your wife picked out. Would it take your evil sinister Dark Lord Overlord telling you that that's your son?

And IMAGINE, for a moment, that you're an evil sinister Dark Lord who's just come to power. You see that a close politician friend of your pregnant politician wife, who has recently died by your hand, has adopted a young girl who has the preferred GIRL name you and your wife picked out, would you be suspicious? Or would it take using your magic powers in a battle against your son by pluck his fears from his mind to realise you have a daughter as well?

Anyway I think Darth Vader was in active denial or dumb as a rock because dude?????

[sidonius5]

[grayrazor]

There are people who say that Clone Wars era starfighters were broadly better than Imperial ones, but in the movies at least, TIE Fighters have a way better K/D ratio than Vulture Droids. Nine TIEs took out 26/30 Rebel fighters over Yavin, while after the Droid Control Ship exploded there were at least half of the ~14 Naboo fighters left despite going up against hundreds of droids.

[inquisitor-apologist]

I think Sabine cried at the Battle of Yavin. I think it was the most beautiful explosion she’d ever seen.

[sandsu03]

Death Star Destruction Service🫡

[domonicriley]

I think the BBY/ABY date system works OK, but considering most of Star Wars is set around the same time, it might be better to make an in universe dating system called the 'Galactic Standard Calendar or similar which starts 1000 or so years before The Clone Wars

So, for example, the Battle of Yavin would take place in something like 1022GSC.

This would make the dating system more like our own and remove the confusion over a 'year 0' which the BBY system has.

[beasanfi1997]

Maybe Anakin sense Ezra frees Lothal kidnapping Thrawn and using the escape pod in the scene of a New Hope After his son Luke blows up the Death Star and so Anakin went to find Ezra

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: The Card Game - Red Three by ameeeeba

[star-wars-forever]

[errantindy]

A New Chapter IS AWAY!

Sand Becomes Pearls Chapter 39: Fear Like Fireflies has been posted.

The attack on the Death Star continues as TIE fighters arrive. Gold Leader begins his attack run, and Pearl and what remains of Red Squadron must defend themselves, defend Gold Squadron, and attempt to mask the rebels real purpose of the attack.

[swtechspecs]

Imperial Navy TIE Pilot's Uniform

Source: Star Wars Technical Journal (Del Rey, 1995)