Death Star Uprising

The Escape of Death Star I was a couragious effort by the Rebel Alliance soldiers that were being held prisoner on the holding facility of the first Death Star by fighting to the imperial hangar and stealing a Lambda-class shuttle.

Some time prior to the Battle of Yavin a group of captive rebels and a Jedi Padawan who some how escaped the slaughter of Order 66(or at least was trained by one) formed a daring plan to escape from the imperial super weapon. Unfortunately for these rebels they attacked when the most elite of the Empire's batalions, the 501st Legion, was assigned to the Death Star at the time. Fleeing from the Legion, the captives hoped to arrive at the hangar before they were eliminated. When they finally arrived the Legion was right behind them and destroyed the shuttle that the rebels had hoped to escape in.

With the option of escape gone the prisoners knew they were doomed and decided to try to defeat the imperials troops that stopped them. They fought bravely, but ultimately the Legion defeated them and even they Jedi Padawan's power was no match for the 501st.

Later the Empire would discover that a small amount of rebels were able to escape the prison with valuable imperial data. It is unkown exacally how they escaped, but it is probibly that there was a second shuttle that some of the captives escaped in before the 501st arrived at the hangar. To corect their mistake, the Legion was sent to a rebel base on Polis Massa where the rebel captives were believed to have fleed to.