Battle of Mustafar (Imperial Period)

The Battle of Mustafar was an isolated battle that occurred eight years after the end of the Clone Wars. It was the first and only stand of Gizor Dellso against the Empire.

In possession of stolen Imperial starfighter plans, the Geonosian engineer Gizor Dellso fled to Mustafar, where he built his own droid army, which did not respond to Darth Vader's deactivation of the droids after the Clone Wars. Dellso also used the hidden droid factory on the planet to create a new type of superior battle droid.

Space Battle
The 501st Legion, under command of Vader, was transported to Mustafar by a Star Destroyer to crush Dellso's uprising. However, the ship's hangar was immediately invaded by one of Dellso's HMPs, which dispatched battle droids onto the ship. Imperials blew up the HMP and eliminated the intruding droids fairly quickly. 501st pilots boarded their starfighters and successfully knocked out the shields on the enemy cruiser. Dellso's space blockade had been demolished, however his ground forces were still ready for attack.

Unusually, Darth Vader sent a personal request to his stormtroopers, ordering them to retrieve a Belbullab-22 starfighter and return it to the Star Destroyer's hangar.

Siege of the Mining Facility
501st troopers were deployed on a platform outside the droid facility on Mustafar. As they stormed the factory center, they were able to destroy the two droid prototype schematics (of a new battle droid model), tearing through the facility and taking out the fledgling droid army. Dellso and his Geonosian bodyguards at last appeared, taking many enemy lives, but were ultimately killed in the heavy crossfire.

The Imperial forces executed a Base Delta Zero command on the Mustafar complex, totally destroying the facility and the secret droid factory. In the years following, the ruined complex would be replaced by the Mensix Mining Facility in operation during the Galactic Civil War.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront II