Mission to Jalindi

In 1 BBY, the Spectres were sent on a mission to Jalindi during the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire. The objective was to hijack the Jalindi relay in order to eavesdrop on Imperial transmissions sent through the station. Three members of the crew, Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren and Chopper, sky-dived onto the station's dish from the Ghost in order to install a spike. The mission was complicated by the arrival of the Arquitens-class command cruiser Marauder, which wound up detecting the rebels, prompting Sabine to change the objective and attempt to destroy the relay. Notorious rebel extremist Saw Gerrera arrived and destroyed the dish himself, the explosion also taking down the Marauder. All of the rebels escaped, but Sabine, Ezra and Chopper were forced to accompany Gerrera on another mission after the arrival of a Star Destroyer prevented them from being picked up by the Ghost.

Prelude
Rebel Alliance missions, including a supply run attempted by Captain Hera Syndulla and her squadron, had recently been constantly intercepted by the [Galactic Empire]]. Alderaanian Viceroy Bail Organa discovered that the Empire had built a new communications relay on the planet Jalindi. The Alliance had heard rumours about the relay from notorious extremist Saw Gerrera, leader of the Partisans, but had been skeptical of them because they came from Gerrera, who was not considered the most reliable of sources. At the briefing where the relay was discussed, in answer to Rex's question of how Gerrera and his small, ragtag band had better intelligence than the entire Rebel Alliance, Imperial defector Alexsandr Kallus pointed out that it was because Gerrera, unlike the Alliance, had no qualms whatsoever about how he acquired his intelligence.

Kallus suggested that the Rebels could hack the relay and eavesdrop on Imperial communications, thereby enabling them to stage their operations to avoid Imperial fleets. Alliance leader Mon Mothma approved the plan, and gave the Spectres, lead by Hera Syndulla, the mission. Spectres member Ezra Bridger thought it would be more effective to simply destroy the relay, but Hera pointed out that the Empire would just build another one. That evening, Gerrera contacted the Alliance's headquarters at Yavin 4, smugly pointing out that the Rebellion had to take his information seriously now and insinuating that Mothma's leadership would lead them to ruin. Hera privately agreed that the relay should be destroyed, as after what had happened to her squadron on the failed supply run, she wanted to hurt the Empire as badly as it constantly hurt the Rebels. However, she was committed to following her orders.

Mission
The Spectres' ship, the Ghost, arrived above Jalindi, and Hera scrambled the ship's signature so the Empire wouldn't detect it. As planned, the ship passed high above the relay, and Ezra, Sabine Wren and Chopper leaped out, freefalling to the station. Ezra and Sabine were wearing jetpacks, and Chopper, as an astromech droid, had a rocket booster. At less than 500 metres above the station, low enough that they would not be detected, the three activated their rockets. They landed on the dish at a high rate of speed, and Chopper crashed into the main antenna, causing a momentary disruption in the station's signal. Before they could get to work installing the spike, aboard the Ghost, Garazeb Orrelios reported the arrival of an Arquitens-class command cruiser. Ezra, Sabine and Chopper were forced to run to the other side of the antenna, and Ezra reported that they did not appear to have been spotted by the cruiser.

Sabine and Chopper began hacking into the relay station, and Sabine ordered the droid to patch into the secondary comm relay before installing the spike. When a transmission from the cruiser, the Marauder, came through, it became clear they had accidentally patched into the main communications channel. The Marauder commander was requesting docking clearance from the station. Sabine ordered Chopper to put the ship through to the relay station so the Imperials wouldn't suspect anything was wrong. Ezra had a different idea, and asked Chopper to put him through to the ship. Affecting an accent, he attempted to impersonate the Jalindi relay's commander, claiming that the Marauder had not been expected for another rotation and was causing the station difficulties, ending by asking them to return the next day. The Marauder commander demanded to know who he was speaking to, and Ezra decided to claim that he was "Commander Brom Titus". As Titus was the officer Ezra was attempting to bluff, this was unsuccessful. Titus demanded to know if this was a joke.

The station's dish was realigned, causing Ezra and Sabine to slide into view of the Marauder bridge. When Titus looked at the rebels through a pair of electrobinoculars, he was incensed to recognize Ezra waving at him. He had tangled with the boy on two previous occasions, the first of which had gotten him demoted from the rank of Admiral. Titus ordered one of his bridge crew to get him the real commander of the relay station. Stormtroopers were sent onto the dish, and Ezra and Sabine fought them. She contacted Hera to report that they had been spotted and request a pickup. Sabine decided to attempt to blow the station up, as a way to salvage the mission. As she and Ezra fought the stormtroopers, she attempted to plant detonators on the dish. Ezra had Chopper realign the dish, throwing the stormtroopers off-balance as everyone slid back into the dish's centre.

When Titus was informed that a small ship, the Ghost, was approaching, he ordered his cruiser's weapons prepped and their two new fighters launched. Onboard the Ghost, Zeb reported to Hera that the fighters were the highly advanced TIE/D Defenders, and Hera was forced to break off her approach. On the dish, Ezra ordered Chopper to realign it again, as more stormtroopers had arrived. He and Sabine slid towards the other side of the dish. Sabine caught hold of a support strut for one of the smaller secondary dishes, and grabbed Ezra by the hand before he could slide off. The stormtroopers, however, were not so lucky.

As the Ghost was being pursued by the heavily-shielded Defenders, Hera's copilot, Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus, advised her to head into the foggy depths surrounding the stone pillars of the local landscape. Using the Force, he gave her directions through the pillars. As the pilots of the Defenders were unable to perceive the pillars in the same way, both fighters eventually crashed. Back at the relay, Titus was informed of the arrival of another rebel ship, a UT-60D U-wing starfighter/support craft, which fired on the Marauder and severely damaged it, disabling its deflector shields. The ship flew up to the dish, and Ezra and Sabine were surprised to see Saw Gerrera on board. Gerrera invited them onboard, as he pushed several sets of proton bombs onto the dish, warning that he had set them on short fuses. Ezra, Sabine and Chopper boarded Gerrera's ship, which was copiloted by his lieutenant Edrio Two Tubes.

The stormtroopers on the dish, noting the bombs' short timers, attempted to flee, and Titus, onboard his cruiser, ordered his bridge crew to pursue the fleeing U-wing. However, it was too late, as the detonation of the proton bombs destroyed the relay station and the nearby Marauder. Hera, returning from dealing with the Defenders, witnessed the explosion from the Ghost. Contacting Ezra and Sabine, she was relieved to know that they were safe, but less so to know that they were with Gerrera.

Aftermath
The two rebel ships left Jalindi's atmosphere. Hera intended to dock the Ghost with Gerrera's U-wing in order to retrieve Ezra, Sabine and Chopper, but was prevented by the arrival of a Star Destroyer, forcing both ships to flee into hyperspace. Ezra, Sabine and Chopper, separated from the rest of the Spectres, accompanied Gerrera on a mission to investigate a mysterious Imperial shipment.