Raid over Corulag

Acting on the advice of Princess Leia&mdash;identified to operatives merely as an anonymous "friend in the Senate"&mdash;Mon Mothma ordered a further investigation into the nature of this weapon. Using data already collected, the Rebels discovered that cargo shipments to a research station doing work on the Death Star were being sent from the Vergesso Asteroids. Raymus Antilles personally recruited Han Solo, despite Solo's reluctance, to plant a tracking device and EMP in one of the cargo containers bound for the research station.

The tracking device revealed the station's location over Corulag, and then triggered the EMP and paralyzed Imperial security forces while Antilles led a team to attack the station, recovering valuable data as well as Grand Moff Tarkin's personal slave Ackbar. From Ackbar's personal knowledge as well as the data collected, the team was able to confirm the name of the project&mdash;Death Star&mdash;and gain an idea of its destructive capabilities, but with no technical schematics detailed enough to reveal a weakness. Mon Mothma then instructed Leia Organa to begin intensified operations to gather relevant intelligence, and assigned Captain Antilles to her service aboard Tantive IV.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Empire at War