Jan Dodonna

"&hellip;man your ships, and may the Force be with you."

- General Dodonna, to the Rebel pilots, before the Battle of Yavin

Jan Dodonna was a male Human military officer who served as a General in the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the military leader of the Rebellion's base on Yavin 4. He formulated the plan that led to the successful Battle of Yavin and the destruction of the Death Star.

Biography
Jan Dodonna was a military officer who became a General in the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and rose to command the Great Temple of Massassi, a rebel base on the fourth moon of Yavin. Early in the Galactic Civil War, Princess Leia Organa successfully retrieved plans to the Death Star, an Imperial space station capable of destroying entire planets, and brought the plans to the Rebel base.

After receiving the plans and finding a weakness in the battle station, Dodonna designed an attack strategy that would set a group of starfighters into battle against the Death Star so they could fire proton torpedoes into the station's exhaust port and destroy it. This led to the Battle of Yavin, which Dodonna and other Rebel leaders monitored from Yavin 4. Just as the Death Star came into range to destroy Yavin 4, and Dodonna with it, the station was destroyed by Luke Skywalker.

The General would be present at the medal ceremony commemorating the battle station's destruction, announcing at the conclusion of the event that they would be evacuating Yavin 4, as the Empire now knew the location of their base. Dodonna would immediately begin screening new planets on which to establish a new base of operations, quickly dismissing Insk and Daxan Beta as candidates. Princess Leia would speak with General Dodoona, asking to assist with scout for a new base. The General would refuse her offer, reporting that a bounty of 10,000,000 credits had been placed on her head by the Empire. Jan would also report of rumors that the Imperials were seeking out surviving Alderaanians for reprisal, demanding that she not leave the system with anything less than a full military escort before dismissing her.

Despite Dodonna's objections, Organa would depart the jungle moon in a T-1 shuttle operated by R2-D2 and Evaan Verlaine, an Alderaanian pilot. Leia would leave a hologram explaining her actions, though the General would dispatch Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles in X-wing starfighters to retrieve the wayward princess. However, the shuttle would jump to hyperspace before the pair could return her to the Great Temple of Massassi.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD
 * Star Wars: Battle Pod
 * Star Wars: Princess Leia, Part I