Skirmish at Geonosis

During the Galactic Civil War, a skirmish occurred near the planet of Geonosis between a Star Tours StarSpeeder 1000 and Imperial forces.

Prelude
In 2 BBY, the Rebel Alliance was formed with the signing of the Corellian treaty, with the Galactic Empire unwittingly being responsible for ensuring its existence.

After a rescue attempt was made on the Rebel leaders by Galen Marek, with the latter sacrificing himself in the process, the Death Star ended up damaged from Marek's actions, and thus was relocated to Geonosis to continue its construction, especially due to the Rebel's knowledge of the station. As such, it was also placed under heavy guard by the Imperials.

Skirmish
Sometime later, a Star Tours-owned StarSpeeder 1000, having earlier escaped from an Imperial raid on the Star Tours space station, hyperspaced into the Geonosis system to rendezvous with the Rebel fleet and safely deliver a Rebel agent into their custody, whom also acted as the reason for the Imperial raid in the first place. However, the craft ended up ambushed by the Mandalorian bounty hunter Boba Fett in the Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft Slave I. After evading the bounty hunter, the StarSpeeder inadvertently travelled in close proximity to the Death Star construction area, resulting in several Imperial starfighters that were led by Darth Vader attacking the craft. Narrowly evading the Imperial pursuers, the spacecraft eventually made its way through the interior of the incomplete battlestation. However, Fett ambushed them yet again, and then fired a seismic charge at the StarSpeeder. However, it was deflected back by the StarSpeeders weapons systems, and it then used the opportunity to escape into hyperspace.

Aftermath
Afterwards, the StarSpeeder successfully rendezvoused with the Rebel Fleet, and landed in the Home One, delivering the agent.

Behind the scenes
The mission is based on a scenario from the ride Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, which featured the use of the StarSpeeder 1000 ST-1401. Because of the nature of the ride, the incident above Coruscant is shown randomly, although it is always the last portion of the ride. In large part because of the random nature of the ride, the StarSpeeder 1000's flight number is not given in this article.

Appearances

 * Star Tours: The Adventures Continue