Battle of Gall

The Battle of Gall was a conflict initiated by members of the Rebel Alliance in 3.5 ABY, during the search for Boba Fett and his carbon-frozen prisoner, Han Solo.

Background
On Ord Mantell, Dash Rendar tracked down IG-88D in a scrapyard on the planet to interogate him about the whereabouts of Fett. IG-88 gave him information, but then fired on Rendar, only to be destroyed.

When Lando Calrissian learned from Dash Rendar that Fett had been spotted on Gall, he informed his friends, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa. They departed for Gall, where they met up with Skywalker's Rogue Squadron and Rendar himself. Fett, they learned, had stopped off at Gall for repairs to his ship, the Slave I, and now seemed the perfect opportunity to ambush the bounty hunter and free his captive.

Battle plan
However, this rescue mission was confounded by the presence of an Imperial Enclave, with two Star Destroyers on patrol. Luke concocted a simple, yet risky plan; utilizing the combat skills of the Rogues to keep the Enclaves' fighter complement at bay, while counting on the piloting ability of Dash to lead Lando and Leia to Fett's ship. Despite the obvious danger of thirteen X-wings taking on a hundred and forty four TIE fighters, it was, as Luke pointed out, the only plan they had.

Rescue attempt
The rescue attempt was launched, with the Rogues flying in on a strafing run against the dayside Star Destroyer. Only twenty fighters were scrambled to meet the threat - the pilots no doubt thinking it was only a drill - though an additional squadron was soon launched. The Rogues did an impressive job of keeping the fighters away from the Grand Trench - where Rendar's Outrider was leading the Millennium Falcon towards the spaceport city - only losing one pilot when Will Scotian was forced to return to base after sustaining damage to his craft.

The Rogues' luck could not last, however. Another wave of TIEs approached - among them several TIE Interceptors, and Rogue Five was destroyed in the battle. Worse, the second Star Destroyer joined the battle, launching its own fighters into the fray. Fortunately, the Falcon reached the spaceport after a harrowing run through the Grand Trench, though Dash decided to leave the Rebels to face Fett alone - as he later remarked, he was paid only to guide, not shoot. And with a dozen TIE fighters on their tail, the crew of the Falcon was in dire need of help.

Assassination attempt
Over the Enclave base, the Rogues, like Dash, decided to cut and run, preparing for a mock hyperspace jump to fool their pursuers into believing they had left the system. Plotting a course towards their base on the moon of Kile, the Rogues were shocked to see Wes Janson's X-wing firing on Luke. The frantic Wes realized his astromech droid had taken control of his ship, and Luke was forced to disable his fellow pilot's fighter, before towing him back to base. There, in a disturbing development, Luke found that the astro-droid had been programmed to kill him.

Retreat
Meanwhile, the rescue mission was over - and it had not been a success. Forced to evade incoming TIE fighters, the Rebels had been unable to prevent Fett's escape, and without the Rogues on hand, the Slave I fled into hyperspace. Dejected, the crew returned to base, where the matter of Luke's attempted assassination led to an even bigger conflict...

The Pilots of Rogue Squadron
The pilot roster of Rogue Squadron, as of the start of the Battle of Gall.


 * Commander Luke Skywalker (Rogue Leader)
 * Captain Wedge Antilles (Rogue One)
 * Will Scotian (Rogue Two)
 * Tycho Celchu
 * Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian
 * Wes Janson (Rogue Six)
 * Dix 'Dixie' Rivan (Rogue Five)
 * Gayla Riemann

Non-Canon version
The video game depicts a completely different version of the events on Gall. Dash Rendar used information received from IG-88D on Ord Mantell to track Boba Fett to Gall. Landing his fighter, the Outrider, into a remote valley, he moved on through the canyon, killing Stormtroopers that stood in his way. He managed to make his way to the spaceport, where he hacked into the control computer and found out Fett's location. He was located in a tower across the canyon. Stealing a jetpack, he flew across the canyon into the hangar bays. After stealing an Imperial patrol skiff and flying it to a hangar bay, he faced an AT-ST assigned to sentry duty. He destroyed it, and the explosion made a wall protecting vent controls malfunction and open. Opening the vent shafts, he crawled through them, and ended up in an inside-mountain installation. He ripped through more stormtroopers, and stole another skiff. Making his way to the top of the tower that served as the Slave Is docking bay, he engaged Fett in an air duel. With his jet pack blasted by Rendar, Fett flew out of control and crashed right into the Slave I. Even with the Slaves firepower, he was ultimately bested by Rendar, and the Slave was disabled. However, an Imperial transport picked Fett and Han Solo's carbonite block up, and headed towards Tatooine to deliver him to Jabba the Hutt.

Appearances

 * Shadows of the Empire novel / comic
 * X-wing: Rogue Squadron