Death Star Uprising

The Death Star Uprising was an effort by members of the Rebel Alliance who were being held prisoner in the detention blocks of the first Death Star via fighting their way into a hangar and stealing a Sentinel-class landing craft. During the late stages of the Death Star's construction, captured rebels were quietly sent to the top sectret space station for interrogation. The captives discovered a Jedi Padawan who had been captured sometime after the Great Jedi Purge was being kept within their detention black. This Jedi formed a daring plan to escape from the imperial battlestation. Unfortunately for these rebels, they attacked when the most elite of the Empire's divisions, the 501st Legion, was assigned to the station. Fleeing from the legion, the captives attempted to wreak as much havok as possible aboard the incomplete station on their way to the hangar decks. When they finally arrived, the 501st destroyed the ship that the rebels were boarding. With the option of escape gone, the prisoners knew they were doomed and decided to try to defeat the Imperials troops that stopped them. Ultimately, however, the stormtroopers defeated them along with Jedi. Later, the Empire would discover that a small amount of rebels were able to escape the prison with valuable Imperial data. It is unknown exactly how they escaped, but it is probably that there was a second shuttle that some of the captives escaped in before the 501st arrived at the hangar. To correct their mistake, the legion was sent to a rebel base on Polis Massa to which the rebel captives were believed to have fled.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront II