Attack on disabled base

"Sykes, you've just been drafted into the Trade Federation."

- Captain Kael orders Gavyn Sykes to steal a gunboat

During the Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY, a temporarily disabled Trade Federation base was attacked. Members of Bravo Squadron, led by Captain Kael and his pilots, allied with a Hutt smuggling organization, and planned an offensive against the Trade Federation. Their first victory was to destroy Comm 4, an orbital component of the Federation comm web providing a control signal to a base down on the planet. With the control signal lost, the base went into hibernation and was vulnerable to attack. The pilots flew back down to the planet and attacked the base. The pilots were ambushed when the base re-activated and had to first destroy a wall of airborne mines to proceed further into the base. After knocking out the mines, they fought their through the complex, facing laser cannons and droid starfighters. The Naboo pilots blew up the deflector shield generator protecting the command center, allowing Lieutenant Gavyn Sykes to land and steal a gunboat to use as a decoy. His wingmen then left the site as Federation reinforcements arrived.

Prelude
In 32 BBY, the Trade Federation invaded Naboo in response to a trade dispute in the Galactic Senate, and the Royal Naboo Security Forces were forced to defend their homeworld. Acting on intelligence gathered by the leader of a smuggling organization, Borvo the Hutt, the Naboo resistance group led by Captain Kael went on their first offensive against the Trade Federation Droid Army. Borvo's mercenaries and the Naboo pilots knocked out Comm 4, an orbiting satellite which, as part of the Trade Federation comm web, rerouted the control signal to a Federation base down on the planet. After knocking out the satellite and forcing the base to hibernate, the five fighters flew down to destroy the base itself. Kael ordered them to destroy all Federation targets.

Infiltration
"Destroy anything and everything that belongs to the Trade Federation"

- Captain Kael to his pilots at the start of the attack.

Approaching the canyon in which the base was situated, the pilots destroyed several laser turrets which were completely off-line. They were blocked from further travel, however, by a wall of floating proximity mines. As they were attempting to disable the first three platforms of the base, the base re-activated much sooner than expected, and the turrets opened fire. The pilots managed to destroy the turrets and the mines and proceeded into the next section of the base.

Destruction
"We have visitors."

- Vedd Deviss in reference to droid starfighter reinforcements

The pilots found and destroyed another platform full of guns before moving on to destroy a platform with a building on it. The building was protected by two laser cannons in the water and a nearby missile launcher. When the area was cleared, Kael ordered his pilots to rejoin formation. As he led them toward the next part of the canyon, they were met by droid starfighters.

The Naboo coalition engaged the fighters as they continued on to the next section of the base. There they found buildings protected by turrets, which they cleared as well. Moving along the canyon, they destroyed the next platform, which was protected by gunboats in addition to the laser turrets. Kael ordered his team to move on after the Federation presence was annihilated.

Lieutenant Gavyn Sykes flew off the path and found advanced bomb technology in a burned-out building. Clearing away the Federation defenses surrounding the building, he acquired the technology.

As Sykes rejoined the formation, which was flying over a destroyed settlement, the mercenary pilot Adela Tyché commented that the Trade Federation had been there, evidenced by the turrets they had left.

Control Center
"Good job, form up."

- Captain Kael to his pilots after destroying a platform

Flying through the next part of the canyon, the Naboo pilots reached the base control center, where they planned to steal a Federation gunboat. The command center was protected by a deflector shield, which Sykes had to disable to steal the gunboat while Tyché provided supporting fire. Once the defenses were destroyed, Sykes landed his N-1 starfighter and absconded with a gunboat, shooting through a wall which blocked his path to the Andrevea River. The other fighters were unable to escort him, as Federation reinforcements were inbound. Kael ordered Sykes to continue, as the Captain surmised the Federation will think Sykes was an escaping Neimoidian.

Aftermath
With his stolen gunboat, Sykes traveled down the Andrevea River, and reached several Federation slave camps, which he and his team liberated. Eventually, Borvo betrayed the Naboo fighters and took control of the rescued slaves; Sykes and his wingmen in turn stopped the Hutt.

Behind the scenes
The attack on the disabled base appears in the seventh mission of the 2000 video game Star Wars: Battle for Naboo. During the course of the mission, picking up the advanced bomb upgrade will fulfill the bonus objective and provide a technology boost to the player's craft for the rest of the game. The battle was mentioned in Sykes' entry in 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Battle for Naboo