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Redemption scenario was a simulation designed by Vanden Willard to train Rebel Alliance and New Republic pilots.

The simulation was based on the harrowing efforts of Rebel Alliance pilots to defend a convoy from an Imperial attack against Alliance evacuation ships fleeing the Rebel base at Yavin IV before the first Death Star’s destruction. During simulation tests, pilots would fly Rebel starfighters while commanders and trainers would pilot Imperial craft.

Pilots were tasked with defending three essential assets: the medical frigate Redemption, the Corellian Corvette Korolev, and three med-evac shuttles. While the med-evac shuttles and Korolev deposited wounded Rebels into Redemption, the pilots had to defend each asset from attack, or fail the simulation. On the attack was the Imperial frigate Warspite. Rather than attack the convoy directly, Warspite made short hyperspace jumps around the simulated star system, launching TIE fighters and TIE bombers. The starfighters would be deployed in a pattern that made it nearly impossible for pilots to save all essential assets.

Known by Alliance and New Republic pilots as the “Requiem scenario”, the simulation was loathed. Pilots found it particularly difficult to defend the large, slow Korolev from the bombardment of the TIE bombers.