X-Wing Rogue Squadron 10, also labeled as "Battleground: Tatooine, Chapter 2", is the tenth issue in the Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron series of comics. It was released July 2, 1996 by Dark Horse Comics.
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A criminal warlord has stolen a vital bit of information, so vital, in fact, that Wedge and Rogue Squadron were going to steal it themselves! Rather than simply steal it, they'll now have to fight for it! Through the heated deserts of Tatooine, in the midst of a gang war sparked by the death of Jabba the Hutt, the Rogue Squadron risk life and limb for the Rebel Alliance!
Plot summary[]
On Tatooine, Kapp Dendo leads part of Rogue Squadron as mercenaries to the Darklighter estate, but see that it has already gone up in flames. Wes Janson overpowers Dendo and tries to get the truth of the situation, which leads to an all-out brawl between Dendo and the Rogues. Firith Olan's forces, returning from their attack, speed by, followed by Wedge Antilles and Winter along with Tycho Celchu and Elscol Loro aboard Huff Darklighter's prized speeder. The group takes out some of Olan's thugs before Darklighter's speeder is destroyed and meet up with the other Rogues, with it being revealed that Dendo and the others were the "distraction" Winter had hired in order to get to Darklighter's data disk.
Winter, Antilles and Celchu return to interrogate Darklighter, who tells them that Lirin Banolt (under an alias) tried to get "protection money" from Darklighter, then bribed him to keep quiet about a developing Imperial base on Tatooine. After Banolt vanished, Darklighter found the data disk at his compound and hired a slicer to decrypt it, who did so by entering Banolt's alias "Kier Dom" into an algorithm. Finding a map leading to a cache of Imperial weapons, Darklighter used some to bolster his personal security force and sold the rest to recoup his losses from "Kier Dom". The Rogues secure a copy of the disk Darklighter had made and discover the scope of the cache, which includes sixty-four TIE interceptors and the Eidolon, a thought to be long lost Imperial Strike-class cruiser. Winter suspects that entering more of Banolt's aliases may reveal the rest of the caches and that Olan might have already done so. Exhausted, Antilles and Celchu move to go to bed, but not before Celchu offers to be Winter's bodyguard for the night, which she declines; Antilles consoles Clechu, saying that he has her interested, she just doesn't know it yet.
The next day, Olan flies a freighter to the cache holding the TIE interceptors. He threatens Bib Fortuna, whose brain has been inserted within a brain walker once used by the B'omarr Order, into continuing to decode the disk to find more caches. At Darklighter's estate, Winter asks Darklighter to use his weather satellite to locate Olan swiftly and prevent his takeover of Tatooine. Darklighter is not inclined to assist them, feeling that paying off corrupt people is simply part of business, but Antilles points out that Darklighter's son Biggs died fighting the corrupt. Darklighter agrees to help.
Locating Olan, Rogue Squadron pilots their X-Wings to the site to face operational and manned TIE Interceptors. Loro flies into Olan's krayt dragon nest hideout to destroy the cache, narrowly escaping by blowing a hole in the ceiling. The Rogues fly out of atmosphere to confront Olan's best pilots, but are also greeted by an Imperial squadron of TIEs.
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- Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Battleground: Tatooine trade paperback
- Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rogue Squadron Volume 2
- Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The New Republic Vol. 2
- Star Wars Legends: The New Republic Omnibus Vol. 1
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