Red Squadron was a New Republic X-wing starfighter squadron operating in the months after the Battle of Endor.[3]
History[]
In 4.3 ABY,[4] the squadron's X-wing pilots engaged[1] the forces of Imperial Warlord Ennix Devian, which had launched a feint at the Alliance of Free Planets capital of Endor, deploying what seemed to be a third Death Star—in reality an unfinished worldcraft habitation sphere[5]—and a force of Imperial Star Destroyers and TIE fighters.[1]
During the battle,[1] the pilot designated "Red Leader"[2] discovered, to his surprise, that a Star Tours travel agency StarSpeeder 3000 had been caught in a Star Destroyer's tractor beam. Freeing the civilian vessel and attempting to protect it from a wave of TIE fighters, the pilots made for the Death Star's surface. Calling on squadronmates designated "Red Twenty-Four" and "Red Thirty" to provide cover for an attack run[1] on the battlestation's vulnerable thermal exhaust port, a Red squadron X-wing[3]—with Star Tours Flight 45 close behind—scored a direct hit, destroying the station as the group jumped to hyperspace.[1]
Appearances[]
- George Lucas' Star Tours (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance)
- Star Tours (First canonical appearance)
- Star Wars: Millennium Falcon (Non-canonical appearance)
Sources[]
- Convenient Daily Departures: The History of Star Tours on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link) (First identified as Red Squadron)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Star Tours
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Vaz, Mark Cotta. Industrial Light & Magic : into the digital realm, Del Rey, 1996. (web archive)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Convenient Daily Departures: The History of Star Tours on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ "Death Star timeline" — Keeper of the Holocron — Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ The Imperial Warlords: Despoilers of an Empire, Part 2 on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)