Phase 5: The Battle of Toprawa
The Rebel spies based on Toprawa, now in possession of almost all of the Rebellion’s knowledge of the Death Star, launched a raid on Imperial research facilities there to recover the final pieces of technical data required—including potential weaknesses in the superstructure’s design. The raid and subsequent capture of the data lead to finally combining the gathered information into a complete technical schematic of the Death Star held by Leia Organa aboard the Tantive IV which escaped the blockade enacted on the world in response to the Rebel attack.
In the Expanded Universe continuity, it was this, not the Battle of Scarif, that was the “first victory” mentioned in A New Hope’s opening crawl.
First Covered In: Jedi Dawn (1993)
