The Death Star was gone but the Alliance lost 27 Starfighters (including 20 X-wings) in the assault. Luke Skywalker, a legendary Force-sensitive Rebel pilot, famously fired a pair of proton torpedoes into the Death Star's thermal exhaust port, causing a chain reaction in the reactor that destroyed the entire station. The result was another costly victory for the Alliance.
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The Alliance, having learned of the battle station's fatal design flaw, deployed a force of 30 Starfighters (including 22 X-wings) to attempt a series of attack runs on the planet-killing space station. Within days of Scarif, the Empire learned that the Alliance was headquartered at Yavin 4, and deployed the Death Star to crush the Alliance. X-wings and TIEs engage in ship-to-ship combat above the surface of the Death Star Shortly after the Alliance acquired the Death Star plans, the Death Star arrived at Scarif and fired a low-power blast at the Citadel Tower, killing all forces at the Imperial surface installation. X-wings from Red Squadron, Green Squadron, Blue Squadron, and Gold Squadron engaged Imperial TIEs and attempted to destroy the Shield Gate, while the capital ships joined the Shield Gate assault and fought the Imperial Star Destroyers. The newly assembled squad, Rogue One, a special forces team created by Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, Baze Malbus, Chirrut Îmwe, Bodhi Rook, and K-2SO disobeyed direct orders from Alliance High Command and instead deployed itself to Scarif in a desperate bid to steal the technical readouts for the Empire's Death Star battle station, and was subsequently joined by the Alliance Fleet.
The full-scale Galactic Civil War began with the Battle of Scarif, a costly but significant victory for the Alliance. Open war begins Ī T-65 X-wing piloted by Antoc Merrick attacks the Scarif Shield Gate. Rebel X-wings saw action shortly before the outbreak of the Galactic Civil War in both the Liberation of Erso and the Mission to Eadu. The Partisans continued to use them in the Cavern Angels squadron, though they had been ejected from the formal Alliance for Gerrera's extremist views. The Alliance had at least three squadrons equipped with the T-65 series by 0 BBY. Hera Syndulla, Mart Mattin, Secon Daree, C1-10P, and R3-A3 survived being shot down, but many other pilots were killed and their astromechs destroyed. During the attack on Lothal at least 10 T-65B X-wing Fighter alongside BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bombers participated in the assault, but all were destroyed by the Imperial defenses. The Alliance to Restore the Republic operated T-65B X-wings as early as 1 BBY. Saw Gerrera's Partisans had two of them in their livery during that period. The T-65B model was in use as early as 5 BBY. Operational history Galactic Civil War Early battles Īssorted Rebel Fighter exit hyperspace for an attack on Lothal. By 34 ABY, the New Republic had retired most of its T-70s in favor of the T-85s, which were even more capable than the already impressive T-70s. At least one prototype had been constructed prior to the Battle of Jakku. The Incom engineers, having learned a valuable lesson from the loss of so many X-wings in the trenches at Battle of Yavin, equipped the T-70 with a swiveling blaster cannon that could be used to fend off attacks from behind.
In 5 ABY, Incom-FreiTek Corporation introduced the T-70 model, which incorporated many improvements over the T-65 series. The Alliance to Restore the Republic then adopted the X-wing design as its own. The new starfighter was intended to become the backbone of the Imperial Navy, but political forces led to the Galactic Empire deciding to rely on Sienar Fleet Systems' more affordable TIE line. Incom's engineers strove to build a well-rounded, hyperdrive-equipped snubfighter with no exploitable weakness. The X-wing was descended from Incom Corporation's Clone Wars–era Fighter, namely the Aggressive ReConnaissance-170 starfighter, Clone Z-95 Headhunter, and Z-95 Headhunter.
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