In the year 9 ABY, Moff Gideon's Imperial armored commandos ambushed a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle, which was being used by the New Republic to transport prisoners, including Gideon himself; this attack allowed Gideon to break free from New Republic imprisonment.
Subsequently, captain Carson Teva of the New Republic located the abandoned shuttle and communicated his discoveries to lieutenant Reed. Reed verified a report of a missing vessel in that vicinity, although the particulars were confidential. Furthermore, he ascertained that the shuttle's flight duration corresponded with that of the vessel transporting Gideon. Teva deployed a probe into the shuttle to examine the damage and located the deceased bodies of multiple New Republic officers, along with a shard of Beskar alloy lodged in the wall, which led them to hypothesize that Mandalorians might have been responsible for Gideon's extraction.