During the initial stages of the Galactic Civil War, sometime between 2 BBY and 0 BBY, the Rebel Alliance launched an operation to infiltrate a former Imperial droid factory located on the planet of Geonosis. This Imperial facility was heavily protected by powerful anti-air defenses. A Rebel strike team was dispatched to Geonosis, but their large size led to their quick detection and subsequent capture by Imperial forces. Upon discovering the mission's failure, the Alliance planned a rescue operation with the goal of freeing the captured unit. Learning from their previous error, the Rebellion deployed a significantly smaller team this time, comprised of only Jedi Master Rahm Kota and the Force-sensitive clone known as X2. They succeeded in freeing the prisoners, and the remaining members of the original strike team were reformed into Grey Squadron under the leadership of X2.
This particular mission received a brief mention in the Nintendo DS version of the 2009 video game Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron.