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Mission to Jazbina

The Mission to Jazbina was carried out by Luke Skywalker on Jazbina to rescue Princess Syayna. In reality, the mission was a trap arranged by Lord Prepredenko to capture local Rebels. Darth Vader eventually came to the planet to capture Skywalker, but the young Jedi escaped with assistance from the rebel pilot Jal Te Gniev and the entire population of Jazbina.

Prelude

Luke Skywalker traveled to Jazbina to discuss its entry into the Alliance to Restore the Republic with Lord Prepredenko, the planet's ruler. In reality, Prepredenko intended to capture Skywalker and turn him over to the Galactic Empire, so he sent Skywalker to eliminate Jazbina's Rebel cell, claiming that its members were kidnappers who had abducted his daughter, Princess Syayna.

The mission

Skywalker entered the sun crystal mines and battled a tikulini worm before finding the Rebel cell. When he ignited his lightsaber among the sun crystals, he was blinded, yet he could still hold off the Rebels until Syayna, herself a Rebel, revealed her father's deception. Prepredenko's troops then charged in, capturing both Skywalker and the Rebels. Syayna was taken back to the palace.

A tikulini crashes into a camp of Jazbinan rebels.

Prepredenko summoned Darth Vader to retrieve Skywalker, but shortly before Vader arrived, Prepredenko's droid 3DVO, secretly resentful of its master, falsely claimed that Vader had transmitted an order to execute Skywalker instead of conveying Vader's command that Skywalker be kept alive. Syayna, feigning loyalty to her father, hurried to "execute" him herself, though she actually only stunned Skywalker. Once her father had departed to meet Vader, she freed Skywalker and the Rebel cell members. When Vader arrived, he angrily imprisoned Prepredenko. In remorse, 3DVO broadcast Prepredenko's message across the planet, in which the ruler acknowledged his error and told his daughter that he loved her. Stormtroopers destroyed 3DVO after the broadcast, but planetary opinion had turned against the Empire.

Jal Te Gniev sacrifices himself and single-handedly destroys an Interdictor-class Star Destroyer.

Syayna guided the Rebels to the spaceport, hoping to get Skywalker off-world, and there met Jal Te Gniev, a Rebel Alliance pilot who had come after accidentally betraying Skywalker's mission while drunk on Dubrava. He had avoided Vader's TIEs to land on the planet by pulling beneath Vader's shuttle and then dropping into clouds to shake off his pursuer. Vader and a group of stormtroopers arrived just as Skywalker encountered Te Gniev, but a large mob of Jazbinans surrounded the stormtroopers. Te Gniev launched his X-wing, while Skywalker surrendered to prevent the stormtroopers from firing on the crowd. Te Gniev sacrificed himself by flying into the hangar bay of the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer overhead and destroying it. The brilliant explosion overhead briefly distracted the stormtroopers, enabling the mob to overpower them. Surrounded by a huge crowd of Jazbinans, Vader concluded that he could not capture Skywalker and walked away, untouched by the crowd. Skywalker was then able to return to the Rebellion.

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