Bombing of Gus Talon

The Galactic Empire conducted a bombing of the Corellian moon Gus Talon early during the Galactic Civil War in retaliation against a local Rebel Alliance cell. The mechanic Rallo secretly ran the cell from his workshop in a small settlement on Gus Talon along with his daughter, Mala Tinero. When an Imperial occupation force led by one Captain Turrant discovered the cell's existence two years before the Battle of Yavin and tried to shut it down, Rallo and his men fought back, killing five stormtroopers in a shootout inside the workshop.

The Empire responded by unleashing fourteen TIE bombers upon the small settlement in a devastating bombardment that killed many Gus Talon citizens, including Rallo and his daughter. Stormtroopers entered the destroyed settlement afterward and took away most of the survivors aboard prison ships. Tinero's boyfriend, Wedge Antilles, who had resisted joining the Rebellion up to that point, had by a stroke of luck been away from Gus Talon during the incident or would have been a casualty himself, but his grief over losing Tinero finally motivated him to join the fight against the Empire.

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