Escape from Abafar

During the Clone Wars, the Galactic Republic's D-Squad escaped from Separatist forces on the planet Abafar. D-Squad, a specialized unit composed largely of astromech droids and headed by the Zilkin Colonel Meebur Gascon, had been sent on a mission to steal a Separatist encryption module from the flagship of the tactical droid Aut-O. However, their shuttle had been damaged in a comet storm on their way back to Coruscant, forcing them to crash on Abafar. After reaching the town of Pons Ora, they discovered that battle droid forces controlled the local spaceport, impeding their ability to steal a new starship. However, Gascon and WAC-47 had encountered an amnesiac clone commando named Gregor working in a local diner, and the squad thus confronted him in a successful attempt to jog his memory, recruiting him to assist in storming the spaceport. Gascon and the droids escaped in a Rho-class transport shuttle, but they were forced to leave Gregor behind as he detonated a massive rhydonium explosion to cover their escape, not knowing if he had survived.

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