Liberation of Bespin

The liberation of Bespin occurred months after the Rebel Alliance's victory at the Battle of Endor of 4 ABY when the gas giant Bespin was seized from the control of the Galactic Empire by Rebel General Lando Calrissian. Exploiting the Empire's state of disarray in the wake of Endor and information on Bespin's defenses leaked by Alliance sympathizers Willrow Hood and Tian Chyler, the general, with the irregular unit known as "Lando's Commandos," launched a campaign dedicated to driving the Empire off of Bespin, culminating in the rescue of his former aide Lobot by the cloned Jedi Knight X2.

While the Jedi inflicted heavy casualties among the remaining Imperial forces in the planet's atmosphere and its tibanna gas mining settlement Cloud City, Lobot took control of the city's computer systems and reinstated Calrissian as its Baron Administrator, the position he had been forced to abandon to escape Bespin's Imperial occupation in 3 ABY.

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