Mission to Faos Station

In 1 BBY, during the Galactic Civil War, the Partisans leader Saw Gerrera, along with Rebel Alliance members Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren, undertook a mission to Faos Station. Bridger and Wren, along with the astromech droid Chopper, had wound up with Gerrera after the Spectres' mission to hijack the Galactic Empire's communications outpost on Jalindi. Gerrera had unexpectedly arrived to destroy the relay, and invited Bridger, Wren, and Chopper on board his U-wing.

After Gerrera's U-wing and the Ghost were forced to separately flee into hyperspace due to the arrival of a Star Destroyer, before Hera Syndulla could dock with Gerrera's ship to pick up her people, Gerrera asked the three Spectres for help. He wanted them to assist with investigating a mysterious Imperial shipment passing through Faos Station, which Gerrera was convinced had a connection to the Empire's sterilization of the planet Geonosis. Bridger, Wren, Gerrera, and Chopper snuck on board Freighter 2716 at the space station, and discovered that the supposed civilian freighter was actually an undercover Imperial vessel. They found a group of technicians, all specializing in power generators and reactors, who had been imprisoned on board.

A further search revealed the ship's special cargo: a giant kyber crystal. Gerrera, who wanted to ride the freighter to its destination in the empty Tonnis sector, turned on Bridger and Wren, who wanted to get the prisoners to safety, and rigged the crystal up to the freighter's hyperdrive to create a bomb. Upon discovering that the freighter was only rendezvousing with a Star Destroyer, Gerrera damaged the hyperdrive, beginning the process that would lead to the kyber crystal's detonation, before releasing Bridger and Wren and departing in his U-wing, which had come to pick him up. Bridger, Wren and Chopper escaped in a shuttle with the prisoners before the explosion, which destroyed the freighter and the Star Destroyer. They were picked up by the Ghost, which Chopper had contacted earlier. The freed technicians decided to join the Rebel Alliance.

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