Westhills skirmish

In 6 BBY, the Lothalite youth Beck Ollet and two other insurgents were involved in a brief skirmish with an Imperial Troop Transport in Lothal's Westhills. After witnessing Imperial forces massacring unarmed protesters during the Spring season, Beck had joined a three-member rebel cell that was dedicated to bringing down the Galactic Empire. Infiltrating a mining camp which had formerly been orchards, Beck and his fellow insurgents managed to plant detonators on Imperial mining droids; damaging the machines.

Pursued by an Imperial Troop Transport, Beck and his comrades fled in a landspeeder. During the pursuit, Beck exchanged fired with his Imperial pursuers with a blaster. While fleeing to a nearby bridge, Beck's speeder was hit and began to slow down. However, Beck's friend Zare Leonis, who had come on a jumpspeeder looking for his former classmate, managed to slow down the Troop Transport by flinging a detonator underneath the vehicle. This momentary distraction gave Beck and his friends enough time to flee across the bridge in their landspeeder. The Troop Transport then attempted to pursue Leonis but the youth managed to flee across the bridge in time.

Shortly later, Beck and his rebel associates were arrested by Imperial stormtroopers. Under the auspices of the Imperial Security Bureau, Beck was enrolled in an experimental re-education program known as Project Unity. Meanwhile, Leonis infiltrated the Academy for Young Imperials with the intention of finding his sister Dhara Leonis and working against the Empire from within. While studying at the Imperial Academy on Arkanis, Leonis was exposed as a traitor by a brainwashed Beck and subsequently pleaded guilty to his involvement in the skirmish at the Westhills. He was sentenced to death but managed to escape with Dhara due to the efforts of his girlfriend Merei Spanjaf and the Spectres rebel cell.

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