Battle of Eos (Invasion of Naboo)
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- Dallows: "We're planning on blowing up the Trade Federation droid factory."
- Nym: "You and whose army?"
- Sage: "Yours."
- —Rhys Dallows, Nym, and Vana Sage[src]
The Battle of Eos was a conflict between the pirate Nym's forces, with his recently made allies Vana Sage, Rhys Dallows, and Reti, and forces of the Trade Federation. Although they had various reasons for it, the goal of the allies was to destroy the Trade Federation droid production facilities on Eos and thus prevent an invasion of Naboo.
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[edit] Prelude
While protecting his Queen, Rhys Dallows' starfighter was disabled and his wingmate was shot down. Rhys found floating adrift by the scavenger Reti. Reti took Rhys to Vana Sage’s base, who happened to be working a job for the Trade Federation at Eos at the time. Sage had to flee the job, however, when the Federation tried to kill her. During the fight, Vana destroyed the shield protecting the Trade Federation’s droid factory. Vana arrived at her base before Rhys and Reti to find Nym was waiting for her there. He took back his bomber and locked up Sage. Reti and Rhys arrived and freed Vana. Sage and Dallows compared stories while making repairs to his N-1 starfighter. As they began to talk about taking action, Nym returned with news that the Federation had taken his base. Rhys told him they were planning to attack the droid factory, and Nym agreed to join them.
[edit] The battle
[edit] Space battle
- "Eos has a pretty tough defense system, so just getting into the atmosphere is going to be a challenge."
- ―Nym[src]
Upon approaching Eos, Rhys and Reti moved to create an opening in the space defenses for Nym and Vana to attack the surface. The Trade Federation opened fire on the incoming craft with a cannon on the planet surface. The Federation also had droid starfighters and mines in orbit. Undaunted, Reti and Rhys charged in and destroyed a small freighter convoy that happened to be departing at the time. The two pilots then attacked satellites that were sending targeting data to the surface cannon. While this was occurring, the Trade Federation attempted to send a super freighter from the planet. Rhys spotted freighter, however, and the freighter was destroyed. They then destroyed the rest of the four satellites, allowing Nym and Vana to reach the surface.
[edit] Surface battle
Nym reached the Trade Federation facilities while being covered by Vana. Taking advice from Sage’s droid, the two attacked the landing pad first to prevent the assistance of enemy reinforcements. The platform’s defensive turrets were destroyed first, followed the destruction of the actual platform. In this manner, the manufacturing plant, power station, and main factory were also demolished. The command center and planetary cannon were also bombed to ruin. Flying away from the devastation, Nym was told by Rhys of trouble on Naboo.
[edit] Aftermath
Although successful in destroying the droid factory, Rhys, Nym, Vana, and Reti were too late to prevent the Trade Federation from invading Naboo. The group would travel to Naboo to help the Naboo to resist the Trade Federation presence there.
After losing their facilities at Eos, the Trade Federation moved most of their droid production to Geonosis. Geonosis would produce droids for the Federation until 22 BBY.
[edit] Appearances
- Star Wars: Starfighter
- Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (Indirect mention only)
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