Myrkr strike team
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The Myrkr strike team was a group of young Jedi led by Apprentice Anakin Solo, with the support of two YVH droids and various personnel, who went to infiltrate the Yuuzhan Vong worldship Baanu Rass in Myrkr's orbit in order to destroy the voxyn queen during the Yuuzhan Vong War in 27 ABY. The operation was known as the Mission to Myrkr, a concurrent event with the fall of Coruscant.
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[edit] Result
The mission was a success with Jacen Solo destroying the voxyn queen, but it came at a huge price: six Jedi, that was almost half of the task force, were killed, including strike team commander Anakin Solo. Jacen Solo was taken prisoner by Vergere after killing the queen. The craft Raynar Thul stayed on was hijacked by Nightsister Lomi Plo and Dark Jedi Welk, and all three were presumed lost during Myrkr outbound. Jaina Solo and the remaining eight members of the strike team hijacked Nom Anor's craft Ksstarr and survived Myrkr outbound.
[edit] Legacy
Eight years later, the survivors of the strike team all received a desperate call through the Force, emanating from the Unknown Regions. The Jedi journeyed to the Unknown Regions, and fell under the influence of the Dark Nest. Alema Rar turned against her fellow Jedi, and all except Jacen (and Tenel Ka, who refused to leave Hapes due to her duty as Queen Mother) became Joiners, their minds open to manipulation by Raynar Thul—now known as UnuThul, Welk and Lomi Plo, who survived the Myrkr outbound and crash-landed elsewhere. The influence marked the beginning of the Dark Nest Crisis which eventually led to the Swarm War. Five years after the war, Jacen Solo turned to the dark side and was taught the ways of the Sith during the Second Galactic Civil War. He would later flow-walk with Tahiri back to the mission where she passionately kissed Anakin Solo before he was killed. As a result, Tahiri joined Jacen in his attempt to bring peace to the galaxy.
[edit] Statistic
Before leaving the Eclipse Station, tacticans projected that the successful rate of the mission would be 72%, which would decrease by 2% per standard hour. Once Anakin Solo applied Plan D during Myrkr inbound, the successful rate decreased to 21% with a casualty projection of over 90%. Ulaha Kore stayed behind aboard the Exquisite Death to boost the successful rate to around 50%, which decreased by 0.2% per standard minute. As the strike team carried the mission for over at least thirty standard hours, one can state that the strike team achieved the impossible against all odds.
Taking Jedi and droids into calculation, 40% of the original strike team participants were killed in action, 45% survived the mission and the outbound, 10% were missing in action, and 5% were captured by the enemy. 10% of the original strike team survivors were later killed in the Yuuzhan Vong War. Around 78% of the strike team survivors in 35 ABY became Joiners or partial Joiners.
[edit] Strike team roster
[edit] Field operatives
[edit] Jedi
- Anakin Solo (Strike team commander / Yuuzhan Vong detection, killed in action)
- Jacen Solo (Meld coordinator / animal expert / second-in-command, captured by Vergere; resisted Joining; fell to the dark side in 40 ABY, became Sith Lord and was killed in 40ABY)
- Jaina Solo (Pilot / third-in-command; Joiner)
- Tenel Ka (Warrior; Later became Queen Mother and mother to Jacen's baby, Allana; resisted Joining)
- Zekk (Equipment scavenger; Joiner), (MIA 40 ABY)
- Raynar Thul (Support, captured by the Dark Jedi, missing in action; Joiner, rediscovered during the Dark Nest Crisis)
- Tahiri Veila (Translator; partial Joiner,became Sith, defeated by Ben Skywalker and arrested)
- Alema Rar (Infiltration / underground navigation, Myrkr survivor; Joiner, presumed killed in the Swarm War; reappeared in 40 ABY as a Dark Jedi, killed in 40 ABY)
- Ganner Rhysode (Decoy commander; Myrkr survivor, killed in action in the same year)
- Tesar Sebatyne (Stealth / warrior; Partial Joiner)
- Tekli (Medic; partial Joiner)
- Lowbacca (Biomechanics expert / sensor station; partial Joiner)
- Jovan Drark (Sniper, killed in action)
- Eryl Besa (Space navigation, killed in action)
- Bela Hara (Stealth / warrior, killed in action)
- Krasov Hara (Stealth / warrior, killed in action)
- Ulaha Kore (Pilot / tactical analyst, killed in action)
[edit] YVH droids
[edit] Supportive personnel
- Lando Calrissian (under the alias Fitzgibbon Lane)
- Tendra Risant Calrissian
- Yarsroot
- YVH 1-1A
- Em Teedee (Accompanied Lowbacca, aboard Tachyon Flier when it was hijacked, classified as missing in action; destruction confirmed in 35 ABY)
[edit] Strategy advisers
- Luke Skywalker
- Han Solo
- Leia Organa Solo
- Lando Calrissian
- About half the Jedi on Eclipse Station
[edit] Prisoners-turned-reinforcement
- Lomi Plo (Betrayed and hijacked the Tachyon Flier, missing in action; killed in action during the Swarm War)
- Welk (Betrayed and hijacked the Tachyon Flier, missing in action; killed in action during the Dark Nest Crisis)
[edit] Enemy-turned-informant
- Vergere (Betrayed and captured Jacen Solo; killed in action in the next year)
[edit] Strike team vessels
- Lady Luck (delivered the Jedi to the Yuuzhan Vong on Exquisite Death)
- Exquisite Death (hijacked by the Jedi, destroyed in action during Myrkr inbound)
- Tachyon Flier (hijacked by the Dark Jedi, missing in action during Myrkr outbound; rediscovered in 35 ABY)
- Ksstarr (hijacked by the Jedi, survived Myrkr outbound)
[edit] Appearances
- Star by Star (First appearance)
- Destiny's Way (Mentioned only)
- Dark Nest I: The Joiner King (Mentioned only) (Survivors' reunion)
- Inferno (Flow-walk)
