ships" attacking Rebel patrols. Rookie One (played by Jamison Jones), while flying with his wingman on patrol near the planet Dreighton, receives a distress call from a YT-1300 transport, the Corellia Star, which is being attacked by TIE fighters. The pilot has crucial information about the Empire's new project, but is shot after transmitting the message, albert unclearly. After fighting off several TIE Fighters, Rookie One's wingman is destroyed by an unseen attacker, and Rookie One's ship is shot down, but he is able to eject himself before the rest of his ship explodes and crash lands on a planet, where the captured transport had been forced to land. Having survived the crash landing, Rookie One leaves behind what's left of his ship and follows a tracking scanner to an Imperial station, where the Corellia Star is being held. After fighting stormtroopers, he finds the transport and its information, but the station's doors close before he can escape, forcing him to fly through the mining tunnels, where he encounters more stormtroopers on hover sleds armed with guns. He is able to find another way out and escapes through hyperspace. Back at Pinnacle Base, Admiral Ackbar helps the pilots understand the message from the freighter. The Alliance learns that the Empire has constructed a secret mining facility in the asteroid Belt of Arah, somewhere in the Dreighton Nebula, which is mining ore used for a secret weapon that Darth Vader intends to use to destroy the Rebel Alliance. Rookie One is sent along with a squadron of X-wings to destroy it. Along the way, they encounter derillium minefields and TIE Interceptors. After the squadron opens a way into the facility's reactor core (encountering sentry guns along the way) and destroys it, narrowly escaping the blast, squadron leader Ace Merrick is killed along with wingman Ina Rece by an ambush of TIE Phantoms. Rookie One manages to evade the TIEs and escape. At Pinnacle Base, Ackbar discovers that the facility was not simply mining ore, but is supplying rare metals required to manufacture the new V38 "Phantom" TIEs (revealed to be the secret weapon that the Empire was developing), equipped with a cloaking device invented by Grand Admiral Sarn. He comes up with a plan for two people to infiltrate the facility building the TIE Phantoms at Imdaar Alpha and steal one of the fighters, hoping to reverse engineer it. Rookie One