The Star Wars Comic – Try Stealing A Star Destroyer

Via io9.gizmodo.com:

Those pesky Rebels. How they love causing reactor overloads! According to last week’s issue of Star Wars, the Rebels’ battle plan—maybe their only battle plan—can be applied to anything, whether it’s blowing up space stations or stealing a capital ship.

Star Wars #22, by Jason Aaron, Jorge Molina, Matt Milla, and Joe Caramagna, is essentially one big love letter to the Death Star assaults in A New Hope and Return of the Jedi—but instead of blowing up moon-sized, fully armed and operational battlestations, the Rebels are attempting to hijack a Star Destroyer, by causing a reactor overload that makes the Imperial crew abandon ship so they can swoop in, repair the overload, and run off with a free capital ship.

Although, unlike the Death Star assault, this is not meant to end in an explosion, it turns out the methods for accomplishing both are remarkably similar. First, your plucky group of starfighters runs the hellish trench run that is swarms of TIE Fighters and gun emplacements:

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