They send in Red Squadron amongst others to take down the Death Star.
DEATH STAR FIRING SOUND FULL
The Death Star has a design flaw where a few exhaust ports are not shielded because plot reasons, and the Rebels take full advantage of this flaw. After securing the Death Star plans from the Roque One squadron on Scarif, the Rebel Alliance calculate and plan their strike on the fully operational battle station.
The Battle of Yavin is the first full scale space battle we see in Star Wars if you go by the films release date. Yet, the battle is truly over when the Death Star turns up and destroys the Scarif land base with a single reactor shot from the super laser. However, towards the end of the battle, the tide of the battle is turned when Darth Vader turns up and this is when Rouge One blends in so nicely with A New Hope. The Empire have a much smaller fleet, but more streamlined with multiple TIE fighters and initially, two Star Destroyers. The Rebel Alliance brings pretty much their entire navy with X-Wings, Y-Wings, U-Wings, GR-75 transports, Nebulon B frigates, CR90 corvettes, a VCX-100 freighter (the Ghost for you Rebels fans), Braha'tok-class gunships, Sphyrna-class corvettes (Hammerhead cruisers), and the flagship of the fleet, a MC75 star cruiser. The space battle brings us some fantastic scenes and a great mix of vehicles. Long story short, the Rebels win, but with heavy losses, more so after Darth Vader turns up. The whole point of the Battle of Scarif was to keep the Empire’s distracted while the heroes on the ground fought their way through the ground defences to steal the Death Star plans. These events of this film happen days, and later hours before the events of A New Hope so technically, it’s a prequel film.Īnyway, the Battle of Scarif is arguably the best part about Rouge One, with the space battle being the main spectacle. Rouge One follows a group of rebels to track down and steal the plans to the first Death Star for the Rebel Alliance. Rouge One was the first non-Skywalker focused film to come from LucasFilm. Either way, the Battle of Naboo and to an extent, The Phantom Menace as a whole, paved the way for the next two Star Wars installments which were a crucial part of universe building and following Anakin’s story to the dark side. Technically, if you ignore the plot, the Trade Federation should have won this battle due to sheer numbers, as the Lucrehulk battleship had the capacity to hold thousands of Vulture droids and bomber types.
DEATH STAR FIRING SOUND SERIES
Vehicle wise, the Battle of Naboo featured then new to the series starships from the Trade Federation including the Lucrehulk-class battleship (the droid control ship), Vulture droid starfighters, and from the Royal Naboo Security Forces, there was the N-1 Starfighter. It felt very reminiscent of the Battle of Yavin (also on this list), but also felt fresh for the time. However, it gave us a great space battle featuring a young Anakin Skywalker fending off hundreds of droid fighters, and then blowing a droid control ship. The Battle of Naboo was mostly CGI, with some practical effects thrown in. Sure, CGI has improved vastly in the past 20 years but The Phantom Menace was the first feature length film to use it on a mass scale, and it bought us the Battle of Naboo.
However, The Phantom Menace ushered in CGI to the Star Wars cinematic universe which allowed LucasFilm to use it like it was going out of fashion. When The Phantom Menace came out in theatres in 1999, it was met with mixed opinions, similar to The Force Awakens and the other sequels. So, without further ado, I’m about to tell you about some of my favourite space battles in the current Star Wars canon lore. This is thanks to a combination of the on-screen visuals, sound effects and music and even the dialogue helps. Space scenes have been my favourite parts about Star Wars as there’s so much to see and take in, with some of the prequel ones giving me actual goosebumps while watching them. Best of all, we get to see the best of these vehicles in epic space battles. More recently, I’ve started getting into Star Wars lore and actually getting to know specs of spaceships like the Imperial Star Destroyer models, various starfighters and other vehicles. Since then, I’ve always enjoyed consuming Star Wars media, mainly from video games and re-watching the films. The first one I saw in the cinema was Attack of The Clones, followed on by Revenge of the Sith. I love Star Wars and have loved it since I was a kid.