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Mission Eleven: The Destruction of Alderaan

Objectives

Escort the Death Star to Alderaan.

Now that the ultimate power in the universe is under your control, it's time to start using your power for the greater good. You're going to start by destroying Alderaan and slaughtering billions of innocents in a fit of pique. Hooray for the Empire!

Space Battle

Although it's difficult to really lose the battle of Alderaan, if you want to have a good time, you're going to want to bring a fleet with at least four Imperial Star Destroyers in it, and use that to escort the Death Star to Alderaan. When you get there, you'll automatically start a space battle.

No miscalculations here; you're keeping the Death Star well-defended.

The bad news is that the Death Star can't be controlled by itself; it pretty much just sits there on its own, a passive observer, until it launches its attack with a Tyson-esque rage. In order to destroy Alderaan, though, it needs to be protected; this entails engaging the numerous Mon Calamari Star Destroyers that will engage your fleet. You don't need to win the battle or anything; just stay in the fight until the Death Star is prepared to fire.

What's interesting is that your initial forces apparently don't count towards the 20-unit population cap, so you should be able to immediately bring in a number of new ships, if you wish to. There's nothing quite like pounding Home One with eight capital ships.

Regardless, all you need to do is to not die. Since the Death Star's timer is only 75 seconds long, you should essentially automatically win this battle; once the Death Star destroys Alderaan (you have to flip the switch that appears near your unit bar), you return to the galactic map.

Mission Twelve: End of the Rebellion

Objectives

Destroy Alzoc III, Polus, Shola, Hoth, and Yavin IV.

The Emperor has tracked down the remnants of the Rebellion to five remaining strongholds. With your massive fleet, you'll have to bring the Death Star to each planet and destroy it, as you did Alderaan. Given the Death Star's painfully slow movement rate, you'll want to spend most of your time here in double-speed mode. Heck, that's probably true even for the space battles - unlike the conflict at Alderaan, you won't automatically win these when the planet blows up; you'll still have to hunt down and destroy all of the Rebel space forces.

And that's...pretty much all you need to do. The Rebels will have a sizable fleet at each of the planets, but they won't have a large number of Mon Calamari Cruisers hanging around; it'll be the usual surfluous number of Corellian Corvettes and Nebulon-B Frigates, for the most part. But if you've been investing your cash wisely, you should be able to build a truly massive fleet, something around 400 or 500 population units large, all in one huge stack. You shouldn't need to, it's just pretty cool to have an unstoppable force of Star Destroyers escorting the Death Star around.

Each of the planets you attack will have an Ion Cannon, as well as a level five space station, so none of these battles will be easy, necessarily (although the Ion Cannon obviously goes away when you blow the planet), but still: you can bring along as large of a fleet as you need to to each of these engagements, so there really shouldn't be anything stopping you from crushing everything in your way. Be sure to garrison the planets near the Rebel strongholds, though, as it'll probably take you over a week of galactic time to get the Death Star to each of the planets. We never got attacked by any of the planets, ourselves, but if you're playing on Hard difficulty, they may decide to resist the inevitable and lash out at your properties, so be ready for it. A set of energy shields and turbolaser cannons, paired with a few artillery units, should make most of your planets impregnable.

When the fifth planet has been destroyed, you'll have finally eliminated all remnants of the Rebellion. Maybe Han and Chewie are still out there somewhere, and maybe the droids are running around on Tatooine, and maybe Luke and Obi-Wan are preparing in secret to restore order to the galaxy, but for now: you win. Hooray evil!