Star Wars: Rebel Assault (film)

Star Wars: Rebel Assault is a 1995 American computer-animated epic space opera film directed and written by Vince Lee. Based on the, the story focuses on a young pilot called Rookie One as they are trained by, and subsequently fights for, the Rebel Alliance in the Galactic Civil War.

The film was followed by Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire.

Plot
Star Wars: Rebel Assault follows the adventures of an unnamed young person known under the handle of Rookie One, who like Luke Skywalker, is a farmboy from Tatooine who decides to join the Rebel Alliance. The film happens during the events of A New Hope and begins with his flight training in the Beggar's Canyon, some hours before the Devastator captures Tantive IV above Tatooine.

Rookie then joins a squadron to intercept the Devastator and after the mission is over they descend back to the planet in order to stop an Imperial assault on Tatooine. The Rebel base is destroyed and Mos Eisley receives an attack with AT-ST's which he has to wipe out.

The film then leads to the ice planet Hoth, where Rookie has to stop the AT-AT walkers with a snowspeeder and then escape the Gamma Base (which resembles Echo Base) firing his way through the Stormtroopers in a sequence that reminds of the Battle of Hoth, escaping from the planet just before it is destroyed by the Death Star.

The film eventually guides Rookie through the training on Yavin 4 preparing the attack on the trench run prior to the Battle of Yavin. The final missions follow the actions of the Blue Squadron (Ironically Blue Squadron was the original script Red Squadron of ANH fame), simultaneously to the Red Squadron shown in the movie. They take place near and on the Death Star where Rookie One has to destroy turrets, stop a gigantic laser gun and finally destroy it in place of Luke Skywalker.

Voice cast

 * as Rookie One
 * Isla Wood as Ru Murleen
 * as
 * as General Dodonna
 * Donald Hilton as Imperial Officer
 * Terrance McPherson as Admiral Cullyear
 * as