Cut to the perspective of the escaped Rebel commander, whose name is revealed to be Nellith. She jumps her shuttle out of hyperspace above the planet Dantooine. A large Rebel base sits cradled in a mountain range, with sensor towers and turbo-laser turrets continuously scanning the skies. Nellith sets the craft down on a platform and meets with Mon Mothma in a conference room after she adjourns a meeting with other members of the Rebellion’s top brass. No word has been received from Colonel Dodonna, who led the ground assault on Ord Mantell’s sensor array that gave the Rebels the element of surprise needed to make an attempt on Palpatine’s life.

Nellith tells Mothma of her encounter with Vader and that she knows him to be the man she once loved: Anakin Skywalker. Mothma tells Nellith not to let her personal attachments endanger the mission, that she is one of the Alliance’s most capable agents and desperately needed in this critical hour.

Mothma, believing Colonel Dodonna to be dead, sends Nellith on an assignment to rendezvous with the anonymous informant who as of late has been supplying the Alliance with a generous amount of credits, arms, and other materials. This informant also supplied the Rebels with Palpatine’s location above Ord Mantell. Before departing to meet the informant at Nar Shaddaa, Nellith remarks that she has a very bad feeling about this...