The Men from the Guns Of Navarone VS The Death Star

[Isolder74]

Here's the drill we place these legendary sabotures on board the Death Star. This is assuming they have full knowledge of how Imperial security works and what they need to do to destroy the station. They have brought with them all of the tools they need to allow them to destroy the Death Star. Can they destroy it and how well would they do.

[Frank LLoyd Wright]

the team will sneak on board the death star under the disguise of a cargo shipment.

once on board they will infiltrate the core of the death star

split up into four different groups and plan on si hours to finnish and escape
one as maintanance oficers will place charges around the main reactor

the second will disguise themselves as gun maintanance personel
set charges in the main gun circutry so that when it is fired so do the explosives and boom no gun (insurance should the main explosives be discovered)

the third is to sabotage the tractor beam (with charge counting down to the six hour mak of escape) and set charges to shuttles and as many ships as posible to go off at random

the last group secures a shuttle for the escape

once all that is done the teams move back to the waiting small shuttle at the six hour time

the shuttle takes off as soon as the charges blow on the tractor beam

these guys make an escape

meanwhile back at the death star the charges are going off in the shuttle bays and confusion is increased and storm troopers run to and frow

the officers order an imediate search of the main reactor
finding the explosives they see them ticking down five four three someone rolls a real good dice and the charges are disarmed

this makes the emperror really mad and he targets the small ship escaping the scene with the main gun
and charges go off in the main gun the gunn blows up taking the death star main reactor with it and no more death star
pow pow powwee
boom bam booom

[Exonerate]

They sneak in using Stormtrooper armor, get to the core, and plant explosives. Then they set up some distraction, and slip off on a legitimate shuttle.

[DPDarkPrimus]

Oh, they certainly pull it off. If the Rebellion had had those guys, the Death Stars would have fallen like planetoid-sized houses of cards.

[Boba Fett]

Did you wrote the book, Guns of Navarrone and it's sequel?

The team always relied on the help of the local "resistence"...

Since it's not available for them it would be quite hard to accomplish their goal.
Time is working against them...

Missing imperial personell will sting a lot of persons eye sooner or later.

It's a planet sized space station not a 4 square kilometer island.

It houses thousands of stormtroopers, high ranking officers and a Sith Lord.

In order to escape they have to trick or kill flight and hangar control members.
Disable all hangar doors to make sure no TIEs are going after them.
Disable tractor beams.
Disable surface weaponry as well.
Achieve that Vader is not aware of the situation.

Too much...but there's always a slight chance.

[Darksider]

vader would sense their presence and send so many stormtroopers after them that they couldn't do anything but die in a heroic manner

[Warspite]

You people are forgetting that there HAS to be a traitor among them, otherwise, it wouldn't a perfect Alistair Maclean raid...

[Boba Fett]

Yup, Warspite is right!

Has anyone read the sequel of Navarrone?
It took place in Yugoslavia and they had to destroy a bridge over the river Neretva. They destroyed a dam and the river knocked out the bridge.

Otherwise my favourite from A. Maclean is Where Eagles Dare.
The movie was far better than Guns of Navarrone!

[Warspite]

I didn't read the sequel, but I saw the movie, yeah, it was good, not star-material like Guns of Navarone, but it had Harrison Ford...

Anyway, slightly off-topic:
Where Eagles Dare is a great book, and much better than the movie, IMHO, hell, all Mclean's books are a great read, but nothing beats HMS Ulysses... I confess I cried in the end...


OK, back on topic...

Unless, the team had some sort of big distraction, or inside help, they wouldn't be abble to accomplish the mission.