Still reeling from the revelations at Bespin – and not exactly reassured by Obi-wan's rationalizations and Yoda's last words and subsequent disappearing act – Luke had entered the coordinates for his first jump away from Dagobah more or less blindly. He had promptly come this close to splattering his X-wing all over the SSD Executor's colossal armored underbelly.

The presence of an Alliance mole aboard the Death Star leads to Bail Organa learning quickly of his daughter's capture. With the dissolution of the Senate, only one option remains for him to save her life: telling Vader the truth of her parentage.

Surviving the battle of Scarif with lifelong inflictions to tell the tale, what remains of the Rogue One squadron have to keep fighting. It will always be their mission to live -and die- for the Rebellion. But life isn't so bad when people stick around, and death isn't so bad for a cause worth dying for.