Rescue Operation Walkthrough in Star Wars Zero Company (Dantooine)

The Rescue Operation mission on Dantooine tasks your squad with freeing a captive Republic intelligence officer and getting everyone out under a strict turn clock. This is a speed-and-movement mission, not a kill mission. You do not need to wipe out the enemy force to win, and trying to fight everything will burn the turns you need to reach the target in time.

Quick answer: Rush toward the target with your fastest units while the timer reads “4 TURNS REMAINING,” free the Republic Officer, then move every operator into the yellow extraction zone. Keep the officer alive with healing items and ignore reinforcements once evac opens.

Mission objectives and win conditions

The mission runs through three stacked goals. You reach the prisoner first, rescue the officer, then evacuate the whole squad. The officer counts as a protected unit for the rest of the fight, so losing them fails the run.

Objective prompt	What it means
GET TO THE TARGET	Move a unit to the captive within the turn limit.
RESCUE THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER	Reach the officer’s position to free them.
THE TARGET MUST SURVIVE	The rescued officer cannot die during evacuation.
EVACUATE ALL OPERATORS	Every squad member must stand in the extraction zone.

The turn counter starts at four turns to reach the target. That window is the real pressure point, so plan your first two turns around distance covered, not enemies downed.

Reach the target before the timer runs out

Push your squad forward immediately from the starting positions. Move from cover to cover and set overwatch on any unit that ends its turn exposed. Prioritize forward progress over shooting.

When Outlaw Marauders and Outlaw Snipers block the path, deal with them only enough to keep moving. Use Force Pull to yank enemies out of their overwatch positions so your operators can advance through the lane without triggering reaction fire.

Operator crouched behind cover aiming at an armored outlaw enemy during combat — Fighting from cover while pushing toward the target. Image: EA

Send your Jedi ahead to close the last gap to the prisoner. Reaching the Republic Officer’s position triggers the rescue and clears the “GET TO THE TARGET” prompt.

Tactical combat screen with the HARMONY +5 status indicator shown as units engage — Coordinated actions build Harmony as the Jedi reaches the officer. Image: EA

Evacuate the squad and keep the officer alive

Once the officer is freed, the extraction zone appears and the mission shifts to a running retreat. From here, your job is to funnel everyone into the yellow evac area while keeping the protected officer standing.

Start moving the squad and the officer toward extraction right away. Skip any fight that does not stand directly between you and the zone. Non-essential combat only wastes movement.

Expect a “REINFORCEMENTS INCOMING” wave partway through the retreat. Do not stop to trade shots with them. If the officer takes fire, apply Surgeon’s Tools to heal and keep advancing.

Explosion on the left of the battlefield as allied and enemy units exchange fire near cover — Reinforcements arrive during the retreat toward the evac area. Image: EA

Plot each operator’s route straight into the extraction zone using the Move command, watching the AP cost so no one stalls out short of the line. Bring units in one at a time while the rest hold defensive positions and cover the approach.

Move command highlighted with a plotted route to the objective costing 3 AP — Plotting a move toward the extraction zone with its AP cost shown. Image: EA

Get the final operators inside the zone. Use the radial command menu to confirm each unit’s last move before ending the turn, and evacuate as soon as everyone is standing in the yellow area.

Radial command menu open for a unit showing Harmony +4 and abilities before ending the turn — The radial menu with available abilities during the final push to extraction. Image: EA

How to confirm the mission is complete

When every operator and the rescued officer are inside the extraction zone, the evacuation resolves and a short cinematic shows the squad escaping. The “MISSION SUCCESS” screen then confirms the win.

Two failure conditions end the run: letting the Republic Officer die at any point after the rescue, and leaving an operator outside the extraction zone when you evac. Any operator you leave behind is lost, so account for all of them before pulling the trigger on evacuation.

Treat the whole encounter as a race with a bodyguard attached. Move fast, use Force Pull to strip enemy overwatch out of your path, heal the officer whenever they take damage, and refuse every fight that does not sit between your squad and the yellow zone. Do that, and the four-turn clock stops being a threat.