![]() Two of Ella Young's retellings were reprinted by Collier in "The Young Folks Shelf of Books." The Wonder Smith and His Son is a retelling of fourteen tales about the Gobán Saor, by Ella Young illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff (1927). His name can be compared with the Old Irish gobae ~ gobann ‘ smith,’ Middle Welsh gof ~ gofein ‘ smith,’ Gallic gobedbi ‘with the smiths,’ Latin faber ‘ smith’ and with the Lithuanian gabija ‘sacred home fire’ and Lithuanian gabus ‘gifted, clever’. In Gobán Saor can be seen elements of Goibniu, the Old Irish god of smithcraft. Abban" it is said that "the fame of Gobban as a builder in wood as well as stone would exist in Ireland to the end of time." In literary references, he was employed by many Irish saints to build churches, oratories, and bell towers, and he is alluded to in an eighth-century Irish poem, preserved in a monastery in Carinthia. The Catholic Encyclopedia considers him historical and born at Turvey, on the Donabate peninsula in North County Dublin, about 560. Gobban Saer (Gobban the Builder) is a figure regarded in Irish traditional lore as an architect of the seventh century, and popularly canonized as St. Defend the fleet." ―Raddus gives orders to Goban and the rest of Gold Squadron - Listen ( file info) " Red and Gold Squadrons, attack formations.The Gobán Saor was a highly skilled smith or architect in Irish history and legend. Wona Goban was a human female who served as a member of the Starfighter Corps of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. In 0 BBY, the Alliance learned that the Galactic Empire was constructing a superweapon known as the Death Star and that plans revealing a fatal flaw in the weapon's design were being stored on the planet Scarif. After a rogue squad of rebels set out on an unauthorised mission to steal the plans on Scarif, the Alliance scrambled its fleet to provide support. Gold Squadron attacked the Shield Gate at Scarif, but had little effect. Goban was among the forces that arrived in the Scarif system, flying as Gold Nine in one of the BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bombers of Gold Squadron under the command of Gold Leader Jon Vander. " That Star Destroyer's disabled." ―Raddus reacts to Wona Goban's strafing run - Listen ( file info) Īfter part of Blue Squadron passed through, the Empire closed the Shield Gate above Scarif, blocking any further craft from reaching the surface.Īdmiral Raddus, who commanded the fleet from his flagship, Profundity, ordered Gold Squadron and Red Squadron to defend the fleet from the Imperial Naval forces above Scarif, while Blue Squadron was sent to the provide support on the surface. Gold Squadron and Red Squadron then conducted repeat attack runs on the gate's defense turrets and control linkages, but it quickly became clear they lacked the firepower to destroy it. Raddus then gave the command for the squadron to engage the Star Destroyers attacking their fleet, and Vander ordered his pilots to take advantage of an opening. Wona Goban lead a strafing run on the Persecutor. Goban then led a group of four other Y-wings in strafing the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Persecutor with ion torpedos. The barrage penetrated the Destroyer's deflector shields, which had been previously weakened by Blue Squadron pilot Barion Raner, and caused a systems shut down that completely disabled the vehicle. ![]() With the Persecutor floating dead in space, Raddus ordered the Sphyrna-class Hammerhead corvette Lightmaker to ram into the Destroyer, causing the Persecutor to collide with the Star Destroyer Intimidator and then the Shield Gate, destroying both. With the gate down, the rebels on the surface were able to transmit the Death Star plans up to the fleet and a portion of the rebel forces, including parts of Gold Squadron, then managed to successfully escape with the plans. While flying, Wona Goban wore an orange flight suit with two code cylinders on the left sleeve, a white flak vest, and a Diagnostech life support unit. Goban's K-22995 light flight helmet was white and gray with red-and-yellow highlighting, a checkered black-white pattern on each side, and a symbol emblazoned on the central ridge. She flew a BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/ bomber during the Battle of Scarif. " It was incredible to be in the cockpit. ![]() It was everything I had imagined a Rebel fighter cockpit would be like as soon as I was there, I knew I was going into battle and firing ion torpedoes. Even though the shot was only of my head, the full costume was quite intricate.
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