As the Clone Wars progressed, more and more ground-based legions found themselves pressed into space combat, including the fighting forces of the Five-Oh-First. For months, every hour of our downtime was spent in the simulator, preparing for the time we would face our enemies from the cockpit of a 170. Finally the day came to earn our wings: The CIS had staged a daring kidnapping of Chancellor Palpatine, and was being escorted from Coruscant by a fleet of Separatist ships. With only a few veteran pilots on-planet, many of the Five-Oh-First were pressed into service to drive off the Seps and buy time for a pair of Jedi Knights to rescue the Chancellor.