Operation: Recovery is a roleplaying adventure outline in the September 1996 Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide, published by West End Games for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game as part of the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire multimedia project. The adventure tasks players with helping the pirate Rithgar, administrator of the Kothlis shadowport, to recover a stolen Imperial PDV droid starfighter before the Empire discovers what happened to it.