General Gabe Kaplan of ABC began the onslaught against CBS by crashing half his fleet into the CBS droid control ship, sacrificing such luminaries as Richard Hatch, Hal Linden, and Farrah Fawcett. Telly Savalas, the vicious droid commander of CBS, escaped the explosion in an escape pod, and using the lightning-fast calculating power of his droid brain, rallied the remaining CBS starfighters to swarm the ABC capital ships. The cybernetic assassin Adrienne Barbeau dueled Ron Howard on the ABC flagship, until their duel shattered the glass of the bridge and sucked them both into space. Just before the annihilation of ABC, Ron Howard's lightsaber impacted Telly Savalas's escape pod, short-circuiting his brain and prompting the CBS crowd to turn on itself in an impressive explosion. There were