Battle for the Golden Sun was written by Douglas Kaufman, with a cover by Greg Guler and James Bauer, and illustrations by Jeff Dee, and was published by West End Games in 1988 as a 40-page booklet, a 4-page pamphlet, and a large color map.

[1] This adventure is set on a water planet in the Star Wars universe populated by an alien race that is being threatened by Imperial forces.

[2] Stewart Wieck reviewed Battle for the Golden Sun in White Wolf #15 (April/May 1989), rating it a 4 out of 5 and stated that "This is a good adventure for the 'Star Wars' game [...] many of the classic elements of a good adventure are here [...] The drama is fast-moving and well-coordinated.

But Bambra was ambivalent about the scripting of the adventure, which was "pretty tight, reducing the options of the player characters, but it moves along nicely and contains some well-staged combat sequences."

Bambra concluded that the adventure "moves at a rapid pace but at the cost of a more fully realized setting.