Battle Name : | Defeat Rebel/Airam Counterattack Near Bes [Imperial Campaign: Imperial Task Force Vengeance, Mission 13] |
Battle Location : | Bes System in the Airam Sector |
Battle Occurred : | Some time after the Battle of Hoth |
Battle Type : | Ambush (For the Airam + Rebels) |
Force Making Attack : | Airam + Rebel Alliance |
Opposing Forces : | Airam / Rebel Alliance / Galactic Empire |
Victorious Force : | Galactic Empire |
Imperial Personnel : | Unknown |
Imperial Force Composition : | SSD Vengeance, ISD Rage, Avenger Squadron (TIE Advanced have 8 Mag Pulse Torpedoes or 8 Advanced Concussion Missiles [half/half mix] and Decoy Beam) and Talon Squadron (Assault Gunboats have 8 Heavy Rockets and Jamming Beam) |
Airam Personnel : | Unknown |
Airam Force Composition : | Dreadnaughts Ack, Isitoq, Okinu, Assassin-class Corvettes Creodont 1-4, and Virocho and 8 R-41 Starchasers (Armed with Concussion Missiles and Chaff) |
Rebel Personnel : | Unknown |
Rebel Force Composition : | MC80a Pembo, MC40a Tiamat, Modified Strike Cruiser Peregrine, 12 A-Wings (Armed with Advanced Concussion Missiles and Flares) and 12 B-Wings (Armed with Proton Torpedoes and Chaff) |
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Imperial Survivors : | Unknown |
Surviving Forces : | SSD Vengeance, ISD Rage, Avenger Squadron and Talon Squadron |
Imperial Loses : | Moderate Losses |
Airam Survivors : | None |
Surviving Forces : | None |
Airam Loses : | Entire Force |
Rebel Survivors : | Unknown |
Surviving Forces : | Modified Strike Cruiser Peregrine |
Rebel Loses : | MC80a Pembo, MC40a Tiamat, 12 A-Wings and 12 B-Wings |
The ISD Rage must rejoin
the task force for the assault on the Rebel shipyard. The Airam were the
ones that initiated the ambush and it was the largest Airam force yet encountered.
The Airam Dreadnaughts and Modified Corvettes tried to engage the ISD Rage
while their small starfighter force provided little cover for them. Avengers
1 and 2 suppressed the Dreadnaughts with their mag pulse torpedoes while
Talon Squadron each picked a Modified Corvette to destroy. And Avengers
3 and 4 engaged the R-41 Starchasers. Moments after the battle started,
the Rebel attack force hypered into the area quite some distance away from
the ISD Rage. Talon Squadron was successful in destroying all of the Modified
Corvettes and Talon Squadron was also able to cause heavy damage to the
Dreadnaught force. All Imperial Forces in the area were taken by surprise
when the Modified Strike Cruiser Peregrine powered up its gravity wells
to prevent the escape of the ISD Rage, thus acting like an Interdictor
Cruiser. The Rebels deployed their starfighters, the A-Wings went after
Talon Squadron while the B-Wings targeted the ISD Rage and let off their
proton torpedoes. During this Talon Squadron was able to disable all of
the Dreadnaughts effectively taking them out of the battle, while Avenger
Squadron protected Talon Squadron and the ISD Rage. The MC80a and the MC40a
engaged the ISD Rage once the last of the Rebel starfighters were destroyed.
It wasn't long after that all of the Airam Dreadnaughts were destroyed.
Talon Squadron was now free reign in the area, they headed directly towards
the Modified Strike Cruiser Peregrine, once in range they fired off a volley
of heavy rockets. With heavy damage to its shields, the Modified Strike
Cruiser hypered out of the area to prevent itself from being destroyed.
With that Talon Squadron turned its attention on the two Mon Calamari Cruisers
who were engaged with the ISD Rage. Moments after the Modified Strike Cruiser
hypered out of the area, the SSD Vengeance arrived in the area quite some
distance away from the battle meaning it was unable to help in the battle.
Upon taking severe damage the MC80a Pembo attempted to disengage from the
battle, but it was destroyed before it could hyper out of the area. The
same thing happened to the MC40a Tiamat. Despite Imperial Forces being
outnumbered 10 to 1, the ISD Rage emerged victorious. This was so because
the Airam and the Rebels did not coordinate their ambush that well. Imperial
Forces were quite lucky this day. With the existence of the Modified Strike
Cruiser Peregrine's capability known to the Empire for the first time,
since the ISD Rage was the first Imperial Force to ever survive an ambush
of this kind, the cruiser became a priority target for the Empire.