Battle Name : | Liberation of Gerrard V |
Battle Location : | On the planet of Gerrard V |
Battle Occurred : | Many months after the Battle of Yavin, after The Search for the Nonnah battle |
Battle Type : | Planetary Raid (For the Rebels) |
Force Making Attack : | Rebel Alliance |
Opposing Forces : | Rebel Alliance / Galactic Empire |
Victorious Force : | Rebel Alliance |
Imperial Personnel : | Lieutenant Kasan Moor |
Imperial Force Composition : | 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron, several TIE Bombers, 6 Turbolasers and 3 Missile Turrets at one part of the city and 3 Turbolasers, 1 Big Gun (Turbolaser Tower) Turret and 4 Missile Turrets at another part of the city (Planetary Defence), total of 9 AT-PTs and a total of 8 Luxury Yachts |
Rebel Personnel : | Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles |
Rebel Force Composition : | 5 X-Wings from Rogue Squadron and 3 BTL-A4 Y-Wings from Gold Squadron |
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Imperial Survivors : | Lieutenant Kasan Moor Defected to the Rebel Alliance |
Surviving Forces : | Most likely the 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron, most likely all TIE Bombers (They were not engaged by the Rebels) and 2 Luxury Yachts (That escaped just as the Rebels arrived) |
Imperial Loses : | All of the fixed defences, most likely all of the AT-PTs, several fighters from the 128th TIE Interceptors and 6 Luxury Yachts (The 6 Luxury Yachts were disabled by the Rebels) |
Rebel Survivors : | Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles |
Surviving Forces : | Most likely all of the 5 X-Wings from Rogue Squadron and 3 BTL-A4 Y-Wings from Gold Squadron |
Rebel Loses : | Most likely none |
Rogue Squadron was assigned
by General Carlist Rieekan to protect Crix Madine's Y-Wings while they
disable the escaping Imperial Governor's Luxury Yachts that were carrying
the looted treasures of Gerrard V. The cowardly Imperial Governor of Gerrard
V was looting a city and using his Luxury Yachts to carry off the stolen
treasures, since Gerrard V is trying to gain its independence from the
Galactic Empire. The Rebels would prevent the Governor from taking the
treasures so they could be returned to the citizens of Gerrard V. When
the 3 Rebel Y-Wings and 4 X-Wings arrived at the first part of the city
2 Luxury Yachts were able to escape. The Rebels did not encounter any Imperial
starfighters at all, the X-Wings concentrated their attacks on the planetary
defences while the Y-Wings disabled the 3 Luxury Yachts that were hovering
over the city buildings. Soon after the fixed defences were destroyed 4
AT-PTs coming from different locations and times came to join the fight
against the Rebels, but they were most likely destroyed by the X-Wings.
Meanwhile, Wedge Antilles in another X-Wing was on the other side of the
planet encountered the feared Imperial 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron.
Wedge Antilles being chased by two TIE Interceptor's from the 128th, made
a frantic call to Skywalker about the presence of the Imperial 128th on
Gerrard V, Skywalker ordered Antilles to hold them off the best he could.
With the yachts disabled the Y-Wings went through a small canyon to get
to the other part of the city, in the canyon the Y-Wings encountered 2
AT-PTs that were most likely destroyed by Skywalker, while the X-Wings
went over the hill to the other part of the city where Antilles would arrive.
Once again the X-Wings concentrated their firepower on the fix defences
there, to thereby keep the Y-Wings safe and they also most likely destroyed
the AT-PTs guarding that part of the city, moments later after the X-Wings
started their attack the 128th was able to engage the rest of the Rebel
force. The X-Wings kept the Y-Wings safe by keeping the 128th busy with
them. Crix Madine's Y-Wings went to work on disabling the remaining 3 Luxury
Yachts. At the end of the battle one of the Y-Wings engaged Lieutenant
Kasan Moor, the leader of the Imperial 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron and
was able to purse her. Nearing the end of the pursuit her TIE Interceptor
still flying had been disabled for a good two standard minutes, she made
contact with the Rebel Pilot in the Y-Wing. The Rebel told her to consider
herself a prisoner of the Rebel Alliance, however this is where Kasan Moor
committed her treachery against the Galactic Empire, this is where she
offered her defection to the Rebellion.