Battle Name : | Protect Captured Satellites [Tour of Duty 2 (The Great Search Campaign), Mission 5] |
Battle Location : | In a quite sector of the Galaxy |
Battle Occurred : | Short time before the Battle of Yavin, a week after the BFF-1 Freighter Phoenix was captured |
Battle Type : | Defence (For the Rebels) |
Force Making Attack : | Galactic Empire |
Opposing Forces : | Galactic Empire / Rebel Alliance |
Victorious Force : | Rebel Alliance |
Imperial Personnel : | Unknown |
Imperial Force Composition : | ISD Intrepid, 3 TIE Fighters, 7 TIE Interceptors and 6 TIE Bombers (Have Concussion Missiles) |
Rebel Personnel : | Captain Keyan Farlander (Red 1) |
Rebel Force Composition : | MC80a Maximus, BFF-1 Freighters Phoenix (Comm Sats) and Ojai, Red 1 (A-Wing, have 12 Concussion Missiles) and Blue Squadron (X-Wings) |
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Imperial Survivors : | Unknown |
Surviving Forces : | ISD Intrepid |
Imperial Loses : | 3 TIE Fighters, 7 TIE Interceptors and 6 TIE Bombers |
Rebel Survivors : | Captain Keyan Farlander |
Surviving Forces : | MC80a Maximus, BFF-1 Freighters Phoenix and Ojai, Red 1 and Blue Squadron |
Rebel Loses : | None |
The Freighter Phoenix which was captured by the Rebels was waiting for the MC80a Maximus. Since the MC80a Maximus was delayed, Red 1 was deployed to watch over the captured freighter. The rendezvous was in a quiet sector, that was far away from Imperial interests. The ISD Intrepid was already at the rendezvous point before Farlander arrived. It was a little over 13 km away and it launched a pair of TIE Interceptors and a pair of TIE Bombers. When Farlander came out of hyperspace he was under immediate attack from the TIEs. The ISD Intrepid had already begun to launch additional TIEs. Farlander was able to destroy his attackers. A soon as he destroyed his last attacker, a TIE Bomber, a second wave of them were launched.
The ISD launched the TIEs
in ones and twos. Only once did a TIE get by Farlander. However Farlander
was able to get him by speeding after the TIE and taking it out with a
concussion missile. However the TIE was able to make one attack run on
the BFF-1 Freighter Phoenix. After that the ISD ceased to launch
TIEs. Then, when the MC80a Maximus arrived with the BFF-1 Freighter
Ojai,
the ISD hypered out of the area. With the ISD gone, the MC80a deployed
Blue Squadron, while the Freighter Ojai docked with the Freighter
Phoenix. Once the transfer operation was complete the Freighter
Ojai hypered out of the area. Farlander did not have any back up
in this battle, since the Rebels did not anticipate a very response from
the Empire.