Battle Name : | Protect Resupply Operation in the Kuras Drift [Rebel Campaign: Spreading the Rebellion, Mission 12] |
Battle Location : | Kuras Drift in the Airam Sector |
Battle Occurred : | Some time after the Battle of Hoth |
Battle Type : | Protect Transfer (For the Rebels) |
Force Making Attack : | Airam Clan Ilay + Galactic Empire |
Opposing Forces : | Airam Clan Ilay + Galactic Empire / Airam Clan Tamaron + Rebel Alliance |
Victorious Force : | Airam Clan Tamaron + Rebel Alliance |
Airam Clan Ilay Personnel : | Unknown |
Airam Clan Ilay Composition : | 12 T-Wings (Bravo armed with Proton Torpedoes) |
Imperial Personnel : | Unknown |
Imperial Force Composition : | ISD Wasp, 12 Assault Gunboats (Armed with Proton Torpedoes) and 24 TIE Interceptors |
Rebel Personnel : | Unknown |
Rebel Force Composition : | MC40a Condor, Cargo Ferry Lundi, Cargo Ferry Orrian, Rogue Squadron (X-Wings, no warheads) and Gold Squadron (X-Wings, no warheads) |
Airam Clan Tamaron Personnel : | Clan Leader Tamaron |
Airam Clan Composition : | Asteroid Hanger Attila (Traders), Assassin-class Corvette Lothar (Fuel), Assassin-class Corvette Tondar (Warheads), CR90 Corellian Corvette Ignat (Warheads), IPV-1 System Patrol Craft Bubkis, YT-1300 Ranger [Airam Clan Leader Tamaron-piloting], Cargo Ferry Charlie (Warheads), Cargo Ferry Tango (Warheads) and Cargo Container Type F CV-X1 and CV-X2 (Both carry warheads) |
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Airam Clan Ilay Survivors : | None |
Surviving Forces : | None |
Airam Clan Ilay Loses : | 12 T-Wings (Bravo) |
Imperial Survivors : | Unknown |
Surviving Forces : | ISD Wasp |
Imperial Loses : | All starfighters destroyed |
Rebel Survivors : | Unknown |
Surviving Forces : | MC40a Condor, Cargo Ferry Lundi, Cargo Ferry Orrian, Rogue Squadron, Gold Squadron and Cargo Container Type F CV-X1 and CV-X2 |
Rebel Loses : | Most likely none |
Airam Clan Tamaron Survivors : | Clan Leader Tamaron |
Surviving Forces : | Asteroid Hanger Attila, Assassin-class Corvette Tondar, CR90 Corellian Corvette Ignat, YT-1300 Ranger, Cargo Ferry Charlie and Cargo Ferry Tango |
Airam Clan Tamaron Loses : | Assassin-class Corvette Lothar and IVP-1 System Patrol Craft Bubkis |
The Airam clan under the
command of Clan Leader Tamaron was grateful to the assistance the Rebels
provided in the evacuation of Airam factory in the Mobetta System. Because
of this, Clan Leader Tamaron offered a generous supply of warheads that
were desperately needed by the Rebels. The Rebels were to rendezvous with
his clan at one of their hidden research facility bases in a nearby asteroid
field to receive the warheads. With the supply of warheads the Rebels would
be able to continue their terrorist campaign against the Empire for control
of this sector. To the Rebels the Airam would be a powerful ally in their
war against the might of the Galactic Empire. The Rebel starfighters arrived
before the Rebel ships that would carry the warheads would arrive. They
took up a patrol pattern, while one of their fighter pilots conducted an
inspection of the Airam ships and cargo containers in the area to ensure
that the Rebels were getting the warheads as promised. The Rebel ships
arrived as expected into the area, but soon after unexpected visitors show
up. T-Wings Bravo 1 and 2 hyper into the system, they were not authorized
in Tamaron's territory and they did not state their intentions there either.
Right after the T-Wings arrival came the Assassin-class Corvette Tondar
and shortly later the two Cargo Ferries. Everything was going fine, except
for the situation about the T-Wings, since they were not responding, Rogue
group was diverted to check them out. Without warning the T-Wings fired
proton torpedoes at the asteroid base, thus beginning the attack and Rogue
group engaged the hostile T-Wings. With the attack on the asteroid base,
the IPV-1 System Patrol Craft Bubkis was launched. The T-Wings were quickly
defeated, the YT-1300 Ranger launched from the asteroid hanger and with
that the rest of the T-Wings from Ilay's forces hypered into the area to
fire off their proton torpedoes at the base and then they would go on strafing
runs on the base, but they would engage in dog fighting if their were attacked.
The YT-1300 Ranger helped in the defence of the asteroid base. Once all
of Ilay's T-Wings were destroyed, the first wave of Assault Gunboats arrived
in a pair, armed with proton torpedoes, their target was the asteroid base
just like the T-Wings targeted before them. Right after the first wave
of Assault Gunboats hypered into the area, the last of Tamaron's ships...the
Assassin-class Corvette Lothar hypered into the area, quite some distance
away from the assembly of ships transfering cargo. The Rebel fighters in
the area moved to engage the incoming Assault Gunboats. Throughout the
entire battle the Taramon ships carrying the warheads docked with the Rebel
ships to transfer the warheads. The CR90 Corellian Corvette Ignat and the
Assassin-class Corvette Tondar docked with the MC40a Condor to transfer
the warheads to the Rebels. The Cargo Ferry Tango docked with the Cargo
Ferry Lundi while the Cargo Ferry Charlie docked with the Cargo Ferry Orrian
to also transfer the warheads to the Rebels. After the docking operations
with the Tamaron Cargo Ferries, the Rebel Cargo Ferries then proceeded
to pick up the cargo containers that also contained warheads. Both the
Tamaron and Rebel ships hypered out of the area at different times during
the battle. Moments after the arrival of the Assassin-class Corvette Lothar
the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Wasp came out of hyperspace right behind
the corvette and ordered both Rebel and Airam ships to stand down and to
prepare to be boarded. A Rebel pilot was just able to inspect the Corvette
Lothar just before it was destroyed by the ISD. While pounding away at
the doomed corvette, the ISD also launched TIE Interceptors into the battle,
some of the Rebel fighters diverted to engage the Imperial starfighters.
The ISD Wasp itself moved in towards the asteroid base to destroy it. The
IPV-1 System Patrol Craft Bubkis, along with other Rebel starfighters engaged
the ISD Wasp after all 12 of the Assault Gunboats were destroyed. During
the conflict however, the System Patrol Craft was also destroyed by the
ISD Wasp. Unfortunately, the ISD Wasp suffered heavy damage and was forced
to withdraw from the battle. With the Rebels victorious the YT-1300 Ranger
entered hyperspace and the last Rebel ships, namely the MC40a Condor and
the X-Wings also made their jump into hyperspace with their obtained warheads.