Invasion of Bakura The invasion of Bakura was the attempt by the Ssi - ruuvi Imperium to invade the remote Imperial planet Bakura in 4 ABY . The battle took place during and days after the Battle of Endor . Only the timely arrival of Alliance to Restore the Republic forces led by Commander Luke Skywalker and the Alliance Escort Carrier " Flurry " and its unlikely alliance with Imperial forces stationed at Bakura temporarily drove the Ssi - ruu k to fringes of the Bakura system , thus saving Bakura for the time being . Prelude . For millennia , the saurian Ssi - ruu k had ruled an isolated interstellar empire in the distant reaches of the Unknown Regions . Their technology relied on entechment — whereby the souls of a sentient being were drained into a mechanical conduit . However by 1 BBY , resources were becoming scarce in their isolated region of space . In 1 BBY , the Ssi - ruuvi ' s supreme ruler — the Shreeftut — received visions through the Force of a hooded Human who revealed himself to be Emperor Palpatine , ruler of the galaxy . He offered the Ssi - ruuvi dozens of worlds and millions of Humans to entech , in exchange for the use of Ssi - ruuvi technology . The shreeftut agreed . In response , they decided to venture into Wild Space where they conquered the small Human colony of G ' rho ; capturing numerous members of the populace for entechment . Among their captives was a human boy named Dev Sibwarra , whom the Elder Sh ' tk ' ith brainwashed through mind manipulation techniques . What astounded them was the boy possessed strange powers to sense others . From the boy , they learnt that humans had a longer containment time when enteched and could last longer than most other species . Over the next years the invaders attacked several other colonies and enteched the small populations . The Empire covered up these incidents , blaming Rebels or citing them as various disasters . The Ssi - ruuvi armada was en route towards another small colony world when Sibwarra felt the death of the Emperor during the Battle of Endor . Now that the pact that Palpatine had once forged was no longer in effect , the Ssi - ruuk set course for Bakura , a heavily industrialized and populated world in the Shiritoku Spur . The fleet was only a small advance group of the real Ssi - ruuvi fleet , and was running low on resources . A victory was necessary for the future invasion to happen . While the battleships engaged the Imperial forces , the planetary attack carrier and the construction ship stayed behind near Arden . The battle . Six - day siege . The Imperial fleet at Bakura was taken completely by surprise . Since the only threats so far had been pirates , a full - scale invasion was too much for the outdated fleet . Commander Pter Thanas still obeyed his orders and defended the planet while governor Wilek Nereus requested reinforcements . HoloNet requests to Coruscant and to the Second Death Star were left unanswered , so Nereus decided to use a different method : He launched an antiquated messenger drone to Endor , knowing that the Emperor had been there to visit the Death Star , but still unaware that Palpatine was already dead . In the meantime , Bakura ' s defense force was slaughtered : TIE / LN starfighter s were almost always destroyed while the capital ships were first disabled , then captured and the crews enteched . All system - wide colonies and outposts , including the one on Bakura - 6 were destroyed . Recovery teams found no bodies or survivors , but most of them were captured , too . Only a few returned to Bakura . Governor Nereus - an expert on non - human parasites - tried to wipe out the Ssi - ruuk by infecting his men . However , the bodies of enteched prisoners were disposed too fast for this tactic to have any effect . When the Rebels would finally arrive , only the " Dominant " , two gunships and a few damaged patrol boats and TIEs were left . The populace had been prepared to leave the cities and hide in the mountains as the Ssi - ruuk launched their final attack . To fulfill the demands of entechment , all bodies , including those wounded or captured alive , were taken back onboard to the entechment labs onboard the Ssi - ruuvi capital ships . This practice baffled the local Bakuran and Imperial recovery crew . Due to his ability to communicate with the predominantly human prisoners in their native language , Dev was pressed into service at the entechment rig on deck 16 throughout the night shift . Accompanied by Master Firwirrung , Dev played an active role in " calming " the entechment subjects while Firwirrung carried out the mechanical process of " transferring " life sources . These life sources would be used to power battle droids . Among those enteched was a wounded male Imperial officer who attempted to persuade Dev to not carry out the procedure . Brainwashed into believing in the benefits of entechment , he merely brushed aside the man ' s pleadings . Later , a female prisoner was killed during an escape attempt . Thoroughly indoctrinated , Dev merely sighed at the loss . In an attempt to persuade the Bakurans to capitulate , the Ssi - ruuk transmitted a holo - recording from Dev Sibwarra , who told them of the fate they would soon experience — that of entechment — and although Sibwarra described it as an eternal release , the Bakurans knew that was a lie . Rebel Intervention . The messenger drone arrived at Endor while the Alliance was reestablishing their sensor perimeter , literally the day after the Battle of Endor . Despite the fact that the message came from a relatively unimportant world , it opened a great opportunity for the Rebels ; Bakura had only been occupied for a few years , so the people could still remember their independence . Bakura also had a large repulsorlift industry , and the Imperial garrison only had outdated equipment available . The Alliance also saw an opportunity to prove to the citizens of the galaxy that the Rebels were not the brutal terrorists as portrayed by Imperial propaganda . With the Imperial fleet in disarray after Endor , Bakura could only expect reinforcements in a matter of weeks - too late for the remote planet . A small carrier group was assembled , consisting of the " Flurry " , an Alliance Escort Carrier fresh from the Virgillian Civil War equipped with the experimental Battle Analysis Computer , five Corellian Gunships , a Corellian Corvette , 20 X - wings , three A - wings , four B - wings , and the " Millennium Falcon " . Princess Leia Organa was chosen as diplomat and Commander Skywalker , despite his injuries , as military commander . Early the next day , the small fleet left for Bakura with the mission to defeat the unknown attacker and bring Bakura over to the Alliance . Despite Captain Manchisco ' s impatience , the task force first dropped out of hyperspace outside the system to scan the area . After contacting the Imperial commander , Commander Pter Thanas , Skywalker decided to intervene , but sent the " Falcon " to wait at Bakura - 6 , since the security of the only diplomat had a higher priority . Skywalker microjumped to Bakura at the same time that the Ssi - ruuk attempted their final push towards the planet . Starfighter groups Rogue and Gold attacked a lone Wurrif - class light cruiser cruiser while Red Group split up : One through Four secured an escape corridor for the advancing squadrons while the rest protected the " Flurry " . While the Alliance fighters tried to lure the enemy away from the planet , Skywalker reached out with the Force and sensed two presences being extinguished aboard the Ssi - ruu vi droid fighters by Wedge Antilles . This startled the Jedi Knight and he opened himself to the Force once more : when Gold Leader eliminated several fighters at once , Skywalker felt " human " force signatures . Only moments afterward , the BAC marked the Ssi - ruuvi cruiser as vulnerable and Skywalker had to divert his attention back to the battlefield ; he ordered Rogue Squadron to engage , only to have them abort as the cruiser launched a new wave of fighters . In the meantime , Imperial Commander Pter Thanas had made good use of the reprieve and organized his ships into a counter - offensive formation . Suddenly Skywalker felt danger in the force and he saw an enemy picket ship approaching Rogue Squadron as they made another attack run on the cruiser . Skywalker tried to warn Antilles and sent the remaining fighters of Red Group into battle , but due to heavy Ssi - ruuvi jamming , the orders were garbled . Rogue Squadron still managed to evade , but two X - wings flew right into the cannons of the picket ship and were destroyed . With the " Flurry " lacking a starfighter screen , the Ssi - ruuk sent masses of their droid starfighters against the Alliance cruiser . Leaving the defense of the ship to Captain Manchisco , Luke Skywalker once again opened himself to the Force . He gained an insight how the droid fighters operated and felt the constant agony of the enslaved souls . He found one specific fighter and planted the suggestion in it that it was better to die than to live in enslavement . The enteched soul understood and rammed itself into another one , a maneuver that allowed Antilles to escape . Only moments later the " Flurry " losts its shields . Skywalker recalled all starfighters , but last - minute help came from another side : After escaping a few remaining battle droids near Bakura - 6 , General Solo had decided to join the main fleet and jumped to Bakura . The " Falcon " emerged from hyperspace near the " Flurry " and destroyed several fighters and a picket ship . After the Falcon ' s intervention , the battle began to slow down . Red Squadron , under guidance from Skywalker and the BAC , managed to finally destroy the cruiser . Meanwhile , Sibwarra sensed the arrival of a powerful Force - strong Jedi among the new arrivals — later revealed to be Skywalker . However , he refrained from telling his superior Bluescale since it meant confessing a guilty " secret habit " . With these unexpected losses , the Ssi - ruuk retreated to the edge of the system . Aftermath . The Ssi - ruuk had completely underestimated the Rebel forces and were forced to make an emergency jump into hyperspace , the first time since Cattamascar . They sustained considerable losses including a cruiser and several drone fighters from attacks by the Alliance ships . Additionally they had lost almost all superior human - enteched starfighters and without new prisoners were unable to power up , or even build new ones . This unexpected change forced the Ssi - ruuvi leadership to analyze the newcomers ' different tactics , starships and command style . Having helped beat off the Ssi - ruuvi attack on the system , the Alliance ships were holding position near the planet . The few remaining Imperial patrol craft and half of the TIEs required extensive repairs at the Orbital Station , but were later integrated into the combined defense grid . Following the Ssi - ruuvi withdrawal , Leia Organa contacted the planetary government and was able to arrange a meeting between the Rebel Alliance delegation and Governor Nereus , as well as the Bakuran Senate . With the retreat of the enemy , an uneasy truce between the Empire at Bakura and the Rebellion was forged . The political situation on Bakura however proved to be unstable and Governor Nereus used the situation for his advantadge . He infected Skywalker with parasites and handed him over to the Ssi - ruuk , again hoping to wipe them out . This resulted in a second Invasion only two days later . Behind the scenes . The Second Battle of Bakura first appeared in the novel " The Truce at Bakura " . The battle was conceived and written as an element within a step - stair plot structure by the author Kathy Tyers . Tyers used this battle as a device to introduce the nature of the Ssi - ruu vi threat along with two other important Expanded Universe players in the story plot — the Imperial commander Pter Thanas and the Force - sensitive Human slave Dev Sibwarra . During an interview with Ilene Rosenberg for " Star Wars Adventure Journal 4 " , Tyers said that her editor Janna Silverstein had asked her to have five concepts for the storyline . The one that Tyers liked the most involved an alien menace that would force the Rebel Alliance and the Empire to briefly work together . There is some discrepancy between " The Truce at Bakura " and " The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook " regarding the IR - 3F Patrol Craft : The Sourcebook claims that two of the five were destroyed during the siege with " Digit / Bakura II " , " III " and " V " remaining , but the book mentions " Digit / Bakura VI " being destroyed in the final battle .