Capture of Research During the Zaarin insurrection , loyalist Imperial forces managed to capture the XQ6 Platform " Research " in the Parmel system . Prelude . Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin , realizing his attempted kidnapping of Palpatine failed , had contingency plans against the Empire . After he had succeeded in destroying the Empire ' s TIE Advanced starfighter factories in the Omar system . His focus was now to strip the Empire of their hold on TIE Defender research and technology , as he sought whatever advantage he could against the Empire . Realizing that this could cause a positive feedback loop between the Rebel Alliance , gaining a reprieve from the situation and result in a comeback and Zaarin , who could , in turn , take advantage of the situation , the Empire sent a strike force , lead by Maarek Stele , to stop Zaarin ' s attempt at striping the Research platform . The Secret Order , also approached Stele with orders to disable as many craft that try to escape as possible as they wanted to root out every leak and mole Zaarin had . The battle . Stele and wingman arrived to engage Zaarin ' s TIE / sa bombers , while that was going on one of Zaarin ' s cargo ferries , Sakin had docked with a container and jumped to Hyperspace . Stele , not wanting the rest to escape broke of and attacked the rest of the cargo ferries and destroyed them , he then proceeded to disable all Shuttles carrying officers , technicians , and staff . Soon Utility Tug s left the station under suspicious motives , Stele not wanting to not take chances took them out whenever he could . Soon a Ton - Falk - class escort carrier " Jitte " arrived to reinforce the station . The " Jitte " launched TIE Fighters that were modified to have Shields and missile launchers . Despite these upgrades , they weren ' t enough as all TIE Fighters were destroyed by Stele . While that was happening Assault transports arrived and launched Heavy rockets at " Jitte " , helping Stele destroy it . The transports soon turned their attention to the platform and with Stele ' s help disabled to platform so that they could send a contingency of Stormtroopers to capture it . When the operation was complete , the Star Destroyer " Adarga " arrived and began launching Heavy Lifter group Pacho , to dock with the containers , and Stormtrooper transports Omicron to dock with the disabled shuttles . Suddenly a Rebel A - wing arrived and Stele was ordered to intercept it . After doing so , 4 more A - wings arrived , followed by 4 X - wings and 4 B - wings . All the Rebel starfighters were shot down by Stele and his wingmen . Aftermath . With the battle over all captured shuttles , transports , Heavy lifters and TIE Defenders flew to the " Adarga " ' s hanger battle weary but victorious . But they knew it would only be a matter of time before Zaarin would attack again . The Secret Order , meanwhile , wasted no time interrogating the prisoners that were captured . Behind the scenes . The battle was first featured in the 1994 LucasArts video game " " , in which players fly as Maarek Stele . The battle is depicted in the mission " Capture Platform " , the first mission of the game ' s ninth tour of campaign , " T / D Technology " . This article assumes completion of all " Primary " , " Secondary " and most , if not all " Bonus " objectives . It also assumes that one Cargo Ferry , Sakin 1 , escaped into hyperspace . However , it is possible to destroy all Cargo ferries before they escape .