Thunderstrike The Thunderstrike was a CR90 corvette utilised by the Sixty - First Mobile Infantry of the Alliance to Restore the Republic . During it ' s time in the rebellion , Captain Micha Evon , more commonly known as Howl , was in charge of the vessel until his death at the Battle of Hoth . Soon after , Rebel trooper Hazram Namir unofficially took charge of the ship until its demise at the Siege of Inyusu Tor , where the corvette was ambushed by the Galactic Empire . The " Thunderstrike " was also escorted by the " Braha ' tok " - class gunship " Apailana ' s Promise " . History . Early use under the Rebellion . The CR90 corvette " Thunderstrike " began serving the alliance ' s Sixty - First Mobile Infantry sometime before the Galactic Civil War . It ' s Captain was Micha Evon , more commonly known as Howl , who led the Sixty - First . At some point the " Thunderstrike " got it ' s own escort , a " Braha ' tok " - class gunship called the " Apailana ' s Promise " , which could carry two X - wing starfighter s into battle for the Sixty - First . During a mission to Allst Prime , the " Thunderstrike " was in orbit whilst the Sixty - First soldiers fought on the ground . The " Thunderstrike " caused extreme damage when it bombarded the Shield around the Crucival transmitter tower . Galactic Civil War . The " Thunderstrike " served the Sixty - First well through the Alliance ' s advancement into the Mid Rim and the Mid Rim Retreat when the Alliance ran back out again . During the Attack on Haidoral Prime , the Governor Everi Chalis defected to the Sixty - First and was held in one of the " Thunderstrike " < nowiki > ' < / nowiki > s airlock s . Following the Coyerti campaign , it suffered three separate attacks in the Metatessu sector and was leaking a trail from its Hyperdrive . In order to get the repairs it and the " Apailana ' s Promise " attacked an imperial heavy freighter . During the raid , the " Thunderstrike " shot occasionally at the freighter to keep it in an unstable condition . The battle was cut short by the addition of an Imperial Gozanti Cruiser but the " Thunderstrike " received the supplies it needed . Infiltrated the Elochar Sector . The " Thunderstrike " and the " Apailana ' s Promise " then rendezvoused to a Flotilla in the Elochar sector where they could get repairs the they needed . Howl meanwhile had gone to Echo Base on Hoth with Chalis to see the Alliance High Command . The engineers began repairs immediately and the soldiers went on patrols or shore leave to other ships . Captain So - Hem of the " Sixmoon " invited Sixty - First soldiers to visit his ship . A short while later the " Trumpet ' s Call " was over taken by Imperial spies . The Light freighter arrived to the flotilla with no life support and a lot of dead rebels and unconscious infiltrators . The " Thunderstrike " blindly took the spies in and when they regained mobility , they stormed into the bridge killing Howl ' s second in command Lieutenant Sairgon and the Naval Officer Commander Paonu . Sairgon , luckily , had sent a warning out to the flotilla and the ships retreated . The Sixty - First soldiers then regained control of the " Thunderstrike " and fled the system . Operation Ringbreaker . Howl had died in the Battle of Hoth during the commotion in the Elochar Sector and Chalis and First Sergeant Hazram Namir came back with the bad news . Commander Tohna transferred from being in charge of the " Apailana ' s Promise " to being in charge of the " Thunderstrike " . The " Thunderstrike " was repaired fully on Ankhural where the Sixty - First devised a plan to take out Kuat Drive Yards . It was called Operation Ringbreaker . The " Thunderstrike " dropped off and picked up troops of the Sixty - First from Mardona III and then Obumubo before delivering a pay load to the Dockyards of Najan - Rovi . It then gave did its job for the attacks on Nakadia , Naator , Xagobah and the Kuliquo belt asteroid mines . It then came to Sullust where the soldiers took Inyusu Tor . But when the " Thunderstrike " came to pick them up , it was shot down by ambushing TIE Fighters of Vixus Squadron . TIE Bombers then ravaged the " Thunderstrike " shortly after a team came and rescued Commander Tohna from the wreckage . Legacy . The Imperial forces led by Prelate Verge were determined to wipe out the Sixty - First after stranding them on Sullust . But in the Siege of Inyusu Tor , their plan backfired when Namir , now Captain of the company , used the factory ' s lava against the ground troops and the " Imperial " - class Star Destroyer " Herald " took internal damage from an Ion mine causing it to retreat . After the battle , the soldiers re - grouped and the Sullustan resistance took Pinyumb with the help of the Cobalt Laborers ' Reformation Front . The " Thunderstrike " was then scavenged and it with its batteries drained by Quartermaster Hober . The " Apailana ' s Promise " was back having fended off the " Herald " for most of the battle . Behind the scenes . The " Thunderstrike " first appeared in " " , a novel written by Alexander Freed and published in 2015 .