Battle of Andalia The Battle of Andalia was an engagement between the Galactic Empire and the Hapes Consortium in the year 0 ABY , at the planet Andalia during the Galactic Civil War . Imperial Emperor Palpatine sent Grand Admiral Osvald Teshik to the Hapes Cluster as the head of a task force , led by the " Pursuit " - class light cruiser " Shepherd " , on a doomed mission as a lesson for the other Grand Admirals after Teshik previously failed him . Facing a Hapan fleet composed of five Hapan Battle Dragon s and eight " Nova " - class battle cruisers , Teshik ' s task force was heavily mauled , resulting in the loss of the entire battle group , save for Teshik , who managed to survive . Prelude . In the year 0 ABY , during the Galactic Civil War , a conflict between the Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic , privateers allied with the Rebels captured Imperial Advisor Coh Veshiv from the planet Esseles . Because Imperial Grand Admiral Osvald Teshik commanded the oversector where the event took place and failed to deal with these raiders , Imperial Emperor Palpatine used Teshik as an example to teach the other Grand Admirals a lesson . Palpatine sent Teshik and a task force comprised of the " Pursuit " - class light cruiser " Shepherd " , carrying two squadrons of TIE / LN starfighter s , and eight gunships on a doomed mission to the Hapes Cluster . Though most of the task force believed their mission was a recon patrol , with a purpose of keeping the near - Human species of Hapan s honest , Teshik knew that none of them would survive the mission ' s conclusion . After arriving in the star cluster , the task force proceeded to the world of Andalia after being ordered to engage the enemy forces there . The battle . Upon reaching Andalia , the Imperial task force faced a tipped - off Hapan fleet , composed of five Hapan Battle Dragon s and eight " Nova " - class battle cruisers . Although the Imperials faced long odds and many expected the task force to flee , Teshik had a deck officer launch the TIEs to engage the enemy at the start of the battle . Lasting just two minutes before both squadrons were eradicated by Battle Dragon laser fire , the TIEs managed to make two passes , though their weaponry was unable to penetrate the enemy deflector shields . The eight Imperial gunships were also quickly destroyed , six being annihilated within a minute before the last two gunships crashed into each other head - on after their captains panicked . The " Shepherd " was the last Imperial ship to fall to the Hapans . The shields of the " Pursuit " - class cruiser failed , and after a volley of proton torpedoes launched by the lead Battle Dragon struck the ship , the " Shepherd " reactor core blew , destroying the cruiser . However , Teshik managed to make it out of the " Shepherd " before the ship was lost , donning an enviro - suit due to his failure of finding an escape pod . He was ejected from the cruiser by a hull breach , though the survival suit was damaged in the process . The aftermath . In the wake of the Hapan victory , Teshik had a vision regarding the nature of war over the centuries . Later , Teshik was picked up by an Imperial snoopship sent by the Emperor to ensure that Palpatine ' s sentence was carried out after Teshik managed to activate a beacon on his suit . However , due to the damaged suit , only a quarter of Teshik ' s body survived , the rest being replaced with cybernetics . In the end , Teshik , the man sent by the Emperor to die at Andalia , survived . Teshik later recounted the details of the battle to his captors after he was captured by Rebels following the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY . He was then executed for war crimes . Behind the scenes . The Battle of Andalia was first mentioned in 2003 ' s " " , a section written by Daniel Wallace and Abel G . Peña in the 66th issue of the " Star Wars Insider " magazine . A detailed description was not published until 2012 in the " The Essential Guide to Warfare " , written by Jason Fry and Paul R . Urquhart . " Warfare " was the first source to identify the battle as the Battle of Andalia , and it used the section containing the battle as the prologue of the book . Fry later wrote in his endnotes about the creation of the section that described the battle . Originally , instead of the prologue containing details of the battle , it had Imperial Admiral Conan Antonio Motti , engineer and architect Bevel Lemelisk , as well as Imperial General and Doctor Insmot Bowen discussing in a briefing an ancient war between the Celestial s and the Rakata . However , Fry ' s editor , Erich Schoeneweiss , felt the prologue needed to be a more engaging introduction to the book , and have some actual warfare in it , which was why the battle replaced the briefing . Fry later got inspiration for the battle and its consequences when he listened to the song " , " by .