Second Battle of Fondor The Second Battle of Fondor took place in 41 ABY , as part of the Second Galactic Civil War . Fondor had earlier left the Galactic Alliance for the Confederation , and to shore up his prestige , Chief of State Jacen Solo decided to retake the world , along with its orbital shipyards . This was the last battle that Jacen Solo and Admiral Cha Niathal would fight together as the Joint Chiefs of State , as the battle resulted in the division of the Galactic Alliance ; there were forces who remained loyal to Darth Caedus , and those who supported Niathal . The Imperial Remnant and the majority of the Alliance fleet allied themselves with Caedus , while Niathal only rallied a third of the remaining Alliance ships to her cause . The battle was won when Admiral Natasi Daala arrived with the Maw Irregular Fleet , and attacked Caedus , which forced him to retreat , since he was both outnumbered and outgunned . Niathal and Daala then joined the resistance against the Sith Lord . Prelude . Admiral Niathal saw this as her chance to overthrow Solo , and secretly began communications with Grand Master Luke Skywalker on the Alliance blockade of the world . This ended up in Luke Skywalker informing the Fondorian s of the space mine s that would be placed around the planet . The ships placing the mines were shot down and the world was preparing for invasion . This greatly affected the battle against the GA forces as the mines could have taken out many ships quickly and improved their odds . Niathal later felt badly about causing the deaths of the hundred soldiers killed as a result of her leaked information . To assure his victory , Caedus contacted the Imperial Remnant and offered them Bilbringi and Borleias if they would help him take Fondor . Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon quickly rejected his offer . However , Caedus expected this and sent Tahiri Veila to persuade him . Pellaeon met with her and then put the proposal to the Moff Council . They agreed with aiding Solo , and he accepted the offer , which received applause from the Moffs . The Grand Admiral committed his forces to the battle , but still did not trust Jacen Solo , so he contacted Admiral Daala and requested the assistance of her personal fleet in case he would need protection against the Sith Lord or any other threat . Daala then contacted Boba Fett , requesting he bring his best men to aid her in the upcoming battle . Dogfight with Luke Skywalker . As the GA ' s Fourth Fleet gathered in the space by Fondor , Colonel Jacen Solo decided to scout the area in his StealthX . Niathal and her task force arrived as well but Solo suddenly saw a huge unknown fleet . It turned out to be the creation of Luke Skywalker , a massive illusion created through the Force . He contacted the crew of his ship , the " Anakin Solo " , as well as Niathal about the alleged incoming fleet . As no one else could see the illusion but Solo , Niathal took this opportunity to humiliate Solo in front of the commanding officers of his fleet . Luke Skywalker managed to damage Solo ' s StealthX severely before he could take it into safety in the " Anakin Solo ' s " hangar by ramming it with his own starfighter . The battle . The battle began at midnight , with GA X - wings attacking the shipyards and patrolling frigates , the destroyers moving towards Fondor ' s north and south poles , and warships gathering in the orbital ring . From the surface of the planet , large numbers of Fondorian starfighter wings attacked . The GA ships did not take heavy casualties from that , but as Colonel Solo saw numerous capital ships , probably ignored by the GA as not operational , starting to move , he realized that his task force was stuck between the orbital shipyards and the planet . The Fondorian fleet split in two groups ; one pounding the Fourth Fleet under Jacen Solo and the other attacked the Third Fleet and the Imperial Remnant ships . Bombarding the planet . Niathal wanted Solo to regroup outside the ring of shipyards but he instead continued to close in on the planet . Using all of his strength , Solo used the Force and mind - tricked the Fondorian s so they would lower the planetary shield based in Oridin City . The feat drained much of his powers , however , leaving him drained and exhausted . After ensuring that the shield could not be activated again by ordering his forces to launch missiles at it , Solo instructed his ships to begin bombarding the city . The bombardment damaged six cities in the whole region and started large firestorms . Niathal immediately contacted Fondorian President Shas Vadde and offered him a chance to surrender the planet , promising that the GA would provide disaster relief efforts for Oridin . After a few minutes of thought , Vadde surrendered and both commanders ordered their forces to ceasefire . Solo was informed of the surrender but refused to accept it after he spent so much energy into bringing them to their knees and continued his attack . Niathal , using her position of Supreme Commander , relieved him of command for disobeying the laws of war , and ordered the Alliance fleet to disobey him . However , two - thirds of the fleet remained loyal to Solo . Imperial Remnant loyalty to Darth Caedus . At the same time , Pellaeon refused to continue attacking the world that had surrendered and instead ordered all Imperial Forces to take commands from Chief of State Admiral Niathal . Some of the Moffs aboard the " Bloodfin " with Pellaeon objected to these orders . Grand Admiral Pellaeon stated very sternly that the Imperial forces would honor the Fondorian surrender . Tahiri Veila tried to persuade him into helping Jacen who was now outnumbered , but Pellaeon refused . He was then murdered by Tahiri who was officially named Darth Caedus ' s Sith apprentice after she reported his death . After that , Grand Moff Quille along with some other Moffs tried to take control of the Imperial Remnant warships and fight for Jacen Solo . But the crew of the " Bloodfin " mutinied and the Moffs loyal to Quille along with Tahiri Veila barricaded themselves in the central command sections of the ship . Ending the battle . After gaining the loyalty of the Imperial Remnant and the majority of the GA fleet , Caedus attacked Niathal . But just as Caedus began the attack , Admiral Daala arrived commanding the Maw Irregular Fleet that Pellaeon prepared as personal backup . They supported forces loyal to Niathal in attacking Caedus ' s forces . Meanwhile , Pellaeon ' s new flagship , the " Bloodfin " , was successfully taken by Mandalorians led by Boba Fett . Quille and those officers loyal to him were killed in gunfights aboard . Tahiri Veila was successfully extracted by her new master and brought to safety as the Mandalorian commandos handed the " Bloodfin " over to Daala . The remaining Imperial / Alliance forces loyal to Caedus were repelled from the system and retreated to Coruscant after Darth Caedus came to realize they were outnumbered by thirty percent and many of Daala ' s ships were armed with powerful Metal - Crystal Phase Shifter s and other unconventional weapons which they were not prepared to fight against . Luke Skywalker negotiated with the President of Fondor for Niathal to use Fondor as her base of operations for her faction of the Galactic Alliance , forming a united front against Caedus . Aftermath . After the battle , the Imperial Remnant demanded the return of Pellaeon ' s body , but Daala declined to honor their wishes , and instead , sent them bodies of the Moffs , burying Pellaeon on his home planet of Corellia , afterwards . Four days after the battle , Darth Caedus controlled the Galactic Alliance from Coruscant . He now ruled alone , as he wanted all along , and promptly started showing signs of his plans for the galactic government , by erasing laws that were in his way , such as the legal requirements for Security Council meetings .