Battle at Ukio

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|name=Battle at Ukio
|conflict=Galactic Civil War (Technor campaign)
|image=
|date=September 15th, 2011 (44:7:29)The Essential Atlas
|place=Ukio
|result=Imperial victory
|side1=Galactic Empire
|side2=Ukian Overliege
|commanders1=*Grand Admiral Technor
*Emperor Baron Greenback
*Joruus C'baoth
*General Freja Covell
|commanders2=*Overliege of Ukio Tol dosLla
|forces1=
*2 Imperial-class Star Destroyers
**Chimaera
**Stormhawk
*10 Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers
*Cloaked cruisers
*TIE/LN starfighters
*Imperial Dropships
|forces2=
*Planetary shield
*Ukian military forces
*Ukian ground/space defense
|casual1=*A few TIE fighters
|casual2=*Two military air bases}}
The Battle at Ukio was a brief battle in the Technor campaign of 2011 where Imperial forces under Grand Admiral Technor tricked Ukio into surrendering by using cloaked cruisers to bombard the planet from under the surface in coordination with an orbital bombardment by the orbiting Imperial fleet.
==Background==
Ukio was one of the five major producers of agricultural supplies for the New Republic and was ruled by the Ukian Overliege. Sometime prior to Technor's campaign, the Empire lost its control over Ukio.
In preparation for his attack on Ukio, the Grand Admiral had deployed some of his fleet including the Imperial-class Star Destroyers Bellicose, Judicator and Nemesis and Death's Head on diversionary attacks on Ando Prime, Filve, Crondre and Ord Pardron. This was to distract the already stretched New Republic forces who had already sustained losses at the battle for the lost Katana fleet. For the attack itself, Technor deployed two Star Destroyers including his flagship the Chimaera, ten of the Katana Dreadnaughts and an unknown number of cloaked cruisers. At his helm was the Dark Jedi Joruus C'baoth who would be responsible for coordinating the orbital bombardment of the cruisers via battle meditation.
==Description==
As the Chimaera and its escort of Dreadnaughts descended on Ukio's surface at high orbit above the sunside equator, Technor demanded that the Ukian Overliege submit to the Empire by lowering its planetary shield and withdrawing its military forces to their bases to await Imperial occupation. When the Ukians delayed a response, Technor retaliated by ordering the Chimaera to fire its turbolaser batteries on the planetary shield. As expected, the planetary shield deflected the blasts. But under the influence of C'baoth's mind control technique, the two cloaked cruisers hovering beneath the shield at the two points fired upon by the Chimaera fired on the planetary surface in turn; obliterating two Ukian military air bases. Thanks to the near-instantaneous timing and the devastation sustained on the surface, the Ukians believed that Technor had developed a superweapon capable of blasting through a planetary shield that could fit on a Star Destroyer.
==Aftermath==
Rather than incur more destruction, the Ukian Overliege surrendered to Technor and subjected to his terms of surrender. These terms included lowering Ukio's planetary shield and allowing Imperial occupational forces to seize control of the shield generators and all ground-to-space artillery systems. All military vehicles larger than a command speeder were to be confiscated by the Imperial occupatiers. In exchange for accepting an Imperial military occupation, Technor also agreed not to interfere in the local political and social administration and to exempt Ukio from war-level taxation and military conscription. However, Technor also demanded that a significant proportion of Ukio's food production and processing facilities be diverted for the Imperial war effort. Rumors that the Empire had developed a superweapon capable of firing through a planet's defense shields spread throughout the galaxy, although the New Republic, studying a macrobinocular recording of the attack made by Samuel Gillespee and forwarded to them by Lord Furter, later disproved this belief.
==Appearances==
*The Last Command 
*The Last Command 1
==Sources==
*The Last Command Sourcebook 
*The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook
*The Essential Chronology
*The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
*The New Essential Chronology
*The Essential Atlas
==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Civil War battles