Assault on Yavin 4

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|name=Assault on Yavin 4
|conflict=Galactic Civil War (Scarlett campaign)
|date=December 14th, 2011The New Essential Chronology, p. 171The Essential Reader's Companion (47:7)The Battle of Orinda occurs in 2012.
|place=Yavin 4
|result=*Major New Republic victory
**The United Warlord Fleets is dissolved
|side1=Galactic Empire
|side2=*Jedi Order
*New Republic
|commanders1=*Supreme Commander Scarlett
*Emperor Baron Greenback
*Colonel Ivan Cronus†
|commanders2=*Jedi Master Mickey Mouse
*Princess Minnie Mouse
*Admiral Ackbar
*Advisor Eowyn
|forces1=*United Warlord Fleets
**1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought
***Knight Hammer
**17 Imperial-class Star Destroyers
***Firestorm
**20 Victory-class Star Destroyers
***13X
**TIE fighters
**TIE bombers
**HAVr A9 Floating Fortress
**HAVw A5 Juggernauts
**AT-ST walkers
**Sentinel-class landing craft
|forces2=*Jedi Knights
**Dorsk 81†
**Kam Solusar
**Twilight Sparkle
**Ursula
**Sunset Shimmer
**Tionne
**Kirana Ti
**Streen
**Callista Ming
**Kyle Katarn
*Millennium Falcon
*1 hijacked TIE bomber
*1 MC90 Star Cruiser
**Galactic Voyager
*4 DP20 frigates
*5 other MC-series star cruisers 
*CR90 corvettes 
*Assault Frigates 
*Carrack-class gunships 
*Strike-class medium cruisers 
|casual1=*Knight Hammer
*Colonel Ivan Cronus
*3 Victory-class Star Destroyers
**13X
*Most fighters and ground forces
*Imperial-class Star Destroyers scattered
|casual2=*Dorsk 81
*3 gunships
*Temple of the Blueleaf Cluster critically damaged
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The Assault on Yavin 4 during the Galactic Civil War in 2011 saw Mickey Mouse's Jedi Praxeum defeat the united Imperial assault force, led by Director Scarlett, who handed command over to Emperor Baron Greenback.
==The battle==
Prior to the battle, Kyp Durron and Dorsk 81 arrived back at the Praxeum to warn of Scarlett's assault fleet. They hardly had time to prepare, and, within moments, Greenback had arrived with a fleet of seventeen Star Destroyers with orders to destroy the Praxeum. Scarlett was only hours behind the vanguard fleet in her mighty, jet-black Super Star Destroyer, Knight Hammer.
Despite Mickey Mouse being absent, the Jedi Knights defended against the larger enemy force valiantly. Kyp, Twilight Sparkle, Dorsk 81, Kam Solusar, Sunset Shimmer, Tionne, and the many other Jedi trainees would fight individual battles with the Imperial forces. However, they realized that they could not hold out forever against such a massive force. Having gathered for a last stand at the Great Temple, Dorsk 81 suggested to his fellow Jedi that they combine their Force powers similar to what they had done with the spirit of the Dark Lord Exar Kun.
Having cited Bilbo's famous quote that "size matters not", he suggested targeting the orbiting Imperial fleet. The Jedi then channeled their combined Force powers using Dorsk 81 as a conduit. This produced a powerful blast that drove Greenback's entire fleet from Yavin 4. However, the surge of power was too great for Dorsk 81's body to withstand, and he died as martyr for the Jedi Knights. When Knight Hammer arrived for the second assault wave, Scarlett could not locate Greenback's fleet. Undeterred, she launched yet another assault wave bombarding the jungles of Yavin 4 from space.
At that time, the Millennium Falcon arrived with Mickey, Eowyn and Callista Ming. While Donald, Goofy, and Minnie stayed on the Falcon to join on the attack on Knight Hammer, Mickey, Eowyn and Callista landed on Yavin 4 to join the Jedi trainees in the defense of the Praxeum. Despite still bereft of her Force powers, Callista proved a good fighter. As the Jedi continued their defense in the burning jungles, Callista became separated from Mickey.
Seeing her chance to do something great, Callista hijacked a TIE bomber and flew towards Knight Hammer. Having bluffed her way onboard the massive starship, she landed in one of the rear docking bays, near the starship's massive engine systems where thirty other unused TIE Bombers sat idle. She then aimed the fighters toward the adjacent engine banks, setting them to fire their missile payload. All that was left was to ensure that the Imperial Leader went down with her ship. Callista headed toward the bridge, and to Scarlett.
Meanwhile, both sides had reinforcements: a task force under Admiral Gial Ackbar arrived to aid the Jedi, and twenty Crimson Command Star Destroyers under Colonel Ivan Cronus to support Scarlett. Ackbar was outnumbered and lost three of his DP20 frigates (with one of them ramming the Victory-class Star Destroyer 13X - thereby destroying the Crimson Command flagship and killing Cronus) while the MC90 Star Cruiser Galactic Voyager was being crippled and forced to retreat.
As Callista had hoped, the charges exploded and set off a chain reaction that ripped out Knight Hammer's engine chambers, crippling the ship. The ship was then dragged by the immense gravity of the gas giant Yavin Prime. A shocked Scarlett was helpless to prevent the destruction of her flagship, and her only hope was to reach Greenback's fleet. Meanwhile, a larger fleet of New Republic warships, including five more Mon Calamari Star Cruisers, dropped out of hyperspace to reinforce Ackbar's crippled task force.
Having ordered an immediate mass evacuation, Scarlett rushed to the executive command pods to escape where she was confronted by a lightsaber-wielding Callista. The ancient Jedi's growing anger allowed her to tap into the dark side, though she desperately tried to hold back since she had promised Mickey never to fall. Her hope of stopping Scarlett met with failure, however, as the warlord incapacitated her with a stun blast, and escaped the dying Knight Hammer.
Meanwhile on Yavin IV, Mickey realized that Callista was not with him and suddenly realized through the Force that she was onboard the Knight Hammer and had regained her Force abilities. He then looked up, and subsequently saw Knight Hammer plunge into the gas giant Yavin, burning as swarms of escape pods flew in all directions. He later learned that Callista had managed to escape from the burning wreck on one of the escape pods. However, instead of returning to Mickey and the Praxeum, she escaped into hyperspace vowing never to return until she had learned how to control her anger.
==Aftermath==
On the fringes of the Yavin system, Greenback regrouped his crippled fleet and retrieved as many of the Knight Hammer's escape pods as possible. Having rescued Scarlett, his fleet escaped into hyperspace before any New Republic reinforcements could arrive. With her plans foiled, Scarlett resigned her rank, handed command of her forces over to Greenback and Technor, and resumed as Director.
==Appearances==
*Darksaber 
*Jedi Academy: Leviathan 
==Sources==
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*The Essential Chronology 
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*The New Essential Guide to Characters
*The New Essential Chronology
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia 
*The Essential Atlas
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*The Essential Guide to Warfare 
*The Essential Reader's Companion
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==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Civil War battles