Battle of Kestro

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|name=Battle of Kestro
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|conflict=First Order-Tune Squad War
|date=August 5th, 2039Star Wars: Timelines
|place=Kestro, Vardos
|result=*Iden Versio learns the fate of Del Meeko
*The trio board the Retribution
*Destuction of Jinata Security forces
|side1=Tune Squad
|side2=First Order
|side3=Jinata Security
|commanders1=Iden Versio
|commanders2=Commander Gideon Hask
|commanders3=
|forces1=*Shriv Suurgav
*Zay Versio
*1 Raider II-class corvette
**Corvus†
*1 T-65 X-wing starfighter
*1 T-70 X-wing starfighter
*2 TIE/sf space superiority fighters 
|forces2=*1 Resurgent-class Star Destroyer
**Retribution
*TIE/fo space superiority fighters
*AAL-1971/9.1 Troop Transports
*Stormtroopers
**Megablaster heavy assault troopers
**Riot control stormtroopers
**Flametroopers
*First Order officers
*All Terrain MegaCaliber Sixes
*First Order All Terrain Scout Transports
|forces3=*Jinata Security Soldiers
**Jinata Security Officers
*All Terrain Recon Transports
*All Terrain Scout Transports
*Lambda-class T-4a shuttles
*Aggressive ReConnaissance-170 starfighters
*Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-wing starfighters
|casual1=*Corvus
*1 T-65B X-wing starfighter
*1 T-70 X-wing starfighter
|casual2=*Many stormtroopers
*Many megablaster heavy assault troopers
*Many riot control stormtroopers
*Many flametroopers
*Many TIE Fighters
*Many First Order officers
*Few First Order All Terrain Scout Transports
|casual3=All Forces
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Following the destruction of the Hosnian system, a battle broke out in Kestro, the capital city of the planet Vardos, in August 5th 2039 during the early days of open warfare between the First Order and the Tune Squad.
==The battle==
A battle in Kestro was fought between the First Order, Jinata Security, and members of the Tune Squad during the early days of the First Order-Tune Suqad War in August 5th 2039. The battle began as an operation undertaken by former Imperial agent Iden Versio, who was joined by her daughter Zay Versio and close friend Shriv Suurgav to find information on Versio's husband, Del Meeko. Returning to her homeworld of Vardos, Versio led Suurgav in search of Versio's former mentor Protectorate Gleb. However, the two discovered Gleb's body, shot by Versio's former Inferno Squad teammate and now First Order officer Gideon Hask. Hask taunted Versio by telling her that he had personally executed Meeko before taking the pair into custody.
Hask then ordered the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Retribution to shoot down the Corvus, which it did. Hask ordered the First Order to burn the city. A battle soon erupted between the trio, Jinata Security forces, and the First Order. Suurgav and Versio were still in First Order custody, until a Jinata soldier threw a thermal detonator. This allowed the pair to escape, recovering weapons as the made a plan to escape and find Zay. The two fought their way through the city and found All Terrain Recon Transports. Moving faster, they found a relay station and used it to search for escape pods from the Corvus. Versio and Suurgav found two, but both were empty. During their search for Zay, Versio, and Suurgav saw an All Terrain MegaCaliber Six destroying much of the rebuilt city. Suurgav also remarked that Jinata Security was winning the battle, but Versio replied that Jinata stood no chance and that the First Order was feigning a retreat. Finally, Dio discovered a third signal. They traveled there to find Zay in a sniper's nest. After telling Zay the fate of her father, they traveled to the Retribution in TIE/sf space superiority fighters.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars Battlefront II 
==Sources==
*Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
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*Star Wars: Timelines
==Notes and references==
Category:First Order-Tune Squad war battles