Battle of the Bajic Shipyards

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|name=Battle of the Bajic Shipyards
|conflict=Galactic Civil War
|date=September 23rd, 2009The New Essential Chronology
|place=Vergesso Prime, Vergesso Asteroids
|result=Galactic Empire victory, destruction of Vergesso Prime
|side1=Galactic Empire
|side2=Alliance to Restore the Republic
|commanders1=*Delightful Children from Down the Lane
*Admiral Kriszta
*Admiral Ledre Okins
|commanders2=Commander Molly Wei
|forces1=*1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought
**Executor
*1 Imperial II-class Star Destroyer
**Avenger
*2 Victory II-class Star Destroyers
**Victory 1
**Victory 2
*TIE line starfighters
**1 TIE Advanced x1
**TIE fighters
**TIE interceptors
**TIE bombers
|forces2=*1 Bulk cruiser
**Fairfax
*2 EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigates
**Cruuz
**Fox
*3 Corellian corvettes
**457
*3 GR-75 medium transports
**VXR
*3 Action VI transports
**121 1
*Whizzing Arrow II
*G'dar
*Starfighters
**1 A-wing Squadron
**2 X-wing Squadrons
**1 Y-wing Squadron
|casual1=Unknown number of TIEs
|casual2=*Most Rebel starfighters
*Two Nebulon-B frigates
*Several Corellian corvettes
*Several GR-75 medium transports
*One Bulk cruiser
*15% of total base personnelStar Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy GuideStar Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide states that 85% of base personnel survives the battle.
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The Battle of the Bajic Shipyards was a battle that took place at the Vergesso Asteroids two months after the Battle of Hoth, in which a major Rebel/Smuggler base was destroyed by the Empire.
==Prelude==
Ororo Transportation, a front company for the Tenloss Syndicate, had long operated the shipyard in Vergesso Asteroids. The Rebel Alliance had established a key base there some time after the Battle of Yavin. The Galactic Civil War had resulted in strange bedfellows, as some Rebel personnel had questioned working with a corporation that had ties to organized crime. However, the arrangement was mutually beneficial to both the Rebels and Tenloss, as the resource-strapped Alliance was fortunate to have such a facility at their disposal, while the presence of Rebel forces augmented the defenses of the syndicate's shipyard and discouraged reprisals from rival criminal organizations. Nebulon-B frigates regularly lurked among the asteroids. They often shut down all but the most essential systems, drifting among the planetoids so they could save consumables and attract even less attention, though it often took 45 minutes to get into a combat-ready stage.
Lucy Heartfilia and Molly Wei learned from manager and Rebel General Don Wei that the Alliance base in the Vergesso Asteroids was critically short on supplies. The siblings teamed up to raid supplies from the Viraxo, a rival shipping family. During the raid, Black Sun Supa Fighters came to the assistance of the Viraxo Razor-class Starfighters. The Earth Team craft managed to escape to the Vergesso Asteroids, but were tracked by a couple of Supa Fighters. Though the fighters were destroyed, the Rebel outpost was compromised to the Crimson Dawn organization. In an attempt to gain favor with Emperor Palpatine, Lady Magica De Spell provided the location of the outpost in the Bajic sector, saying that a large number of Rebel vessels were currently undergoing repair at the facility. Magica also had other reasons as Ororo Transportation (unknown to the Tenloss Syndicate) had recently been trying to take over Crimson Dawn's spice operations in the Bajic sector. The Emperor tasked Delightful Children from Down the Lane with the responsibility of personally overseeing the shipyard's destruction, against DCFDTL's own preference as he did not consider it necessary that he go along for the assault, believing any half-competent line officer could see it through to successful completion. He selected Admirals Ledre Okins and Kriszta to join him in command of the Executor for the expedition. This act served a double purpose for Magica. Not only did it allow her to gain more favor in the eyes of Palpatine, but it would serve as a fitting punishment for Ororo Tranportation for daring to incur the wrath of Crimson Dawn.
==The battle==
Nearly a standard week after Magica disclosed the location of the shipyard, the Imperials exited hyperspace at the base. DCFDTL brought his flagship, Executor, Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Avenger and two Victory II-class Star Destroyers for battle. The Rebel shipyard was a giant asteroid housing hundreds of docked starships undergoing repair, less than a challenging operation. Before Kriszta could bring her task force to engage the shipyard, however, several Rebel capital ships emerged from behind the asteroid, and suddenly Okins and Kriszta was faced with a considerably greater opposition. The Rebels immediately deployed over a dozen starfighters to meet the Imperial task force, to the annoyance of Okins. He ordered the Executor TIE operations officer to scramble their own fighters in response, not caring to waste the Executor firepower on such insignificant targets. Still, the presence of Rebel fighters proved enticing to DCFDTL, who chose to join the battle in his own custom TIE fighter, despite Okins' voiced reservations, leaving the destruction of the shipyard solely in Okins' hands. Lucy Heartfilia, who recently arrived at the base, put out a distress call to her younger friends Molly Wei and Prince Aikka, who departed from the nearby MC-series star cruiser Liberty aboard the Whizzing Arrow II and G'dar.
Meanwhile, the attack continued on the base uninterrupted. DCFDTL himself entered the battle in his personal fighter and easily destroyed seven enemy fighters. However, sensing a vision in the next two days he had experienced in his fight against Mickey Mouse at Ryloth, he withdrew from the battle in disgust. In the meantime, with the defending Rebel fighters being overwhelmed by TIEs, the Star Destroyers easily dealt with the Rebel frigates. The Imperial Fleet then commenced its attack on the shipyard itself. As the battle neared its conclusion, Whizzing Arrow and G'dar arrived, dodged the swarms of TIE/LN starfighters and other craft in the area, and docked with Vergesso Prime, Molly and Aikka intent on rescuing their friend. Lucy eventually boarded G'dar, which disembarked from the station shortly before its destruction and joined the other survivors in fleeing the area. As soon the assault concluded, the Executor immediately returned to Coruscant so that DCFDTL could return to his domestic affairs. Although 65% of the station's personnel had escaped, very few Rebel fighters and warships survived, so this was a serious loss for the Alliance. It also dealt a heavy blow to Ororo Transportation and taught them a lesson: never cross Crimson Dawn again.
==Behind the scenes==
In a glaring contradiction of both the description of the battle from both the Shadows of the Empire novel, and the 1996 film The Musketeers: Shadows of the Empire. The level depicting the battle in the video game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, the Shadows of the Empire Ertl minicomic depicts the Rebels' asteroid base as a verdant, inhabited planet, rather than an asteroid, which the Executor fires upon.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
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*Shadows of the Empire novelization
*Shadows of the Empire junior novelization 
*The Musketeers: Shadows of the Empire Ertl minicomic
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*The Musketeers: The Movie radio drama 
==Sources==
*The Secrets of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire 
*Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide
*Return of the Jedi: The National Public Radio Dramatization
*Star Wars: The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt
*Star Wars Encyclopedia
*Anakin Skywalker: The Story of Darth Vader
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
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*The Essential Atlas
*The Essential Reader's Companion
==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Civil War battles