Battle of Coruscant (Galactic Civil War)

Personnel| New Republic * Fleet Admiral Giall Ackbar
* General Carlist Rieekan
* Captain Wedge Antilles
* Captain Luke Skywalker

Terran Alliance* Grand Admiral Thrawn
* Grand General Dennis Rommel
* Fleet Admiral Phillip Jones
* Fleet Admiral Vladimir Korolyov
* Fleet Admiral Tomohisa Takei
* Admiral Charles Montgomery
* Admiral Nora Tyson
* Vice Admiral Samuel Paparo
* Admiral Robin Dhowan
* Rear Admiral Timothy Kott
* Vice Admiral Axel Schimpf
* General John White
* General Tyler Hall
* Jedi Master Ahsoka Tano
* Jedi Grandmaster Plo Koon

Imperial defectors* Rear Admiral Firza
* General Brenn Tantor

Mandalorian Resistance* Bo-Katan Kryze
* Ysanne Isard
* Grand General Malcor Brashin

Strength| New Republic: * MC80 Star Cruisers
* Liberty class cruisers
* EF76 Nebulon B escort frigates
* CR90 corvettes
* Imperial I class Star Destroyers
* 1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought
	+ Guardian
* Starhawk class battleships
* A/SF-01 B-Wing starfighters
* BTL-A4 Y-Wing assault starfighters/bombers
* RZ-1 A-Wing interceptors
* T-65B X-Wing starfighters
* UT-60D U-Wing starfighters/support crafts
* New Republic soldiers
* New Republic Special Forces
* 1 Jedi
	+ Luke Skywalker

Galactic Empire defectors:* 12 Imperial I class Star Destroyers
* Stormtroopers
* Scout troopers
* AT-ATs
* AT-STs
* TIE fighters
* TIE interceptors
* TIE bombers

Mandalorian Resistance:* about 100 Mandalorian warriors

Terran Alliance:see Terran Order of Battle at Coruscant | -Imperial Fleet* 402 ships
	+ Imperial I class Star Destroyers
* Imperial II class Star Destroyers
	+ Tector class Star Destroyers
	+ Victory II class Star Destroyers
	+ Gozanti class cruisers
	+ 1 Assertor class dreadnought
	+ TIE fighters
	+ TIE interceptors
	+ TIE bombers

Imperial Army* ~20 million troops
	+ Stormtroopers
	+ Scout troopers
	+ Death troopers
	+ Demolition troopers
	+ Imperial shock troopers
	+ Heavy weapons stormtroopers
	+ Jumptroopers
	+ Riot control stormtroopers
	+ Flametroopers
	+ Incinerator troopers
	+ Mortar stormtroopers
	+ Patrol troopers
	+ Storm commandos
	+ AT-ATs
	+ AT-STs
	+ AT-MPs
	+ Elite AT-ATs

The **Battle of Coruscant** or the **Second Battle of Coruscant** was the final battle of the Galactic Civil War, codenamed Operation Downfall II by the Terran Alliance. It was fought between the remnants of the Galactic Empire, and a coalition of forces including the New Republic, Terran Alliance, Imperial defectors, and the Mandalorian resistance.

The Battle began on February 1, 2019, with the destruction of the Imperial fleet over the planet. The fighting continued for several weeks, and on February 25, with the surrender of the last Imperial division, the battle was largely over. Fighting with scattered Imperial forces continued until March 16, but the battle was largely over by February 25th. It was very costly for both sides, with almost a quarter of the Allied forces either killed, wounded or missing, and over two thirds of the Imperial forces killed and the rest captured. The Battle of Coruscant was considered the final nail in the coffin for the Empire, although it was not the last battle of the war.

## Prelude

### Planning

The concept of an invasion of Coruscant first came into being during the Intergalactic Cold War. As the Terran Alliance was preparing its military forces to one day go to war with the Empire, military strategists began developing a series of war plans for the event of war with the Empire, each series of plans dealing with different scenarios of how war would break out with the Empire and how the Terran Alliance would conduct. Almost every series of war plans ended with an attack on and capture of Coruscant to force the Empire into surrender. These war plans required a fleet of at least several hundred ships and at least two million soldiers in order to capture the capital world.

Following the outbreak of the Galactic Civil War in late 2013 following the Battle of Yavin, the Terran Alliance declared war on the Empire. They began to plan out the campaigns and strategies for attacking and defeating the Empire. In the process, in early 2014, they began to pay more attention to a future attack on Coruscant, and began to devote resources towards gathering intelligence for such an invasion as well as developing strategies. They also developed Task Force X, a task force of intelligence agents from 13 different nations of Earth and converted Imperials that was dedicated to providing not only intelligence on Imperial military movements, but also the status of Coruscant's defenses.

By 2016, the Terran Alliance had developed extensive intelligence on the defenses on and around Coruscant and developed further plans for an invasion, as well as refining their estimates for number of forces required. The Joint Command made the decision to establish at least 5 bases in the Inner Rim before even attempting an attack on Coruscant.

In June of 2017, the Terran Alliance and Alliance to Restore the Republic soundly defeated the Empire in the Battle of Endor. This defeat not only resulted in the destruction of much of the Imperial fleet and the second Death Star, but also the death of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. In the immediate aftermath of the battle, the Empire began to splinter into multiple factions, weakening the Empire considerably.

In the face of the Empire beginning to fracture, the Terran Joint Command decided to begin planning in earnest for the eventual invasion of Coruscant. They chose Grand Admiral Thrawn to be the overal commander of the attack, and codenamed the operation as Operation Downfall II, after the planned invasion of Japan in WWII.

### Training and Final Planning

Many units selected for the operation began their training as early as January 2018. The date for the operation was originally set for July 2019

By mid 2018, the Empire had greatly weakened, and the defenses of Coruscant were a fraction of what they once were. By the time of the Battle of Jakku, millions of Terran Alliance troops were committed to the operation, as well as troops from the New Republic Army and Imperial defectors.

In late 2018, Admiral Samuel Adams was sent to Mandalore to speak with Bo-Katan Kryze, leader of the Mandalorian resistance. Adams, using the respect he commanded from the Mandalorians for having defeated Darth Maul in single combat, asked Kryze for her assistance in the operation. Although the Mandalorians' numbers had been greatly depleted by the Imperial Purge and various battles throughout the Imperial era, Kryze agreed to commit 100 elite Mandalorian warriors to the operation.

Training for the operation ramped up greatly following the Battle of Jakku, and continued through late January 2019. By this point, the Terran Joint Command had decided to push up the operation, re-setting the date of the invasion for February 1, 2019.

As the Terran Alliance continued to train for it, the Empire built up the planet's defenses as much as possible. The Imperial ground forces began training to defend the planet from an invasion, digging as well as possible.

### Order of Battle

Main Article: Terran Order of Battle at Coruscant

The Terran Alliance's order of battle for Operation Downfall II comprised a significant naval fleet, and the largest invasion force of the war. In total, 116 warships of the Terran Starfleet, accompanied by over 500 warships of the New Republic fleet, were assigned to destroy the defending Imperial fleet. Over 200 more ships were assigned to carry the invasion forces.

The Terran ground forces assigned to the operation was the largest compilation of Terran troops assembled so far in the war. A total of 185 divisions, 1 foreign legion, 14 regiments, and 65 brigades, as well as a number of special forces teams and several Jedi, were assigned to the operation, numbering about 7.8 million troops. The soldiers were drawn from the armies of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Israel, Russia, China, Japan, India, Iran, Korea, Iraq, Egypt, Venezuela, Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Spain, Nigeria, Myanmar, Pakistan, Canada, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Vietnam, Ecuador, Italy, Turkey, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Austria, Belarus, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kuwait, the Philippines, Singapore, Syria, and Chile, as well several clone divisions, several regiments of Twi'lek refugees, and troops from four other worlds of the Terran Alliance. The Terran Alliance also had 25 more divisions, at the time stationed on other captured worlds as occupation and defense forces, on standby to be brought to Coruscant as reinforcements.

In addition, the New Republic committed 150,000 soldiers from their army, as well as almost 100,000 defected stormtroopers. With these additions, the invading army numbered over 8 million, with an additional million troops in reserve.

On the opposite side, the Empire held a defensive fleet numbering 402 warships over the planet, under the command of Grand Admiral Afsheen Makati, and a ground defense force of almost 20 million troops, commanded by Grand General Malcor Brashin. In addition, unknown to the Terran Alliance, the Imperial Super Star Destroyer *Lusankya*, under the control of Ysanne Isard, was buried under the cityscape of Coruscant.

## Appearances

* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back (first appearance)*