Battle of Ringo Vinda

## Combatants

* Early rebellion against the Galactic Empire
	+ Dornea Battlegroup
	+ Kota's Militia
		- Rishi Battlegroup
	+ Masterran Cell

* Galactic Empire
	+ Imperial Army
	+ Imperial Navy
		- 103rd Task Force

## Commanders

* Commodore Halliot Sern
* General Rahm Kota
* Colonel Maris Bellitt-Sern
* Captain Shack
* Captain Ferens Avatsara
* Captain Sarin Virgillio
* Major Corran Herdari

* Vice Admiral Feechla Manna
* Brigadier Tessala Corvae
* Captain Hieronymus Scruff
* Captain Chavvid Datche
* Agent Arliz Hadrassian

## Strength

* 3 HVs-2 hypervelocity guns
* 1 Modified Neutron Star bulk cruiser
	+ *Sidewinder*
* 1 Venator star cruiser
	+ *Liberation*
* 1 Modified Arquitens light cruiser
	+ *Bellicose*
* 1 Quasar Fire cruiser-carrier
	+ *Readiness*
* At least 2 Nebulon-B escort frigates
	+ *Quenfis*
* 3 Braha'tok gunships
* CR90 corvettes
* DP20 frigates
* R-22 Spearhead interceptors
* Z-95 Headhunters
* Several armed speeders
* Multiple squads of rebel infantry
	+ Multiple squads of Kota's militiamen

* 3 Imperial-I star destroyers
	+ *Racketeer*
	+ *Indignation*
	+ *Honorius*
* 1 Victory-II star destroyer
* 2 Arquitens light cruisers
* 1 IPV-1 patrol craft
* 1 Star Galleon frigate
* 1 army regiment
* 1 stormtrooper company
* 1 naval commando company

## Casualties

* At least 1 CR90 corvette
* Several R-22 Spearhead interceptors
* Several Z-95 Headhunters
* Multiple rebel troopers
	+ Multiple militia soldiers

* 2 Imperial-I Star Destroyers
	+ Racketeer
	+ Honorius
* 2 Arquitens light cruisers
* 1 IPV-1 patrol craft
* 1 company of naval commandoes
* Significant numbers of army troopers
* Multiple stormtroopers

> "Enemy flagship on a direct course for us, Commodore. Forward shields are being pushed to their limit!"
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> "Fire control, plot missile trajectories and unlock both munitions pods. Pull as much power to the shields as we can spare, buy our gunnery crews all the time they need.",
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> ― Sidewinder crew and Halliot Sern before the launching of the Diamond-Boron missiles, 9 BBY

The **Battle of Ringo Vinda** was the final, major engagement of the Precipitate Rebellion. A series of successful raids and attacks by Commodore Halliot Sern's unified rebel cells forced the Imperial Navy to respond. Vice Admiral Feechla Manna was sent to support Rear Admiral Anaximand Reed's task force, and the two began a campaign to destroy the rebels. Sern recognized that his rebel force wasn't sustainable, and began to search for a prime location to defeat the Empire and allow his cells to scatter.

After learning of the presence of an Imperial communications station, Commodore Sern led a raid in the hopes of gathering useful intelligence. It proved to be a trap set up by Agent Arliz Hadrassian and the bounty hunter Diranan, and Hal was forced to duel the latter. Despite killing the hunter and securing data logs, the commodore suffered a gruesome injury and the team retreated.

While recovering from his injuries, the rebel officers convened in the Council of Captains to decide the path forward. Captains Shack and Avatsara advocated on behalf of Sern, though Captain Virgillio led the opposition in demanding the fleet withdrawal. Meanwhile, Halliot had already recovered and went to meet secretly with Reed, convincing him to not pledge his forces to the coming battle. With this assurance, he intervened in the Council and declared his intention to fight at Ringo Vinda.

Occupying three hypervelocity cannons on the planet surface, Hal positioned the fleet and awaited the arrival of the Imperial task force. When Vice Admiral Manna arrived, he sent Brigadier Corvae and her men to the ground in an attempt to wrestle control of the planetary guns. During the fighting, several Imperial escort ships were shot down, and the *Honorius* was destroyed by hypervelocity fire. When Manna brought his flagship *Racketeer* forward to challenge Sern's *Sidewinder*, the latter fired two entire pods of Diamond-Boron missiles, overwhelming the destroyer's shields and shattering it's hull. On the ground, Major Herdari repelled multiple attempts by Imperial naval commandoes to breach his facility, and General Kota led a counterattack that send Brigadier Corvae retreating. With the situation on both fronts deteriorating, Captain Hieronymus Scruff retreated his lone surviving star destroyer, much to the chagrin of Manna. The Imperial fleet fell back with him, and the rebels had won the battle.

The victory proved to be Halliot Sern's most famous act, and his triumph overshadowed the wider dissolution of the early rebel movements in the Outer Rim. Without Manna's task force operating, the various rebel cells successfully dispersed and returned to hiding, allowing them to reactivate during the proper uprising 9 years later. For the Imperials, the defeat marked the end of many of the officers' careers. Manna led the remnants of his force to capture Rear Admiral Reed, and afterwards was sent to a "retirement posting" on Cato Neimodia. Brigadier Corvae was pushed to garrison command, and Captain Scruff never held another active command. Captain Datche, notably continued his service in the navy until his death at the Battle of Kamino.