Battle of Umbara

## Combatants

* Alliance to Restore the Republic
	+ Rebel Alliance Navy
		- Alliance Third Fleet

* Galactic Empire
	+ Imperial Navy

## Commanders

* Rear Admiral Halliot Sern
* Commodore Shack
* Commodore Mersil Mai
* Commodore Valman Tousa
* Captain Divi Salyin
* Captain Ferens Avatsara
* Captain Jana Krintu
* Commander Cor Ra'dao

* Admiral Nils Tenant
* Commodore Lizral Cottril
* Commodore Arami Dolphe
* Captain Brandei
* Commander Dastar Lee

## Strength

**Command Force*** 1 Modified Neutron Star bulk cruiser
	+ *Sidewinder*
* 1 Pelta frigate
* 3 GR-75 transports
* 1 CC-7700 frigate

**First Division**

* 1 Venator star cruiser
	+ *Liberation*
* 1 MC75 star cruiser
	+ *Silver Coronet*
* 3 Nebulon-B frigates
* 3 MC30 frigates
* 1 MC40 frigate
* 7 CR90 corvettes

**Second Division**

* 6 Marsheem heavy cruisers
	+ *Pride of Tibrin*
	+ *Mighty Sulibran*
	+ *Barbed Angel*
* 2 Nebulon-B frigates
* 2 CR90 corvettes

**Third Division**

* 1 MC75 star cruiser
	+ *King Ramsis*
* 5 Nebulon-B frigates
* 4 MC30 frigates
* 4 DP20 gunships
* 1 CR90 corvette

**Umbaran Blockade*** 5 Imperial-I star destroyers
	+ *Impregnable*
	+ *Masterstroke*
	+ *Forced March*
	+ *Pride of Cartao*
	+ *Majesty*
* 2 Victory-I star destroyers
	+ *Freeflanker*
	+ *Wishful*
* 1 Arquitens command cruiser
	+ *Daydreamer*
* 7 Arquitens light cruisers
* 1 Quasar Fire carrier
	+ *Coldlander*

**Moon Force**

* 4 Arquitens cruisers
* 3 Carrack cruisers
* 8 VT-49 Decimators

> For eight rotations we've thrown ourselves at the blockade, and for eight rotations it has stood. The situation on the ground grows worse by the day... General Bandaran again appeals to me, as if his words alone shall spurn us to a rapid victory. No, it's Mai he should be writing to, not me. That bastard Tibrini's vanity is beyond rapprochement.
>
> Halliot Sern speaks to his daughter regarding the siege, 3 ABY

The **Battle of Umbara**, also known as the **Siege of Umbara** or the **Umbaran Blockade** was a major engagement of the Galactic Civil War. The battle was a rebel attack to end the Imperial blockade of Umbara, and rescue the trapped Alliance ground armies on the planet's surface. With most rebel ships scattered after the defeat at Hoth, the reassembly of the Alliance Third Fleet was hasty and unoptimized, with command given to the veteran fleet officer Rear Admiral Halliot Sern.

Arriving in the Umbara system, Sern assembled his disunified command into three divisions. The first and most balanced force was under his old friend Commodore Shack, an experienced officer commanding from the Venator star destroyer *Liberation*. The second division was a Tibrini force of Marsheem cruisers, under the command of the Ishi Tib Commodore Mersil Mai. Mai, while technically subordinate to Sern, chafed under direct authority, and frequently defied the admiral's orders. The final division was commanded by the Onderonian Commodore Valman Tousa, an aged veteran of the Clone Wars, though in his seniority he had grown less bold than in his youth.

Facing the star destroyer-focused blockade commanded by Admiral Nils Tenant, Sern's fleet spent ten rotations assaulting the blockade, with the admiral having particular disdain for Commodore Mai's conduct. Unlike his previous battles, the Third Fleet was much too large for effective direct command, and Sern had to entrust the execution of his strategies to the commodores.