Battle of Coruscant

Strength| Galactic Republic- Grand Army of the Republic* Clone troopers

-Republic Navy* Coruscant Home Defense Fleet
	+ 2,500+ Venator class Star Destroyers
	+ Dreadnought class heavy cruisers
	+ Carrack class light cruisers
* Secret fleet
	+ Imperator class Star Destroyers
	+ Tector class Star Destroyers
	+ Victory-II class Star Destroyers
* Open Circle Fleet
	+ 4,000+ Venator class Star Destroyers
* 2 captured Lucrehulk class battleships
* 1 captured Providence class dreadnought
* ARC-170 starfighters
* Y-Wing starfighters/bombers
* V-wing starfighters
* -Eta-2 interceptors
* Delta-7 interceptors

Terran Alliance-British Army* 1st Division

-French Army* French Foreign Legion

-United States Navy* SEAL Team 2

-Terran Starfleet* 8 Venator class Star Destroyers
	+ TAS Audacity
	+ TAS Dauntless
	+ TAS Guardian
	+ TAS Indefatigable
	+ TAS Invincible
	+ TAS Sentinel
	+ TAS Vector
	+ TAS Victorious
* 3 Lucrehulk class battleships
	+ TAS Volgograd
	+ TAS Vladivostok
	+ TAS Tehran
* 1 Providence class dreadnought
	+ TAS Buenos Aires
* SF-15 Space Eagle starfighters
	+ 69th Fighter Squadron
* Su-36 Flankers starfighters
* SFA-18 Hornets starfighters
* SF-20 Tigershark interceptors
* SB-1B Lancer bombers

-Anti-Sith Assault Team* Captain Samuel Adams
* Colonel Tyler Hall
* Lieutenant Colonel Toshiyuki Yamazaki
* Colonel Dennis Rommel
* Colonel Vasily Stasevich

-1 Cyborg general* General Grievous

-Separatist droid army* Hundreds of millions of battle droids
	+ B1 battle droids
	+ B2 battle droids
	+ Droidekas
	+ IG-100 Magnaguards
	+ Crab droids
	+ Hailfire-class droid tanks
	+ AAT droid tanks
	+ MTT transports
	+ Buzz droids
	+ C-9979 transports

-Separatist Navy* Droid fighters
	+ Vulture droids
	+ Droid Tri-fighters
	+ Hyena-class bombers
* 5,000+ Munificent class frigates
* 5,000+ Resuscant class destroyers
* a few hundred Providence class dreadnoughts
* a few hundred Lucrehulk class battleships

The **Battle of Coruscant** or known as the **First Battle of Coruscant** was a crucial battle fought in the closing days of the Clone Wars. The battle was fought as a result of Separatist plan to 'kidnap' Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of the Galactic Senate. A surprise attack by the Separatists saw the destruction of much of the Coruscant Home Defense Fleet, and the kidnapping of Palpatine.

Republic and Terran reinforcements began to arrive almost immediately after Palpatine's kidnapping. When the Open Circle Fleet arrived, Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Colonel Tyler Hall launched on a mission to rescue the Chancellor. They were successful in doing so, and Skywalker killed Count Dooku, the Separatist Head of State. Soon after, the Separatist navy finally retreated.

The battle proved to be a crucial step in the defeat of the Separatists. However, no one (until the Terran Alliance would be the first to know though) knew that Palpatine, secretly the Sith Master Darth Sidious, had secretly engineered the whole battle to push the Republic towards further militarization, and drive Anakin Skywalker closer to the dark side.

## Prelude

Late in 1993, the Republic began a series of campaigns known as the Outer Rim Sieges, with the goal of pushing the Separatists into the Outer Rim and spreading their forces thinner for a final victory. As a result of this, many Republic forces had been forced to spread out across the galaxy, and the Coruscant Home Defense Fleet had been depleted due to a need for ships in the Outer Rim.

Recognizing the Republic's weakness, General Grievous, Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies, planned an assault on Coruscant, with the goal of kidnapping Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Grievous planned the attack during a Republic event in which many political leaders would be on Coruscant.

In secret, Palpatine, as Darth Sidious, provided Grievous with knowledge of a previously unknown hyperspace route that led through the Deep Core, allowing the Separatist Navy to gather in Deep Core and launch the attack undetected by Republic scanners.

## The Battle

### Surprise Attack

The Battle of Coruscant began early on May 23, 1994, Terran-time, when a massive fleet of over 10,000 Separatist frigates and destroyers, led by almost a thousand dreadnought and battleships, emerged from hyperspace over Coruscant. The Coruscant Home Defense Fleet, relatively inexperienced and under its normal strength, was caught completely unprepared.

The Separatist fleet immediately opened fire on the Defense Fleet. The ships of the Defense Fleet did not have their shields activated, and hundreds were destroyed before they could react. The survivors were able to activate their shields and attempted to form a meaningful defense around the planet, but found themselves overwhelmed.

With the Defense Fleet was being overwhelmed, the Separatists began landing forces on Coruscant. They were met by tens of thousands of clones, led by Generals Yoda and Mace Windu, and over 20,000 Terran soldiers, led by Captain Samuel Adams, Colonel Dennis Rommel, and Colonel Vasily Stasevich. The Separatists also launched airstrikes with thousands of fighters and bombers against the planet.

However, as the landings were distracting the Republic and Terrans, Grievous led a small force to capture Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. The team encountered several Jedi, including Shaak Ti, protecting the Chancellor, as well as a number of men from the US Navy's SEAL Team 2. Grievous killed several Jedi, and half of the SEALs were killed attempting to protect the Chancellor. Grievous and his guards successfully took Palpatine and returned to orbit.

### Reinforcements

As Grievous was 'capturing' Palpatine, the first reinforcements arrived. Many citizens and military personnel of the Republic were surprised when the first wave of reinforcements was comprised of just 10 warships of the Terran Starfleet, under the command of Admiral Aleksander Vilikov. The ships had been only a few parsecs away from Coruscant at the time of the attack, and had quickly responded.

At first, the Separatist commanders thought the Terran reinforcements that had less than a dozen ships were something of a hilarious joke. However, this was quickly dashed when it was revealed that between them, the Terran warships carried their lethal wildcards, 512 SGM-86 nuclear missiles and 120 SB-1B Lancer bombers, each bomber was capable of carrying 4 SGM-86s. The bombers were launched immediately after the Terran warships dropped out of hyperspace. In their first volley, the bombers fired 480 missiles. The nuclear blasts directly destroyed 480 Separatist warships, and disabled 213 more with the EMPs thrown off by the blasts. The bombers immediately returned to their ships, and some were immediately sent back out after being loaded with the remaining missiles. These bombers succeeded in destroying 32 more Separatist warships and disabling 11 more.

As the Terran ships began launching their fighters, the first wave of Republic reinforcements arrived as a previously unknown fleet, comprised of never before seen warships, arrived over Coruscant and began engaging the Separatists. Despite still being outnumbered, the Republic reinforcements easily held off the Separatist fleet.

### Rescue

On May 24, 1994, after almost a full day of battle, the massive Open Circle Fleet, under the command of Generals Obi Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, arrived to reinforce Coruscant.

Within an hour of arriving over the planet, Skywalker and Kenobi, along with Colonel Tyler Hall, took off in their fighters to conduct a mission to rescue Palpatine. The three fought their way to the *Invisible Hand*, Grievous' flagship, with Hall leading an attack by pilots of the 69th Fighter Squadron against a mass of Vulture droids and Tri-fighters.

After boarding the ship, the three-man team made their way to the observation platform where Palpatine was being held. There, they found themselves faced with Count Dooku. The three dueled the Sith Lord, with Skywalker finally defeating and killing him.

### Continuing Battle

As Skywalker and Hall, bring Palpatine and the unconscious Kenobi with them, attempted to return to the hangar bay, the Terran Star Destroyer *TAS Invincible* moved to engage the *Invisible Hand*. A number of SFA-18 Hornets attacked the Separatist ship with their missiles, destroying a number of the *Invisible Hand's* turbolasers. The *Invincible*  then engaged in a broadside exchange at point blank range with the *Invisible Hand*, causing heavy damage to the ship and temporarily causing it to lose control and plunge towards Coruscant before control over the ship was regained.

On board, Skywalker, Kenobi, Hall, and Palpatine were captured and brought to Grievous on the bridge. There, Hall was able to break free from his bonds and reclaim his lightsaber, along with Skywalker's and Kenobi's, and they destroyed Girevous' bodyguards. Grievous escaped them by destroying the bridge's viewport, causing him to be sucked out into space, from where he made his way to the escape pods.

The Terrans launched another attack on the *Invisible Hand*, this time with SB-1B bombers. The attack caused heavy damage to the warship, causing it to again begin to fall towards the planet. Skywalker attempted to regain control of the ship, only for a massive explosion to tear the ship in half.

Skywalker, along with Kenobi and Hall, successfully landed the wreckage of the *Invisible Hand* on Coruscant's surface. As they did, the Separatists were able to open a hole in the attacking fleets and were able to escape into hyperspace with what remained of their fleet.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*