Skirmish over Yavin 4

Combatants| * Fel Empire
* New Jedi Order
* Immortal Sith (secretly)

Commanders| * Prince Aurian Fel
* Major Rea Su-Jai
* Senior Captain Ene Sil †
* Vigo Ozze Dakra

Units| * 48th Mobile Commando Unit
* Aurek Squad

Strength| * Imperial Knights (2)
	+ Prince Aurian Fel
	+ Leojos Westmayl
* Jedi Knight (1)
	+ Ashrila Narizeph
* Cursor-class Carrier Corvette (1)
	+ The Beholder †
* Decurion-class Heavy Cruiser (1)
	+ The Recluse
* Psi-class Assault Shuttles (2)
* TIE/xlr starfighters (24)
* TIE/stk starfighter (1)
* RZ-731 A-wing interceptor (1)
* Commando Squad (1)
	+ Hammer Squad
* ISOD Squads (2)
	+ Vigo Korwija
* CR150 Corvette (2)
	+ Night Witch †
	+ Silent Agony
* Terrox-class Starfighters (12)

Casualties| * Senior Captain Ene Sil
* Lieutenant Rothus
* Most of the Beholder's Crew
* Most of the research team
* Cursor-class Carrier Corvette (1)
	+ Beholder
* CR150 Corvette (1)
	+ Night Witch
* Terrox-class Starfighters (12)
* ca. 100 Black Sun members.

The **Skirmish over Yavin 4** was a small scale battle fought above the fourth moon of Yavin between an imperial expedition aswell as reinforcements sent later and the Black Sun. It culminated in the destruction of the *Night Witch* and death of secret Sith apprentice Korwija.

## Prelude

The Empire had previously sent an archaeological expedition to the fourth moon of Yavin to investigate local Sith stuctures and artefacts. The expedition was escorted by a single Cursor-class Carrier Corvette under the command of the Arkanian captain Ene Sil while the reaearch team on the planet, led by chiss archaeologist Arkah'rda'klava, was protected by lieutenant Rothus. The discovery of an ancient Sith artefact on the moon led to several casualties among the guards and researchers and alerted the Empire to a possible danger.

The Fel Empire and New Jedi Order sent agents to Yavin 4 upon sensing a disturbance in force which was caused by the researchers. The striketeam was led by Prince Aurian Fel and Knight Master Leojos Westmayl and consisted of the 48th Mobile Commando Unit. The Jedi order sent Jedi Knight Ashrila Narizeph to accompany the group.

## The Battle

Shortly after the joint striketeam landed on the surface of Yavin 4, two CR150 Corvettes, belonging to the Black Sun crime syndicate and under the command of Vigos Ozze Dakra and Korwija, ambushed the Cursor-class corvette *Beholder* in low orbit. In order to fit the research teams shuttle and equipment, the *Beholder* was not carrying its standard complement of TIE/xlr starfighters leaving it almost completely defenseless against the Black Suns own Terrox-class Starfighters. Nevertheless the ship still put up a fight, almost able to eliminate the squadron of the *Night Witch,* which had taken point. But before the *Beholder* could triumph both the *Night Witch* and *Silent Agony* fired their plasma railgun at the corvette, breaching its shields and rupturing its hull. Realising that his ship could not take any more hits by these weapons, he ordered the corvette to focus on the CR150s railguns, ignoring the starfighters who began attacking the ships engines.

As the *Silent Agony* was about to fire a second railgun shot, the *Beholder* moved to the side, bringing the *Night* *Witch* between itself and Dakras flagship. The Black Sun Vigo nevertheless fired, damaging Korwijas ship in the process but completely disabling the *Beholder*. With only one engine left operational the Cursor-class Corvette could not outrun the *Silent Agony* which began boarding the imperial vessel. Captain Ene Sil and lieutenant Rothus, as well as most of the *Beholders* crew, would be killed in the process.

On the ground, the striketeam had recovered the research data and completed their primary mission which was securing the Sith temple and artefact. As the group tried to leave using a Psi-class Assault Shuttle, Black Sun starfighters began harassing them, managing to force down the RZ-731 A-wing interceptor belonging to Ashrila, but being piloted by Prince Aurian. He survived the emergency landing but the shuttle had been caught in a tractor beam by the *Night Witch* and was pulled into its hangar. There a firefight broke out between the imperials and Black Sun crew which would result in the death of Vigo Korwija.

Before the destruction of the *Beholder*, captain Sil managed to send a distress call to imperal command, requesting reinforcements. Major Rea Su-Jai together with captain Colchor aboard the Decurion-class Heavy Cruiser *Recluse* would answer to the emergency, arriving in system soon after. Vigo Ozze Dakra somehow had learned of the coming reinforcements and fled the scene only moments earlier, leaving his co-vigo Korwija alone to deal with the enemy. The *Recluse* came out of hyperspace practically on top of the CR-150 corvettes, immediately opening fire on the *Night Witch's* engines and activating its gravity well projectors. Two squadrons of TIE Exilers were launched who began hunting down the remaining Black Sun starfighters. Meanwhile a shuttle carrying major Su-Jai and two squads of ISOD operatives launched, landing on the outer hull of the *Night Witch* and cutting through it to get aboard. Seeing that there was no way out, the remaining CR150 corvette began powering up its railgun once more in an attempt to take as many imperials with it as possible. Detecting the power surge, the imperials split their forces - one ISOD squad was sent to disable the ships main gun while the other went to aid the cornered striketeam in the *Night Witch's* hangar. The *Recluse* too began targeting the railgun using its ion cannons which resulted in the circuitry overloading and the railgun firing prematurely at the Decurion-class' starboard gravitywell projector, causing it to shut down to prevent further damage. The ISOD operatives succeeded in disabling the railgun around the same time as the striketeam in the hangar was relieved. All remaining personnel was the evacuation via the shuttle on the CR150s hull and brought to safety only moments before the *Night Witch* was completely destroyed.

## Aftermath

The Empire would be victorious after destroying the CR150 Corvette *Night With* and killing its commander Vigo Korwija who turned out to have been the secret Sith apprentice of Darth Phleyethon, though unbenownst to those involved. The skirmish over Yavin 4 would lead to a series of investigations of further Sith presences in the criminal underworld as well as the eventual discovery of the Sith Dominion aboard an ancient dreadnought drifting through wild space and resulting in the Battle of the Resurgent.