Second battle of Leritor

Prelude
In 3,640 BBY, not long after the Sith Lord Darth Gravus successfully conquered the planet Taris during the renewed war between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, Gravus lost control of the mineral-rich Mid Rim world of Leritor. Determined to reclaim the planet and secure his place on the Dark Council and at the head of the Sphere of Technology, Gravus gathered a fleet of three Terminus-class destroyers and eighteen Fury-class Imperial interceptors to complement his Harrower-class dreadnought Exemplar in an attack.

The battle
Under Gravus' command, the fleet entered the Leritor system and began to engage the Republic fleet, which was led by the Valor-class cruiser Mardorus. The cruiser was supported by two Hammerhead-class cruisers, three Thranta-class corvettes, and six BT-7 Thunderclaps served as the fleet's light attack craft. Upon arriving in the system, Gravus deployed the destroyers to engage the corvettes and Thunderclaps, while the Exemplar remained at long range and the Fury-class interceptors strafed the Mardorus and the Hammerheads. However, not long into the battle, Gravus' rival in the competition for the Council seat Darth Karrid arrived in the Ascendant Spear&mdash;a powerful prototype warship that was controlled by the Sith Lord through a combination of Sith alchemy and cybernetic implants. Karrid hailed her rival as she began to approach the battle and offered her aid, but Gravus refused her offer. One of the Hammerheads disengaged from the main battle and began to attack the Spear with two of the BT-7 Thunderclaps, but Karrid easily destroyed the two fighters and then the corvette.

This infuriated Darth Gravus, who ordered the Exemplar and the rest of his fleet to change targets and attack the Spear. The interceptors abandoned their attacks on the Mardorus and the remaining Hammerhead as the Terminus-class destroyers ceased the assaults on the Thranta-class corvettes to attack the Spear, and the Republic took advantage of the Imperials' confusion to quickly wipe out seven interceptors and pummel the retreating destroyers with turbolaser fire.

Behind the scenes
The second battle over Leritor appears in Chapter 8 of Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation, a 2012 novel by Drew Karpyshyn written as a tie-in to the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic. The battle features inaccurate names of several Republic and Imperial ship classes but the descriptions of the ships was enough to identify them correctly. The Valor-class cruiser Mardorus was referred to as a "D-class attack cruiser", the Thranta-class corvettes as "CR-12 corvttes", and the three Terminus-class destroyers as "C-class destroyers".

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic