Battle of Geonosis (Galactic Civil War)

"Who are you?!" "You know who I am. The Empire maintains order. People like you disrupt that order."

- Wedge Antilles and the defector Sarkli

The Battle of Geonosis began after Crix Madine tracked the Imperial Storm Commando escort carrier to Geonosis, which had abducted Rebel scientists over Bakura during the latest Rebellion raid there. Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron were dispatched to Geonosis to save the scientists and destroy the abductors.

First space battle
Upon arrival in the Geonosis asteroid field, three escort carriers performed a surprise ambush and took down one of the rescue transports. The abducter revealed himself to be Sarkli, former member of Rogue Squadron and the Rebel Alliance. Wedge managed to destroy his escort carrier, but Sarkli and a few garrisons of Stormtroopers managed to survive the blast by using the ship's escape pods, taking casualties in the process due to collisions with asteroids. Wedge's X-wing was caught in the explosion which destroyed the starboard stabilizer and sent him crashing down on the planet.

Ground battle
Numerous B1 battle droids on Geonosis had been cut off from the deactivation beacon at the end of the Clone Wars. When the survivors of the carrier blast landed on the planet, several stormtroopers were killed by "native" droids settled in the area. As Wedge crashed, they turned their blasters on him. In an attempt to flee the droids, Sarkli used an Galactic Republic LAAT/i to escape the area. Wedge now had to deal with waves of battle droids, but used grenades to take care of them. He narrowly escaped the ordeal.

When Wedge finally came out of the chaos, Sarkli's gunship attacked him. Using a dead stormtrooper's E-web heavy repeating blaster, Wedge blasted him down, but Sarkli survived the crash, and would resurface at the Battle of Endor. Wedge then found an old Jedi starfighter from the original Battle of Geonosis with good hull condition, but lacking power. Wedge's R5-series astromech transferred electricity and power from its circuits into the engine, reactivating it. Wedge and his R5 then escaped the planet.

Continuing space battle
Crix Madine's command EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate came out of hyperspace and met up with Wedge. The remaining two escort carriers attacked and launched several TIEs, but Wedge found out the starfighter had a payload of seismic charges] and repelled them. With assistance from the Redemption and his wingmates, he dispatched the last two carriers, and jumped into hyperspace with an old, but still working, [[Syluire-31 hyperspace docking ring|hyperspace ring floating nearby.

Aftermarth
At the end of the battle the rebels where forced to retreat and the Empire found out about the Droid operations and emiditily put it down, thus the Separatist holdouts was dessolved altogther.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron