Battle of Sluis Van

The Battle of Sluis Van was the first major military conflict of the Thrawn campaign.

After a feign attack at Bpfassh, Grand Admiral Thrawn led an attack against Sluis Van to steal a flotilla of New Republic starships and raze the planet's shipyards. A cloaked freighter snuck the stolen mole miners and TIE starfighters into the shipyards.

In the midst of the battle, the craft burst forth from the freighter. The mole miners drilled through the New Republic ships' hulls to place boarding parties. Before the raiders could abscond with the New Republic fleet, Lando Calrissian used his command codes to activate the miners' engines, disabling the fleeing starships. At least one winged Mon Calamari cruiser, three GR-75 medium transports, four Corellian Corvettes and one Nebulon-B frigate were destroyed by the miners' engines.

His plan foiled, Thrawn ordered Chimaera to retreat.