Destruction of Da Soocha V

"They will return to Pinnacle Base and boast to their friends&hellip; They have at best a few hours to celebrate before they all die! It is time to show the Rebel Alliance its day is ended! Prepare to fire the Galaxy Weapon!"

- Emperor Palpatine

The Destruction of Da Soocha V was a brief battle which saw the destruction of the New Republic base on Pinnacle Moon, also known as Da Soocha V by a missile, shot from the Imperial superweapon Galaxy Gun.

Details
Following the Rebel attack on Palpatine's citadel on Byss and the escape of the surviving Rebels into hyperspace along with a group of smugglers, Palpatine gave the order for the Galaxy Gun to launch its first world-destroying projectile against the New Republic command on Pinnacle Moon.



However, due to the presence of spies in Byss itself, the New Republic forces along with some of the native Ixlls managed to escape the doomed moon in a fleet of transports. Despite efforts by Luke Skywalker to destroy the missile using the weapons systems onboard his transport Jedi Explorer, the projectile collided with the crust Da Soocha V and unleashed a nucleonic chain reaction which wiped out the moon in a single flash and effectively wiping if off the face of the Galaxy.

Aftermath
In response, New Republic commando and sabotage teams attacked the Galaxy Gun but were annihilated by the massed Imperial fleet. The Emperor continued to launch projectiles, destroying entire unruly worlds and nearly crippling the New Republic. As a result of this terrifying tactic, the Empire regained key territories in the Inner and Outer Rims in a relatively short time. Other known targets included Nespis VIII's space city where even the New Republic's Kuat V-200 ion cannon were unable to penetrate the shielding of the projectiles and was the New Republic troopship Pelagia under the command of Captain Tekba which was carrying a hundred thousand troops at the time of its destruction.

The Galaxy Gun would be destroyed in 11 ABY along with Byss and much of the massed Imperial fleet. With the Emperor's death at Onderon, the famed astromech droid R2-D2 took control of the immense Eclipse-class Star Dreadnought Eclipse II's computer banks and set the ship on a collision course with the Galaxy Gun.

The resulting explosion destroyed both superweapons. However, one last projectile exited the firing tube just before its destruction. The unguided missile was pulled in by Byss's gravitational field and drifted toward it. The missile then destroyed Byss, crushing the majority of the reborn Emperor's forces and loyal officers.

Appearances

 * Dark Empire II