Battle of Korriban (Galactic Civil War)

The Battle of Korriban occured shortly before the Battle of Endor when the Rebel Alliance's elite fighting unit, Renegade Squadron, under the command of Col Serra, attacked the Sith planet of Korriban in hopes to capture data from Emperor Palpatine himself concerning the Death Star II.

Prelude
Right after the Skirmish at Carkoon and the rescue of General Han Solo, the Rebel Alliance began to plan on assualting the newly discovered second Death Star that was stationed over the forest moon of Endor. To do this, the Alliance needed to gather more data about Imperial superweapon. Commander Col Serra, the second in command of Renegade Squadron offered an idea. Darth Sidious was due to make a pilgremage to the Sith tomb world of Korriban. It was likely that the Sith lord was carring at least some information concerning the Death Star. Although it was a dangerous, foolhardey mission, every member of Renegade Squadron volunteered without giving it a second thought.

The beginning
Renegade Squadron landed in the Valley of the Dark Lords nearby the ancient Sith Academy shortly before Palpatine had touched down. Col Serra quickly put his plan into action. He ordered his unit to capture the old Sith Academy so that they could stop the Imperial garrison from warning Palpatine of how big a threat the Rebels were. He knew most likely that the Sith Master had already sensed Renegade Squadron, but hopefully he would think they would be to small fry to worry about and that his Stormtroopers would take care of the rebels.

While the Imperial soldiers regrouped for a counterattack against the invaders, the Emperor entered the atmosphere of Korriban in his Lambda-class shuttle. Serra ordered his men to hold the academy for a few minutes while Sidious landed. The Stormtroopers then launched a large wave to cripple Renegade Squadron. The rebels held out and killed any Imperial trooper that entered the academy. After a minute or so the Emperor touched down and the counterattack stopped.

Commander Serra then told his men to capture the Sith tombs, to get a stonger foot hold. The rebel surged forward, but he Imperials held out for a while. The Imperials were dug in and were able to kill a few members of Renegade Squad. Also, the Imperials had medical and ammo droids with them that kept them healthy and well stocked. But eventually the rebels broke the Imperials' backbone and they were able to capture the entrance to the tombs.

Building the trap
Now it was time to put into action Col Serra's next part of the plan. This he found almost too crazy and dangerous, but it had to be done. The rebels were going to trap the Emperor inside the tomb. Serra had placed explosives at all three entrances to the tombs. All he needed was for someone to set them. He sent a member of Renegade Squadron to go set the three explosives. The first two were easy to set for the were located right next to the rebel new commandpost.

The last was the difficult one. In was located deep into Imperial controlled territory. There were two ways to get to the explosive. One was threw the highly dangerous tombs, cralling with Imperial Storm and Scout Troopers. The second was throught the small cave system that led to landing site. In was equally dangerous as the secound. Eather way, Renegade Squadron somehow got the explosives set. Now all they had to do was to get the Emperor into the tombs.

Once again Col Serra had the answer. There were ancient and valuable Sith artifacts scattered around the tomb. Col ordered his men to start destroying the artifacts, so that they would anger the Sith Lord and cause him to come deeper into the tombs. Renegade Squadron began to brake the artifacts using blasters and grenades. To really make Emperor of the galaxy angry, they blew up the biggest Sith artifact in the middle of the tomb using a detpack. Furious, Palpatine came charging into the tombs, killing a Mon Calamari rebel with force lightning. This plaid right into Serra's plan.

Setting the trap into action
Now that the Emperor was inside the tomb, they could finally set the trap. Col ordered the remaining members of Renegade Squadron out of the tombs and then blew all three explosives, blowing all the entrances in and out of the tombs. The doors cavedin, trapping the Emperor inside the tomb momentarilly. Col knew that the rocks wouldn't hold a strong force-sensitive like Palpatine for long. He told Renegade Squadron to go get a data holocron that he had located inside Palpatines shuttle. The rebels had to go through the cave system to the landing site to retrieve it.

The few Imperial troops that hadn't been trapped with Palpatine tried to defend the holocron but were eventually put down. A member of Renegade Squadron retrieved the holocron from the shuttle and ran it back to the LAAT gunship waiting at the evac zone. When he returned Col Serra looked over the holocron. His research turned up that the Emperor was planning to go to the Endor system to overlook the final constuction work on the Death Star. Serra said that maybe the Alliance could kill two birds withe one stone. Renegade Squadron quickly left Korriban and the Valley of the Dark Lords soon after everyone was safetly abord the evac ships.

Aftermath
Renegade Squadron soon returened to the Alliance fleet and gave the holocron to Mon Mothma. It revelied to the Alliance important information about the second Death Star and that the Emperor had made a crucial mistake in planning. This was mostlikely a trick by Palpatine to draw the Rebel Alliance into his own trap, that which would become known as the Battle of Endor. Renegade Squadron and Col Serra soon would be ordered to Sullust to distract the Imperial fleet and bring them away from Endor. This would be a useless gesture, because the Empire was not distracted instead they sent the bounty hunter/assassin droid IG-88 to stop Renegade Squadron.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron