Battle of Dubrillion (Galactic Civil War)

"We're still pinned down by that superlaser!"

- General Crix Madine

The Battle of Dubrillion was a battle during the mid-Galactic Civil War in 3 ABY. The battle, in the midst of the Dubrillion Ocean, was an attempt by the Galactic Empire to draw in and destroy a Rebel Alliance task force commanded by General Crix Madine and deal a crippling blow to the Alliance Special Forces.

Prelude
The Rebel Alliance's original operation in the Dubrillion system had seemingly ended in failure. Wedge Antilles and his Y-wing squadrons had searched out the energy tunnels in the rings of Destrillion for the location of a tibanna gas mining facility which had been leaked to Alliance Intelligence.

When no facility was found and the Alliance fleet was about to leave the system, they regrouped and passed through Dubrillion's orbit in order to enter hyperspace. In truth, however, the Empire had planned the Rebels' escape from the Dubrillion system, and when the Alliance fleet was caught in orbit and unable to exfiltrate, the Imperials sprung their trap.

Bombing runs
The Alliance Fleet was fired upon by an Imperial superlaser on Dubrillion's surface. As the fleet was not able to do a safe jump into hyperspace, Wedge Antilles was ordered to lead a Y-wing squadron down to the planet.

Alliance squadrons swarmed into the Dubrillion superlaser facility, and came under attack by TIE/ln starfighters and TIE/In interceptors. Along with the fighters, Imperial submarines emerged from the Dubrillion Ocean. Antilles led a bombing run on the three focusing dishes for the superlaser, to reduce the accuracy of the main laser. While the accuracy of the superweapon was drastically reduced, the Alliance fleet was still taking casualties. In spite of the move to a safer orbit, the fleet was still pinned down, so Antilles was ordered to go deep into the facility and shut it down.

Infiltration
In the midst of the battle, Antilles apprehended an All Terrain Scout Transport by causing an ion cannon blast to skim across its circuitry, not disabling the vehicle but causing it to temporarily malfunction. Antilles navigated the AT-ST through the superlaser facility, eventually reaching the elevator into the factory, where stealthy missile droids opened fire on his walker, but he survived the travel down to the next level.

The factory basement level was full of transportation rails. Avoiding explosive containers coming at him from the rails and engaging more AT-STs, Wedge approached a large open area. There, he ditched his AT-ST in the factory in favor of an All Terrain Armored Transport with heavier firepower. With the AT-AT, Wedge was able to plow through the walkers in his path, and he opened fire on the turbines which were powering the superlaser, causing the facility to detonate. Rogue Squadron was able to escape before several massive blasts pulverized the base.

Aftermath
The plot to destroy the Alliance fleet had ended in failure, and with the loss of a whole superlaser facility, the Rebels caused a massive blow to the Empire.

Behind the scenes
This article was created based on a mission in the video game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. As the bonus mission Flight from Bespin branches off from the Guns of Dubrillion, it is implied to be concurrent with the Occupation of Bespin and the Duel on Cloud City.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike

Schlacht von Dubrillion (3 NSY)