Space Battle in the Kessel Asteroid Field

The First Battle of Kessel was a rescue operation during the Galactic Civil War.

After the Battle of Fresia, in which the Rebel Alliance extracted 4 X-wing starfighters from an Imperial depot on Fresia, the Galactic Empire retaliated by taking a number of Incom scientists hostage. The Imperial convoy carrying the hostages moved through The Maw and prepared to land on Kessel to deliver the scientists to the prisons.

The Rebel Alliance quickly detected this. Led by Raymus Antilles, the Rebel Alliance Fleet moved to Kessel carrying a number of Y-wings. The bombers would prove valuable during the operation to disable the Imperial Shuttles descending into the planet's atomosphere.

The fleet ambushed the Imperial Navy. While the large ships engaged the star destroyers in combat, the Sundered Heart and a team of Y-wings led by Raymus Antilles pursued the shuttles out of the battlefield.

The bombers opened fire with their ion cannons, disabling the first transport. Quickly, Raymus docked with the shuttle with a very small commando team and rescued the first scientists.

The second shuttle was soon to follow. It was then Imperial reinforcements hyperspaced into the system and overwhelmed the unsuspecting Alliance forces. The third shuttle made its way to Kessel, where it nearly escaped. The Y-wings made it in time and disabled the remaining shuttle, and the scientists were retrieved by Raymus.

The scientists were rescued, and the Alliance Fleet hyperspaced out of the system before large Imperial ships arrived.

Appearances

 * Empire at War