DS 5

DS 5 was a Rebel Military Outpost on the Outer Rim. Imperial Admiral Harkov fled here after his defection to the Alliance was descovered. His flagship, the Victory Star Destroyer Protector was in desperate need of supplies. The Station Commander sent in a large supply convoy to aid Harkov, however Imperial forces had allready tracked Harkov, and sent a small raiding team of Assault Gunboats lead by ace Imperial pilot Maarek Stele to destroy the convoy. The raid was successful. It was ironic, the Rebels had the supreme firepower of DS 5 and the VSD Protector, and yet they were at the mercy of small Imperial raiding parties. It seemed as if the tables of the war had shifted, if only for this battle. The next raid sent Stele's team in TIE Avengers to soften up Harkov's TIE Avenger force. Fifty percent of Harkov's elite TIE Avengers fell to Stele and his team. Harkov, for reasons unknown, abandoned the Protector and went to the station DS 5 itself. The Protector entered hyperspace afterwords. This may have been a ploy to get the Imperial task force to follow the Protector, and give Harkov and the DS 5 base staff enough time to evacuate. It may have worked too, had it not been that in the TIE Avenger engagement, Maarek Stele noticed Harkov's personal shuttle, the Toten going to DS 5. Darth Vader arrived in the Star Destroyer Garret in the next engagment, and outpost DS 5 was captured. Along with it was Harkov and the base command staff. Harkov was interogated by Vader, and then execute by a swift Force Crush. It is unknown what happened to DS 5 afterwards.

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