Battle of Boz Pity (Galactic Civil War)

"Boz Pity was a graveyard world, littered with the remains of giant, extinct beings. We didn't want our bones to join them, but the situation looked grim. If this was going to be Renegade Squadron's last stand, we were going to make the Empire remember it."

- Col Serra about the battle.

The Battle of Boz Pity took place in 0 ABY, during the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The battle occurred when the Empire discovered a new Alliance base on the planet of Boz Pity, through a tracking device a bounty hunter had planted in an R5 droid captured by the Alliance. With this information, the Empire launched a full scale assault on the Boz Pity base, sending a large fleet to destroy the Alliance forces stationed there. Once the Imperial fleet fell out of hyperspace over Boz Pity, they landed several ground troops and walkers to assault the Rebel base. The Alliance's new elite fighting force, Renegade Squadron&mdash;led by the smugglers-turned-rebels Han Solo and Col Serra&mdash;defended the base's main gate from the invading Imperial stormtroopers while the rest of the Rebels stationed on Boz Pity were able to evacuate.

Although the Renegades were able to destroy an AT-AT and several AT-ST walkers using laser turrets and explosives, the advancing Imperial forces eventually overpowered Renegade Squadron, forcing Solo to order the squadron to fall back to the rear of the base. There, the Rebels were able to hold out against the Empire's superior numbers until they were able to evacuate Boz Pity via LAAT/i gunships.

Prelude
"It was a trap, and we had walked right into it!"

- Commander Serra on how the Empire discovered the Boz Pity base.

In 0 ABY&mdash;during the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic&mdash;the Alliance secretly set up a new main base on the planet of Boz Pity in the Outer Rim, shortly after being forced to evacuate their previous base on Yavin 4. Later that year, Renegade Squadron&mdash;the Alliance's new elite fighting force composed of spacers, formed and led by former smugglers General Han Solo and Commander Col Serra&mdash; was able to free a number of Rebel prisoners being held by Hutt Cartel on Tatooine. While the Renegades escaped Tatooine with their liberated comrades, the squadron also brought back an R5-series droid as they returned to the Alliance base on Boz Pity. However, unbeknownst to Renegade Squadron, a homing beacon had been installed into the droid by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, out to collect the Empire's bounty for information on the Rebel Alliance. With this information, the Empire launched a full scale invasion of the Rebels' base, and a few hours after Renegade Squadron arrived at Boz Pity, a giant Imperial fleet dropped out of hyperspace over the planet.

The battle
"A few hours after we arrived at Boz Pity, an Imperial planetary assault force descended upon us."

- Commander Serra on the battle.

BozPitytres.jpg With there base compromised, the Alliance quickly began an evacuation of Boz Pity, but the Imperials soon landed ground forces on the planet, hoping to halt the Rebels' escape. As the Imperial ground troops and tank walkers approached the Alliance's main base, General Solo and Renegade Squadron were tasked with holding off the Empire while the rest of the Alliance's personnel made it off the planet. Commander Serra, realizing that the Renegades would not likely survive the battle, planned to slow the Empire's advance by any means necessary. Serra ordered his squadron to capture and hold the base's main gate, which was the only entrance into the base. With the gate secure, the Renegades were able to defeat the first wave of Imperials, destroying an AT-ST walker and several Imperial stormtroopers.

However, as the second wave of Imperials approached&mdash;which included many more stormtroops and an All Terrain Armored Transport&mdash;Serra realized that the Rebels were not strong to defend the main gate, and ordered Renegade Squadron to fall back deeper into the base. General Solo placed a container of thermal explosives at the side of the gate house and told one of his men to place a detpack next to the container. As the Empire's AT-AT arrived at the main gate, the Rebels detonated the detpack and the thermal explosives. The resulting explosion blew out the AT-AT's two forward legs, causing the walker to crash down, forcing the Imperials to fall back and regroup.

This bought the Renegades some time, and General Solo ordered his squadron to set up a pair of laser turrets as the Imperials launched their third attack wave, with two AT-STs in front of their column. However, as the Imperials moved deeper into the Rebel base, they experienced heavy fire from Renegade Squadron's laser turrets, taking several casualties, including the AT-STs.

Even though Renegade Squadron had destroyed the first few attack waves, more and more Imperial stormtroopers flooded into the base. During the resulting fire fight, Alliance Admiral Ackbar, who had been monitoring the evacuation, was shot by an Imperial sniper and injured. Hearing the news, General Solo ordered a member of Renegade Squadron to bring a bacta container to the injured admiral. After being somewhat healed, Ackbar was able to make it to the evacuation zone.

It soon became obvious that the Boz Pity base was lost, as the Imperials were now landing more walkers and pushing back the Renegades. The Empire managed to capture the Rebels' laser turrets, using against the retreating Alliance troops. General Solo ordered Renegade Squadron to an ancient sacrificial circle at rear of the base, and to defend the evacuation zone as he prepped several LAAT/i gunships for launch. Using T4-B heavy tanks for support, the Renegades were able to hold off the enemy advance for a few minutes. Finally, Solo was able to get the gunships ready for lift off, and Renegade Squadron was able to finally escape Boz Pity for good.

Aftermath
Although the Alliance lost Boz Pity to the Empire, Renegade Squadron and most of the Alliance's personnel there were able to make it off the planet and escape the Empire. Soon after the battle, Rebel commander Luke Skywalker soon discovered the remote ice planet of Hoth, which would later become the Rebel's new base for the next two years. Renegade Squadron would continue to serve the Alliance, making several hit and run attacks against the Empire over the few years.

Years later, after the defeat of the Empire and the formation of the New Republic, Jedi Knight Tionne Solusar of the New Jedi Order tracked down Col Serra&mdash;who by then retired from military service&mdash;to ask him about Renegade Squadron for her archives. Serra would tell her about many of their battles and missions, including the Renegades exploits at Boz Pity.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron

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