Battle of To-phalion Base

The Battle of To-phalion Base was an attack launched by Grand Admiral Zaarin against Grand Admiral Thrawn to steal the Vorknyx Project. The project's aim was to create a divise rendering a frieghter invisible. The testbed was the Correllian Corvette Vorknyx. Former Imperial Grand Admiral Zaarin, had known about the project when he was the head of developing new technologies for the Empire. Shortly after his betrail, Zaarin and his co-conspiritors decided to take the cloaking device being tested in the Vorknyx Project. His forces attack the research station, forcing the staff to move the project to a more secure location. The new laboratory for the project would be built in To-phalion Base, a hollowed out asteroid that was once mined by the Empire. The asteroid-base was guarded by other asteroids with turrets hidden on them. The exact location of this base was a secret, however, Zaarin managed to slip a few spies into the base. Once the spies revealed the base's weak points, Zaarin sent an attack force of 16 Muurian Transports escorted by TIE Defenders, a fighter whose development was under the command of Zaarin when he was a loyal Imperial admiral. The loyal Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn had dispatched a squadren of TIE Avenger fighters to aid To-phalion base. Thrawn's finest pilot, Maarek Stele, lead the squadron. The TIE Avenger squadron, combined with To-phalion Base's asteroid turret defenses managed to ward off the Muurian Transports. Then, towards the end of the skirmish, To-phalion base's asteroid turret defenses were knocked off-line. Then, a shuttle, Lambda 3, made an unautherized launch from To-phalion Base's hanger. The pilot was one of Zaarin's spies. Maarek Stele destroyed the shuttle, as ordered. Stele and the rest of the squadron reported to To-phalion Base's hanger. Since the sabotage caused by Zaarin's spy had knocked the base's turrets off-line,Grand Admiral Thrawn was going to arrive on board the Nebulon-B class Frigate Maru Kie, with reinforcements. Thrawn was hoping Zaarin himself would show up, so he could capture or kill the traitor. Before Thrawn arrived, Zaarin sent a second attack force, this one consisting of 4 Assassin-class Corvettes from group Z-Rok, a group of Assault Transports, and a squadron of Assault Gunboats. To-phalion Base's turret defenses were still down, so Stele's squadron was launched to defend the base. Eventually, Thrawn arrived on the Maru Kie, and Zaarins forces were driven off. Unfortunatly, the traitors had succeeded in destroying all the asteroid turrets surrounding To-phalion Base's main asteroid base. Zaarin launched a last ditch attack to either capture of destroy the Vorknyx Project. Zaarin himself arrived on board his flagship, the Star Destroyer Glory. The ship launched waves of TIE Fighters, interceptors, bombers, and TIE Defenders. Grand Admiral Thrawn called in his task force to trap Zaarin. But, before his task force arrived, Zaarin's ships managed to destroy frigate Maru Kie, but Thrawn and the crew managed to flee te ship on shuttles. The traitor's Star Destroyer Glory fired at To-phalion Base, knocking out its shields. The base staff launched Corvette Vorknyx in an effort to save it, but the remainder of Zaarin's spies were onboard, and they flew it right into the Glory's hanger, with the experimental cloaking device on board. Shortly after this, Thrawn's task force arrived. It consisted of the Star Destroyer Grey Wolf, the Interdictor Cruiser Corvus, and the Strike Cruisers Ebolo and Daring. Unfortunately, the Interdictor Corvus had been delayed, and without the cruiser's gravity well genorators to disable the hyperdrive engine on the Glory, Zaarin and his forces escaped with the Corvette Vorknyx, and its cloaking device. Unbeknownst to the traitors, Thrawn had a tracking device planted on the Vorknyx, so the task force could follow Zaarin, and end his treason.