Battle of Bilbringi (9 ABY)

The Battle of Bilbringi of the Galactic Civil War took place some nine years after the Battle of Yavin between the Imperial forces under Grand Admiral Thrawn and the combined forces of New Republic military and the Smuggler's Alliance. The battle was fought over the Imperial shipyards for the sole fact that both the New Republic and Smuggler's Alliance desired to capture a crystal gravfield trap (CGT), a device that would allow the New Republic to uncover the location of cloaked asteroids which Thrawn had set in orbit over Coruscant. At the battle, Admiral Ackbar effectively made use of the tactic known as the "Thrawn Pincer" in which he used Thrawn's Interdictor cruisers to his own advantage, allowing a second New Republic fleet to drop behind Thrawn's main defenses. Despite Thrawn's tactical genius, though, the Imperial fleet was defeated when Thrawn's bodyguard, a Noghri named Rukh, assassinated him aboard the bridge of the Chimaera. Without Thrawn's commands, there was no way the Imperial fleet could manage a victory and so then-Captain Pellaeon assumed command and ordered a full retreat.