Raid over Corulag

The Raid over Corulag was a Rebel attack on one of Grand Moff Tarkin's research stations orbiting the planet Corulag.

Prelude
During Operation: Skyhook, Mon Mothma ordered a further investigation into the nature of the Death Star. Using data already collected, the Rebels discovered that cargo shipments to a research station doing work on the Death Star were being sent from the Vergesso Asteroids. Raymus Antilles personally recruited Han Solo, despite Solo's reluctance, to plant a tracking device and EMP in one of the cargo containers bound for the research station.

The raid
The tracking device revealed the station's location over Corulag, and then triggered the EMP and paralyzed Imperial security forces arround the station, including Imperial starships. While Captain Antilles led a team to attack the stunned defenses, a group of Rebel troopers managed to penetrate the station in RM-09 Alliance shuttles, recovering valuable data.

Aftermath
From the data collected, the team was able to confirm the name of the project&mdash;Death Star&mdash;and gain an idea of its destructive capabilities, but with no technical schematics detailed enough to reveal a weakness. Mon Mothma then instructed Leia Organa to begin intensified operations to gather relevant intelligence, and assigned Captain Antilles to her service aboard Tantive IV.

Behind the scenes
This battle only appears in the 2006 LucasArts computer game Star Wars: Empire at War, in which Ackbar is rescued in the station by the Rebels. However, this version of the event can not considered canon. A separate, conflicting account of Ackbar's liberation was described in Star Wars: X-wing and Darksaber, in which Ackbar is rescued during an assassination attempt against Tarkin near Sullust. This version has been upheld in several Star Wars reference books, including The New Essential Guide to Characters (2002), The New Essential Chronology (2005), and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (2008).

However, The Essential Atlas (2009) lists this raid as one of the events of Operation: Skyhook, but without giving more precisions.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Empire at War