Raid on Yirt-4138-Grek-12

"We will do all we can to protect our assets and intellectual properties."

- Corporate Alliance Magistrate Passel Argente, following the raid

During the Separatist Crisis around 22 BBY, a raid took place on an asteroid named Yirt-4138-Grek-12 between the Corporate Alliance and a group of slicers. When the Alliance learned that a remote base located on the asteroid was used to supply industrial espionage agents who where stealing data from the corporation, the Alliance responded with deadly force. They deployed their NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcers on the asteroid, which then promptly attacked the base. Following the attack, 25 slicers were killed and the base was annihilated. While few senators of the Galactic Republic believed the attack to be excessive, it fell within legal boundaries.

Prelude
"The compound contained unauthorized cybernetic surgery suites that were churning out vessels and cyborgs that have been slicing into Corporate Alliance data-stores."

- Passel Argente

During the Separatist Crisis in 22 BBY, a secret industrial espionage training center was located on a remote asteroid named Yirt-4138-Grek-12 in the Corporate Alliance controlled Fakir sector. The base was used to supply and train industrial agents by building them vessels and performing cybernetic surgeries to them, turning them into cyborgs. The base's operations were unauthorized by the Galactic Republic, and as such were kept hidden by the parties who funded the facility.

One of the agents included Denlace Sachoore, a 24-year old female who underwent a surgery and came out with a cranium-implanted vessel drive. However, while working as a Corporate Alliance clerk, she was caught embezzling Alliance data in the vessel drive, and was questioned by the Alliance expeditors. Approximately a month later, the source of her training and surgery was traced to Yirt-4138-Grek-12, and the facility was discovered. Viewing the base as a potential threat to the revenues of the Alliance, the Corporate Alliance Directorate, led by Magistrate Passel Argente, decided in a 7-2 vote that instant eliminating actions were required.

The raid
"This potential revenue-threat has been neutralized."

- Passel Argente

The Alliance sent transports containing NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcers to Yirt-4138-Grek-12, deploying them 10 kilometers from the base. The droid tanks then proceeded to travel across the asteroid to the facility, where they breached the pressurized structure using their laser weaponry and launching missile volleys, and as a result, 25 cybernetically-enhanced data thieves perished inside the base, which was completely destroyed.

Aftermath
"It's all in the clear, as far as the letter of the law goes. But it couldn't be more retrograde to the spirit of the law. Since the asteroid was in Alliance space, and clearly in their jurisdiction, though, there's nothing wrong with what they did, legally speaking."

- Senator Gopple

After the raid, Argente dispatched a holo-message to shareholders of the Alliance, in which he explained the details of the raiding mission and assured that the Alliance would do everything they could to protect their business interests. The raid was later reported by the HoloNet News. While the raid was perfectly legal, as it took place in the Alliance space, a number of senators of the Galactic Senate, including Senator Gopple of Erigorm, objected to the attack, believing that the use of armored tank droids was too extreme.

Behind the scenes
The raid was first mentioned in the in-universe HoloNet News Vol. 531 48 article, "Corporate Alliance Attacks Slicer Compound", being part of the HoloNet News volume released on March 21, 2002. It was also mentioned in the entry for the Corporate Alliance in The Official Star Wars Fact File, issue 91.