Battle of Coruscant (Yuuzhan Vong War)

The First Battle of Coruscant, otherwise known as Fall of Coruscant was the great battle that resulted in Coruscant, the capital of the New Republic falling into the hands of the ruthless extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong.

The Yuuzhan Vong warfleet attacked Coruscant from the OboRin Comet Cluster, having assembled at Borleias. They used refugee ships containing prisoners from earlier battles to shield the Yuuzhan Vong fleet. Even with the efforts of leaders such as Garm Bel Iblis (commanding Fleet Group Two), Admiral Kre'fey (commanding Fleet Group One), Wedge Antilles (commanding Fleet Group Three) and Luke Skywalker, the Yuuzhan Vong were too plentiful to be stopped. It was said that the Yuuzhan Vong fleet numbered "tens of thousands" of ships, and that half of the New Republic Navy was present.

The refugee ships, which were piloted by Yuuzhan Vong, were deliberately smashed into Coruscant's shields to weaken them. This tactic worked, as eventually whole shield-grids failed, and the surface shield-generators exploded. Even the orbital defense platforms could not stop the advance of the Yuuzhan Vong. Soon Coruscant's skyline was burning with crashing vessels and plasma fire from the battle above. Even Orbital Defense Headquarters was crippled, and fell out of orbit to the surface. During the battle, Luke Skywalker and other Jedi from the Eclipse base targeted the enemy war co-ordinating Yammosks, and manage to destroy four of them.

Meanwhile Han Solo and Leia on board the Millennium Falcon attempted to rescue Chief of State Borsk Fey'lya but were tasked with rescuing Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade Skywalker. The second assault wave were thousands of Yorik-trema dropships, Tsik-Seru airskimmers, swarms of Yorik-Vec assault cruisers and Coralskippers, Rakamat and Fire Breather walkers, legions of Yuuzhan Vong warriors and Chazrach support troops. In desperation, Iblis' Fleet was firing on the refugee ships in an attempt to halt the enemy advancement, but this tactic fell foul of Admirals Sovv and Kre'fey, who didn't agree with the killing of innocent refugees. Coruscant did have extensive mine fields, but these didn't have quite as large an impact as desired.

At the Imperial Palace, Tsavong Lah's aide Romm Zqar tried to force Borsk Fey'lya to surrender. When he refused, he was killed. But before the Chief of State died he had planted a bomb in the Imperial Palace triggered by his heartbeat. This resulted in the deaths of the Chief of State, 25000 Yuuzhan Vong warriors, the destruction of a portion of the Imperial Palace along with the data towers, many surrounding buildings and several Yuuzhan Vong vessels. Prior to his death, Fey'lya had ordered the data towers to be destroyed, to prevent valuable information getting into the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong.

The battle lasted for several days, with heavy casualties on both sides. The Chazrach slave soldiers would perform most of the hard fighting deep down in the lower levels of Coruscant. Many of its citizens were forced to flee the former capital world of the New Republic while those who did not manage to escape were force to flee into the city planet's lower levels. Many Senators, fearing for their lives, commandeered bits of the fleet and escaped to their sectors as the battle progressed. The New Republic Navy was somewhat diminished as a result. The third wave was a biotoxin in the form of green algae released by the Yuuzhan Vong which devoured many of the buildings including dead bodies and left behind black spots. Coralskipper and Yorik-Vec squadrons bombed the devastated city world causing damage to the defenders. The Yuuzhan Vong eventually captured Coruscant and had it terraformed and renamed Yuuzhan'tar after their homeworld.

Exact casualties are unknown, but Supreme Overlord Shimrra would soon comment that following the costly loses of 'Battle Plan Coruscant' a full third of the warriors of the entire Yuuzhan Vong race had died during the course of their invasion of the Star Wars galaxy.

Appearances

 * New Jedi Order: Star by Star