Second Battle of Coruscant

The Third Battle of Coruscant was waged in 10 ABY, shortly after the death of Grand Admiral Thrawn and several months before the return of Palpatine.

The various Imperial warlords, encouraged by what Thrawn had accomplished with so little in such a short amount of time, agreed to organize under the Imperial Ruling Council for an attack into the Galactic Core. The New Republic was no match for the military might of the once-more-unified Empire, and after a short and decisive campaign, the Empire had retaken its Center.

However, after Coruscant had been retaken, the Council decided that it was time to elect a new Galactic Emperor. The various admirals, generals, and moffs disagreed, and an armed conflict (the "Imperial Civil War") soon broke out amongst the various Imperial factions on Coruscant.

Meanwhile, the New Republic was quick to take advantage of the chaos caused by the warring Imperial factions and conducted raids on Imperial territories through the use of captured Star Destroyers from earlier battles. On one such raid over a devastated Coruscant ended in disaster when the New Republic Imperial-class Star Destroyer Liberator under the command of Lando Calrissian and Luke Skywalker crashlanded on thw wartorn cityscape.