Assault on Kashyyyk

"Welcome. I'm relieved to see that you survived the Empire's assault on Kashyyyk, but our situation is still dire. You are all that remains of the forces there, and we have no other resources to draw upon."

- Mon Mothma, speaking to the few survivors of the battle

The Battle of Kashyyyk was an early battle in the Galactic Civil War that led to the fall of a Rebel monitoring outpost on Kashyyyk.

Prelude
The Rebel Alliance had secretly developed a small outpost on Kashyyyk right under the Galactic Empire's nose. The outpost consisted of a communications array for monitoring local radio traffic and a barracks for the small garrison.

After a Rebel patrol squad sent into the forest to perform a routine perimeter sweep disappeared, Squad 3 was sent out to search for the lost patrol. The disappearance of the Rebel squad was, in fact, part of a ploy by the local Imperial forces to discover the hidden Rebel outpost. The Imperials had deployed a radar jamming device to draw the Rebels out. The destruction of the device confirmed the Rebel presence, and the Imperial attack on the outpost immediately commenced.

Ground battle


"We're tracking multiple Imperial transports incoming from the east!"

- Rebel Base Dispatch, immediately after the destruction of the Imperial jamming device

After destroying jamming device and restoring communications, all Rebel patrols were recalled to base when Imperial markings were discovered on the remains of the device. Soon afterwards, an Imperial attack force of TIE Maulers, stormtroopers and AT-STs were able to attack the Rebel outpost. The attack was repelled, and the Alliance moved on to capture several Imperial landing zones in the forest.

Space battle
"An Imperial peace-keeping envoy deployed to Kashyyyk was assaulted by an unusually organized dissident group. This warrants our full attention. I am sending you to investigate a derelict space station being used as a haven by these... Rebels."

- An Imperial officer stationed on Nal Hutta



After the Rebels captured the final Imperial reinforcement point, the Imperial Navy sent a task force consisting of four Tartan patrol cruisers and two Acclamator-class assault ships. The Imperial ships entered the system and destroyed the small orbiting space station, which the Rebels had been refurbished only a short time before the battle and was still in a dilapidated state, although functional. A Rebel EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate was also destroyed, along with several fighter and bomber squadrons. This action forced the Alliance abandon Kashyyyk and retreat to Bothawui.

Aftermath
The Empire sent a scouting force to reclaim the planet after the Rebellion evacuated.

The surviving Rebel Alliance forces retreated to the main Alliance Fleet, which was stationed over Bothawui at the time. Mon Mothma was relieved to see that there were survivors from Kashyyyk, but explained to them that the credit-strapped Alliance was now in dire need of new sources of income if it was to have any chance of withstanding further Imperial assaults. The Rebels proceeded to establish a new base on Ryloth, which was doomed to a premature destruction in an Imperial assault, due to its discovery after the Empire obtained data from the ship logs of a captured Rebel smuggler.

A Specforces company was also deployed to relieve another Rebel outpost on Tatooine, which had come under siege by Imperial Navy for an unknown reason (possibly because the existance of that base had been uncovered, as well).

Behind the scenes
The Battle of Kashyyyk is one of two combat training levels in Star Wars: Empire at War.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Empire at War