Suraz engagement

"We interrupted a military operation, Lonno, not some snatch and grab. They wanted the Yissira Zyde and they got it. They wanted it badly enough they paid for it with eight TIEs, those pilots, and however many people were aboard the shuttle that Muran and Iolo shot down."

- Poe Dameron, to Major Lonno Deso

Thirty years after the Battle of Endor, Rapier Squadron of the New Republic responded to a distress signal from the Yissira Zyde, a freighter that was being hijacked by the First Order, and engaged their forces above Suraz 4 in the Mirrin sector of New Republic space. Rapier Squadron, a four-member T-85 X-wing squadron led by Commander Poe Dameron, quickly destroyed a shuttle and all eight of the enemy's TIE fighters, but the remaining shuttle and the commandeered Yissira Zyde managed to jump to lightspeed. When the freighter entered hyperspace, its wake destroyed the X-wing belonging to Rapier Four, Muran, before he was able to eject.

Despite the First Order crossing the Trans-Hydian Borderlands and violating the Galactic Concordance, New Republic Major Lonno Deso believed the First Order wasn't a threat and that no follow-up actions were necessary. Nonetheless, Commander Dameron underwent an unsanctioned mission to locate the stolen freighter.

Behind the scenes
The Suraz engagement first appeared in Before the Awakening, a junior novel written by Greg Rucka and published in 2015.

Appearances

 * Before the Awakening