Space-snipe

The space-snipe strategy was a tactics used by defending forces in many planetary assaults. It consisted in hiding starfighter-bases in gas-giants, in asteroid fields, on planets with large oceans, or on planets with thick cloud cover, around the planetary system to be defended. Starfighter groups would operate in tandem from these bases, attacking isolated ships during the orbit phase.

Naval strategist Michael Unther of the Galactic Empire encountered this strategy during the battle of Gorbah which cost him a squadron of fighters before the enemies fled the system.