Event Horizon (battlecruiser)

The Event Horizon was a Star Battlecruiser, part of the Imperial aligned Kuati Sector Forces as of 8.5 ABY, during the Galactic Civil War, a time when the Galactic Empire fought against the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The Event Horizon, along with the rest of the Kuati Fleet, guarded the planet Kuat, home to Kuat Drive Yards, a key shipyard for the Galactic Empire. In the New Republic offensive of the Fourth Battle of Kuat, a Republic virus in the networks of the Event Horizon caused it to close its hangars while turning its guns on the rest of the Kuati fleet.

History
A Star Battlecruiser, the Event Horizon was part of the Imperial Kuati Sector Forces in 8.5 ABY, during the Galactic Civil War, in which the Alliance to Restore the Republic, who would later be known as the New Republic shorly after their victory at Endor, fought against the Galactic Empire. The Event Horizon guarded the planet Kuat, home to the Kuat Drive Yards ship building facilities, a vital component to the Empire's war effort. Some of the many Astromech droids in KDY's droid pool at that time had been inserted by Republic slicers, and those astromechs uploaded a coded computer virus onto the networks of the Event Horizon and four other Kuati Force warships.

Once the virus was installed a transmission was sent from the Event Horizon to the Republic Surprise Squadron in the Venir system, a squadron composed of RZ-1 A-wing interceptor armed with ion torpedoes. Surprise Squadron arrived in the Kuat system, and their ion weaponry soon overloaded the systems of four warships while the virus installed in the Event Horizon and the other inflicted ships caused those warships to lock down their hangars and aim their batteries at the remains of the Kuati fleet. When hailed by a representative of the New Republic, Kuati officials surrendered to the Republic as they faced an enemy who could disable nine warships, one of them the Event Horizon, from their defense force in a matter of minutes.

Behind the scenes
The Event Horizon was first mentioned in The Essential Guide to Warfare, an extensive Guide dedicated to the conflicts in the galaxy released in 2012, written by Jason Fry and Paul Urquhart.