Battle on Wayland

"But, sir, I think my presense there won't be necessary&hellip;" "You can't come up with a plan and let someone else take the all the credit, Threepio."

- C-3PO and Raymus Antilles discussing the upcoming Alliance operation.

The Battle of Wayland was an early battle in the Galactic Civil War that was part of a greater Alliance operation to obtain four Incom T-65 X-wing starfighter prototypes guarded by Imperial forces stationed on Fresia.

Prelude
After a prior raid conducted to lure the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Tyranny away from Fresia, the Rebel Alliance discovered a network of sentry drones deployed in the Fre'ji system to warn the Imperial Navy in the eventuality of any attempt to disrupt the Incom Corporation nationalization ceremony.

With the aid of the protocol droid C-3PO, the Alliance was able to conceive of a plan to bypass the Imperial sentry network. The astromech droid R2-D2 would be employed to slice into an uplink station on Wayland in order to register Alliance ships into the log of attendees of the nationalization ceremony. This would allow the Rebels to reach the the surface of Fresia without any interference.

Battle


The Alliance task force deployed in a forest clearing near the uplink station. Light resistance was encountered on the perimeter of the station, but the Imperial sentries were quickly defeated.

R2-D2 plugged into the uplink station controls and began to steal the codes which would allow the Alliance Fleet to bypass the blockade around Fresia. This took some time, however, and the Empire had the opportunity to deploy multiple units of stormtroopers, AT-ST walkers and TIE maulers in counterattacks against the Rebels.

Through stiff fighting and the aid of a few Y-wing bombing runs, the Alliance task force was able to repel the Imperials long enough for R2-D2 to steal the codes from the uplink station. The Rebels then disengaged and departed Wayland.

Aftermath
The landing codes stolen from Wayland were accepted as valid by the Imperial forces in orbit around Fresia, allowing the Alliance to land a ground force on Fresia and mount an operation to liberate the X-wing prototypes. These starfighters would prove be a great boon to the Rebels that would continuously serve well throughout the rest of the Galactic Civil War.

Behind the scenes
A battle being waged at Wayland conflicts with canon established in The Last Command, as the New Republic did not discover the existence of Wayland until the Thrawn campaign.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Empire at War