Battle near the Crustai base

The Battle between the Chiss and Vagaari took place about six standard hours away from the Crustai base of the Chiss Ascendancy: Picket Force Two. It occurred when a large group of Vagaari ships, including about one-hundred civilian transports, entered the territory of the Chiss.

Prelude
Commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo (better known as Thrawn) was informed that the Vagaari had attacked. He called Jorj Car'das to him and he, Car'das, and Maris Ferasi decided that all three of them would go together and take a look at the battle in the Springhawk with six heavy fighters accompanying them.

The battle
When they arrived they looked out upon about two hundred ships of various sizes locked in combat and another hundred Vagaari civilian ships waiting in the distance. As they watched they noticed two damaged defenders that were trying to get away but seemingly could not go into hyperspace until they reached a certain point even though their hyperdrives were intact and they were far enough away from the nearby planet to escape its gravity field. Thrawn concluded that the Vagaari had learned how to make a pseudograv-field and were using one to keep their prey from escaping until they could be obliterated. The commander decided to try to capture one of the five large spherical gridworks on the out fringes of the battle that was being used to make this gravity field. The gravity projector was guarded with only three large warships hovering between it and the main combat area, all of them within the gravity well and with their main drives pointing toward the projector. Thrawn ordered his fighters to make a hyperspace jump toward the gravity projected depending on the gravity well to pull them out when they got close. He then told them to clear out enemy fighters and create a defensive perimeter between the projector and the war vessels. The Springhawk followed when the fighters had been eliminated and Thrawn ordered Assault Teams One and Two to board the projector and neutralize the operational crew while Chief Yal'avi'kema and three of his crew tried to find a way to collapse the projector to take it aboard or attach it to their hull for transport. Soon the boarders had eliminated the Vagaari crew and were working on collapsing the projector. Car'das noticed there were Zero-g plastic bubbles on the ships and when Thrawn called for a close up they realized that a slave was held in each of the bubbles. Thrawn knew he could do nothing about it, however, and he ordered his fighters to fire full missile bursts and shock nets at the warships, the shock nets aimed at the vessels' bridges and command stations. Suddenly someone called out "Helmets!" and instantly everyone snatched up their helmets and locked them on. Then there was a flash of light and the portside section of the canopy disintegrated. Thrawn was injured and thrown to the floor by the blast. Maris and Car'das tried to put a sealant patch on a tear in his vac suit, but it would not bond to the material. Maris was forced to lie chest-to chest over him pressing her stomach against the wound until two Chiss brought a larger sealant patch and carried him away. Then the Springhawk made the jump to hyperspace.

Aftermath
About four hours later Thrawn was able to sit up and talk and he made a quick recovery after that. Before the Springhawk went into hyperspace the gravity projector was collapsed and spark-welded onto the its hull and Thrawn took it into custody.

Appearances

 * Outbound Flight