Battle of Centerpoint Station (Second Galactic Civil War)

The Battle of Centerpoint Station was a pivotal conflict during the Confederation-Galactic Alliance War, and resulted in the destruction of Centerpoint Station, a millenniae-old artifact constructed by the Celestials c. 1,000,000 BBY.

The battle
On arrival in-system, Galactic Alliance co-Chief of State Jacen Solo attempted to capture the gravitic weapon and turn it against the Confederation in order to end the war. Therefore as the Galactic Alliance forces formed up, shuttles boarded the station and Galactic Alliance Guard soldiers besieged the Corellian defenders of Centerpoint. However, the Corellian leadership under Five Worlds Prime Minister Sadras Koyan made preparations to fire Centerpoint upon a strategic GA target.

In opposition to the goals of either faction, Jedi-led forces infiltrated the station and sabotaged it, wishing that its enormous destructive power could no longer be used against the Galaxy. Another Jedi strike team, led by Grand Master Luke Skywalker, boarded the Anakin Solo, Chief of State Solo's flagship, and spirited the Hapan Chume'da Allana away, who had been until then held hostage by Solo to force the cooperation of the Hapes Consortium.

Destruction of Centerpoint Station
Centerpoint was in fact destroyed when it fired upon itself. Jedi sabotage had converted every coordinate in the weapon's data banks to read the coordinates of the station itself, and therefore when the technician Rikel fired the station at his intended target of Coruscant, the ancient construction instead sent its gravitic pulse into its central core, wiping itself out. Until Centerpoint's cataclysmic detonation, Confederation and Galactic Alliance forces were on equal footing; the radius of the explosion, however, wiped out the vast majority of Solo's fleets, as well as much of the Confederation strength. Still at a numerical disadvantage, and with his objectives thwarted, Solo withdrew the remaining Galactic Alliances forces.

Appearances

 * Fury