Battle of Corellia
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The Battle of Corellia occurred after Kyle Katarn saved Crix Madine from execution in the Imperial detention center on Orinackra.
Madine fled to a Rebel safehouse on his homeworld of Corellia, while Carlist Rieekan was to meet officials in a secret conference in Coronet, in the Coronet Capital Tower, about defection to the Rebel Alliance. Meanwhile, Commander Luke Skywalker and a detachment of Rogue Squadron was assigned to patrol the city for any signs of Imperial activity in their airspeeders. After Wedge Antilles picked up strange transmissions, they flew to the outskirts of the city and found a squad of probe droids. It turned out to be a diversion, however, in which squadrons of TIE/sa bombers attacked the Capital Tower during the Rogues' absence.
Rogue Squadron rushed back to defend the city, while another squadron of bombers moved in on the technology center in which Madine was hiding. The Rogues had routed most of the bombers attacking the tower before they received a transmission from Madine, stating that the Imperials had begun their attack on the tech center. Skywalker left to protect the tech center, as the rest of Rogue Squadron, along with the new arrival of Han Solo and Chewbacca in the Millennium Falcon, took care of the remaining bombers at the Capital Tower.
By the time the tech center was safe, the Imperials had landed an AT-AT walker, which moved to attack the Tower. It was then that Luke first used Imperial defector Davin Felth's advice, and tripped up the walker with his tow cable. After the remaining bombers were destroyed, the Falcon and a Rebel Lambda-class shuttle began evacuating the Capital Tower. At the same time, stormtroopers invaded the beaches in Amphibions, but the Rebel defense batteries managed to keep most of the troops out of the city.
The Imperials resumed their attack on Madine with a pair of AT-ST walkers escorting another AT-AT, while a squad of Stormtroopers attempted to break into the tech center. Luke drove the Imperials off, while a second evacuation shuttle arrived to pick up Madine.
With Madine's successful defection, and the evacuation of the Capital Tower, Rogue Squadron withdrew from the planet. However, the Capital Tower was destroyed.
