Battle of Dubrillion (Galactic Civil War)
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- "We're still pinned down by that superlaser!"
- ―Crix Madine[src]
The Battle of Dubrillion was a battle during the mid-Galactic Civil War in 3 ABY. The battle, in the midst of the Dubrillion Ocean, was an attempt by the Galactic Empire to draw in and destroy the Alliance Fleet commanded by General Crix Madine, causing a massive blow to the Alliance Special Forces.
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[edit] Prelude
The Rebel Alliance's original operation in the Dubrillion system had seemingly ended in failure. Wedge Antilles and his Y-wing squadrons had searched out the energy tunnels in the rings of Destrillion for the location of a tibanna gas mining facility which was leaked to Alliance Intelligence.
When no facility was found and the Alliance Fleet was about to leave the system, they regrouped and passed through Dubrillion's orbit in order to enter hyperspace. But the Empire had in fact planned the Rebel escape from the Dubrillion system, and when the Alliance fleet was caught in orbit and unable to get away, the Imperials made their move.
[edit] The battle
[edit] Bombing runs
The Alliance Fleet was fired upon by an Imperial superlaser on Dubrillion's surface. Not able to do a safe jump into hyperspace, Wedge Antilles led a Y-wing squadron down to the planet.
Alliance squadrons swarmed into the Dubrillion superlaser facility, and came under attack by TIE/ln starfighters and TIE/In interceptors. Along with that, Imperial submarines emerged from the Dubrillion Ocean.
Wedge led a bombing run on the three focusing dishes for the superlaser, which would have believed to have taken out the accuracy of the laser. While the accuracy of the superweapon was drastically reduced, the Alliance Fleet was still taking casualties.
Despite the rebel fleet retreating to a safer orbit, it still pinned them down, so Antilles was ordered to go deep into the facility and shut it down.
[edit] Infiltration
In the midst of the battle, Wedge apprehended an All Terrain Scout Transport by causing an ion cannon blast to skim across its circuitry, not disabling the vehicle but causing it to temporarily malfunction. Wedge navigated the AT-ST through the superlaser facility, eventually reaching the elevator into the factory, where stealthy missile droids opened fire on his walker, but Wedge survived the travel down to the next level.
The factory basement level was full of transportation rails. Avoiding explosive containers coming on the rails and engaging some more AT-STs, Wedge approached a large open area. There, he ditched his AT-ST in the factory in favor of an All Terrain Armored Transport with heavier firepower. With the AT-AT, Wedge was able to plow through the walkers in his path and opened fire on the turbines which were powering the superlaser, causing the facility to detonate. Rogue Squadron was able to escape before the massive explosions occurred.
[edit] Aftermath
The plot to destroy the Alliance Fleet had ended in failure, and with the loss of a whole superlaser facility, the Rebels would cause a massive blow to the Empire.
