First Battle of Bakura (Galactic Civil War)
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The First Battle of Bakura (also known as the Raid at Bakura) occurred when the Rebel Alliance discovered that a number of scientists captured from Hoth were being held aboard an Imperial detention center orbiting Bakura.
Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron were sent to save the scientists. When they arrived, Imperial Dropship Transports were already on their way to leave the prison facility with the scientists.
Wedge, in his B-wing starfighter, disabled a fleeing Imperial transport carrying a batch of scientists with his ion cannon. A GR-75 medium transport landed on the transport and evacuated the prisoners. His objective beside disabling the Imperial Dropship Transports was of course to protect the Rebel medium transports as well. As the first Rebel ship docked with a Dropship Transport to extract the captured scientists, turbolaser batteries from the orbital facility targeted the incoming Rogue Squadron starfighters. Huge numbers of TIE fighters also patrolled the area at the time and waves of them rushed towards the battle scene.
The first rescue transport could though escape safely into hyperspace even with TIEs at its tail. As that happened, a second rescue was under its way and the procedure was repeated. Rogue Squadron defended a second medium transport as it boarded another disabled Dropship Transport, being exposed to turbolasers and TIE fighters.
After further prisoner rescue, a TIE Fighter disabled Derek Klivian's X-wing, sending him crashing on the surface of the planet. Wedge journeyed down onto the planet in a stolen TIE Bomber to pick him up. However, hundreds of Bakura surface heavy missile batteries littered the surface. Using his bomber's lock on concussion missiles, Wedge managed to break through the defenses and saved Hobbie.
Upon arrival back in orbit, he noticed that debris littered the area. Crix Madine informed him that an Imperial vessel made off with a batch of scientists and destroyed one of the transports, and it seemed he was headed toward Geonosis.
