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First Battle of Qotile

Battle of Korda 6

Mission to Thyferra

Conflict

Stark Hyperspace War

Date

44 BBY

Place

Troiken/Hyperspace routes

Outcome

Combine victory

Combatants
Galactic Republic Trade Federation	Stark Commercial Combine
Commanders
General Tyvokka † Senator Ranulph Tarkin	Iaco Stark Captain Zur
Strength
Jedi 2 Jedi Masters 2 Jedi Knights 1 Padawan Judicial Forces members Ranulph Tarkin's paramilitary Invincible Consular-class space cruisers Corellian Star Shuttles Republic fighters A-6 Interceptors^[1] Troop ships Soldiers 1 Trade Federation freighter Hunter-killer droids	Combine soldiers Combine starships Kaloth-class battlecruisers^[1] Vainglorious-class cruisers^[1] Raptor Navcomputer virus
Casualties
Nearly all ships Many crewmen Tyvokka	Soldiers 2 Twi'lek slavegirls Possibly ships

[Source]

"Tell the fleet to begin the jump to lightspeed! I want that conference site turned into a crater! I plan to wipe several layers of scum from beneath my boots!"

―Ranulph Tarkin^[src]

The First Battle of Qotile was the opening battle of the Stark Hyperspace War.

1 The prologue
2 The battle
3 Regrouping
4 Participants
- 4.1 Galactic Republic
- 4.2 Stark Commercial Combine
5 Appearances
6 Sources
7 Notes and references
- 7.1 In other languages

The prologueEdit

Troiken had been chosen to be the host of a meeting between the Stark Commercial Combine, Galactic Republic, and Trade Federation to debate the Combine's seizure of bacta shipments for needy worlds during an apparent bacta shortage. However, Senator Ranulph Tarkin had assembled a secret fleet with the goal of disrupting the talks.

The Jedi and Republic negotiators arrived on Troiken, meeting with Stark and his Combine co-directors. Once the first meeting began, Federation Minister Nute Gunray activated a homing beacon on his mechno-chair, transmitting the co-ordinates of the meeting to Tarkin’s fleet. Tarkin ordered the ships to enter hyperspace, intending to attack the summit and kill both the Combine’s leadership and the Republic’s entourage.

No sooner had the Combine’s leadership been seated had Jedi Master Tyvokka, the lead Jedi negotiator present, suggested they skip the formalities and head to what Combine leader Iaco Stark intended to be the real solution. Stark agreed, and his men drew their weapons on the Republic negotiators, using the pretext of Gunray’s treachery.

The battleEdit

Stark revealed his knowledge of Tarkin’s fleet—as well as the fact that he had piggybacked his Combine's navcomputer virus on Gunray’s signal, incapacitating the navigational computers of Tarkin’s ships.

Many emerged from hyperspace in areas that would destroy them (such as near stars or black holes), others emerged in realsapce safely but far off course, and only fraction—including Tarkin’s flagship Invincible—made it to the Qotile system, where they immediately came under fire from the Combine ships that outnumbered them.

Although Republic negotiator Finis Valorum protested that he knew nothing of Tarkin’s unsanctioned plans, Stark would hear none of it, insisting that the Republic team surrender. Tyvokka, realizing that his earlier suspicions about Stark's duplicity were true, literally turned the tables on Stark’s men, with the Jedi springing into action.

Under Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn’s advice, the panicked Gunray ordered his security droids to “kill them all.” The droids opened fire on both Stark’s men and the Jedi, critically wounding Tyvokka and forcing the Jedi to destroy the droids while Stark and his co-directors escaped.

RegroupingEdit

The Jedi and their charges quickly made their way back to their Consular space cruiser while they still could (Gunray’s transport having been destroyed just before their escape) retreating to Mount Avos.

Tyvokka died en route, ordering Adi Gallia to protect Valorum to ensure a peaceful solution, Plo Koon to rally Tarkin’s troops lest the Senate surrender (as well as to join the Jedi Council as Tyvokka had hoped), and Jinn to seek a way to override the computer virus. En route, Koon used his telepathic abilities to scare off the Stark fighter following them. Upon arrival at Avos, their damaged Consular exploded.

Overhead, less than a fourth of Tarkin’s fleet remained. After the Invincible received critical damage and he received a message from Valorum informing of their retreat location, Tarkin ordered his crews to abandon their ships and aim their escape pods for Mount Avos.

The fighting ships of Tarkin’s fleet surrounded the troop carriers while their crews left, before being evacuated themselves. The Invincible was destroyed just after Tarkin and his staff evacuated, the burning hulk impacting near Avos, as the Jedi and soldiers began to regroup inside the mountain’s abandoned spice mines.