Marg Sabl

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"You're going to pull a Marg Sabl closure maneuver? Why not? It was a good idea… a decade ago."

―Unidentified Alliance observer^[src]

The Marg Sabl was a classic closure maneuver in space battles, used during conflicts such as the Clone Wars, Galactic Civil War, and the Thrawn Crisis.

1 Characteristics
2 History
3 Behind the scenes
4 Appearances
5 Sources
6 Notes and references
- 6.1 In other languages

CharacteristicsEdit

While a line of support starships scattered from an enemy's attack vector and reformed behind the enemy fleet, starfighters swept around in an open cluster formation, at backfire speed, using a zonal attack pattern. It was a simple maneuver, but when properly executed, had a highly unstructured attack profile. As a result, most experienced opponents would not fall for it, though species with a psychological blind spot for unstructured attacks (such as the Elomin), or simple-minded OOM command battle droids, could be devastated by it.

HistoryEdit

"You see, Captain, there's an Elom [sic] commanding that force…and Elomin simply cannot handle the unstructured attack profile of a properly executed Marg Sabl."

―Thrawn, to Gilad Pellaeon^[src]

During the Battle of Ryloth, Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano suggested the use of the maneuver against CIS battle droids that had been abandoned by their Neimoidian commanding officer.^[1] Decades later, it was used successfully by Grand Admiral Thrawn, who demonstrated the particular Elomin gullibility at the Destruction of the Elomin task force.^[2]