Previous Scanning in the Vergesso Asteroids Next Smuggler's Raid on Carida Raid over Corulag Conflict Galactic Civil War (Operation: Skyhook) Date 1 BBY Place Corulag system Outcome Alliance Victory Combatants Alliance to Restore the Republic Galactic Empire Commanders Captain Raymus Antilles Unknown Strength T-65 X-wing starfighters BTL Y-wing starfighters CR90 corvettes Sundered Heart EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigates Assault Frigate Mark IIs RM-09 Alliance shuttles Rebel troopers TIE/ln starfighters Tartan-class patrol cruisers Acclamator-class assault ships Victory-class Star Destroyers Imperial-class Star Destroyers 1 Cardan V-class space station Orbital defenses Casualties Moderate Moderate [Source]

The Raid over Corulag was a Rebel attack on one of Grand Moff Tarkin's research stations orbiting the planet Corulag.

PreludeEdit

During Operation: Skyhook, Mon Mothma ordered a further investigation into the nature of the Death Star. Using data already collected, the Rebels discovered that cargo shipments to a research station doing work on the Death Star were being sent from the Vergesso Asteroids. Raymus Antilles personally recruited Han Solo, despite Solo's reluctance, to plant a tracking device and EMP in one of the cargo containers bound for the research station.

The raidEdit

The tracking device revealed the station's location over Corulag, and then triggered the EMP and paralyzed Imperial security forces arround the station, including Imperial starships. While Captain Antilles led a team to attack the stunned defenses, a group of Rebel troopers managed to penetrate the station in RM-09 Alliance shuttles. But the Imperial defenses quickly recovered their ability to fight. Meanwhile, Rebel soldiers were delayed in the station by the Imperial infantry. They eventually managed to recover valuable data, just when the Star Destroyers began to engage the Rebel fleet. The soldiers evacuated the station in their shuttles and jumped hyperspace, the rest of the fleet behind them

AftermathEdit

From the data collected, the team was able to confirm the name of the project—Death Star—and gain an idea of its destructive capabilities, but with no technical schematics detailed enough to reveal a weakness. Mon Mothma then instructed Leia Organa to begin intensified operations to gather relevant intelligence, and assigned Captain Antilles to her service aboard Tantive IV.

Behind the scenesEdit

This battle only appears in the 2006 LucasArts computer game Star Wars: Empire at War, in which Ackbar is rescued in the station by the Rebels. However, this version of the event can not considered canon. A separate, conflicting account of Ackbar's liberation was described in Star Wars: X-wing and Darksaber, in which Ackbar is rescued during an assassination attempt against Tarkin near Sullust. This version has been upheld in several Star Wars reference books, including The New Essential Guide to Characters (2002), The New Essential Chronology (2005), and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (2008).

However, The Essential Atlas (2009) lists this raid as one of the events of Operation: Skyhook, but without giving more precisions.

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars: Empire at War (First appearance)

SourcesEdit

• Star Wars: Empire at War: Prima Official Game Guide (First identified as Raid over Corulag)
• Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption: Prima Official Game Guide
• The Essential Atlas