Previous Raid on Bakura Next Mission to Destrillion Battle of Geonosis Conflict Galactic Civil War Date 3 ABY Place Droid Factory on Geonosis Outcome Sarkli's forces destroyed, Alliance withdrawal from Geonosis, final defeat of the Separatist holdouts Combatants Alliance to Restore the Republic Galactic Empire Functioning remnants of the Droid Army† Commanders General Crix Madine Commander Wedge Antilles Captain Sarkli Strength Three T-65 X-wing starfighters One Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor Four GR-75 medium transports One EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate (late battle) Stormtroopers E-web heavy repeating blasters Three escort carriers LAAT/i gunship TIE fighters TIE bombers B1 battle droids Lucrehulk-class Core Ship† Separatist Droid Army† Baktoid Armor Workshop† Casualties One X-wing One GR-75 medium transport One LAAT/i All Imperial escort carriers and their crews Stormtroopers TIE fighters TIE bombers All battle droids [Source]

This battle took place around 3 ABY on and in orbit of the planet Geonosis. The battle occurred in the wake of the abduction of a number of Rebel Alliance scientists from a prison over Bakura. General Crix Madine of the Alliance tracked the unidentified captor to Geonosis, where Rogue Squadron was deployed to secure the hostages.

As soon as the battle began, it was already a disaster for the Alliance. An ambush, led by Imperial spy Sarkli, took place on the Rebel fleet, forcing the surviving rescue transports to retreat into hyperspace. After Commander Wedge Antilles of Rogue Squadron confronted Sarkli, who was in command of an Imperial escort carrier, both Sarkli and Antilles crash landed in the canyons on the planet. They fought their way through Separatist holdouts. Eventually, Antilles was able to escape back to the Rebel Fleet.

Contents 1 Prelude 2 The battle 2.1 Arrival of Rogue Squadron 2.2 Ground operations 2.3 Retreat 3 Aftermath 4 Behind the scenes 5 Appearances 5.1 In other languages

PreludeEdit

After its disastrous defeat at Hoth, the Rebellion was in need of victories. The ace fliers of Rogue Squadron were sent to recover scientists from an Imperial prison facility. After recovering them, one of their transports was stopped and boarded by Imperial Storm commandos, who subsequently took the scientists to Geonosis.

The battleEdit

Arrival of Rogue SquadronEdit

Rogue Squadron was assigned the mission to rescue the scientists, and led four GR-75 medium transports to Geonosis. Upon arrival in the Geonosis asteroid field, three escort carriers performed a surprise ambush and took down one of the rescue transports. The abducter revealed himself to be Sarkli, former member of Rogue Squadron and the Rebel Alliance. Antilles managed to destroy his escort carrier, but Sarkli and a few garrisons of stormtroopers managed to survive the blast by using the ship's escape pods, taking casualties in the process due to collisions with asteroids. Antille's X-wing was caught in the explosion which destroyed his starboard stabilizer and sent him crashing down on the planet.

Ground operationsEdit

Numerous B1 battle droids on Geonosis had been cut off from the deactivation beacon at the end of the Clone Wars. When the survivors of the carrier crash-landed on the planet, several stormtroopers were killed by "native" droids settled in the area. As Antilles crashed, they turned their blasters on him. In an attempt to flee the droids, Sarkli used a crashed, but working LAAT/i to escape the area. Antilles now had to deal with waves of battle droids, as well as the survivors from the carrier.

When Antilles finally came out of the chaos, Sarkli's gunship attacked him. Using a dead stormtrooper's E-web heavy repeating blaster, Antilles shot him down, but Sarkli survived the crash, and would resurface at the Battle of Endor. Wedge then found an old Jedi starfighter from the original Battle on Geonosis with good hull condition, but lacking power. Wedge's Unidentified R5 unit (Wedge Antilles) transferred electricity and power from its circuits into the engine, reactivating it. Antilles and his R5 unit then escaped the planet.

RetreatEdit

Crix Madine's command EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate came out of hyperspace and met up with Wedge. The remaining two escort carriers attacked and launched several TIEs, but Wedge found out the starfighter had a payload of seismic charges and repelled them. With assistance from the frigate and his wingmates, he dispatched the last two carriers, and jumped into hyperspace with an old, but still working, hyperspace ring floating nearby.

AftermathEdit

At the end of the battle the Rebels were forced to retreat, the Empire found out about the droid operations and put it down, thus dissolving the Separatist holdouts altogether, along with the complete demise of the Core ships left on the planet.^[source?]

Behind the scenesEdit

This article was created based on a mission in the video game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. Seismic charges are not standard equipment for Delta-7 starfighters, so it is not known if their presence in the mission is a personal upgrade or apocryphal.

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike (First appearance)