Battle of Anoat

The Battle of Anoat was perhaps the most costly battle for the Kroprulan Sith Empire. Arriving in-system expecting the weak resistance that had met them at every other planet, they were shocked at the high level of activity on the planet.

Prelude
High General Crusher and Grand Admiral Lanik arrived in system, and were met with a sharp, recorded message, asking them to state their intentions. When they did not reply several squadrons of heavily armoured fighters rose from the atmosphere to meet them, and they quickly found themselves under threat.

Battle
Managing to defeat the squadrons, they set about landing their soldiers on the surface. Darth Crusher led his men into battle, killing many of the leaders of the pirates and smugglers on the planet.

However, they were outnumbered as more and more soldiers flooded in, and Darth Crusher was killed in the battle. The troops, shocked at the loss and unable to continue fighting retreated, and Lanik was forced to leave the system.

Aftermath
Pressure was put on the Expansionary Fleet to send scouts into the system before battles were to begin to ensure nothing of that sort of failure happened again.

Darth Revenous was put in charge of the Sith Armed Forces to replace Darth Crusher, and Lanik begun working closely with Revenous on several matters of importance to the Empire.

In 24 ABY, the Sith used Anoat as a jumping system to attack Bespin, and by then all pirate activity had dissapeared.