Battle of Lycorax

The Battle of Lycorax marked the arrival of Darth Lithos and his group of a few thousand Sith deserters over the planet Lycorax. After travelling and gathering a makeshift fleet of starships, the band moved into space where they searched for a new planet to call their own. When they arrived over Lycorax, a remote, forest-covered world, they found themselves face-to-face with a Republic task force that had been searching for them from the beginning.

Early Action
At about 0330 hours CMT, the Sith command ship, Nightwing IV, emerged out of hyperspace about five hundred kilometers past of low orbit around Lycorax with the Sith fleet spread out behind. After about fifteen minutes a squadron of the Republic 10th Armada became visible around the planet, while the rest of the Armada remained spread out arond the dark side of the planet. As soon as the Sith fleet was detected by the Republic, the order was given to "scramble all fighters."