Blixus Incident

The Blixus Incident was a terrorist attack that occurred on Coruscant in 15 BBY. Investigations linked the attack to the Partisans.

The Incident
In 15 BBY, on an otherwise uneventful Coruscant day, one of thousands of light freighters flying into Coruscant's atmosphere, after getting clearance from Coruscant's gate station (using forged credentials), suddenly broke from the traffic line and, despite multiple warnings from the gate station's commander to return to the traffic line or be boarded, continued flying into Coruscant at full speed until it crashed through a luxury hotel tower, killing multiple patrons, and then crashing into the street below. Upon crashing, the freighter's hatch opened and out came two blixus creatures, which immediately went about ravaging the hundreds of passing pedestrians for several minutes, killing more than a dozen and injuring more than three dozen before LAAT/le gunships descended to eliminate both creatures with their payloads.

Just as the gunships landed and unloaded multiple Coruscant Security Force officers to secure the area, an explosive stockpile in the light freighter detonated, generating an explosion with a radius of nearly 50 meters and sending weaponized debris out as far as 200 meters.

Aftermath
Within minutes of the attack, the scene was swarmed by news reporters and journalists, as well as protesters who used the attention brought to the event to publicize their agendas. This crowding eventually devolved into rioting, and Imperial shock troopers were deployed to contain the disarray. After the rioting settled, a wealthy business purchased the destroyed block and set up a gift shop that sold blixus toys and statues, one of which later ending up in Luke Skywalker's office at his academy on Yavin IV.

Investigation
The Imperial Security Bureau investigated the attacks, and in the destroyed body of one creature found a tracker chip. They gave an imprisoned slicer a reduced sentence for help locating the owner of the chip, who turned out to be a Black Sun crime lord who operated a gladiator pit on Ord Mantell. ISB field agents captured the crime lord and interrogated him. He initially remained silent, though after some torture and isolation revealed that the two creatures were defeated and stolen from the wild on Scarif years earlier by a Mandalorian that the crime lord hired to acquire new creatures for his pit. The pit master found the beasts too difficult and costly to maintain, and so after years of being kept in his dungeons without seeing action were sold to the Partisans. A captured Partisan revealed that they kept the beast at their secret base on Onderon, and fed the beast captured Imperial soldiers brought back from their raids until Saw Gerrera decided to use the beasts in an unmanned terrorist attack on Coruscant.