Battle at the Graveyard of Super Star Destroyers

Better known as the Skirmish of the Graveyard, the battle was the third battle fought during the War of the Resurrected Emperor. This battle saw the alliance of the New Republic and True Imperials become fact. It also was the battle that prompted Emperor Palpatine to launch Operation Vong, which started the Second Yuuzhan Vong War.

Background
THe resurrected Palpatine had tried to force Vice Admiral Adam Harmon to reveal the location of the Graveyard of Super Star Destroyers. Harmon had refused, and the Emperor had at once banished him and all others who automatically refused to join him. Surprisingly, this even drove Gilad Pealleon away, in which was itself a blow to Palpatine's unstable power base.

Harmon at once contacted every officer in the Imperial Navy and asked for thier assistance. Only 50 answered the call. But, even 50 was itself a threat. Harmon went to Coruscant and talked to the New Republic Chief-of-State Dilivian Sivilian about an alliance, which Sivilian approved.

Palpatine put his Intelligance units to the task of finding the Graveyard. They found it and palpatine ordered forty Star Destroyers to escort his newest bombship, Dark Power, to take the Graveyard.

Harmon learned of this from spies, and beat the Emperor by a day, and helped the base commander, Colonel Marvin, prepare for the assualt about to take place. Also, in a move that many of the officers of the twenty Star Destroyer defense fleet found insane, he asked for assistance from only two groups, Rogue Squadron and the Millenuim Falcon.

The Emperor's Attack
Palpatine arrived with his fleet a day after Harmon arrived. He demanded Harmon to surrender the five Super Star Destroyers being repaired, which was promptly refused. Palpatine then ordered his fleet to attack.

He slowly drove back that defenders with his superior numbers. Harmon's fleet used a tactic known as the Pinpoint Defence. His ships would converge fire on the closest ship, and when it was destroyed, they would pick thier next target. The ships also would switch positions between the more damaged ships with fresh ships, prolonging the retreat.

Palpatine then ordered twenty drop ships to attack the base. The defensive guns destroyed them, and Palpatine then ordered fifty drop ships to be in middle of four Star Destroyers, which would cover them as they landed. It worked, with only three being destroyed.

The 551 Legion swept through the base, fighting the 233 Legion. The 233rd fought to the death, and within an hour the whole garrison had been massacred during fierce fighting. As a last act of defiance, the gunners sealed the doors to thier guns, and kept firing. They then would self destruct right before the enemy could break in.

Harmon's fleet took such a beating, that they had no option but to retreat. Suddenly, help arrived.

The Counterattack
The New Republic forces arrived, and they cut through the Emperor's fleet. It was then, with the new arrival, that Palpatine decided it was time to obliterate his opponents. He opened fire with his invisible bombship, and destroyed five enemy Star Destroyers. Then, he had several ships capture two Super Star Destroyers. But then, things went wrong.

The ressurected Anakin SKywalker used the Force to pinpoint the energy source of the bombship, and used one of the Falcon's quad guns to destroy the bombship. With that, the Emperor's fleet fell into disorder and retreated, giving thier oponents an easy victory.

Aftermath
The battle enabled Harmon to finish reconstructing the five Super Star Destroyers, thus giving the allied forces a powerful advantage in the war. Palpatine would never be able to have such an advantage.

This battle forced Palpatine to rethink his tactics. So far duriong the war, he had done bold assualts. He decided from then on to ambush his enemy, until he was in a position where he would have to win.