Battle of Koru Neimoidia (Purse Worlds Campaign)

"Let us never forget the brave souls of the Allied forces whom fought for the freedom of Koru Neimoidia, those brave souls whom willingly entered the fiery tempest and did not return. Let us always pay homage those whom took great pain but survived to tell the tale of this planet's greatest battle."

- Inscription on the Battle of Koru Neimoidia victory monument

Background
5 months prior to the battle a previously unknown species called the "N'Akkiarla" from the planet "N'Akkiarl" entered the galaxy from a point for beyond the Unknown Regions, they spoke a language which was virtually resistant to all known translators and only their species' name could be translated, N'Akkiarla". A message of good-will was sent but they replied with an invasion of the galaxy. The N'Akkiarlian Star Fleet was huge, over 1000 ships, the largest fleet seen since the Yuuzhan Vong. The war was going from bad to worse, the Galactic Federation of Sentient Species (the distant descendant of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances) had lost planet after the planet and the N'Akkiarlians had cut a path straight into the Colonies Regions, the final barrier to the Core Worlds. The N'Akkiarlians set their sights on the Neimoidian Purse Worlds and commenced an invasion.

The Battle
Things looked bad, the N'Akkiarlians had invaded Koru Neimoidia and a dreadnought which was believed to invicible by most of the galaxy was patrolling the space around the planet, the members of the Neimoidian Resistance and GFSS soldiers on the planet looked cut off from help and doomed to either merciless executions or starvation. However the Neimoidian Resistance fighters joined up the GFSS soldiers and formed an army to fight the N'Akkiarlian army. When they attacked the N'Akkiarlian army near Koru City they took heavy casualties. However they did damage to the N'Akkiarlians who realised that they weren't as weak as had first appeared during the invasion.

Several days of further regrouping created an even larger Allied army to fight the large N'Akkiarlian army. The N'Akkiarlian army had been sighted by a recon droid crossing a plain. The order was given to attack. The Allied war-droid were activated, pilots ran to their ships, troops and droids embarked the drop-ships and land vehicles were being started. The defence army headed for the plains.

A Neimoidian Super-Artillery Gun fired upon the N'Akkiarlian army from 40 miles away, doing massive damage to the N'Akkiarlians, each shell fired by the gun weighed 100 tons. The N'Akkiarlian army was decimated, confident of their victory the defence army moved onto the plains to take it, the Grand Battle of the Koru Neimoidian Plains seemed won with very little Allied losses. However the worst was yet to come.

Orbital Bombardment
The Planet-Wrecker Ezkrva 'Utiazrupanata-Xurgilgranarr received a message from a N'Akkiarlian spotter who was watching the enemy flooding the plains, N'Akkiarlian Battle Commander Nzawabre 'Jukvilahma-Qayjostyugarr ordered an orbital bombardment of the plains. The N'Akkiarlian Gunnery Chief used his advanced sensory system to target the plains, all port-side artillery guns on the dreadnought opened up on the plains. The shots landed with an almost supernatural accuracy at no more than 1 mile from the plains, the Allied army of over 1 million was devastated within 5 minutes and the survivors were shocked at just how accurate the bombardment was, the orbital bombardment reduced the formerly-emerald green plains to a barren landscape (the Allies nicknamed it the "Land of Death" since it was devoid of any life).

Strike on the N'Akkiarlian Planet-Wrecker
Realising that the dreadnought could turn the entire tide of the battle (and maybe the war) they decided to attack it. The order was given for Sheathipede-class bombers to attack the N'Akkiarlian dreadnought and T-650 Super-Xs to cover them. After entering space the Allied forces immediatly saw the dreadnought, at over 1 mile it was unmissable. The bombers turned to an attack vector and noticed fighters exiting a hangar, they were heading straight for the bomber squadon, Super-Xs engaged and shot many down however there was too many fighters to deal with, the Allies were outnumbered by about 3-1. About half of the Super-Xs were lost in the first 5 minutes with only the experienced veterans holding out against them due to their vast knowledge on defensive manoeuvres. The fighters broke off to attack the bombers which were getting close to the Planet-Wrecker, the bombers' rear-gunners did well at first, taking the enemies by suprise however the enemies quickly learnt to attack from underneath, about 1 quater of the entire bombing force was destroyed before they were withing 50 miles of the enemy dreadnought.

The Super-X pilots knew they should be defending the bombers rather than themselves since the bombers were less manoeuvrable and armoured than the fighters. They attacked the enemy fighters with great success, clearing the sixes of the bombers. However the AA on the dreadnought had opened up and was highly accurate, a further quater of the bombing force was lost before the bombers were in range. The remaining 50 bombers dropped their payloads of 6 proton bombs each and returned home. The bombs did heavy damage to the dreadnought but it still wasn't dead, only disabled. The commanders decided to request help from the Courage at Yavin which was passing reasonably close-by (about 5 parsecs from the planet). The commander of the Courage at Yavin aknowledged their request and set a course for the planet, arriving shortly after. The Courage at Yavin broadsided the dreadnought and pummeled it with heavy turbolaser fire. After sustained fire for a full 5 minutes one turbolaser shot pierced the dreadnought's power core and vapourised it in a massive ball of fire and a shockwave. The explosion was so big the Allied personnel in the Allied HQ planet-side saw it. With destruction of the dreadnought the battle was finally totally won by the Allied forces, at a heavy cost however.

Aftermath
Despite taking heavy losses the battle marked a turning-point for the Allied forces as it proved the N'Akkiarlians could be defeated. The battle signalled the end of the "N'Akkiarlian Invincibility Period" (so named because of the belief that the N'Akkiarlians could never be defeated), the populations of numerous conquered worlds gained confidence from the battle rose up against their "masters" and fought to be free again (known as the N'Akkiarlian Empire Slave Revolution). Whilst the Revolution cost the lives of billions of slaves all over N'Akkiarlian-space it diverted much of the N'Akkiarlian military away from vital targets to end the Revolution, making the job easier for the Allied forces to mount hit-and-run strikes on them. After a further three months of hard-hitting hit-and-run attacks the N'Akkiarlians were nearing defeat. The Alied forces prepared to strike the "knock-out blow", the N'Akkiarlian fleet stationed over Cato Neimoidia. The entire Allied military was assembled on a gamble, if the Allied forces won then the N'Akkiarlians would be defeated and surrender however if they lost then the N'Akkiarlians would be once-again invincible and the galaxy would become theirs.

Fortunatly the Allied forces were victorious and the N'Akkiarlians surrendered. The numbers of atrocities they were found guilty of was so large they were barred from re-entering the galaxy for 10,000 years and had to pay huge sums in war reparations. The Anti-N'Akkiarlian hatred raged through-out most of the galaxy for millenia, only dying down in 508,000 ABY. In the year 510,000 ABY the ban from entering the galaxy expired and the N'Akkiarlians returned however most of these N'Akkiarlians were ashamed by what their distant ancestors did and sought to be productive members of the galactic society.