Liberation of Coruscant

The Liberation of Coruscant was a conflict during the War of Secession between the Galactic Empire and the fledgling Galactic Confederate Systems.

The background
To start off the invasion, the Confederacy began capturing strategic worlds near the Coruscant system, including Borleias. In 6.5 ABY the Confederate Congress made the decision to have a covert mission sent to Coruscant to gauge the Imperial presence on that world in preparation for an invasion.

Sabotage
However, Coruscant was protected by a powerful energy shield. Before the attack could begin, the shields would have to fall. Therefore, Liberty Squadron were sent undercover into Imperial City to sabotage the shield generator.

Sixteen of the galaxy's worst criminals were also freed from the prison colony of Kessel] and loosed on the Imperial City so that they could create a diversion to distract the Empire. The Confederates would later regret this; these criminals would go on to resurrect the Black Sun organization.

As the criminal riot continued, Liberty Squadron decided that if they could condense a large amount of water and create a super storm, they could destroy the energy shield protecting Coruscant with lightning strikes.

To do so, the Liberty operatives hijacked a Construction droid to take them to the command building. There, they took remote control of one of the orbiting solar mirrors. The tightly focused light beam from the solar mirror rapidly boiled one of the planet's reservoirs. This caused a huge electrical storm which interrupted the power supply to the shield station and the shields soon collapsed.

The siege
With the shields down, a Confederate force led by Commander-and-cheif Nicole Kroger entered the system. This task force easily overwhelmed the Imperial force, since Palpatine only kept a few Star Destroyers to defend the capital world.

Since any large ground invasion force would be detected by the Imperial sensor net, General Cole Kroger landed a very small initial ground force near Coruscant's north pole, which proceeded to capture Imperial command centers and disable sensor nodes. This allowed Kroger to bring down a larger force undetected, which he used to pound away at the defenses between himself and the Imperial Palace. However, the city planet would not be taken easily, as forces under Grand General Malcor Brashin continued to resist the Confederate invasion force, leading to intense building-to-building warfare.

One of many obstacles the army faced was the heavily fortified walls barring off the most important parts of Imperial City from the outside world. After a prolonged battle, the Confederacy succeeded in breaching Imperial defenses and capturing several important maintenance and command facilities. Then began the extensive cleaning out of the inner defenses, as Republic troops went further and further into the city, getting closer to the Imperial Palace.

Taking the palace
"People, at times like these our capacity to retaliate must be and has to be massive, to deter all forms of aggression. Lock and load."

- General Nicole Kroger.

Nearing the end of the battle, the Imperial Palace was heavily shelled by Confederate forces. After its defenses were weakened, Cole Kroger, with the help of his wife and the Millennium Falcon, passed through General Tal Ashen's Elite Force and approached the Palace.

Ashen himself rode in an AT-AT, and his Elite Force troops included the finest stormtroopers in the Imperial military. Still, they were defeated. Ashen's AT-AT was brought down, but the general survived the crash. Ashen crawled out of the wreckage, pistol in hand, and began to fire on Confederate troops alongside his stormtroopers. Shortly afterwards, Ashen was shot and killed. Not long after this, his remaining troops were either killed or captured.

After fighting with Imperial Guards, the Confederacy task force captured the Palace and rescued Rand's wife, Kath, who was imprisoned there. Brenn Tantor also found his brother, Dellis Tantor, whom he had long thought dead. Aside from the few rescued prisoners, many Imperial officials and functionaries that were found were lynched by the Confederate soldiers.

Aftermath
Very soon, Coruscant was in the hands of the Galactic Confederate System.