Battlecruiser duel over Coruscant (GWHEP)

"Attention, unidentified warship, this is the GFSSNS Darklighter of the Home Fleet! You are approaching the galactic capital. State your fleet number and callsign or you will be engaged! I repeat, state you fleet number and callsign or you will be destroyed! Aaahhh! We're under attack! Send an emergency-"

- Final transmission of the Darklighter after challenging the Emporer's Wrath

The Battlecruiser duel of Coruscant was a little artillery duel over Coruscant which sparked a much larger war.

Reason for the attack
In 13,292 ABY the Galactic Senate passed the "Anti-Imperialsm Bill" which declared that any support for the old Galactic Empire was illegal because of the way the Empire was speciesist and treated aliens like slaves.

The bill was intended to make sure that legal slavery would never return and huge genocidal campaigns against non-humans could never happen again. The bill made the policies of the Human Empire Party illegal and made the party an illegitimate, terrorist organisation. In response to the bill the party decided to destroy one of the Federation's warships over the capital, Coruscant to show the Senate what they thought of them passing the bill.

The attack
The party decided to destroy the flagship of the Home Fleet, the Darklighter. They believed that this would have the most impact on the Senate.

The party decided to send the battlecruiser Emporer's Wrath to destroy the Darklighter. The Emporer's Wrath came out of hyperspace over Coruscant at 13:10 local time on Primeday 30th of May, only two hours after the signing of the bill and sighted the Darklighter (the attack was carefully planned to co-incide when the Darklighter was on patrol) and moved to engage.

Captain Olar Kazran open comms with the unidentified ship, ordering it to identify itself. Suddenly the ship started bombarding the control tower, Olar ordered an emergency message be sent to Naval Command to let them know a hostile ship was engaging them but it was too late. Before he could finish giving his order to send the message Olar and the bridge crew were killed when a heavy turbolaser shot hit the bridge and blew it up.

The artillery crews on the Darklighter fought desparatly to save their ship but since the bridge had been destroyed they had lost the CIC which provided them with targeting data, CIC providing them with targeting data they could not hit the small weak spots of the enemy ship and had to try and blast the hull armour until a shot pierced it and damaged the inside.

But the Venatrix-class' hull armour was strong so they could not do enough damage. The CIC of the Emporer's Wrath designated sensitive targets to the artillery crews and the artillery crews blew them up.