Battle of Shola (1 BBY)

The 'Battle of Shola was a minor engagement between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire.

The Battle
A squadron of 6 Victory-class Star Destroyers entered the Magatesso System to engage a Rebel presence over the world.

The squadron deployed TIE fighters and bombers upon entering the battle zone, these TIEs stayed at the edge of the battle zone to check for any Rebel reinforcements which could be trying to attack the Victorys from behind. Upon acquiring the Imperial Star Destroyers on their scope the Rebel space station launched X-Wings and Y-Wings to attack them. The Y-Wings attacked the cruisers with ION rounds, whch severely damaged their shields and even brought the shields down on two of the cruisers. However the Imperials kept on bombarding the space station's shield generator despite having their hardpoints bombed and strafed by the Rebel starfighters. Despite being under heavy bombardment the Victorys managed to destroy the shield generation and turned their attention on the space station's hangar.

Whilst the Star Destroyers were attacking the space station's shields the TIEs were strafing and bombing a Corellian Corvette which had entered the system, despite taking losses the TIEs were ultimatly successful in destroying the corvette.

During the bombarding of the hangar one Victory had been bombed too much and exploded. The Imperials, however, were not fased about this and just brought another one in. In the end the shield generator proved to be the hardest to destroy and the hangar and the hardpoints were quickly destroyed. The Imperial forces then mopped up any remaining starfighters.

Aftermath
Despite crushing the Rebel forces the loss of one of a Victory to sluggish Y-Wings was embarrassing to the Empire and in response they planned to let the Rebels think they had held the Empire off but in a few years return with the Death Star and blow Shola and the Rebels on the planet to atoms.

However with the loss of the Death Star this plan was prostponed, the Rebel Alliance kept Shola.