Operation Serval

Operation Serval was the coordinated of the Centrality by  in 138 ABY, prompted by the Centrans' covert support of the. After a of hiding, the   group came out of hiding to launch an attack in conjunction with the  on the  controlling much of the galaxy. The Sith then split from the Fel Empire in 130 ABY and forced both GFFA and Fel remnants to the and  by 137 ABY. At this point, the Sith leadership attempted to isolate the resistance groups from their supply sources by convening a diplomatic on the planet to enforce a policy of no commerce with the Galactic Alliance Remnant and the Fel Empire.

The string of conferences was suspended after the participants had agreed to cease trade with factions deemed to be opposing Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire and permitted the Imperial government to move s into their territory to monitor fulfillment of the treaty. Sith intelligence, however, suspected one of the parties, the Centrality, of knowingly violating the terms of the treaty by harboring s delivering cargo to Galactic Alliance locations, and the Imperial leadership decided on instigating a coup d'état in the state supported by a simultaneous Imperial invasion. Under the guise of a planned attack on Alliance remnants spinward of the Centrality, the Empire moved a sizeable fleet down the, led by  and.

While a smaller Sith unit launched an attack on Alliance bases near Mon Calamari, Darth Maladi entered the Centran governmental district on the capital world and massacred much of the Centran political and military leadership who were attending a conference. At the same time, five task forces of the Imperial Navy and over ten million soldiers of the Army struck at key Centran locations, such as Erilnar and, at the same time. The Centran Armed Forces were unprepared to repel an attack of this scale and soon retreated into the rimward portion of the Centrality, with some parts of the navy covering the retreat by engaging the Sith at Tund to slow their advance. The C.A.F. and much of the rimward region's civilan population eventually evacuated into the above the galactic disk in the region, while the Empire formally annexed the Centrality as a  and appointed a  to preside over its affairs.

Operation Serval resulted in the effective termination of trade towards Alliance territory via the Centrality. The C.A.F. and Centran officials who had escaped declared the Centrality in their new territory and launched occasional raids on former Centran worlds. Eventually, as the toppled Darth Krayt's regime, the Centran forces regained the Centrality from the disorganized Sith units in retreat.