Inspection at Sullust

The Imperial inspection of Sullust was a mission to discover the loyalties of the Sorosuub corporation.

Inspecting the shipyards
The Sullustans were way overdue for an inspection but kept denying imperial access to the shipyards. Emperor Palpatine suspected treachery and ordered grand moff Tarkin and Darth Vader to lead the inspection personally and seek out if the Sullustans had something to hide.

The Inspection
Arrangments were made to meet in the southern sector of the shipyards where they would meet an official to accompany them on their inspection. The "inspection fleet" (which was loaded with TIE squads on high alert and ready to catch the Sullustans by suprise if need be) met their contact, the yards assisstant director Vigoross, in a modified Marauder-class corvette accompanied by some Z-95 headhunters. Tarkin kept negotiating with Vigoross,

while his men scanned the containers and space docks and found nothing. It wasn't until they're guide beamed Tarkin the shipping records and found that 86% of Sorosuub's resources were being diverted to "other customers". Those shipping records had gone to many planets with rebel controlled status. Tarkin kept quiet and didn't want to open fire on non-traitors instead he asked where they were shipping that 86% of supplies and ships.

The Battle
The inspection should have been done long since done if it were a routine one. Tarkin, however managed to anger Vigoross and he unknowingly gave away the rebel presence above their planet when he said they had "guests" to attend to. Realizing he had blown it he ordered all rebellion forces to attack. The imperial interdictors were activated to prevent Vigoross escaping and a massive battle erupted. The imperial star destroyer was severley damaged from Marauder-cruiser volleys but were suppressed by Tartan-class cruisers and they were overwhelmed and destroyed. Several Nebulon-B frigates intervened and attempted to destroy the interdictors, but were destroyed or abandoned. The empires' Victory I cruisers formed up in formation oh-beta-niner for an assault on the space station which was confirmed by TIE scouts to be in a thick asteroid field. While X-wings were versatile, they were more of a nuissance than a threat to the hulking cruisers. The space station was destroyed and Vader swung his fighters around to wipe out the remaining rebels destroying any remaining fighters and corvettes. some escape pods jettisoned but all were nabbed in the star destroyer's tractor beam. Vigoross's ship was destroyed in the fight and he was lined up with the bodies recovered from the debris left behind.