Blockade of Bavinyar
| Date: | 18 BBY |
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| Location: | Bavinyar |
| Outcome: | Bavinyar Avengers victory |
| Galactic Empire: | Bavinyar Avengers: |
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| Commanders: | Commanders: |
| Strength: | Strength: |
| Nearly 30 capital ships: | |
| Casualties: | Casualties: |
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The Blockade of Bavinyar was a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Bavinyar Avengers.[1]
Prelude
After frustrations at the Battle of Zhar and Battle of Farstine, Octavian Grant became determined to force a confrontation with the Bavinyar Avengers on his own terms. To do this, he intended to blockade and bombard Bavinyar until Jereveth Syne surrendered.[1]
The Battle
Grant attacked at a rate of one settlement per half hour, starting with Waylar, which had over 100,000 residents, then focusing on smaller islands with populations around 10,000.[1]
Meanwhile, the Bavinyar Avengers devised a plan to break the blockade and evacuate Bavinyar's people. Clan Skirata, who had friends on the Valediction and a virus that could disable the other clones on board, hoped to hijack the Victory II-class Star Destroyer, which Syne believed they could then use to destroy one of the Immobilizer-class Cruisers. Clan Skirata was joined by several Mandalorians and clone deserters wanting to acquire their cure for accelerated aging, include newly-crowned Mand'alor Spar, Rav Bralor, Parja Bralor, Wad'e Tay'haai, Sull, Levet, and Yayax Squad.[1]
After 7 hours of bombardments, the Valediction arrived, and the Concord Night, hidden by a cloaking device, was waiting for it. Soru blinded the comms and sensors of the Valediction by feeding it a loop of white noise, and Delta Squad met Clan Skirata and A'Sharad Hett at an airlock. There, they split into two groups.[1]
Hett went with Walon Vau, Mirdalan, Boss, Scorch, Rav Bralor, Parja Bralor, Spar, and Yayax Squad, escorting Ovolot Qail Uthan to the ship's climate control center to infect it with Rhinacyria, which the boarders were immune to and Delta Squad had been vaccinated for. Once they arrived, they were attacked by Clone Troopers, but they remained in the climate control center to ensure that the Imperials did not remove and reseal the canisters of Rhinacyria. There they defeated their attackers with help from Soru, the rest of the Sixer Squad, and Joc. After the area was secured, Bralor, Dr. Uthan, and Yayax Squad remained behind to guard it, while Vau, Spar, Hett, Syne's commandos, Boss, and Scorch went to storm the bridge.[1]
Gilad Pellaeon had been sleeping with Hallena Devis in her cell at the time, but he was alerted by Mynar Vernedet, who also sent Rede to help Pellaeon. Pellaeon took Devis with him as he and Rede went for the bridge, while he order the remaining Clone Troopers to secure the cell block and evacuate Niner Skirata.[1]
Kal Skirata, Bardan Jusik, Wad'e Tay'haai, Levet, Fixer, Fi, Corr, Ordo, Jaing, and Mereel made their way to the cell blocks to rescue Niner. After doing so, they split up again, sending Kal, Bardan, Wad'e, and the Nulls to rescue So Plett from Ameesa Darys and take revenge on her for killing Atin. After killing four clones, they were able to find Plett in an interrogation room, but they were ambushed by Ameesa Darys, who quickly beheaded Wad'e Tay'haai. After a battle that injured several of them, Kal was able to shoot her in the back of the head.[1]
With the clones sick, Vau and Hett's group were able to storm the bridge with little difficulty, but Pellaeon, Vernedet, Devis, and Rede were nowhere to be found. Vau ordered Fixer's group to head for the engine rooms to protect them from potential sabotage by Pellaeon. Boss, Scorch, Joc, and Hett also went to track down Pellaeon, who had rendezvoused with Vernedet and stuffed Hallena into an escape pod with Rede. Rede was ordered to eject if the other Imperials could succeed in causing a self-destruct.[1]
Once the Valediction's bridge was secure, they sent a message to Jereveth Syne, who brought the Iconoclast into the system and offered her surrender to Octavian Grant, who sent two destroyers to intercept her, with one Interdictor trailing behind. Grant suspected that Syne was planning a last ditch suicide run to kill him as vengeance for her father.[1]
Pellaeon, Vernedet, and the remaining loyal clones reached the reactor core shortly before Hett and Clan Skirata, who quickly dispatched them. Vernedet ordered two clones to drag Pellaeon to an escape pod, then attempted to carry a grenade into the reactor before he was cut down by Hett. Devis and Pellaeon met once more at the pods, where he apologized, and he allowed her to remain aboard the ship while he jettisoned himself. Before Rede could enter the pod, he was shot and killed by Scorch, Joc, and Boss.[1]
The Valediction destroyed the Immobilizer-class Cruiser Delayer, and moments, later, the Iconoclast, using slave circuits to operate without a crew, made a break to destroy the Grappler by ramming into it. Her shields barely withheld against fire from the two Venator-class Star Destroyers she was surrounded by, but the damaged ship was able to limp its way to the Grappler and destroy it in the collision.[1]
With both interdictors destroyed, the Chu'unthor arrived in the system along with the ships of the Bavinyar Avengers and the Sons and Daughters of Freedom. Chu'unthor split apart into three detached sections, each going to a different spot to pick up evacuate civilians. Kina Ha used a battle meld to help the Jedi coordinate their efforts of evacuating all of the civilians. Grant attempted to use his fighters to attack the escaping ships, but many were picked off by starfighters from Syne's forces and the Jedi. Valediction was nearly destroyed by another Victory II-class Star Destroyer, but the attacking Vicstar was destroyed when a crippled picket ship rammed into its aft.[1]
Once the Chu'unthor and other civilian vessels escaped into hyperspace, Valediction, Fat Bastard, and the other rebel capital ships quickly fled as well, ending the battle. Grant decided that their was little purpose in bombarding the civilians who were left behind, and he withdrew his forces to Farstine.[1]
Aftermath
For their failures, Roly Melusar was instructed by Octavian Grant to commit suicide, and he agreed, falling on most of the blame for the commandos' betrayal. Gilad Pellaeon was effectively exiled, given a menial post at Filve. Clan Skirata chose to part ways with the Bavinyar Avengers after handing over the Valediction, insisting that it was not their fight to continue, and advising everyone to scatter and hide from the Empire.[1]
The Chu'unthor took its displaced people to an unsettled, backwater world, where they would be hidden from the Empire.[1]