Battle
Battle in the Ilum system
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During the Galactic Civil War, a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Black Sun pirates in the Ilum system in an effort to discover the identity of an Imperial traitor who attempted to jeopardize the Empire's operations on Thyferra. After the location of the pirates was confirmed by a probe droid, the Empire hired the bounty hunter Boba Fett to scout out the pirate base and destroy their early warning systems. Fett succeeded in the task and an Imperial task force was brought in to attack the pirate asteroid base to root out the leader, who attempted to escape aboard an Interceptor-class frigate. Eventually, however, the pirate ship was neutralized and boarded, and the leader was taken away to be interrogated.
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Facts
- Prev
- Invasion of Fondor
- Next
- Subjugation of Geonosis
- Conflict
- Galactic Civil War
- Date
- c. 2 BBY
- Place
- Above Ilum
- Result
- Black Sun pirate leader captured and interrogated
- Pirate forces above Ilum eradicated
- Side 1
- Galactic Empire
- Side 2
- Black Sun
- Commanders (side 1)
- Darth Vader
- Commanders (side 2)
- Pirate leader
- Forces1
- 1 Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft
- Slave I
- TIE/LN starfighters
- TIE/sa bombers
- 1 TIE Advanced x1
- 5 Tartan-class patrol cruisers
- 3 Acclamator-class assault ships
- 1 Viper probe droid
- Forces2
- Rihkxyrk Assault Fighters
- 1 Interceptor-class frigate
- 1 Asteroid base
- Casual1
- Light
- Casual2
- All forces
Appearances
1 work, in story order
- Star Wars: Empire at War (first appearance)
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