Battle
Battle of Sluis Van
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The Battle of Sluis Van, also known as the Battle at Sluis Van Shipyards, was the first major military conflict of the Thrawn campaign, orchestrated by Grand Admiral Thrawn to steal a flotilla of New Republic ships.
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Facts
- Prev
- Rescue on Myrkr
- Next
- Taanab operation
- Conflict
- Galactic Civil War (Thrawn campaign)
- Date
- 9 ABY (44:5:17)
- Place
- Sluis Van Shipyards
- Result
- Pyrrhic New Republic victory
- Side 1
- New Republic
- Side 2
- Thrawn's confederation
- Commanders (side 1)
- General Han Solo
- General Lando Calrissian
- Wing Commander Wedge Antilles
- Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker
- Commanders (side 2)
- Grand Admiral Thrawn
- Captain Gilad Pellaeon
- "Cloak Leader"
- Forces1
- Around 65 warships converted to carry cargo with skeleton crews
- Around 67 escorting warships
- Defensive space stations
- Sluissi planetary defense forces
- A/SF-01 B-wing starfighters
- At least 1 Imperial II-class Star Destroyer
- Freedom
- At least 1 Mon Calamari Star Cruiser
- At least 1 Assault Frigate
- At least 2 EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigates
- Larkhess
- At least 4 CR90 corvettes
- At least 3 GR-75 medium transports
- 1 YT-1300 light freighter
- Millennium Falcon
- T-65 X-wing starfighters
- Rogue Squadron
- 1 Jedi Knight
- Luke Skywalker
- Forces2
- 1 A-class bulk freighter
- Nartissteu, within it:
- 51 mole miners
- About 40 TIE/LN starfighters
- 1 Imperial II-class Star Destroyer
- Chimaera
- 4 Imperial I-class Star Destroyers
- Death's Head
- Inexorable
- Nemesis
- Stormhawk
- 12 Strike-class medium cruisers
- 22 Carrack-class light cruisers
- Many Spacetroopers
- Many Stormtroopers
- Casual1
- Around 43 crippled capital ships
- Casual2
- All mole miners and crews
- Some TIEs
- Some Spacetroopers
Appearances
6 works, in story order
- Heir to the Empire (first appearance)
- Heir to the Empire 6
- Dark Force Rising
- X-Wing: Isard's Revenge (mentioned only)
- Jedi Search (mentioned only)
- The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream (mentioned only)
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