Senior Captain Thrawn's last stand

Senior Captain Thrawn's last stand, also known as the Sunrise confrontation, and the Sunrise battle, was a battle between a Chiss Ascendancy fleet led by the Chiss Senior Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo "Thrawn" and the Grysk operative "Jixtus"'s fleet. As Jixtus attempted to instigate a civil war in the Ascendancy after two previous attempts to destroy the nation, Thrawn realized that if the Grysk's fleet was not destroyed, its commander would be able to use it to destroy the Ascendancy. The senior captain and his colleagues formed a large fleet and brought it to the Sunrise system, where they deactivated it, making it seem as if it was dead.

Once Jixtus's fleet and the Kilji war cruiser Whetstone arrived at Sunrise, Jixtus's Grysk warships moved toward the Chiss; however, that separated the vessels and surrounded them with enemy ships that "revived" and attacked the Grysks shortly afterward. As the Grysk StoneCrusher-class WarMasters and Prism-class BattleChiefs were destroyed by Thrawn's forces, fifteen starships of the Garwian Unity and Vak Combine nations arrived and attacked the Grysk forces, destroying many of Jixtus's warships. The operative's flagship, the Shatter-class WarMaster, then tried to flee. As the FateSpinner could destroy the Whetstone before fleeing so that there were no non-Chiss witnesses to the Sunrise confrontation, the war cruiser's navigator, Pathfinder navigator Qilori of Uandualon, instructed the cruiser's crew—the Kilji vassals of the Kilji Illumine nation—to destroy the WarMaster before it could kill him.

The vassals then fired all of the vessel's weaponry at the Fatespinner, destroying the Grysk warship's starboard aft flank. The Kilji attack prompted Jixtus to activate the self-destruct mechanisms aboard his seven remaining vessels, destroying all of them but his flagship. After telling Thrawn that the Grysks would return, the Grysk destroyed the FateSpinner, killing himself.

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