204th Imperial Fighter Wing

The 204th Imperial Fighter Wing, also known as Shadow Wing, was a fighter wing in the Galactic Empire's navy. It was formed at least twenty years before the hunt for Shadow Wing and was one of the Empire's earliest volunteer wings. Eventually, it became one of the Empire's best fighter wings. Its primary focus was putting down rebel insurgency like the Rebel Alliance. Shadow Wing earned its name after the Orinda Massacre and carried out bombardments on Mennar-Daye and Mek'tradi. After the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY, Squadron Five of Shadow Wing fought a new independent faction led by the Imperial Admiral Gratloe and escaped with Gratloe's Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the Celerity.

After the death of the Galactic Emperor, Shadow Wing assisted in Operation: Cinder, where it carried out a massacre on Nacronis, prompting the defection of one of its officers, Yrica Quell, to the Empire's enemy, the New Republic, the new form of the Rebel Alliance. Shadow Wing eventually took control of Pandem Nai and its tibanna gas mining station Orbital One.

In order to maintain the secrecy of their new base of operations, the fighter wing's forces destroyed multiple communications stations around the sector. Two TIE/ln space superiority starfighter squadrons of the 204th, aboard the Quasar Fire-class cruiser carriers Aerie, attacked the Republic's EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate Hellion's Dare above Jiruus and later in the Oridol Cluster, where they were able to destroy it. However, they were attacked at Pandem Nai by the Republic's Alphabet Squadron, which led to the destruction of Orbital One and the death of Shadow Wing's leader, Colonel Shakara Nuress.

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