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thrawn's Siege of corusant in 9ab was
one of the most crucial battles of the
Thon campaign and featured many of the
advanced tactics and Maneuvers that
thraw was famous for including the
legendary thron pencer Grand Admiral
Thon began his attack on the planet by
deploying 10 interdictor class Cruisers
and eight Katana Fleet dreadnots near
corusant these ships were followed at a
short distance by six Imperial class
Star Destroyers who quickly became
engaged in combat with coron's defense
Fleet and a pair of goand 3 planetary
defense platforms having naturally
predicted this obstacle it was then that
thraw ordered the maneuver that would
become known as the thraw pencer
activating the gravity well generators
of his interdictors Thon created
artificial gravity Wells adjacent to the
Hostile defense platforms now able to
decelerate to a highly accurate point
two Victory class Star Destroyers which
thraw had kept out of range engaged
Precision hyperspace jumps targeted at
the new Gravity Wells dropping out at
close range on the platform's flanks and
crippling them hoping to draw thron's
forces into the range of their
surface-based ion cannons the new
Republic abandoned their failing defense
platforms and retreated deeper into
corusant orbit at this point Thon
executed another typically unorthodox
strategy the Admiral ordered the Star
Destroyer death's head to deploy its
cargo of 22 asteroids previously
harvested from the bill Bry system and
fitted with stealth composits to hide
them from hostile sensors alongside this
deployment thraw also ordered
265 false launches thanks to the stealth
composits these false launches were
indistinguishable from the genuine ones
leaving the new Republic with a cloaked
asteroid cloud of indeterminable size in
low corusant orbit it wasn't long before
the asteroids claimed their first victim
crippling the nebulon B escort frigate
Evan Ru after deploying the asteroid
Cloud Thon and his forces withdrew from
the system leaving the new Republic with
a catastrophic situation to deal with
not knowing the size location or number
of asteroids the new Republic was forced
to order that the planetary defense
shield around corusant be run nonstop so
as to protect the cityscape from Poss
ible asteroid impacts in addition to
this all orbital Space Traffic had to be
relocated to a much higher orbit to
avoid potential collisions once again
Thon had brilliantly outwitted the new
Republic with his attack on corusant and
the deployment of his ingenious asteroid
trap he had forced his adversaries to
completely alter their objectives
focusing entirely on the research or
acquisition of advanced sensor
Technologies such as Crystal grab field
traps in an attempt to detect the
Phantom asteroids that posed a constant
threat to their Capital when the new
Republic finally acquired the necessary
sensor technology they discovered that
they had in fact destroyed all of the
threatening asteroids simply by firing
blindly across the region weeks ago but
with no means of detection they had no
idea they were no longer in danger and
had remained totally focused for months
on a problem they had unknowingly solved
already though the deployment of the
stealth asteroids was certainly the most
important event of the battle was
thrawn's earlier tactic used against the
Goen defense platforms that would earn
Renown among military strategists named
the thron pincer by Grand Admiral abbar
shortly after the thraw campaign the
tactic found use by the new Republic in
the Battle of katri and the Second
Battle of Bill Bry both times to great
effect there is perhaps no greater
tribute to the Brilliance of thron than
that even years after his death his
adversaries were employing the tactics
with which he had defeated them to
achieve victory ictory over their own
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