After the battle of Hoth, the Rebel Alliance was once again defeated and
once again was on the run, with Vader following closely in hot pursuit,
but this wouldn’t last long. Welcome to the Wizards and Warriors channel,
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Following the action on Hoth and the chaotic retreat in its aftermath, most of the established
rendezvous assignments made by the Rebels were not being executed, as the command structure broke
down when Base Command was destroyed during the Battle. This left the last of the Rebels to fend
for themselves until they could reach safety and reestablish contact with the Alliance. The Crew of
the Millenium Falcon was not as lucky as most, as they were the most infamous of the Rebels within
the Empire and a constant thorn to many Imperial plans, so they, of course, were hotly pursued.
Despite having a damaged hyperdrive they were able to escape from this
force with the use of an Asteroid field and Han Solo’s clever use of Imperial procedure.
Having gotten the Imperials off his tail Solo then headed to Bespin home to Cloud
City which was governed by an old friend of his. As this was transpiring, the soldiers of the 61st
Mobile Infantry, also known as the Twilight Company, were facing problems of their own.
After leaving Hoth with their iconic commander dying in the fight, Twilight Company and their
ship Thunderstrike regrouped with the flotilla and decided to aid one of its allied ships,
the Trumpet’s Call, as its life support systems had failed. But this turned out to be a ruse as
the crew was already dead and in their place were Imperial Spies, who flooded onto the
Thunderstike’s bridge killing all of their officers. Luckily, one of them, Lieutenant
Sairgon, was able to message the flotilla about what had happened and they, with the exception
of Apailana’s Promise, scattered. They were able to regain control of the vessel again
and jumped to hyperspace just as Imperial Prelate Verge arrived aboard the Star Destroyer Herald.
Having narrowly dodged this trap they rendezvoused on Ankhural for repairs where many Rebels were
considering quitting the Rebellion altogether. This shows the demoralized state in which the
Alliance was, as even their veteran and most loyal Company was considering abandoning the cause they
had fought so hard for and for so long. But they came together nonetheless under the command of
acting Captain Hazram Namir, who knew that in order for Twilight Company to remain intact they
needed a distraction. To this end, he conducted a meeting with the imperial defector Everi Chalis,
who urged him to go with the target she had urged Rebel Command to attack at the Kuat Drive yards.
These shipyards were within the Core region and produced a massive amount
of the ships used by the Empire as well as many of their vehicles,
so a successful attack on such an objective would cripple the Imperial war effort as more
ships were needed to deal with the unrest generated by the Rebellion.
Kuat Drives however was protected, making a direct assault impossible with a 400-man force
and two ships, but it still was not impossible to take as most of the Imperial Fleets were in
the Mid and Outer Rims hunting the Rebels with the Core Worlds only having Garrisoning forces.
So the plan was to attack a series of targets, around but not near Kuat as to avoid suspicion and
get the defending force out of Kuta and afterward attack Kuat. The rebels dubbed it Operation
Ringbreaker and started waiting for their ships to finish repair to begin the operation.
Meanwhile Han Solo had managed to get to Bespin safely, meeting with his friend, the Administrator
of Cloud City Lando Calrissian, who accommodated them. But it was a trap. Solo had escaped from the
Imperials, but didn’t realize that he was being tailed by none other than the bounty hunter Boba
Fett who informed Vader of Solo’s most likely location and arrived there with Vader forcing
Calrissian to agree to help them trap Soloor face the wrath of the Empire. Knowing a threat
from Vader was never idle Calrissian agreed and the crew of the Millennium Falcon was captured.
After interrogating and torturing Solo, Vader had him frozen in carbonite to test the trap he
had intended for Skywalker and then handed Solo over to Fett as the Hutt Clan still had a bounty
on him. The rest of the crew, including Chewbacca and Leia, was kept on Bespin to await the arrival
of Skywalker, and he didn’t have to wait long. After Skywalker had arrived and began battling
the Sith, Calrissian had found his opportunity to switch sides and free the remaining prisoners
and then joined them, after issuing a general evacuation order for the Cloud City. They made the
way for the Falcon having barely missed rescuing Solo and not knowing that Skywalker had arrived.
After some fierce fighting with the Imperials, they were able to board the Falcon. Its hyperdrive
was now reactivated and they quickly left picking up the wounded Skywalker, who had been defeated
by Vader. During the battle, Vader severed Luke’s hand and told him that he was his son.
As all of this was transpiring, the 61st had gone on the offensive attacking targets along the Rimma
Trade route such as the Warehouses on Mardona III, the Obumubo moon, the Najan-Rovi Dockyards,
Nakadia, Naator, Xagobah, and the Kuliquo belt, succeeding in all of these missions
with minimal loses and dodging all of the Imperials attempts to catch them.
With these targets successfully destroyed they would proceed
to Sullust and the Malastare and after that, Chalis promised, Kuat would fall.
But the Imperials wouldn’t allow that to happen and they were now commanded by a member of Emperor
Palpatine's ruling council Prelate Verge, who had been tracking Twilight Company since
they had recruited Chalis to their cause, knowing that she possessed substantial information.
To this end, he convened with Captain Seitaron to determine their next move. They quickly realized
that Twilight Company was here and that Chalis was certainly among them as their successful
attacks were all against the crucial Imperial infrastructure of the region. Seitaron had
guessed a handful of their next targets, including Sullust, Malastare, and Tshindral, and prepared
each for an impending attack. Soon the 97th Legion stationed on Sullust alerted the star destroyer
Herald that it was being attacked and Seitaron quickly dispatched Vixus Squadron to Sullust.
As this message was going out, Thunderstrike and Apailana’s Promise had just exited hyperspace
over Sullust and the 61st was rapidly deployed on the planet giving no time for the Imperials
to concentrate and respond effectively. Their objective was the mining facility on Mount Inyusu
Tor. Having deployed their troops, Thunderstrike and its escorts left Sullust a safe distance away
and let the ground troops commence their assault. The Imperials were quickly pushed back, retreating
into the facility and locking it down. They called on reinforcements from the nearby capital city of
Pinyumb, but these were scattered before they could regroup with the facility’s garrison.
Not being able to break through the facility doors the rebels hijacked the mining equipment outside
and burrowed their way into the mines below. With their defenses broken, the Imperials inside were
either killed or fled to the forces assembling down the mountain slope and the Rebels spent
the night rigging the facility, in order to blow it up once they left come morning.
With their mission successful, they recalled their ships to pick them up, but after beating off a few
tie-fighters and entering the atmosphere, the spaceship squadron of the 61st realized this
is exactly where the Imperials wanted them, as Seitron’s plan sprung into action. The Vixus
Squadron emerged from behind Sullust’s moon and attacked the Thunderstrike with overwhelming fire,
causing it to crash on the surface. With the rest of the ships retreating on Namir’s orders,
the 61st was stranded on Sullust and at the mercy of the soon-to-be-arriving Prelate Verge.
They first went to the wreck site and rescued and scavenged what they could all the while
fighting the 97th Legion which had regrouped and continually harassed them in conjunction with the
Vixus squadron. Still, the rescue was nevertheless successful, and the rebels managed to retreat to
the facility. Chalis proposed that they should look to the city of Pinyumb and look for help,
as there was a local resistance cell there. Deciding that it is the best course of action,
Namir, Chalis, and Twitch’s squad left for the city aboard a captured troop transport,
leaving engineer Vifra with an order to fortify the facility.
Once they got to the outskirts, they ditched the transport and disguised themselves. They
found the city on lockdown due to their recent attack but continued on, managing to evade the
light patrols and looking for an old safehouse which was supposed to be there according to the
files of their old captain, Evon, all the while keeping an eye out for the Sullustan resistance.
Not long after getting to the safehouse, they were beset upon by Stormtroopers and
during the skirmish, Namir was captured. However, his captivity was brief as he was
soon saved by the Sullustan resistance and they took him to their base where he found out that
the resistance would be of no use in helping them as it consisted of only four people.
But these fighters were now emboldened to fight for their planet as Twilight company’s arrival was
a spark of hope for them. Namir proposed a plan to unite with the other cells and take Pinyumb,
deciding that it was better to die fighting for the people of Sullust than continue the
campaign and harass the Empire. The cell then assisted him in his return to the facility.
Back there, he was told that Chalis and one of the scouts had made it back and in his absence,
she took over. Namir immediately started regaining command and making plans, however,
Chalis ignored him and showed insubordination, for which she was immobilized by the soldiers,
allowing Namir to regain control. The rest of the officers agreed to make their last stand
on Inyusu Tor. They knew that the Empire will arrive and so they made preparations.
Arriving above the planet, Verge dispatched his forces to take the facility via ground assault.
But, the Twilight Company expected this and decided to use the fact the Empire wanted the
facility intact. The Imperial forces consisted of the 97th Legion which had already established a
siege line as best they could around the facility, a large but unspecified number of spaceships and
stormtroopers sent to the surface by the Herald as well as several Airspeeder bombers and AT-ST
walkers. The Rebels meanwhile had only around 370 or so men, but they were nearly all veterans
and were prepared to make the Imperials pay for every inch of ground they crawled up the mountain.
The assault began with a general bombardment of the area up around the facility and then
the imperials advanced up the slop. Soon they came into contact with the first rebel line
situated behind rocks and various sorts of cover which sprang out with each shot finding a mark,
stunning the advance. The bombing had done little to no damage to any of the Rebels.
Despite the heavy losses, the imperials continued advancing slowly getting closer,
but as they did that, the Rebels began to fall back. Once the Imperial advance reached the
first line abandoned by the rebels, Namir’s soldiers detonated the leftover ion mines,
killing all nearby stormtroopers and downing an AT-ST. This caused massive casualties and allowed
the Rebels to fully retreat to the second line. This line was much more heavily fortified with
blaster cannons and mortars dotting all along the newly dug trench line. The stormtroopers
were ordered to attack and they started crossing the gorge under a hail of fire, losing many.
When they were 50 meters from the trench, they let their AT-STs overtake the advance line and storm
the trenches. The walkers were able to breach the line losing only one in the advance and began
wreaking havoc among the rebels and pinning them down. Namir knew that he'd have to destroy the
walkers or lose his entire unit, so he ordered the squads to fall back to the perimeter of the
facility and commenced a general bombardment of the second line. This worked, destroying nearly
all of the Imperial walkers, but also cost the lives of several rebels who could not escape.
Namir now gathered his men on the perimeter line and moved the wounded inside the facility,
as the Imperials regrouped. It was becoming clear that taking the facility fully intact
will be impossible, so the Herald entered the atmosphere and began blasting the
outer defense line of the rebels, killing many. However suddenly, the Herald stopped:
the Apailana’s Promise has returned along with its two X-wing escorts and began harassing the ship.
It by no means could take out a Star Destroyer, but the Braha'tok gunship could not be ignored,
so the Herald turned its attention to the rebel vessel, giving the rebels on the ground some
reprieve. This boosted the morale of the defenders and left the imperials on the ground to fend for
themselves. The Imperials resumed their advance up the slope, but were suddenly counter-attacked
by the 61st and the rebels temporarily halted the stormtroopers, forcing them to fall back.
Soon, the emperor’s henchmen received the order to push again and restarted their advance.
This counter-attack, however, was a delaying tactic by Namir and as soon as the enemy attacked,
he ordered his soldiers to fall back. As soon as the rebels were back to the perimeter, he ordered
Vifra to initiate her plan, and the lava channels that her team had spent days rechanneling,
burst onto the mountain side sending the Imperials into disarray and dividing them in two.
Those it failed to kill fled down the mountain, while others were forced to
run towards the facility where brutal close quarters fighting broke out.
The Imperial group left advancing on the facility was still substantial and
so all of the Twilight Company ran into the fray knowing this to be the pivotal moment.
Casualties were mounting rapidly for both sides as the Rebels tried pushing the enemy down the slope,
while the Imperials with nowhere to go advanced with determination. Gradually the Rebels were
forced back into the facility and eventually had to fight in the halls of the compound itself.
Now, we have to go back for a moment. While the battle for the second line had been going on,
Chalis had escaped custody and took a speeder to Pinyumb. Here she stole a shuttle loaded with ion
bombs, and tricked the Herald into locking on to the ship and allowing her to dock. Thus she
brought the bombs on board. She was by Prelate Verge and Seitaron and ignoring pleasantries,
used the detonator in her hand to set off the bomb, crippling the ship's systems and causing
it to descend. Verge ordered the crew to continue the battle and began fighting Chalis to bring her
to heel, but was stopped when he was shot in the back by Seitaron, who knew that it was time to
get rid of Verges’ obsession and save the ship. This allowed Chalis to escape. Without its weapons
working, the Herald was not going to win even against a small gunship, so Seitaron gave his
command to leave the system immediately. To the imperial forces on the ground,
this escape looked like a betrayal and they started losing heart in their battle.
Soon, the rebels turned the tide and finished off the doomed Imperials, winning the battle.
The Twilight squadron had suffered heavily from their stand at Inyusu Tor, with roughly 120
being killed and 100 more being wounded, but the Imperials had it far worse with all of the ground
troops stranded on Sullust killed or captured. The resistance was able to group up with other
forces and take Pinyumb during the Battle causing a series of revolts to break out all over the
planet eventually culminating in the planet's liberation within a few weeks. Twilight Company
acted as a temporary police force for Sullust until the Rebel Alliance reestablished contact
with them taking over the protection of the planet and allowing the 61st to depart. While the overall
goal of Operation Ringbreaker failed, the Siege of Inyusu Tor would be a rallying cry to the people
of the Galaxy showing that the Rebels were not spent and morale among the previously demoralized
troops was high again. The Rebel Alliance prepared Sullust for further operations, as the next one
would come very soon. Indeed, our next video in this series will be on the Battle of Endor, but we
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