Skirmish on Alderaan (Galactic Civil War)

The Skirmish on Alderaan was a short battle between the Galactic Empire and the early Alliance to restore the Republic. The result of this battle was a greater Imperial presence on Alderaan and the Rebels fleeing to their base on Balmorra.

Establishment of Rebel base:

The Rebel Alliance had quietly smuggled four Geonosians as well as several dozen guerrilla fighters and as many as eight lightly armed combat speeders into one of the deepest forests Alderaan had to offer. Here they set up an outpost and trained for several weeks until the guerrilla fighters had become expert snipers and soldiers, and soon after, they were detected by the Empire, who sent a fleet in system in order to destroy this splinter group of insurgents early on.

Beginning of the engagement

An unit of snipers and a full platoon of Storm Troopers were deployed, they destroyed two combat speeders using heavy weapons and fought several lightning fast battles with rebels throughout the treelines, Marksman against Marksman, until the Storm Troopers rushed the base in full force and massacred the defenders with minimal casualties, leaving only one of the Geonosian trainers, an individual named Gazzag, left alive, Gazzag fled the base and regrouped with three combat speeders and an infantry column who had been patrolling near a bridge.

Slaughter above the river

The largely intact Storm Trooper platoon fought with the insurgent forces on the bridge, while an imperial dropship deployed an Incinerator war droid that, aided by a squadron of Tie fighters, destroyed the three speeders leading the retreating forces. Gazzag used a heat seeking launcher to destroy a Tie Fighter before he himself was gunned down. The remaining infantry retreated into the woods, where they were slowly destroyed by the imperial infantry.

Outgunned and Overrun

"Pull out!-" -The captain of a Rebel munificent-class star frigate, his final words.

A yt-3000 light freighter landed in the area of the bridge and an unknown Jedi and several insurgents disembarked from it, and engaged Imperial forces. The Incinerator War Droid that was deployed earlier on crushed most of the men, with only the Jedi and a small squad remaining.

Knowing the Empire would discover their hidden fleet eventually, the commanding officers of the Rebel splinter group deployed one of their Munificent-class star frigates against the imperials, downing the Storm Troopers and the war droid. The star destroyer that had originally deployed the ground forces arrived on-site and destroyed the frigate, provoking the Alliance into sending their entire feet, made up of old Republic Corvettes, CIS Frigates, and Mark I Assault frigates, as well as Escort class vessels. All but three ships survived the battle, and the survivors allowed the Jedi's freighter and her occupants to board before jumping out of system.