Unfortunately for them, the Katana 's first salvo was also its last, as the turbolaser capacitor was destroyed by a system overload. The team aboard the Katana managed to restore power to the ship's turbolaser batteries, destroying five of the dropships with their opening salvo along with a few TIE fighters while damaging most of the other dropships. A dozen dropships were also dispatched from the Judicator to board the Katana. The situation was further disrupted by the arrival of the Star Destroyer Judicator, whose TIE fighter squadrons moved to attack Rogue Squadron. However, their efforts were stalled by the arrival of Borsk Fey'lya onboard the Nebulon-B Escort Frigate Quenfis, who immediately demanded that Han and the others turn themselves over to them. The Dreadnaught they chose, based on Luke's Force-attuned hunch, turned out to be the Katana herself, the flagship and source for the fleet's fully-rigged slave circuitry rigging. Unfortunately, Thrawn was undaunted by the loss of Karrde, and took Chimaera to Pantolomin, assaulting the luxury casino Coral Vanda in an attempt to kidnap another person who knew the location of the fleet: Captain Hoffner, whom Karrde had once crewed for.Īrriving at the location of the fleet with Rogue Squadron and a small team of technicians, Luke, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian boarded one of the Dreadnaughts and attempted to begin the work of bringing the fleet back to New Republic space. Extremely grateful, Karrde agreed to provide the New Republic with the Dreadnaught fleet's location, insisting that a salvage operation begin as soon as possible. Before Thrawn could get the location of the fleet from him, however, Mara and Luke Skywalker infiltrated the Grand Admiral's flagship, the Imperial Star Destroyer Chimaera and rescued him. Unfortunately, Thrawn tracked Mara back to Karrde's new base and captured him. Having an opportunity to meet with Grand Admiral Thrawn, Mara Jade agreed to get the location of the Katana fleet from Karrde in exchange for having the death warrants put on him and his employees cancelled. Among those few was smuggler kingpin and information broker Talon Karrde, who had been brought into the conflict despite his best attempts to remain neutral. Known to only a few, revealing the location of the Katana fleet, a formation of two hundred pre- Clone Wars Dreadnaughts, to either side would dramatically tip the balance of power for this period of the Galactic Civil War. Following the disastrous attempt by Imperial forces to secure New Republic ships from the Sluis Van shipyards, the need became still more critical, with over forty New Republic warships disabled following that conflict.
With both the forces of the Empire and the New Republic depleted before and during the Thrawn campaigns, the need to secure new warships soon became apparent to both sides.
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