Prisoner Transport Attacked

Date: 061107
Planet: Corellia and Dathomir System

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

An Imperial prisoner transport was attacked two days ago in the Corellia system by strong rebel forces. According to eye witnesses, rebel starfighters jumped a convoy gathered at the talus orbital station. Despite the escorting TIE fighters decimating the attackers, the transport was disabled by fast rebel strike craft carrying anti-capital ship ordnance. However, the following attempts by rebel transports to board the craft failed when the rebels were repulsed and the prisoner – thought to be a high ranking rebel officer – was transferred to a Decimator-class patrol ship under fire, which managed to jump out of the system.

A last ditch effort in the Dathomir system by another rebel task force was foiled when the main part of the escorting interceptors engaged the rebels while the transport and a smaller group of escorts took a different route, reaching the planet unopposed.

It is assumed that the Empire will gain crucial information about the rebel forces in the sector from the interrogation of the prisoner, whose identity is not yet known, but who was supposedly captured following the battle in the Corellia system over a week ago.