Talus Space Station under attack

Date: 121107
Planet: Corellia System

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

About a week after rebel forces attacked a prisoner transport in the Corellia system, more fighting erupted in the system. According to first reports, Imperial forces consisting of Claw, Onyx, Crimson and RID squadrons swept through the system, searching and destroying rebel units in the vicinity of Talus before focussing their attention on two space stations.

At first, the CorSec station near Secure Route ID-5N was in the midst of the fighting, its crew observing the destruction of multple rebel fighters and one rebel Nova Courier. Soon afterwards, the Imperial task force set course for Talus, taking control of the orbital station after fending off a last-ditch rebel assault.

Fed-Dub declined to comment on the affair, citing regulations that prohibited commenting on cases under investigation. Independent strategy experts took note that by all accounts, rebel forces were greatly outnumbered during the battle, and took this as a sign that the Empire may have achieved a successful concentration of forces in the area after several unsuccessful attempts to overwhelm the opposition in the past. How long this advantage would last was in dispute, since in the past, the Imperial Navy usually re-allocated ressources after such a victory, leading to rebel units managing to rebuild their bases and fleet units in the sector. Short-term, mercenaries may be used to fill the gaps. Unscrupulous freighter captains might also find business opportunities in supplying the reeling rebels.