Rebels escape imperial attack

Date: 071008
Planet: Lok
Region: Central Lok

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

Two days ago, an imperial strike force conducted an attack on a suspected rebel base on Lok. The ISD "Victory Assured" under Rear Admiral Marcus Rot, together with four Carrack-class cruisers and three Dreadnaught-class cruisers, was called in after the local garrison had detected a suspicious outpost.

After arriving in the Karthakk system, a dozen Sentinel-class transports and Theta-class transports dropped two companies of troops on Lok, east of the unidentified but heavily fortified base, and started moving towards their objective.

Automated defenses in a canyon did not manage to stop the advance for more than a short time, and soon the 200 imperial troopers were within range of the objective. The outpost confirmed its allegiance to the rebel alliance by opening fire on the storm troopers with turbolaser turrets supported by battle droids and droidekas as well as a number of armored soldiers sniping from covered positions.

Despite heavy losses, the storm troopers pressed on, supported by TIE Bombers, but their attack was stopped by the massive firepower and good defensinve tactics of the defenders for more than 10 minutes, until the defenders finally were pushed back and forced to retreat.

The surviving rebels evacuated their base in a stolen Lambda class shuttle and a YT-2400 freighter, covered by a Vaksai, a Dunelizard and an Incom-made X-wing as well as an older model Z-95.

When orbitting TIE fighters moved in to cut the fleeing rebels off the YT-2400 sacrificed itself on a suicide run towards the "Victory Assured", allowing the rest of the rebel forces to escape.

The identity of the rebel group that had been occupying the base has not yet been released by the imperial authorities.