After receiving orders from high command to pursue and destroy the rebel scum, task force forty-seven intercepted the rebels near Yaga Minor. Task force consisted of VSD: Warlord VSD: Dominator and a third VSD who's transponder was malfunctioning, so I could not Identify it nor it's commanding officer. (Reminder to report said officer to high command for improper ship maintenance). GSD: Demolisher GSD:123 and GSD 034. Plus combined fighter support forces in total: ten Interceptor squadrons Including Colonel Soontir Fel, five Tie squadrons, six if you count "call-sign Howlrunner", three Advanced Tie squads Including Lord Vader himself. Major Rhymer, with four other Bomb squadrons in support.
Once the task force hypered into the system Comscan detected one particular rebel ship to be transmitting encrypted rebel command codes. The ship was one of the rebels Assault class frigates. Governor Tarkin who arrived just before the task force jumped to chase the rebels assumed command and ordered that the task force attempt to destroy that particular ship. Rebel forces consisted of two assault frigates, the one mentioned earlier serving as the command ship of the enemy fleet. five nebulon-b frigates, and two corellian corvettes. Plus the rebels also had fielded several fighter forces in the following formations: eleven X-wing squadrons, two Y-wing sqauds, four B-wing sqauds, and three A-wing sqauds. Several known rebel pilots were identified during the course of the battle. Those pilots were: Wedge Antilles, Dutch Vander, Tyco Celichu and Luke Skywalker. (Recommend high command expand the Imperial garrison on Corellia, since it seems this is the second "Antilles" to come across Imperial database's as a rebel, or sympathizer).
The battle ran into difficulties almost immediately, half of our fleet arrived in system on the far right flank of the battle this portion was GSD: 123, GSD: 034 and VSD: "Unidentified" While the entirety of the rebel fleet arrived concentrated together. GSD: Demolisher moved up on Governor Tarkin's orders and began to engage rebel ships, as did the Warlord. Dominator was moving up but at a slower speed to act as a reserve to not allow any rebel ships to escape, should they get past our main force. Comscan at that time informed me that Lord Vader was making short work of the enemy fighter forces near him and colonel Fel, but our fighter groups engaged with rebel fighters near their command ship were taking heavy losses. It was as this time the battle turned for the worse, up to this point we were delivering punishing damage to rebel ships even managing to destroy one of their nebulon-b's. Plus seriously damaging their none command assault frigate, but under continuous concentrated fire from rebel ships GSD Demolisher was lost with all hands. It wasn't too long after that our command ship the Dominator was also lost to punishing rebel concentrated fighter/bomber and ship fire.
At this point Governor Tarkin ordered the fleet to withdraw Warlord continued to hold the enemy forces at bay long enough to recover all our remaining fighters before making the jump to hyperspace. I shall be prepping a shuttle and report to Lord Vader and apologize personally. (Note for my executive officer, Once you are settled in the captain's quarters, I have left a list of those officers and crew to receive disciplinary actions for their failures in today's action).
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