What am I forgetting, what would you do?

Next time, our crew will be liberating a town overrun with Imperials. They've contacted the Rebellion for backup, and they are on the way. A hyperspace mishap (Hyperspace mine or Interdictor cruiser) causes only 1 ship (Corellian corvette) to make it through, massive damage where the PCs need to rescue as many as possible before the ship explodes). The amount they rescue (which will be a very small number) will be the group that aids in the liberation.

The townspeople are willing to help in whatever way they can.

They are up against 3 fully crewed Artiquens cruisers, ground forces and AT-RT support mechs, a competent officer,and an overly powerful Inquisitor.

Now the GM stuff. So far I've pulled and am reviewing the Squad/Squadron rules (AoR GM kit), Mass Combat rules (various), and have pulled Minions and Rivals from the Adversary Decks for the PCs to draw upon.

What is the goal? Total destruction of the Imperials? Sending them packing, injured, but destined to return?

It sounds like the rebels (small "r") are vastly outgunned, but the Imperials seems always to ignore local conditions. Flora, fauna, and geography traps are within the local's power to leverage against superior firepower.

Why are the Imperials occupying a town instead of the entire planet?

And isn't that a bit of overkill on the Imperial side? Why is an Inquisitor killing time in some town? Either you're vastly misrepresenting the situation, or 12 Stormtroopers, and 2 TIE fighters would already be more than required.

2 hours ago, micheldebruyn said:

Why are the Imperials occupying a town instead of the entire planet?

And isn't that a bit of overkill on the Imperial side? Why is an Inquisitor killing time in some town? Either you're vastly misrepresenting the situation, or 12 Stormtroopers, and 2 TIE fighters would already be more than required.

Yeah, a little more detail.

So it started off as a "Seven Samurai" scenario vs. pirates for the non-Force Sensitive players while the FS one was training with a master, building her lightsaber nearby.

Before the pirates were defeated, they found out about the bounty on the PCs (high level xp), and contacted the Empire in open of a quick score.

The pirates have been defeated, run off, but now the Empire has shown up, claiming the planet, as it had been under their radar till now, so they can protect them from pirates and any rebels that may be around. The Inquisitor has come to deal with the Jedi Master-in-Hiding, and his new Padawan. .