Battle of Sacorria

Battle of Sacorria
Second Galactic Civil War
Date	Year 11 Day 350
Location	Sacorria
Result	New Republic victory
Belligerents
New Republic	CorSec Galactic Empire
Commanders and Leaders
Minister of State Taka Aioko
Strength
Originally 13 people
Casualties and Losses
	Sacorria lost

The Battle of Sacorria (also known as Operation Chiron by the New Republic) was the liberation of the planet Sacorria from CorSec and the Galactic Empire by New Republic forces. Sacorria (later Callos VII) was a planet located in the Corellian Sector, core area.

Preparations

During his time as Minister of State Taka Aioko noticed that the New Republic had tactical advantage in a few enemy planets, so he began researching the feasibility of their liberation, and then planning the operations. Time was a big factor due to the city decay crisis and inminent volatility of the solar systems reorganization.

During the planning process the operation received the key name of "Raid Core", and parallely other two operations were organized: "Raid UR" which would later be renamed to Operation Blackbeard, and "Raid OR-F4" which would later morph into Operation Argos.

Minister Aioko recruited 13 people for the assault, and those who accepted, including other AC members, didn't know anything other than general details. The enemy or the planet were never undisclosed and the day of the assault wasn't shared with the team until two days before the assault, same reason why many people refused to participate.

Regarding the secrecy, Taka said in an interview "I trusted most of the people I tried to recruit for the Operation, but when you trust someone with a secret, you can count on them to trust other people with it, and then it's only a matter of time before it reaches the wrong ear. The Empire always had agents between us, so I was even vague on my own notes during the preparation." Recruiting wasn't easy so Taka decided to include one SFC officer who was assigned to him but wasn't cleared for this operation in particular.

The main rendezvous point was Kashyyyk, where thousands of Wookies and Trandoshans were recruited to assist with the construction efforts. Two MTCs were used as motherships, Modular Taskforce Cruiser NRS Dues and the Modular Taskforce Cruiser NRS Prospero. The fleet also counted with nine A-Wings and several Bulk Freighters. When all assets were docked, both MTCs jumped to Corellian space.

Alpha team

Minister Ceveri

Director Solman

Beta team

Minister Aioko

Minister Gualdieri

Wing C. Cornforth

Master Saracco

Rekka Deott

Gamma team

Secretary Nejo

SC Griffiths

Group Captain Wan

President Ortesma

Delta team

Director Maximus

Diplomat Skyff

On year 11 day 347 Taka gave the last briefing:

"This next day 350 at approximately 8 hours we are going to be arriving to our target's orbits, one moon and the main target, a planet. I will talk to you all individually to clear out doubts, so don't worry. In this step coordination is going to be a key, we need Beta and Gamma teams to start building at the same time and finish as soon as possible, because every minute is going to count in our favor.

Beta team is going to attack our main target city at coordinates (4, 2) and Gamma team will be aiming for a hidden post at (2, 9). Alpha team will be creating a small diversion in a moon and Delta team will be leaving a decoy at the planet's atmosphere level.

I'm not going to lie to you guys, we are going to be fighting a strong and determined enemy who knows their territory like the palm of their hands, so I expect to find resistance and at some point it might get hairy. But if they don't react fast or they don't make the right decisions, we can liberate the planet. We have the advantage, we are prepared.

May the Force be with you all."

Day One

Sacor System

On early day 350 Alpha team moved to Sacor system from the north while the other teams entered from the south. Alpha team quickly moved to the moon Corri II and the rest headed to Sacorria planet.

As Taka always used to do in his operations, he was the first to set foot on the ground. He used to say "In order to inspire your men by your example, you have to be with them. And to address the situation correctly, you have to be on the field."

Within an hour most build commanders (Minister Taka Aioko, Minister Jay Ceveri, Commander Walter Griffiths, Secretary Franco Nejo, Wing Commander Evan, Master Colin Saracco) were in position and construction started. Master Saracco couldn't make it in time so he was replaced by Group Captain Wan.

Most of the day was spent working hard on construction, involving hundreds of ground builders, mainly Wookiees and Trandoshans. A reserve of 2000 builders were awaiting at Sacorria's orbit. 800 flats were started out of the 600 they needed, and the intention was to build new city posts on the third day.

Tension faded away with the passing hours, as no enemy activity was seen, but a problem emerged for Alpha team as they didn't have all the raw materials they needed for their construction plans, but they had enough to fullfil their objective.

The New Republic also counted with a friendly base in the nearby moon of Sarcophagus.

That night Cruz Skyff was on watch around Sacorria and Rekka Deott waited at atmosphere level piloting his YT-1210. No imperial forces were present during the first day.

Day Two

Day two was a pretty calm day, Minister Aioko spent most of the time answering questions through his holoprojector for his Chief of State campaign.

By the end of the day two enemy ships were sighted. A Sleuth that made it to Sacorria's orbit and a Y-Wing Longprobe that landed at coordinates (4, 2).

Day Three

The third day started busy, many builders were arrested and more imperial forces showed up. Vizier Jacen Varos, Petty Officer Ron Mock, Imperial Admiral and CorSec 2IC Bru Michaels, Rear Admiral, CO 7th Imperial Fleet Markus Saretti, Private Tobi Beck were among them.

For the first few hours the battle looked like a dance party, with the Imperials arresting builders, and the New Republic forces unarresting them and putting them back to work, with the Imperials also chasing the build commanders. A few hours later the Imperial forces started executing on sight.

Long hours were spent trying to keep construction ongoing and rescuing the builders that finished their work.

By the end of the day the Imperial forces started laying new city posts.

Day Four

After hundreds of builders being executed, finally during the early morning of Day 353 CorSec lost planetary control as the Galactic Flashnews announced "It appears today as though brute force is not quite enough to keep the citizens of Sacorria down, as they have stepped up and taken power from the old leader, long hailed as a puppet of CorSec, and forced all CorSec-aligned politicians to resign their positions, ceding power to local control."

A race between the New Republic and Imperial forces to build posts around the planet began, and the New Republic forces were running from behind, but they built theirs in hidden positions, disorienting the enemy.

In just a few hours the New Republic was able to secure 54% percent of the territory, while Imperial forces only secured 44%. 2% was uninhabitable.

The Imperial forces didn't give up the fight, more help came to stop the New Republic from stablishing a government in the planet.