' Anyone with half a brain should have seen the flaw in the reasoning that, if we hadn't been attacked yet, we were unlikely to be attacked at all.' ― Captain Arien Yage Toward the end of the battle, a Yuuzhan Vong slaveship arrived over Bastion and began to harvest Imperial citizens who had been unable to escape in time. Under the cover of wreckage from the dying Star Destroyer, and the brave sacrifices made by a dozen of the Superior's TIE Fighter pilots, the frigate was able to escape for Yaga Minor. The suicide run nearly killed Pellaeon, but a junior officer pulled the Grand Admiral from the bridge and loaded him aboard a medical frigate carrying survivors from Superior.

The Chimaera had also taken considerable damage by the time a coralskipper rammed its bridge. The Superior was critically damaged and Pellaeon ordered its evacuation as it fell into the depths of the planet. Pellaeon dispatched TIE Fighters to deal with the yammosk carrier and then attempted to break out of the gas giant's mass shadow. The Jedi provided Pellaeon with information on the location of the enemy's yammosk before departing for Yaga Minor. After assessing the situation, they jumped toward the gas giant where a force composed of the Chimaera, the Imperial Star Destroyer Superior, and their support craft were pinned against planet's gravity mass shadow by a powerful enemy contingent. Īs separated elements of the fleet fought and attempted to regroup, a small Jedi expedition that included Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, arrived aboard the Jade Shadow. The resulting losses forced Pellaeon to order the evacuation of Bastion. The fleet responded to the grutchins with appalling disorganization only Pellaeon's own Star Destroyer, the Chimaera, responded with appropriate efficiency and effectiveness on short notice. What the Remnant expected to be a retreat was soon revealed to be the launch of a swarm of thousands of grutchins. Despite this, the Starfleet was able to hold its own at first, until the Yuuzhan Vong pulled back. When Vorrik's forces instead arrived in the Bastion system, the Imperial Navy was caught completely off guard as the Yuuzhan Vong destroyed planetary defenses with ease. While aware that a Yuuzhan Vong force was approaching their space, Imperial spies reported that the attack was aimed at the Hand of Thrawn at Nirauan. They've evacuated Bastion.' ― Mara Jade Skywalker and Luke Skywalker ' It looks to me like they're pulling out. ' Bastion is going to take a pummeling, no matter what we do.'

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