Battle of Deviss

The battle of Deviss was fought on the ship yard planet of Deviss, in 12 ADK. The battle was fought at roughly the same time as the battles of Triton VII and Eregin. The commander in charge during the battle, admiral Drast Rennis, had a penchant for overly elaborate strategies, which, normally, would have been a poor strategy, but managed to succesfully defeat the alliance fleet, due to vastly outnumbering the GIA forces.

Due to the senate dismissing admiral Naz Arvages' warning about the Empire once again becoming a threat, admiral Drennis' fleet was able to jump into the system, and catch the defenders completely unaware of the Imperials emminent arrival.Captain James Sokal lead the Alliance defenses. Despite being an experienced captain, he was outmatched by the Imperial fleet.

After the Alliance naval forces were defeated, Imperial dropships brought stormtroopers to take over several military installations, and several cities on the most densely populated continent on Deviss. Backed by Stormhand tanks, the Imperials fought their way through the ill prepared GIA troops, and took the planet. This battle, along with two other attacks launched by the Empire at roughly the same time, marked the start of the Imperial-GIA war.

Prelude
The Imperials planned an attack on three planets in the outer rim, on the borders of Imperial-Alliance space. Three different task fleets were assigned to attack Deviss, Triton VII, and Eregin. Admiral Drast Rennis, was assigned Deviss. Like Eregin, the planet was only moderately defended, due to admiral Naz Arvage trying to defend as many planets as possible, with too few ships.

The space battle
Admiral Rennis' fleet came out of hyperspace, and instead of immediately engaging the Alliance ships, he split his destroyers, attempting to out flank the GIA vessels, and creating a battle line with his Maximus class destroyers, supplemented by his dreadnoughts. This was a tactical flaw, one that captain Sokal exploited, using the four star defenders to punch through the battle line, resuling in the loss of five Maximus destroyers, and two dreadnoughts.

Enraged at the failure of what Rennis saw as a brilliant plan, he ordered his star destroyers to engage the defenders. This proved to be a mistake as well, as the four defenders sacrificed themselves, damaging several more dreadnoughts,destroying a pair of star destroyers, and giving the captain time to withdraw his remaining vessels to the Deviss shipyards, where he'd hidden his T-wing starfighters.

Rennis had his ships advance, although more cautiously. His fighter screens originally encountered no resistance, but when his flagship, the Stormlord entered a relatively narrow area, with little to no manuevering room, the T-wings ambushed the admirals ship. Although the snub fighters were unable to damage the destroyer, the harrassed the larger ship, and bought the remaining Alliance ships more time to regroup in a defensive formation. The TIE Seekers, which had been providing cover for the fleet, were forced to falll back and deal with the enemy fighters, which quickly became difficult, as more T-wings launched from the  orbital shipyards. This resulted in heavy losses among the TIE squadrons, although they emerged victorious due to their larger concentration of numbers.

Having lost all four star defenders, and all but a couple squadrons of starfighters left, Sokal sent a message to commander Aaron Gann, who was in command of the ground forces on the planet. Meanwhile, stormtroopers were deployed the orbital stations, and subdued the security forces on board. This allowed the rest of the Imperial fleet to move forward, and engage the remnants of Sokals' forces. The captain died after his heavy cruiser, Dekkan was destroyed. The remaining five heavy cruisers were systemattically destroyed, by the larger Imperial fleet.

The battle
Commander Gann, having recieved the captains message, went about forming his defenses, although he was sorely outnumbered. The Deviss security forces were brought out in order to defend the cities,while commander Gann and his men, numbering fewer than two hundred, organized themselves outside the capital, in an effort to slow the advancing Imperial troops. Unfortunately for the commander, StormHand hover tanks landed ahead of the main force, and devasted the Alliance troopers.

At the same time, dropships deployed stormtroopers to several military bases, and a few cities in the most populated regions. Stormtroopers seized control of the bases, and lost some of their number taking the cities, although the Deviss security forces were unable to offer more than token resistance to the stormtroopers. Upon receicing news of commander Ganns' death, and the loss of the orbital shipyards, the Alliance governor surrendered.

Aftermath
After the capture of Deviss, and its' shipyards, the Empire initiated repairs, and began working on Imperial ships to replace those lost at the battles of Triton VII and Eregin. Combined with the loss of most of admiral Arvages' fleet over Triton VII, the fleet guarding the border of Alliance and Imperial space was almost completely destroyed.