LEGENDS · 137 ABY · Agamar · Sith ambush
Operation: Thunderstroke: The Sith strike the alliance on Agamar
A clandestine coalition meeting turns into battle, and Princess Marasiah Fel is captured.
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An assault timed to break a new alliance
In 137 ABY the Sith discovered that Roan Fel's Empire-in-exile was holding talks with the New Jedi Order on Agamar. Those negotiations threatened Krayt's divide-and-rule position by potentially coordinating Imperial Knights, Jedi survivors, and the Galactic Alliance Remnant. The Sith prepared a strike against the meeting. The operation was later known as Thunderstroke. Its military objective was to capture or kill Fel and disrupt the coalition before it could become a durable institution. The name designates a planned ambush, not a battle that arose accidentally from a border dispute.
Moff Rulf Yage commands the attacking force
Moff Rulf Yage led the Sith-Imperial naval contingent aboard the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer War Hammer. Yage's task was to act in cooperation with Sith fighters and infiltrators, although he disliked being ordered to work with the Sith. His personal reservations did not prevent the operation from proceeding. Meanwhile Fel's own Star Destroyer, the Dauntless, guarded the summit. The approach of War Hammer created a naval engagement above the planet, while fighters and Sith operatives prepared to act below. Those two fronts made a straightforward retreat much more difficult.
A warning arrives only moments before combat
Moff Nyna Calixte traveled to Agamar and tried to alert the delegates. She disguised herself as a local farmer and used an Agamarian animal to reach them without making an obvious landing at the negotiating site. Fel recognized her after his own guards had threatened her. She warned that the Sith knew the location of the summit. The warning arrived in time for the leaders to organize some resistance but not early enough to evacuate the gathering without opposition. The Sith fleet emerged from hyperspace and engaged Fel's defending ship.
Imperial Knights and Jedi fight side by side
On the ground Sith operatives advanced from the surrounding terrain. K'Kruhk and Antares Draco instructed Jedi and Imperial Knights to protect Fel while others fought through the attackers. Fighters in orbit targeted the escape route. The allies' cooperation was no longer rhetorical: people who recently viewed one another as political enemies fought to keep the same emperor alive. K'Kruhk helped clear a route with Imperial Knight Treis Sinde, while several other defenders covered their retreat. Casualties occurred among the defenders and their enemies, but a precise comprehensive list of all people killed cannot be supplied from the summarized account.
The Defender One evacuation goes wrong
Fel's shuttle Defender One landed to retrieve the emperor. Fel and some of his protectors escaped, but Princess Marasiah, Azlyn Rae, and Jedi Master Rasi Tuum were prevented from boarding. A strike by TIE Predator starfighters produced an explosion that incapacitated the three. The shuttle had to leave as the ground situation deteriorated. Sith forces captured the princess and transported her away. The mission therefore achieved only a partial success for Krayt: Fel survived and the alliance persisted, but an important hostage fell into Sith hands.
How the attack shaped the next campaign
Azlyn Rae and Rasi Tuum survived and attempted to locate Marasiah. Their efforts eventually led to the news reaching Fel's followers that she had been taken to Sith-controlled territory. Fel later dispatched Antares Draco, Ganner Krieg, and Shado Vao on a rescue mission to Korriban. That infiltration succeeded in freeing Marasiah but resulted in Draco's capture. His later interrogation allowed the Sith to uncover Taivas. The trail from Agamar to Korriban and then the Hidden Temple is a sequence of linked crises rather than a single prolonged battlefield.
Anthropological assessment: command under a divided empire
Yage's reluctance illustrates the gap between institutional obedience and personal conviction. The Moff participated in an assault that served rulers he distrusted. Fel's allies, by contrast, converted a negotiated understanding into immediate cooperative action. Both sides operated through chains of command, uniforms, vehicles, and recognized officers; those shared organizational forms did not imply shared ethics or political goals. The operation also exposes the risk of making a diplomatic summit's security depend on secrecy alone when intelligence services are already working to penetrate it.
Sources, date, and visual identification
Operation: Thunderstroke takes place in 137 ABY and is described chiefly in Star Wars: Legacy (2006) #45–47, with the attack depicted in the Monster arc. Dark Horse published #46 on March 31, 2010. The illustrated cover above is original publication art associated with the parallel Wayland plot, not a visual reconstruction of Defender One or the ground fighting. The diplomatic agreement itself has a separate entry; the Korriban rescue follows after the capture.
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