Battle of Rosha
12 BBY, July 13. Darth Vader could no longer wait for more fleets to arrive.
The Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation had now reached the point of tearing each other apart over spaceports and major industries. Whatever they could seize, they seized; whatever they could not, they destroyed. Those with any sense had long since fled.
Fighting was now breaking out everywhere across the Core Worlds and Mid Rim Territories. The Galactic Empire sought to occupy Trade Federation spaceports or colonial cities, while the Trade Federation organized self-defense forces to fight back.
Such clashes were taking place simultaneously in nearly tens of thousands of locations. Large engagements involved several thousand people, while smaller ones had only dozens or hundreds.
Although Neimoidians were cowardly and weak, the Trade Federation did not belong to the Neimoidians alone. It had countless other species under its banner. Perhaps a single spaceport was not even pocket change to the Trade Federation, but to the operational team of a certain species entrusted with managing that spaceport, it might have been the savings of a lifetime.
To protect their property, these people naturally fought the Imperial Stormtroopers to the bitter end!
Not only that, the Trade Federation poured out huge sums to hire mercenaries, offering high bounties for every Stormtrooper killed. And that was not all. On some relatively remote planets, the Trade Federation used its influence to forcibly open prisons and release large numbers of death-row inmates!
Those mercenaries and condemned prisoners were all desperadoes. For money and freedom, they fought the Imperial Stormtroopers with their lives on the line.
What was more, many of those death-row inmates had originally come from the Rebel Alliance! They had already harbored bone-deep hatred for the Galactic Empire, and now that they had been released,