Skirmish at Sinta Glacier

During the second year of the First Galactic Civil War, a hyperdrive malfunction within Masotan's Starblazer-class power armor caused him and his human crew, Hisone Amakasu and Haruto Okonogi, to prematurely drop out of hyperspace while en route to Jabiim, near Sinta Glacier, a long-dead comet's former core turned space colony. The Confederate Subjugator-class battlecruiser Vehement dropped out of hyperspace near the same area, attempting to blaze a hyperspace route directly to Rothana; upon spotting what looked to resemble a damaged ARC-170 fighterbomber and the ship's scanners detecting a large biomass within the fighter, the tactical droid commander of the Vehement, TR-245, ordered some of the ship's fighter complement to deploy and investigate. At the same time, the Galactic Republic was formulating a search-and-rescue mission for the trio, using their last known trajectory to determine where they ended up. The rescue team consisted of a Gozanti-class carrier modified to carry the dragon with an escort squadron of twelve Z-95 Headhunters.

The team jumped out of hyperspace right into the ensuing crossfire between Masotan's turret cannon, manned by Haruto, and a swarm of Vultures and tri-fighters, causing almost half of the squadron to be shot down, and the Gozanti damaged. What was supposed to be a simple rescue mission for the Republic and the beginning of a grand attack for the Confederacy quickly and rapidly escalated into a chaotic skirmish between the two sides, forcing the Republic team to try to lose the droids in one of Sinta Glacier's many caverns.

While being chased through the ice caverns, Haruto managed to shoot down a considerable amount of his droid pursuers, but not before a damaged Vulture collided with the Gozanti's port engine, causing it to crash into the walls of the caverns and be consequently destroyed in a massive fireball, rendering him and Hisone hopeless and dejected. TR-245, growing impatient, ordered the crew of the Vehement to fire the battlecruiser's main ion cannon at Sinta Glacier, in an attempt to flush the Republic forces out, regardless of the collateral damage that would follow.

Thus, the battle soon turned into a desperate attempt to destroy the Vehement before it could fire its cannon at the colony, which was successful when Hisone flew out of the caverns and into the ion cannon, using the supercharged energy of the cannon to jump to friendly space through one of the cannon's open areas, the energy released disabling it and tearing the Vehement in half.