![]() ![]() ![]() Under the New Order, Base Delta Zero operations continued to be mounted primarily against targets that the Imperial Army had failed to gain control of by direct assault, but such missions acquired increasingly punitive overtones, being used against rebellious planets where the Empire judged a ground assault would incur too many Imperial casualties, or simply where forces were not available to mount a direct attack. ![]() It is not known when the Republic Navy introduced the Base Delta Zero code, but during the Clone Wars, the order gained new notoriety when Republic fleets were used to destroy Separatist armies entrenched deep underground. Some saw it worse than destroying the planet outright. Even hardened Imperial officers who were well versed in invasion operations found the tactic unsettling. But these atrocities paled before the power of a Base Delta Zero operation. For instance, the Infinite Empire laid waste to Tatooine before the dawn of the Old Republic, and around 4000 BBY, Yavin 4 was devastated by firestorms created by Force energy, while the Sith forces in the Jedi Civil War obliterated the surfaces of Telos IV in 3958 BBY and Taris in 3956 BBY. " They're going to raze the planet." ― Anakin Skywalker during the Battle of Terra Sool Ī Victory-class Star Destroyer performing a Base Delta Zero operationĭevastating planetary bombardments were recorded from the earliest millennia of galactic history. ![]()
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