Daala at first used the
Night Hammer in her effort to reunite the fragments of the Empire, taking the ship from system to system in order to secure loyalties, forge alliances, and motivate the subjects of the Empire to work harder. Around her new ship, Daala gathered 112
Victory-class Star Destroyers and another 45
Imperial-class Star Destroyers; the
Night Hammer and its accompanying fleet remained docked at a nexus
station in the Deep Core as Daala prepared to take action with her new forces. She met with
Vice Admiral Gilad Pellaeon in the
Night Hammer's ready room to select their first target; after concluding that
Coruscant was too difficult a fight and putting it off as a later potential target, Daala decided to eliminate the
New Jedi Order at their
Jedi Praxeum on
Yavin 4. With the
Victories, Cronus would occupy the New Republic's attention elsewhere, while Pellaeon would lead the first wave of the
attack on Yavin with the
Imperials and Daala would follow in the
Night Hammer to secure the system.
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When two
Jedi Knights,
Kyp Durron and
Dorsk 81, infiltrated Daala's muster of the fleet and overheard her plans, the Admiral was forced to move up her schedule. Cronus was dispatched to
wreak havoc on
Khomm and elsewhere, while Pellaeon was sent directly to Yavin 4 with his fleet of seventeen
Imperial-class Star Destroyers. Aboard
Night Hammer, Daala gathered enough of her forces to permanently occupy the praxeum. Daala's final order before launching was to rechristen the ship
Knight Hammer, as a symbol of her planned destruction of the New Republic through the annihilation of the
Jedi.
That's it.
