First Battle of Vontor

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First Battle of Vontor

Outcome

Hutt victory

Combatants
Hutt Empire	Xim's empire

Commanders
Kossak the Hutt	Xim the Despot

Strength
Tarrada cruisers Batil fighters	War droids Battle fleet (possibly including Queen of Ranroon)

Casualties
	Loss of fleet

"In one Vontorian afternoon, Xim lost most of his armada, including his flagship, the Eibon Scimitar, primarily from friendly fire."

―Professor S. V. Skynx, The Despotica Reader, Third Edition^[1]

The First Battle of Vontor (25,100 BBY) was the first of three battles fought between the expansionist Hutts and the Empire of Xim the Despot at the planet Vontor.

Background[]

"Employing techniques the Hutts had yet to master, his shipwrights forged dreadnaught hulls speckled with a special ore called kiirium that would reflect laser beams. But the ore was a most precious supply at the time, since the Kiirium Reaches had been mined and exhausted of their namesake. So Xim and his men were always looking for more kiirium—until Kossak stupidly challenged Xim to ritual combat at the world of Vontor, deep in the savage Si'Klaata Cluster."

―Professor S. V. Skynx, The Despotica Reader, Third Edition^[1]

The Hutt Empire had been competing with the empire Xim had carved out in the Tion Cluster for control of the Si'Klaata Cluster for some time. The planet Vontor was the focal area of the cluster's control along the Hutt's route of invasion.

The battle[]

"Kossak arrived at the appointed time to find Xim's engineers in a panic, trying to strip off the kiirium plates from the ships. So Kossak threw every tarrada cruiser and batil fighter he could muster against the Despot's navy, instructing them to forgo basic targeting and just light-up the stars. Xim's pilots, flying "blind" in this laser show, did the rest of the damage themselves."

―Professor S. V. Skynx, The Despotica Reader, Third Edition^[1]

The battle was a complete disaster for Xim, as he lost his entire fleet in the naval confrontation.

Aftermath[]

"Xim fled with whatever his engineers salvaged, swearing never to put his faith in living beings again. He rounded up the remaining units of his fleet and is rumored to have jettisoned most of his "dead organic weight," replacing his crews with war-robots. Then, according to the Hutts, he marauded worlds of the Cluster to recoup resources for a vengeful strike on Vontor. And because he wanted Kossak to bear the brunt of the beating he would inflict, Xim dared the Hutt to a second ritual combat."

―Professor S. V. Skynx, The Despotica Reader, Third Edition^[1]

Although Xim's fleet was wiped out by the Hutts, he would continue to press his claim at the Second Battle of Vontor.