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She traveled to Dantooine, where the inhabitants of Eol Sha had been relocated by Luke Skywalker and the Alliance. Dispatching six AT-ATs, Daala ordered the destruction of the entire colony.
Her next target was Calamari, the site of an Alliance starship-construction facility. Two of her Star Destroyers attacked the water planet from space, their turbolasers causing devastating damage on the floating cities. When Admiral Ackbar pulled the fleet of B-Wing defenders to fight the two Destroyers, Daala ordered the third Destroyer, the Manticore, to move in and destroy the shipyards. What she didn't know was that Ackbar was planning to trap them. He used a partially constructed ship, the Startide, as a battering ram, driving the ship and its spacedock into the Manticore, resulting in a brilliant double explosion.
When Rebel battleships responded to the attack on Calamari, Daala withdrew the Gorgon and the Basilisk back into the Cauldron Nebula. There, she decided to use Ackbar's own tactics against him, to make a lightning attack on Coruscant, the Alliance base, and drive the Basilisk into the city.
Unfortunately for Daala, Kyp Durron had resurrected the Sun Crusher. As the admiral prepared to lead her ships to Coruscant, Kyp launched sun-destroying torpedoes into the cluster of blue-giant stars at the heart of the Cauldron Nebula. Although Daala ordered an immediate withdrawl, the cataclysmic explosion of the nebula destroyed the Basilisk.
The Gorgon barely escaped, losing much of its shields and firepower. Daala ordered the ship on a blind jump into hyperspace, but many of the systems were destroyed, and it took weeks to repair. They limped back to the Maw Installation just as the Alliance was raiding it.
The battle was raging within the Maw when a new Death Star prototype, piloted by the inept bureaucrat Tol Sivron, and the Sun Crusher, piloted by Kyp Durron, both entered the fray. Although Daala requested assistance from the Death Star, Sivron refused. The admiral downloaded the weapon plans from the installation's computers, and then set what appeared to be a suicide course into the installation. As the Imperial research facility blew up, Daala's ship disappeared.
But the Gorgon again survived and limped away, unnoticed. The admiral addressed her crew, telling them they were headed toward the Core systems, where they would ally themselves with one of the powerful Imperial warlords. With the weapon plans from the Maw Installation, Daala and her crew would be irreplaceably important to the rebuilding of the Empire.