While the Alliance fleet mounts a major campaign against a deadly warlord, Ysanne Isard has seized control of Thyferra, intending to use its precious supply of bacta to destabilize and destroy the New Republic. It falls to Rogue Squadron - undermanned, deprived of Alliance support and even weapons - to oppose Isard's dangerous designs, defeat her powerful complement of Star Destroyers, and free Thyferra from her iron rule. But when Isard discovers the Squadron's secret base, its ragtag group of pilots must scramble for survival in a winner-take-all battle against Isard's overwhelming and seemingly superior force.
The cover of the novel does not match the text. In the book, Rogue Squadron does not battle all of Ysanne Isard's Star Destroyers, and no Mon Calamari frigates helped in the Bacta War.
- ISBN 0553568043; February1997; Bantam Spectra, 349-page paperback
- ISBN 0553474251; February 1997; Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Abridged cassette
- ISBN 0606119000; February 1997; Sagebrush Corporation, Turtleback
- ISBN 9780593498927; November2022; Del Rey, trade paperback, The Essential Legends Collection
- ISBN 3442248191; May1998, Blanvalet, 413-page German paperback
- ISBN 0553409247; February 6, 1997, Transworld Publishers, 416-page UK paperback
- ISBN 0001054120; October 20, 1997, HarperCollins Publishers, UK abridged cassette
- ISBN 978-80-252-2442-7; 2013, EGMONT ČR, 384-page Czech paperback (X-Wing: Bactová válka)
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