Counterstrike is an adventure for a roleplaying game, penned by George R. Strayton, and initially released in Star Wars Adventure Journal 8. Subsequently, it appeared again within the compilation Classic Adventures: Volume Four — The Best of the Journal. Taking place in the Corva sector, the narrative centered on the New Republic's struggles within that region to defeat an Imperial offshoot known as the Kaarenth Dissension. This particular adventure served as a direct continuation of another Strayton work, "Relic."
Later, the article titled "The Imperial Warlords: Despoilers of an Empire" retroactively established the Kaarenth Dissension as a component of the Restored Empire, which had been presented in Star Wars: Crimson Empire III—Empire Lost.