Hutt Campaign

The Hutt Campaign was a brief military campaign fought in 3 ABY and jointly organized between the Alliance High Command and Hutt Clan during the Galactic Civil War

Background and Opposition
Since the earliest days of the Rebellion, certain members of Alliance command had sought to form an alliance with the Hutt Clan. The wealthy and powerful Hutts ruled over a large chunk of the galaxy known simply as Hutt Space. Their belief was that the Hutts would enter the Rebellion on the side of the Alliance if High Command agreed to allow the Hutts to carry out their business as usual, something the Empire had actively attempted to curb; a philosophy of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Others in High Command, including General Jan Dodonna, voiced strong opposition to an alliance with The Hutts citing their brutal oppression of dozen of worlds and questionable history of holding their promises.

Eventually, the individuals pushing for an alliance won the argument and High Command agreed to help the Hutts eliminate an Imperial outpost in their territory located on the planet of Ullatak.

The Campaign
Seven squadrons of fighters and the battle cruiser Dawn's Light were sent to the planet to destroy the Imperial outpost. The Hutts provided the ground forces of the attack which consisted of several thousand mercenaries and armed forces from within their territory.

The Imperial forces at Ullatak knew the joint task force was approaching and spent several days shoring up their defenses. The first attack run against their planetary defenses proved extremely costly with the Alliance losing several pilots. Dozens of TIE fighters flocked to the bases defense. Arrow Squadron, led by Lieutenant Tolamael Benere, made the next attack run and succeeded in knocking out several of the remaining turrets. During was during one of these attack runs that veteran pilot Yol Aak was shot down and killed by turret fire.

After several more attacks by Alliance starfighters, the bases defenses began to crumble. Hutt ground forces overwhelmed the base and captured or killed the surviving Imperial soldiers.

Aftermath
While the attack helped eliminate a problematic Imperial outpost, the Hutts, predictably, did not enter onto the side of the Rebellion. While they did offer to conduct some trading with Alliance forces, they did not commit their ground forces or ships. Several of the original High Command staffers who had proposed the idea were removed from their roles. There was a palpable anger over what many viewed as the Alliance's unnecessary losses to assist a criminal organization.

The Hutts downplayed the anger and the Alliance was forced to look for alliances elsewhere.