Meanwhile, Commander Tarvin Calaan and his squadron had linked up with other elements of the withdrawing New Republic fleet, including Black Knight Squadron, under the command of Major Brek Onar, and the escort carrier Dagger, under the command of Captain Vierson Reshan, after the Second Battle of Borleias. When the group began to search for orders from New Republic High Command, they instead found disturbing news that a small Yuuzhan Vong force had been observed moving in the direction of the Naboo system. Calaan, a Naboo resident who had recently lost one of his best friends as well as his mother in the fighting, was determined to stop the Yuuzhan Vong from decimating his home, where both his wife and two of his children currently resided. He immediately asked Captain Reshan to drop out