Battle of Felucia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help improve this article or replace this tag with a more specific message. This article has been tagged since December 2005. (help, talk) |
| Battle of Felucia | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Clone Wars | |||||||
 |
|||||||
|
|||||||
| Combatants | |||||||
| Galactic Republic | Confederacy of Independent Systems | ||||||
| Commanders | |||||||
| Commander Bly Lt. Galle Aayla Secura† Barriss Offee† Lt. Inc† Lt. Barr |
Shu Mai | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Jedi Star Corps Clone troopers Certain elements of the 501st Legion ISP Speeders AT-RTs AT-APs AT-OTs Gelagrubs ARC Troopers BARC Speeders ARC-170s LAATs AT-TEs |
Battle droids Droidekas Super battle droids Homing spider droids Crab Droids Dwarf spider droids Droid Starfighters Corporate Alliance Tank Droids Armored Assault Tanks |
||||||
| Casualties | |||||||
| Many clones, Aayla Secura, Barriss Offee | Many droids | ||||||
| Primary battles of the Clone Wars |
|---|
| Geonosis – Rhen Var – Raxus Prime – Alaris Prime – Thule – Kamino – Ohma-D'an – Muunilinst – Mon Calamari – Dantooine – Ilum – Yavin IV – Hypori – Haruun Kal – Jabiim – Coruscant – Utapau – Mustafar – Felucia – Kashyyyk – Cato Neimoidia – Mygeeto – Saleucami – List of minor Clone Wars battles |
The Battle of Felucia was a fictional conflict that appeared in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
[edit] The Battle
Although logically not canon, the Battle of Felucia goes as follows from the game Star Wars: Battlefront II: It started when the 182nd Legion of Clone troopers landed on Felucia. That was the last time anyone ever heard of them. So, around one month later, the 501st Legion was sent to search for and, if necessary, take the place of the 182nd. They faced terror from swarms of wild acklay. After their legion was partially decimated, the troopers were finally able to eliminate all of the attacking beasts.
Aayla Secura then landed and helped out with the battle. Being a Jedi, her very presence inspired and aided the 501st. She made a bold statement afterward, saying that the 501st were the bravest troopers she'd ever seen.
Shu Mai, leader of the Guild, retreated from her homeworld Castelle to Felucia. In case Felucia would fall into the Republic's hands, she had pumps full of natural toxic chemicals to release into Felucia to give the Republic a "deadly prize." Jedi Barriss Offee and Padawan Zonder were sent to capture Mai, but failed.
Commander Bly, Lt. Galle, and Aayla Secura, along with Padawans Ekria and Drake'Logaan led the elite Star Corps to Felucia to rescue an abducted Offee. The Republic attack force was backed up by AT-APs, AT-OTs, AT-RTs and ISP Speeders. The Star Corps also learned to ride gelagrubs, large larva like beetles (a reference to when the Sandtroopers, who look like Star Corps, ride Dewbacks in Episode 4.) Upon reaching the detention facility, Bly, Secura and their squad destroyed all droid defenses. They ordered a Gossam worker to free Offee and Zonder, or die. Frightened, the Gossam freed them.
After leaving the facility, a group of Homing Spider Droids attacked. It was then, the message came in that Coruscant was under attack. They wanted to leave Felucia, but they decided to stay until Mai was captured.
Shu Mai secretly escaped Felucia.
The Jedi learned of the location of Mai's compound, and rode their BARC Speeders in an advance toward the facility. A swarm of Droid Starfighters opened fire on the bikes, but a squadron of ARC-170s took them out.
After wiping out the defenses in the compound, Ekria hacked into the central computer terminal, only to find out that Mai had fled a few days earlier. Secura remarked by cursing and saying that Count Dooku had them chasing shadows. Ekria then shut down the droid beacon and allowed the clone troopers access to the facility. Wanting to find out more information about the battle at Coruscant, Ekria managed to find a holo-news station, saying that the Separatist fleet was in full retreat, and that Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi had rescued the Chancellor and killed Count Dooku.
Bly then told Secura that the air inside the compound was filling up with deadly toxins. To make matters worse, a self-destruct program in the facility was to destroy the building within a matter of minutes. After escaping and clearing the area, the facility explodes.
In truth, the self-destruct program was activated as part of Mai's earlier plan to poison Felucia if it were to fall into Republic hands. The poison started to spread, and the water facilities of Felucia would become infected and poison the water supply unless somebody were to do something.
Barriss Offee, the Padawan trio and lieutenants Barr, Galle, and Inc took a squad of troopers and headed toward some of the Felucian water facilities. After sighting the enemy defenses, Drake Lo'gaan told Zonder to make the loudest noise possible. The droids were alarmed, and attacked the clone squadron, giving the Padawans the opportunity to enter the facility. Lt. Inc was gunned down by a Dwarf spider droid in the process.
Upon entering the facility, Drake, Zonder, and Ekria cut down several Gossam workers. Ekria checked the main computer, finding out that the poison has not yet reached the facility. She shut down the main pipes, in order to prevent the poison from reaching the plant, though she couldn't access the other state.
[edit] Order 66
General Aayla Secura, along with Bly, their troops and their armor detatchment (AT-OTs and ISP Speeders), having recently destroyed a small force of droids, was heading towards a water treatment facility. However, Commander Bly received Order 66, and immediately ordered some of his lieutenants to fire on her. Aayla Secura and her troops were very close, so most of the lieutenants shot at less vital parts of her body. Secura, having been distracted by a native bird taking off, was caught off guard, and had no chance at survival. Bly, having mercy for his one-time friend, shot her quickly in the back, killing her instantly to minimize the pain.
Barriss Offee fared slightly better. She happened to be facing her troops when the order was received. The officer she was attended by struggled to turn off the message, but Offee heard it and ignited her lightsaber. The clones with her attmpted to kill her but failed. As she turned to try to warn Aayla Secura, an AT-RT and several clones led by Lieutenant Galle walked out from behind a fungal tree and blasted her before she could react.
In the water facilities, the Padawans Ekria, Zonder and Drake Lo'Gaan tried to contact Secura and Offee, but their transmissions were being jammed. As such, Ekria used the Clone Cam network to get in contact with the Jedi. They saw Bly creep up behind Secura via Clone Cam.
Using Clone Cam, the Padawans saw the dead bodies of their masters. Frightened and sad, Ekria asked who was now in command. Then, a message from Chancellor Palpatine came in, stating that the war was over and all Jedi should return to the Jedi Temple to await further instructions.
The Padawans did not return to Coruscant, and they had to survive the Felucian wilderness.
