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A HoloNet News article of 8 months later indicates that the Clone Troopers are still there. The Banking Clan is not happy about the continued occupation. The Republic claims that they traced evidence of the Hailfire Droid's origin to Aargau but they have found no proof of any such factory.
Outside a landing platform, a Kaminoan orders a few super battle droids to follow him towards a small starfighter. Fisto and Secura run onto the landing platform to stop the Kaminoan, and Fisto asks why she did what she has done. The Kaminoan replies that for years she toiled under Sayn Ta, who, according to her, took credit for her accomplishments. And with the credits the separatists have paid her, she will finally be able to make a name for herself. Then, the Kaminoan orders the super battle droids to destroy the Jedi, and a fierce fight in the rain ensues. As the Kaminoan boards the starfighter, a super battle droid grabs Secura and pulls her off the landing platform into the sea. She calls out for Kit Fisto, who manages to down the starfighter by throwing his lightsaber at it, as she is drawn under water. The Jedi manages to release her from the battle droid's grip and, amphibious as he is, presses his lips on Secura's mouth to give her some air. When Aayla Secura climbs onto the landing platform, she is grabbed by the Kaminoan who holds a dart-pistol containing the nano-virus to her arm. Just as she is about to pull the trigger, Secura uses her Jedi abilities to slip away. As a result, the Kaminoan accidentally injects herself, releasing the deadly virus into his bloodstream. She dies instantly. Aayla Secura picks up the dart-pistol, mentioning that they now have a pure sample of the virus. She stands up to thank General Kit Fisto for saving her. Fisto laughs, telling her that it was his pleasure!
Note: These events must be taken with a grain of salt since they are part of the on going Tales comic series which contains stories such as: Vader vs Maul and Skippy the Jedi Droid.
Opens with a vision by Anakin of Obi-wan being shotdown into the waters during the forthcoming battle. Obi-wan tells him not to trust visions of the future and to stay focused on the here and now.
Inside, Obi-wan briefs the assembled Jedi as he's been chosent o lead the mission tehre due to his familarity with Kamino. Quinlan and Rancisis are present via hologram. Rancisis details the plan that their fleet is one jump away, so as not to hint to the seperatists that its a trap. Tipoca City' energy shield will protect them from energy weapons but not ground troops.
Since the Confederacy expects some defense, the Jedi assembled, will be the main line of defense. Obi-wan mentions that Sienar is developing fighters for the Clones, but they're not ready yet, so Jedi Starfighters will be the main force.
Master Tsui Choi and Aayla will lead the flight (Blue squadron) to intercept the fighters, Obi-wan will lead a second (Red squadron) to defend the facility. The others will supervise ground defenses.
After they are dismissed, Obi-wan has Anakin stay behind, saying that Anakin has seemed distracted lately, and if theres anything he'd like to share with him. We see Anakin's thoughts of Qui-Gon, his mother's death, the Tusken sluaghter, Dooku and his marriage. Anakin says there's nothing.
Quinlan and Obi then have a conversation about Kenobi's padawan problems. Obi mentions how Qui-Gon entrusted Anakin to him, but he never really chose Anakin as his Padawan- Quinlan replies that maybe it's time he did.
Elsehwere, Anakin is frustrated that he can't fix this one small droid, as Master Secura joins him. He mentions how he thinks better when his hands are busy, Aayla replies that its a form of moving meditation- she does it too. She suggests that perhaps the problem is he is trying too hard- she gives the droid a small whack and it activates. "old mechanics trick" she says, "the secret is to know when a thing is fixed and to leave it alone". Then the alarm sounds.
Droid fighters and troop landers emerge from a TF battleship as the Jedi fighters deploy. The two forces engage one another, Master Kossex takes care of a fighter on Anakin's tail, but is killed by another fighter.
As Obi goes after a troop convoy, he takes fire and crashes as he did in Anakin's vision. His ship afloat the ocean, Obi emerges from the cocmpit and delfects droid fighter lasers with his saber.
Anakin swoops in and clears the area. but his fighter is attacked by a huge green sea monster- but he manages to jump out of the fighter before being devoured. "Why is it, my Padawan, that every time you rescue me, you wind up needing rescuing yourself?"
They defend against Opie Sea Killer-like flying killer fish. Obi observes that now the battle will continue without them, and attempts to have a moment to speak with Anakin, as a Kaminoan emegeres from teh water atop a flying whale. He emntions the fleet has arrived, and the two Jedi board the whale and head back to the city to rejoin the fight.
Droids pour out of the troop carrier, taking down clone troopers
"Cargo platform C0-22: captured"
Clones lay dead ina hallway, a severed lightsaber on the floor, a Bothan Jedi kneeling nearby it, about to be executed by the Super Battledroid next to him.
"Security sector six: overrun"
Two droidekas stand among the bodies of clonetroopers
"Central Armory: invaded."
"Level Nine: lost"
Lama Su reports this info to Shaak Ti, and then unveils the ARC Troopers to her- Advanced Recon Troopers. Trained by Jango himself, kept in stasis tubes due to their unpredictable nature. He releases them.
A cicle of Clone troopers, with clone children at the center, begin to fall to advancing droids surrounding them, as three ARC troopers deploy, taking down all of the droids.
Clone child: "you saved us"
ARC Trooper: "You could have saved yourselves, your not defenseless"
Droidekas arrive, killing two of the ARC Troopers. Shaak Ti arrives and helps overwhelm the droidekas. Afterwards, Lama Su informs the ARC Trooper that the Prime Clone is dead due to the compromising of the cloning facility. He tells Lama Su to evacuate the secondgeneration, and that he'll protect the third- Shaak Ti accomanpies him.
Shaak Ti uses a force shove to knock a squad of battle droids off a catwalk- the ARC trooper uses aReverse-polarity Grenade to overload their circuits, buyt it also disrupts his helmet's sensors. More droids arrive but are cut down by some friends- Anakin and Obi-wan.
They make their way across the only entrance to the third generation's lab- a long open-view tunnel underwater. A large group of droids follows them. The ARC trooper begins to set the self-destruct (Jangos' orders. We can't let the clones fall into the wroing hands. They grow up loyal to the Republic or they don't grow up at all." Shaak Ti says there must be another way- the ARC Trooper then suggests they use the force to destroy the tunnel and flood it. They do so, and use the Force to hold back the water. The Jedi then move debris to block off the entrance.
The ARC trooper deactivates the self-destruct. Shaak thanks the trooper for saving the clones.
"Hnh. You're welcome. But I didn't do it for you. I was just following Jango's orders.
Starts out on, apparently, Mon Calamari, where the Seperatist mon cal commander Merai is contacted by Passel Argente of the Corporate Alliance, who is asking him to basicly ristk everything on this battle. Passel apparently has info on the Kamino city shields. He won't rveal his source, but says if they do this- one strike will wipe out the Clone army, no army, no Clone war.
"You honor me, Duke. I'm just glad to have the chance to aid the cause of freedom in the galaxy."
Cut to the space battle above Kamino, already in progress. Merai divertsthe droid squadrons to their locations and begins deploying amphibious fighter squadrons for attack. He wants their forces to be directly over teh cloning facility when the shield goes down.
His bridge team advises that they are losing and that they should retreat- he reminds them that they have more droids than they do Jedi, and that if they don't shut down Kamino, the Republic will have a limitless supply of troops.
Merai takes his personal amphibious fighter, the Shark, down to the surface. "What were they thinking, defendinga water world with ships that can't submerge?"
Then he discovers that the Kaminoans must have tricked them- there is no shield power source udnerwater as they were led to believe.
He emerges from the water and attempts to bring down the shield himself- as two Acclamators open fire on him from just above the sea. Crossfire from the Jedi starfighters damages his ship.
Merai's bridge crew then recieve the transmission: "It wasn't mean to end like this..." he then orders the retreat. They recall all their fighters and ships and the Battleship begins to prepare for a hyperspace jump. They also detect that Merai has engaged his ship's self destruct.
The battleship takes off into hyperspace, Merai heads for the cluster of orbiting Jedi Stardighter hyperdrive rings.
Adi Gallia detects his intentiosn and the Jedi pull out of the area as his ship explodes.
Later on, Mace Windu speaks to Yoda via hologram. He mentions that Adi was too hard on herself for not suspecting Merai's intentions sooner. Mace is unsatisfied also- he knew of Merai, and that he was a smart solider- why would he pla such an ill-fated attack.
Elsewhere, Dooku converses with Sidious- Dooku mentions it was a shame about Merai, he was talaented. SIdious says there are others who could be more easily turned to their ourposes. It's a delicate game they play, a precise balance. Now that balance has been restored, the seperatist's advantage lies dead in the water. With Merai dead and Kamino still operational, this clone war will not end soon.