Destruction of the Almas Academy The destruction of the Almas Academy was a battle that occurred during the Clone Wars when Garth Ezzar was sent to destroy the Almas Academy . Prelude . Darth Sidious wanted to destroy the Almas Academy , but did not want the Heroes of Cularin getting in the way , so he engineered a mission code - named Destruction to lure them away from the Cularin system and trapped them inside an Abandoned Separatist base . He then ordered the Dark Jedi Garth Ezzar to go and commence the attack on Almas . The heroes eventually escaped and met Jedi Master Ki - Adi - Mundi , who warned them to hurry back to the Cularin system , as he had had a premonition through the Force of Almas burning . The battle . Ezzar arrived in the Cularin system in his ship and approached Almas . He was ordered by an orbiting ship to dock with it . He complied and killed all the crew aboard it . He then brought aboard two assassin droids and two astromech droids from his own ship and used them as a skeleton crew to run the captured ship . When the Cularin Armed Forces checked in with the ship , he reported that all was well , using information that he had taken from the minds of the crew before he slew them . An armed pirate ship , filled with mercenaries then arrived above Almas and Ezzar returned to his own ship . The three ships descended into the atmosphere , where they fired concussion missiles at communications towers and then bombarded the Almas Academy , killing many Jedi and turning it into a smoking ruin . A force of pirates and mercenaries then began to launch a ground attack on the Academy and Academy ships began to launch to try and flee them . They were all destroyed , but were able to down the CAF ship first , although it then crashed into the Academy and made things even worse there . The pirate ship landed in the Academy grounds and Ezzar entered the ground battle and left his ship in a ravine . He quickly flew to the Academy on his speeder bike , where he and the mercenaries went on a killing spree . Civilian police began to arrive from Forard , but they were overwhelmed and could do little to help the Jedi . Master Devan For ' deschel ordered away the Academy ' s youngest pupils and then went to confront Ezzar and his minions , along with the rest of the surviving knights and staff . She dueled Ezzar and he killed her after she was hurt by falling rubble , although she was able to injure him before she died . One of his minions , the Believer Rydna , then stole Devan ' s lightsaber and ran off with it . Ezzar then confronted Zelice Sturm and began to battle her . The Heroes of Cularin then arrived and by this time , over 95 % of the Academy Jedi had been killed . They watched on as Ezzar killed Sturm . Sturm ' s pupil Meera Lisso then hurled herself at Ezzar , but Ezzar retreated on his speeder bike and told the heroes that they would not confront him now , but that they could come to him in the Coruscant Undercity . Some mercenaries then attacked Lisso and the heroes fought them off . Aftermath . CAF emergency relief vehicles arrived to help the injured . The spirit of Lanius Qel - Bertuk appeared and tried to comfort Lisso . She got angry with him for not being there when they needed him , but he responded that if he hadn ' t sacrificed himself to save the Ch ' hala , then Almas may not be safe anyway . Garth Ezzar fled to Coruscant and the heroes pursued him and were eventually able to kill him . The presence of the Academy on Almas had helped to dilute the lingering dark side presence left there by Darth Rivan many years earlier and without it , a force nexus began to grow on Almas that eventually drove away the population there and lured in Inquisitor Valin Draco to investigate it .