MedStar I : Battle Surgeons MedStar I : Battle Surgeons is the first of two novels in the MedStar Duology , published by Del Rey on June 29 , 2004 , and written by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry . It takes place in 20 BBY , 2 years after the Battle of Geonosis . The book is part of the Clone Wars multimedia project . Official site summary . The Clone Wars that swept across the galaxy in the twilight years of the Republic engulfed more than Jedi Knights , clone troopers and droid soldiers . On the fierce battlefields of Drongar , a tiny med unit tends to those wounded from the ceaseless combat waged on the jungle world for control of a priceless native plant . In the pages of this forthcoming Clone Wars novel , readers will meet a surgeon that cloaks his despair with sardonic wit ; another who weathers the death and misery of Drongar by making beautiful music ; a compassionate nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor ; and a Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master . Publisher ' s summary . As civil war between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy , nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar , where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never - ending war of its own … . " A surgeon who covers his despair with wisecracks ; another who faces death and misery head - on , venting his emotions through beautiful music … A nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor … A Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master … These are the core members of a tiny med unit serving the jungle world of Drongar , where battle is waged over the control of a priceless native plant , and an endless line of medlifters brings in the wounded and dying — mostly clone troopers , but also soldiers of all species . " " While the healers work desperately to save lives , others plot secretly to profit from the war — either by dealing on the black market or by manipulating the events of the war itself . In the end , though , all will face individual tests , and only those of compassionate hearts and staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another day . " Plot summary . Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee is sent by the Republic to the planet Drongar , home to the rare plant Bota , important because of its high medicinal value . Her task was to use her Jedi healing techniques in order to assist the medical staff aboard the Rimsoos , the medical facilities tending to wounded clone troopers during the Battle of Drongar . If Barriss is successful in healing the clone troopers , she will return as a Jedi Knight . She makes friends with Republic surgeons Jos Vondar , Tolk le Trene , Klo Merit and Zan Yant , as well as the protocol droid I - 5YQ and Republic news reporter Den Dhur . I - Five ' s purpose on Drongar is to find a way back to Coruscant to find and look after Jax Pavan , a young Jedi apprentice who was the son of I - Five ' s late business partner , Lorn Pavan . twelve years earlier by the Sith known as Darth Maul for being in possession of a Sith Holocron that would have revealed vital details to the Blockade of Naboo that followed shortly after Lorn ' s death , and plans for the downfall of the Jedi Order . Den Dhur begins to associate himself with CT - 914 , a clone trooper whose friend had died during the battle . CT - 914 would later be killed by a Separatist ambush . Barriss finds an antagonistic enemy in Phow Ji , a Republic - hired mercenary who kills Separatist sentient beings on Drongar not just for money , but for his own sadistic pleasures . Their polarized ideals clash that results in a rivalry between them . And meanwhile , in orbit around Drongar , corrupt Republic Admiral Tarnese Bleyd makes a shady deal with Filba the Hutt so that Bleyd can return to his home planet and can result in the Republic ' s loss over Drongar . Amid all of this , a spy lurks in the corners , sabotaging the Republic ' s operations on the planet . Bleyd ' s deal with Filba is ruined when the Hutt is poisoned and dies . Later , Bleyd is confronted by Kaird the Nedij , a member of the Black Sun crime organization which Bleyd is associated to . Kaird confirms to Bleyd that Black Sun is aware of the Admiral ' s interests , and Kaird kills Bleyd . Phow Ji sacrifices himself by using a bomb to wipe out an entire platoon of Separatist sentient beings , and he has already recorded this to have sent to Den Dhur as an impressive news report to the Republic . Eventually , the spy , who goes by the alias Column under the leadership of the Separatists and the alias Lens under Black Sun , sabotages the Rimsoo that Barriss and her friends reside in . Though they successfully evacuate to another Rimsoo , Zan Yant is killed , throwing Jos Vondar , Dr . Yant ' s friend , into a deep grief , even despite finding the comfort of a new girlfriend from Tolk le Trene . Behind the scenes . On page 53 , the Great Hyperspace War is mistakenly referred to as the Stark Hyperspace Conflict . Cover gallery . This is a gallery of the different cover variations of " Medstar I : Battle Surgeons " .