Battle of Khorm

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|conflict=War of the RingThe War of the Ring 7
|date=June 25-26, 1981 Furthermore, since The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring: In Service of the Republic takes place shortly prior to "Rookies," In Service of the Republic can also be dated to 1981.
|place=Khorm
|result=Galactic Republic victoryThe War of the Ring 9
|side1=Galactic Republic
|side2=Confederacy of Independent Systems
|commanders1=*General Gimli
*General Legolas
*General Tauht†
*Admiral Wieler
*Captain Kendal Ozzel
*Commander CC-3636
*Captain Sharp†
|commanders2=*Commander Jinx 
*Warlord Unger Gout†
*Sergeant 126
*Villpu Nagg†The War of the Ring 8
|forces1=*3 Jedi Masters
*Adaroo
*Clone troopers
**44th Special Operations Division
***Devil Dogs
*All Terrain Recon Transports
*All Terrain Tactical Enforcers
*1 captured Armored Assault Tank
*BTL-B Y-wing starfighters
*Venator-class Star Destroyers
**Resilient
*Acclamator-class assault ships
*V-19 Torrent starfighters
*LAAT/i gunships
|forces2=*1 Dark Witch
*B1-Series battle droids
*B2 super battle droids
*BX-series droid commandos
*DSD1 dwarf spider droids
*3 agrocite cannons
*J-1 proton cannons
*NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcers
*Armored Assault Tanks
*Speeder bikes
*1 weather-control station
|casual1=*General Tauht
*Captain Sharp
*Heavy clone trooper casualties
*CC-3636 loses his right eye
*Moderate starship casualties, including at least 2 V-19 Torrent starfighters and 1 Acclamator-class assault ship
*All Terrain Tactical Enforcers
*The stolen Armored Assault Tank
|casual2=*B2 super battle droids
*Proton cannons
*Agrocite cannons
*A large number of BX-series droid commandos
*Armored Assault Tanks
*Weather-control station destroyed
|civilian=Several native Khormai, from the storm that devastated their village}}
The Battle of Khorm took place in 1981 during the War of the Ring between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Hoping to obtain access to the deposits of the valuable agrocite mineral on the ice planet of Khorm for the Republic, the Galactic Senate dispatched a force under the command of three Jedi Generals—Gimli, Legolas, and Tauht—to Khorm. However, by the time the Republic arrived there, the Confederacy had formed an alliance with the native Khormai Warlord Unger Gout, occupied the planet, and enslaved the local population to mine agrocite for them. The Confederacy additionally constructed a weather-control station that created a storm in Khorm's atmosphere, preventing the Republic from using air support but still enabling the fleet to land ground troops.
Soon, the Republic captured an agrocite processing facility and established an outpost there, forcing Gout to request reinforcements from the Confederate leader, Saruman the White. Jinx, Saruman's Dark Witch, was dispatched to assist Gout and arrived at Khorm. However, the Jedi realized that the storm was being created by the weather-control station, prompting Fisto, Koon, and a detachment of clone troopers to set off to destroy it. After the Jedi had left, Jinx and Gout initiated a counterattack at the processing facility and recaptured it. Jinx personally slew General Tauht—who had been left in charge of the base—and the Confederacy captured Captain Kendal Ozzel, Clone Commander CC-3636, and several clone troopers. Jinx tracked and ambushed the remaining two Jedi and their team but was unable to kill them, as she was recalled back to the processing facility to recapture Ozzel and the clones, who had managed to escape from Separatist custody.
Jinx pursued the escapees to a Republic staging point and almost decimated all remaining Republic forces stationed there. However, after Gimli and Legolas finally managed to destroy the weather-control station, Republic reinforcements arrived, and Jinx was forced to retreat to an agrocite mine, where the enslaved Khormai were being held. The Dark Witch then had the mine rigged with explosives with the intention of killing the Khormai if the Republic conquered the mine. Discovering this, the Jedi decided to free the hostages before initiating a full-scale attack and tried to signal Ozzel—who was tasked with leading the assault on the mine—to delay his advance. The Jedi were not able to contact the Captain, as the Separatists were jamming all signals, and Ozzel began his attack while the hostages were still in Jinx's custody. During the ensuing fight, Gout revealed the powerful agrocite cannons that he had constructed. Legolas and Clone Captain Sharp were able to destroy them, however, and Gimli prevented Jinx from demolishing the mine. The battle was won by the Republic, and the Khormai were liberated, but Jinx managed to escape.
==Prelude==
During the War of the Ring between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, both sides struggled for resources to supply their armies. One such resource was agrocite, a valuable mineral that could be used to exceptionally increase power to starfighters. Agrocite, however, was found only on three planets in the entire galaxy, one of them being the ice world of Khorm. In 1981, the Galactic Senate dispatched a Republic force under the command of Jedi Generals Gimli, Legolas, and Tauht to secure the agrocite deposits.
By the time the Jedi arrived at the planet, the Confederacy—allied with the native Khormai Warlord Unger Gout—had already occupied Khorm, enslaved the Khormai, and forced them to mine agrocite for the Separatists. On the Kafiri Mountain, the Confederacy built a weather-control station, which created a storm in Khorm's atmosphere and prevented the enemy from utilizing air support. Additionally, Gout secretly began construction of agrocite-powered cannons inside the mine, intent on using them against the Republic.
Despite the storm, the Republic was able to land its ground troops, leaving a fleet of Venator-class Star Destroyers commanded by Admiral Wieler in orbit of Khorm. After landing, the Republic left some troops at a staging area, while the rest of the force, commanded by Captain Kendal Ozzel, moved toward a Separatist-controlled agrocite processing facility. Before attacking the facility, Gimli arranged a meeting with several Khormai in order to better understand the current situation. One of the Khormai, Adaroo, told the Jedi about Gout's dealings with the Separatists. Informed of the enslaved natives, the Jedi decided that their main priority was to liberate them and assured Adaroo of it. Joining the Republic forces in their attack, Adaroo promised to show his new allies a weakness in Gout's defensive positions.
==The battle==
===Capturing the facility===
The Republic troops soon reached the agrocite processing plant—where Gout was located—and were attacked by Separatist J-1 proton cannons. As the Republic's AT-TE walkers fell under laser fire, Ozzel ordered the clone troopers to disembark. The move, however, only exposed the clones to the enemy fire. Realizing that the troopers could not survive the barrage, the Jedi drew fire upon themselves and used their lightsabers to deflect blaster shots aimed at the clones. Gimli, Legolas, and Adaroo then charged Gout's BX-series droid commandos and B2 super battle droids in the trenches that surrounded the plant, while Tauht proceeded to destroy the cannons.
Meanwhile, Ozzel's AT-TE walkers reached the attack position, and the Captain ordered them to open fire on the Jedi's positions—thus endangering their lives but greatly reducing the Separatist defenses. Seeing this, Gout fled the facility on a rail jet. The Republic soon captured the facility and established a base there, while Gout retreated to the main Separatist base in an agrocite mine to await reinforcements from the Confederate leader, Saruman the White. At the newly established Republic base, the Jedi started contemplating an attack on the mine, where the Khormai slaves were being held. Ozzel proposed a direct assault, but the Jedi declined, as such a tactic would result in too many clone casualties. Meanwhile, Separatist Commander and Dark Witch Jinx arrived in her starship, the Trident, to assist Gout. Wieler tried to prevent her from reaching the planet and dispatched two V-19 Torrent starfighters to intercept Jinx's vessel.
The Republic fighters pursued Jinx to the edge of the storm and witnessed it opening for her. When they tried to pursue the Trident further, however, the storm closed again, and both Republic fighters were destroyed. Wieler immediately contacted the Jedi and informed them of what had just transpired, and the Jedi realized that the Confederacy possessed a weather-control station, recalling previous intelligence reports of Separatist attempts to acquire such technology. If the station was to be destroyed, the storm above Khorm would dissipate, allowing the Republic to utilize air support during the assault on the mine and lessen the amount of casualties. Realizing that the station was located somewhere in the mountains near the Separatist mine, Gimli, Legolas, Clone Captain Sharp, and Adaroo took Ozzel's Devil Dogs clone unit and departed on CK-6 swoop bikes to destroy the station with explosives, leaving Tauht in charge of the Republic base. In order to approach the weather-control station undetected, Gimli decided against taking a direct route to their objective and instead asked Adaroo to show them another way.
===Counterattack===
Shortly after Gimli and Legolas had departed, Jinx and Gout initiated a counterattack on the processing facility. Before proceeding with the assault, Jinx had a unit of DSD1 dwarf spider droids hidden beneath a layer of snow near the facility. Separatist Armored Assault Tanks then besieged the plant, and Tauht rushed inside the structure to contact Gimli and Legolas. On his way there, Tauht ordered a frightened Ozzel to reinforce the lines and hold the facility. Jinx, however, was able to infiltrate the Republic base and, by detonating some explosives, made Tauht fall to the ground, where she confronted him. After a brief lightsaber duel, Jinx killed Tauht by manipulating one of her lightsabers behind his back with the Force and stabbing him with it. The Dark Witch then made her way back to the Separatist positions.
Informed of Tauht's death via his comlink, Ozzel assumed command of the remaining Republic forces, but instead of staying put and holding the facility as Tauht had ordered him to do before he had been killed, the Captain ordered all troops to charge the enemy. Ozzel himself—alongside Clone Commander CC-3636, nicknamed "Wolffe"—boarded one of the AT-TEs and participated in the attack. At first, the Republic seemingly gained the upper hand, and the Confederacy appeared to retreat. However, Jinx ordered Sergeant 126 to reveal the hidden spider droids, and the sudden appearance of the Confederate reinforcements caught Ozzel by surprise. The spider droids decimated the majority of the Republic force, including heavy armor.
As the few remaining Republic troops became surrounded by the droids, Ozzel panicked and ordered the Republic forces to surrender. With the engagement won, the Confederacy regained control of the processing plant, while Ozzel, Wolffe, and four other clone troopers were taken prisoner by Jinx and interrogated by her regarding Gimli's and Legolas's location. Citing the Convention of Civilized Systems, Ozzel initially refused to cooperate, but after Jinx killed two clone troopers and promised to do the same to him, the Captain revealed the Jedi's plan. Receiving the information she needed, the Dark Witch desired to kill Ozzel, Wolffe, and the remaining troopers—Spitter and Comet—but Gout instead had them imprisoned. Jinx then took a detachment of droid commandos and set off to kill the Jedi.
===Ambush===
The Jedi soon reached the mountain area and saw a Khormai village devastated by the storm. After making a stop there and burying the bodies of the dead Khormai in graves cut in the ice with the Jedi's lightsabers, the Republic strike team continued with its mission. Climbing higher in the mountains, the group was forced to abandon the swoops and travel the rest of the journey on foot. Meanwhile, Gout contacted the commander of the weather-control station, the Aqualish Villpu Nagg, and ordered him to create a storm large enough to destroy the Jedi, despite its additional potentiality of killing Jinx, who was pursuing them.
Nagg executed Gout's orders, but Jinx herself was able to pass the Republic troops' advance. She reached a mountain located at a half-rotation's hike from the station and prepared a trap for the Jedi by hiding most of her droids beneath the snow. She then took position at an upper level of the mountain with the remaining droids and an Armored Assault Tank. When the Republic troops reached the area, the Dark Witch ambushed them, jumping from above and attacking Gimli with her lightsabers. At the same time, the droid commandos emerged from the snow and opened fire on the clone troopers. A firefight ensued, and Legolas ordered Sharp and his men to hold off the droids while he rushed to assist Gimli. The two Jedi Masters engaged in a duel against Jinx. During the fight, Jinx was offered a chance to surrender, but she declined. Instead, the Dark Witch used the Force to bring down an avalanche, burying both the Republic forces and Jinx's droids underneath a crust of snow and ice. In order to avoid being crushed to death by the avalanche, the two Jedi created a Force pocket that offered them and the rest of the Republic strike team protection from the imposing wall of snow.
Accompanied by her droid commandos, Jinx initiated a search for any survivors of the avalanche and killed those whom she found. In the meantime, Ozzel, Wolffe, Spitter, and Comet attempted to escape from the agrocite processing facility in which they had been imprisoned. Eventually, the three troopers were able to hot-wire a control panel that operated the doors to their cell and freed themselves from their captivity. Ozzel and the clones then stole an AAT and used it to make their way out of the facility, destroying all droid forces that stood in their way. Attacked by the escaped prisoners, the droids contacted Jinx and called her to assist them. Jinx responded to the call and set off to the processing facility in her own AAT, leaving her droids to kill any surviving Republic troops they could find. As soon as the Dark Witch left the scene, however, the Jedi and the clones emerged from the snow and attacked the droids, destroying them.
The encounter with Jinx cost the Republic the lives of four troopers: Sten, Deadeye, Blunt, and Jark. Also, the explosives with which they had planned to destroy the weather-control station were gone, and Gimli had broken his left arm. Nevertheless, the Jedi decided to continue their mission. Adaroo used a whistle to call several ice worms, Aelids, which the Khormai commonly used as transportation by riding in them. The Jedi, the remaining clones, and Adaroo took their positions inside the worms and set off for the enemy station. Meanwhile, Ozzel and the three clones finally managed to escape from the processing facility—moments before Jinx arrived there—and proceeded to the Republic's staging area.
===Turning the tide===
Jinx deduced Ozzel's intentions and took a force of AATs, spider droids, and NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcers to kill all at the staging area and thus sever the Republic's foothold on Khorm. At the same time, the strike team led by Gimli and Legolas had almost reached the weather-control station in the Aelids. Because they had lost the explosives, the Jedi were forced to devise another method to demolish the enemy structure. Gimli decided to destroy the station by redirecting the atmospheric storm at it. This plan, however, posed a danger to the Republic team, as the group could also be caught in the storm. As Gimli, Legolas, and the Devil Dogs moved toward the station to execute their strategy, Ozzel and the rest of the escapees reached the staging point in the AAT and rendezvoused with the Republic troops stationed there.
Although Wolffe offered to contact the Jedi immediately, Ozzel declined this request out of his belief that they were already dead. Ozzel instead ordered the landing ships to be prepared for takeoff in order to return to and resupply with the fleet, after which he intended to launch a counterattack. However, due to Khorm's harsh natural conditions—further intensified by the storm—all Republic vehicles, including the few remaining AT-TEs, had been frozen in ice and had been rendered non-operational. After Ozzel was informed of this, Jinx's forces—with the Dark Jedi herself at the front line—arrived and launched an attack, immediately destroying the commandeered AAT. Ozzel, Wolffe, and the other clone troopers were outgunned and were forced to take cover at the frozen transports and AT-TEs.
While the battle at the staging area raged on, Gimli's and Legolas's team reached a network of antennas that surrounded the Kafiri mountain and could be used to redirect the storm. However, the group was spotted by the station's defenders and came under fire. Despite this, trooper Fixer was able to slice into a junction box and realign the storm's focal node, while Gimli and Legolas deflected the blaster fire aimed at him with their lightsabers.
The raging atmospheric phenomena turned on the weather-control station and destroyed it, killing Villpu Nagg. With the station obliterated, the storm itself dissipated as well. Informed of this development, Wieler ordered his forces to launch reinforcements. By this time, the Republic forces had almost lost the battle at the staging point, and Ozzel was willing to surrender again. At that point, Wieler's reinforcements finally arrived. Venator-class Star Destroyers, V-19 Torrent starfighters, and LAAT/i gunships decimated much of the droid force and forced Jinx to order a retreat.
===Final moves===
After the arrival of the Republic reinforcements, Ozzel was tasked with retaking the agrocite processing facility. The Jedi scouted out the agrocite mine, which Ozzel was to assault afterward. However, Gout and the Confederate troops who were stationed at the processing plant had also retreated to the mine, albeit with heavy losses. Gout moved the enslaved Khormai deep inside the mine for use as hostages. Observing the thin droid force guarding the mine, Legolas and Sharp expressed a notion to attack immediately, but Gimli declined, stating that he sensed that the Confederacy was not showing everything it had. Gimli's senses were backed by Adaroo, who mentioned that there had been rumors of heavy weapon construction inside the mine. Soon, Jinx arrived at the mine and confronted the enraged Gout, who blamed her for his losses. Jinx dismissed his concerns and ordered a BX droid commando to rig the mines with thermal charges and key them to her remote detonator. Witnessing the Confederacy's transfer of explosives inside the mine, the Jedi realized that Jinx was going to destroy the mine and kill the slaves if the facility fell into Republic hands. Claiming that the liberation of the Khormai was their top priority, Gimli decided to liberate them before attacking and ordered Sharp to contact Ozzel and tell him to delay his assault.
The Separatists, however, were jamming the Republic's long-range transmissions, and the Jedi were therefore unable to contact Ozzel. The Captain himself soon gave the order to initiate the attack on the mine. Although the Jedi attempted to liberate the hostages and capture Jinx before Ozzel's forces arrived, they did not succeed, and a full-scale battle began. Republic LAAT/i gunships, V-19 starfighters, Acclamator-class assault ships, and BTL-B Y-wing starfighters all assaulted the mine, and Ozzel prepared for a ground assault. However, Gout revealed his agrocite cannons, which attacked the Republic forces. The artillery shot down half of the attacking Republic force, including one of the Acclamators. Shocked by the sudden turn of events, Ozzel fell unconscious, and Wolffe assumed command of the attacking fleet, ordering it to pull back out of the cannons' range.
Meanwhile, Legolas and Gimli developed a plan to assist their forces. Legolas and Sharp set off to sabotage the cannons, while Gimli, Adaroo, and two Devil Dogs troopers went inside the mine to capture Jinx and liberate the slaves. Formulating an idea on how to reach the cannon firing platform from an upper level of the mine, Legolas contacted Wolffe and ordered him to advance ground troops. In the meantime, Gimli's squad was attacked by Jinx inside the mine. Ordering Adaroo and the clones to continue the mission, Gimli engaged the Dark Witch in a duel. The rest of Gimli's task force soon reached a cave housing the prisoners—who were being guarded by a number of BX droids and B2 super battle droids—and began to develop a strategy to free them. When Wolffe's troops had arrived, the agrocite cannons moved their barrels down to aim at them. This allowed Legolas and Sharp to infiltrate the cannon firing platform via one of the gun barrels and dispatch the droids who were operating the guns.
An intruder alert was sounded throughout the mine, and all droids, including those who guarded the prisoners, were ordered to move to the firing platform and confront the infiltrators. This presented Adaroo and the two clones with the opportunity to make their move and free the Khormai. Realizing that they were going to be overwhelmed by droids in moments, Legolas and Sharp were forced to improvise in order to destroy the cannons. The pair decided to use one of the large containers filled with the agrocite to complete their mandate. Legolas moved the container to the cannons with the Force, and Sharp—willing to end the mission like a Devil Dog—told Legolas to get clear. Sharp then sacrificed his life by running to the container and shooting it with his DC-15S.
The resulting explosion destroyed the cannon firing platform and took out all of the agrocite cannons, killed Gout, and threw Legolas to the ground. There, he rejoined Wolffe's troops, and they set off to aid Gimli. Meanwhile, the duel between Jinx and Gimli had moved to a walkway inside the mine. Despite his broken arm, Gimli put up a fierce resistance and even managed to knock one of Jinx's lightsabers out of her hands. The Dark Jedi reached for her remote in order to destroy the mine, but Gimli Force-pushed it away from her. The remote fell on the ground beneath the walkway. Jinx jumped down to reclaim it, but the remote was destroyed by a blaster shot fired by Wolffe, who, along with Legolas and several clones, had arrived to assist Gimli. Legolas offered Jinx yet another opportunity to surrender, but she declined again and ran away, injuring Wolffe in the head with her lightsaber as she escaped.
==Aftermath==
Legolas wanted to pursue Jinx, but Gimli decided that it was more important to support the surviving Republic troops and allowed her to flee. With the Separatists defeated, all of the Khormai slaves were freed, and the Republic was given access to the agrocite. Adaroo was very grateful to the Jedi for the liberation of his people and thanked them. The Jedi, however, admitted that without the clones' brave service, they would have been unable to secure the victory. Later, the Republic again established a command post at the agrocite processing center. The Republic's Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine, contacted Ozzel—who had taken credit for the Republic victory—and awarded him his own ship and fighter group.Although in The War of the Ring 9 Palpatine promotes Ozzel to the rank of admiral, Dark Horse editor Randy Stradley has stated (backup link) that Leland Chee instructed that Ozzel be given the rank of captain to accommodate with his rank of captain in the novel Allegiance, which takes place later in the Star Wars timeline. The error was fixed when In Service of the Republic was collected in a trade paperback, where Ozzel's rank is changed to a captain and at the end, he is awarded his own ship and fighter group instead of any promotion.
==Notable participants==
===Galactic Republic===
====General Gimli====
A Dwarf male Jedi Master and a member of the Jedi Council, General Gimli led the Republic forces on Khorm alongside fellow Jedi Legolas. Gimli valued the lives of the enslaved Khormai and believed that the Republic's main priority on Khorm was to liberate them. Gimli was also reluctant to sacrifice the clones in a direct assault on the mine and therefore decided to destroy the weather-control station to lessen the amount of casualties. When Jinx ambushed him and brought down an avalanche, Gimli broke his left arm. Despite the injury, he still maintained a willingness to continue the mission and eventually faced off against Jinx again. Fighting only with his right arm, Gimli was able to withstand Jinx's attacks and ultimately prevented the Dark Jedi from destroying the mine by Force-pushing her detonator away.
====General Legolas====
Legolas was a Elf member of the Jedi Council and a Jedi General who commanded the Republic troops alongside Gimli. During the final engagement on Khorm, Legolas devised a plan to infiltrate the cannon firing platform via a gun barrel, a tactic that eventually resulted in the destruction of the agrocite cannons. Legolas respected his Dwarf colleague's wisdom and experience. Along with CC-3636, he tried to discern Gimli's age several times, something that Gimli kept secret. Legolas's curiosity was partially satisfied when Gimli revealed at the end of the battle that he was 112 years old, although Legolas was still oblivious as to how long a Dwarf year was.
====General Tauht====
A Jedi Master dispatched to Khorm alongside Legolas and Gimli, General Tauht participated in the Republic's initial assault on the agrocite processing center, during which he destroyed Unger Gout's proton cannons with his lightsaber. Gimli trusted Tauht and considered him capable enough to be left in charge of the Republic base while he and Legolas went to destroy the weather-control station. When the Confederacy launched a counterattack at the processing center, Tauht hurried to warn Gimli but was prevented from doing so by Jinx. Tauht engaged the Dark Witch in a lightsaber duel and managed to knock one of her lightsabers out of her hand. Jinx, however, used the Force to manipulate her fallen weapon and stabbed Tauht through the back with it, killing the Jedi Master.
====Captain Kendal Ozzel====
Captain Kendal Ozzel was in charge of the Republic ground troops during the battle. Although he was promoted by Palpatine for his service following the Republic's victory, Ozzel, in fact, had done nothing but panic and act against the Jedi's orders. More than once, Ozzel's decisions went awry for the Republic. Fearing for his life, he even betrayed Gimli and Legolas by revealing their location to Jinx. During the battle at the staging point, Ozzel was ready to surrender to the Dark Witch, but when Wieler's reinforcements arrived and forced Jinx to retreat, he was quick to claim the victory for himself and stated that everything had gone according to his plan. Such behavior often put him at odds with the loyal and obedient CC-3636, although the latter still followed Ozzel's orders and protected him from enemy fire.
====Captain Sharp====
Captain Sharp was the leader of the Devil Dogs, a special detachment of the 44th Special Operations Division that served under Ozzel. During an engagement on the planet Mimban, Sharp took a blaster bolt in the throat, and, as a result, his voice became distorted. Serving under Ozzel, who was rather harsh and uncaring toward the clone troopers, Sharp became a tough and battle-hardened soldier. He did not understand why the Jedi made a stop to bury the Khormai's bodies; for him, it made no difference where they would lay because they were already dead. However, he was taught by the Jedi of the necessity not only to protect the Khormai but to respect their lives as civilians caught up in the conflict. In the end, the Captain sacrificed himself by shooting at the canister with the agrocite at point-blank range, triggering an explosion that destroyed the cannons and killed Gout.
===Confederacy of Independent Systems===
====Commander Jinx====
An assassin and Dark Witch serving under Saruman, Jinx was sent by her Master to aid Gout in his fight with the Republic. Jinx was successful at first and was able to recapture the agrocite processing facility and take Ozzel prisoner. However, her later endeavors all ended in failure. She was unable to kill Gimli and Legolas when she faced them for the first time and was additionally unable to defeat all of the Republic forces at the staging point. As a last-ditch attempt, Jinx planned to blow up the agrocite mine and kill the Khormai but was prevented from doing so by Gimli and CC-3636. The Dark Witch was offered a chance to surrender by Legolas, but she did not accept it and instead fled from her defeat.
====Warlord Unger Gout====
A Khormai warlord who betrayed his own people and allied himself with Saruman the White, Unger Gout was willing to defeat the Republic at all costs, no matter if it meant sacrificing Jinx's life. He often argued with the Dark Jedi and believed her to be responsible for all of his failures. During the Republic's assault on the mine, Gout attempted to defeat the enemy by deploying his agrocite cannons. Although initially successful, the tactic failed when Legolas and Sharp infiltrated the cannon firing platform. When Sharp detonated the agrocite, the resulting explosion destroyed the cannons and killed Gout.
==Behind the scenes==
The Battle of Khorm was the focus of the 2009 In Service of the Republic story arc of the The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring comic series. All three issues of the arc were written by Henry Gilroy and Steven Melching and were illustrated by Scott Hepburn. Through the Battle of Khorm, Gilroy and Melching wanted to explore the various perceptions that different individuals have on service. In Service of the Republic was initially conceived by Gilroy—who served as a head writer for The War of the Ring television series—as a potential premise for the show. However, he found that the story was much easier to realize in comic form, where it was not constrained by a television production budget. The battle was later referenced in several other sources, including the 2013 digital card game Star Wars: Force Collection, where it was mentioned in the text of Commander Wolffe's card. However, the card erroneously states that Wolffe served under Jedi General Frodo Baggins during the battle, although Baggins was not involved in the Battle of Khorm in the comic series.Star Wars: Force Collection 
==Appearances==
*The War of the Ring 7 
*The War of the Ring 8
*The War of the Ring 9 
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==Notes and references==
Category:War of the Rings battles