Second mission to Rodia

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|name=Second mission to Rodia
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|conflict=War of the Ring
|objective=To prevent Mezmaron from kidnapping Wee Dunn
|date=September 13, 1981
|place=Kay-Tap square, Rodia
|result=Wee Dunn kidnapped by Mezmaron
|side1=Jedi Order
|side2=Independent bounty hunter (on behalf of the Order of the Sith Lords)
|commanders1=High General Sam Gamgee
|commanders2=Bounty hunter Mezmaron
|ppl1=*Sam Gamgee
*R4-P17
*Wee Dunn
*Mahtee Dunn
|ppl2=Mezmaron
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A mission occurred in 1981. The infamous bounty hunter Mezmaron traveled to Rodia to find his next target, the Rodian child Wee Dunn. This mission was part two of a four part mission the Sith Master Darth Sauron assigned to Mezmaron: capture four of the infants listed in the contents of the Kyber memory crystal, a list of every force-sensitive infant in the galaxy. The Jedi Frodo Baggins, Aragorn, Bilbo Baggins, and Sam Gamgee traced the bounty hunter's kidnappings of the children through the Force, and so Gamgee volunteered to keep an eye on Wee Dunn and to protect the child.
The bounty hunter, disguised as a Jedi, failed to convince the child's mother, Mahtee Dunn, that it was time for her son to begin his Jedi training that the Rodian Jedi Master Bolla Ropal had promised her. When she refused to give him the child, Mezmaron resorted to using a hypnogazer, a weapon that alters the victim's mind, to force her to give into his demands. By the time Gamgee had arrived to protect the child, the bounty hunter was already on the run. After a brief chase, Mezmaron escaped in his advanced starfighter, the Xanadu Blood.
==Prelude==
Darth Sauron, the Dark Lord of the Mordor and the de facto leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, began to rely on the bounty hunter Mezmaron for his own personal use in 1981, tasking Mezmaron with stealing a holocron in the Jedi Temple and the capture of the Jedi Bolla Ropal, keeper of the Kyber memory crystal on Devaron. Considered to be the most efficient bounty hunter in the galaxy and the world following, Mezmaron accomplished both tasks, unlocking the information stored within: a list of every single Force-potent child in the galaxy.
Mezmaron was granted the advanced starfighter, the Xanadu Blood, as a token for his actions, and Darth Sauron gave him a new mission: capture four of the Force-sensitive infants listed in the Kyber crystal and deliver them to the remote mining planet of Mustafar, where Sauron planned to use them as test subjects in his experiments for the alteration of Force-sensitives to build his own personal corps of spies.
Mezmaron's first target was Zinn Toa, a Nautolan who lived on the aquatic world of Glee Anselm. In a group Force session, the Jedi Aragorn, Sam Gamgee, Frodo Baggins, and Grand Master of the Jedi Order Bilbo Baggins detected his work on Glee Anselm through the force and decided to not send a Jedi peacekeeper to defend the child, since Mezmaron most likely already accomplished his goal. Frodo and his Padawan, Eowyn, were sent to Naboo to protect the Gungan child Roo-Roo Page, while Gamgee volunteered to go to Rodia, homeworld of the Rodian race, to defend the child Wee Dunn, Mezmaron's next target.
==The mission==
Mezmaron traveled to Rodia, where the bounty hunter, wearing a Jedi robe, spoke with the Rodian Mahtee Dunn, the mother of the Force-sensitive Wee Dunn, in her home in the city Kay-Tap square. Mezmaron deceived Dunn, stating that Jedi impostors had been roaming the galaxy and stealing Force-sensitive children. Mezmaron claimed that in order to keep her son safe, she would need to give her child up for the Jedi training that the fellow Rodian Jedi Bolla Ropal had promised her. When she refused, the wizard used a hypnogazer, a device used to temporarily alter an individual's memory, to force her into complying with his demands.
Leaving one of his twin blasters behind and preparing to depart with Wee Dunn, Mezmaron witnessed Jedi Master Gamgee—who had been dispatched to prevent the kidnapping—enter the room. After Mezmaron left the room, Sam was confronted by a confused Mahtee, who was pointing Mezmaron's blaster at Gamgee. Gamgee made it clear that Mezmaron was no Jedi, as Jedi don't carry blasters: the Jedi weapon of choice is usually a lightsaber. When Sam spotted Mezmaron outside, Mezmaron activated his boots, which were modified to hold rocket propulsors, and soared to the landing platform where the Xanadu Blood was parked. Gamgee pursued the bounty hunter, but arrived too late to prevent him from escaping with the Rodian infant.
==Aftermath==
Mezmaron was able to escape with the second out of the four children he needed to complete his mission, and brought Dunn to the Sith's secret stronghold on the volcanic mining planet, Mustafar, but was captured soon after. Dunn was later rescued by Frodo Baggins and his Padawan learner Eowyn on Mustafar.
==Behind the scenes==
Mezmaron's capture of Wee Dunn was first depicted in "Children of the Force", aired on October 9, 2009. New technology introduced during production of season two of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring made it possible to fit Rodia and several other planets depicted in "Children of the Force" into the time span of a single episode. Though the scenery and design of Rodia was already developed for the season one episode "Bombad Jedi", Rodia was redone for "Children of the Force" to make it look better.
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==Sources==
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*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded
==Notes and references==
Category:Missions