Evacuation of Rhen Var

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|name=Evacuation of Rhen Var
|conflict=War of the Ring (Dark Reaper Crisis)The New Essential Chronology
|date=April 5th, 1981, 11 days after the Battle of Isengard
|place=Rhen Var
|result=Confederacy of Independent Systems victory
|side1=*Galactic Republic
*Jedi Order
|side2=Confederacy of Independent Systems
|commanders1=*General Sam Gamgee
*Commander Frodo Baggins
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|forces1=*7 Jedi
*6 Delta-7 interceptors
*Clone troopers
*10 LAAT/i gunships
*3 LAAT/c gunships
*3 All Terrain Tactical Enforcers
*10 Republic Troop Transports
*1 Acclamator-class assault ship
|forces2=*3 Lucrehulk-class battleships
*6 C-9979 landing craft
*25 Vulture droid starfighters
*B1-Series battle droids
*Single Trooper Aerial Platforms
*150 Armored Assault Tanks
*220 Ground Armored Tanks
*165 IG-227 Hailfire droids
*50 OG-9 homing spider droids
*75 HAG-Ms
*50 Vehicle Armored Carriers
|casual1=*Many clone troopers
*Republic base captured
|casual2=Most early invasion waves}}
The Evacuation of Rhen Var took place in the first month of the War of the Ring. It was a crushing defeat for the Galactic Republic, despite the fact that the planet was believed unimportant to Republic forces at the time. It was only later that the Jedi High Council realized that capturing Rhen Var was the first step in the Dark Reaper Project.
== Prelude==
While stationed in the Tion Cluster, Jedi Knight Sam Gamgee and his Padawan Frodo Baggins detected a Separatist battle group comprising several Lucrehulk-class battleships emerging from hyperspace. Equipped with only their own Delta-7 starfighters, the two Hobbits were unable to confront the fleet and so decided to instead warn the fleet's intended target, plotting their course to Rhen Var in the Tobali system.
==Evacuation==
Rhen Var was home to a small Republic outpost known as Bravo Base, located not far from where the Separatist army had made planetfall. Incapable of defending against an invasion of that size and magnitude, Sam called for transports to evacuate the base's personnel. Upon landing, he helped prepare the base for the evacuation, tasking his Ringbearer and a clone trooper crew in an LAAT/i gunship to retrieve the workers of a nearby communications facility that was already under siege when Frodo arrived. After destroying the CIS Mumakils and Hailfire droids, the workers were rushed on board and safely transported to Bravo Base. An inbound convoy of Republic Troop Transports full of clone troopers from the planet's garrison became Frodo's next priority. He escorted them to the base, combating Separatist fighter and mortar tanks from the air. Upon the convoy's arrival at the base, Sam informed Frodo of a small Jedi sanctuary caught between the Separatist forces and the base and ordered the extraction of the five Jedi stationed there. Once the Jedi had been recovered and delivered to the base, Frodo joined in the battle to defend Bravo Base while the evacuation transports lifted off.
After a grueling battle against overpowering forces that only continued to grow larger as more CIS landing craft touched down, the transports managed to flee the planet with Sam and Frodo following shortly as Bravo Base was overwhelmed and subsequently destroyed. The two Hobbits responsible for saving its personnel could only report to the Jedi Council that the planet had fallen to the Separatists.
==Aftermath==
Although the outpost was destroyed in this battle, the Republic later returned in search of the ancient Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma's tomb. Unfortunately, Saruman the White had already discovered Qel-Droma's burial site, and had received guidance from his spirit, in the process learning where the Force Harvester was buried—Raxus Prime.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The War of the Ring game 
==Sources==
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*The New Essential Chronology
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*The Essential Atlas
==Notes and references==
Category:War of the Rings battles