Battle of Kadavo

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|name=Battle of Kadavo
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|conflict=War of the Ring
|date=November 12, 1982
|place=Kadavo
|result=*Galactic Republic victory
*Togrutan slaves liberated
*Kadavo slave processing facility destroyed
*Confederate-Zygerrian alliance broken
|side1=Galactic Republic
|side2=*Confederacy of Independent Systems 
**Zygerrian Slave Empire
|commanders1=*High General Sam Gamgee
*General Gimli
*General Frodo Baggins
*Commander Eowyn
*Admiral Barton Coburn
*Commander Wolffe
*Captain CT-7567
|commanders2=*Saruman the White 
*Keeper Agruss†
|forces1=*Clone troopers
**Wolfpack
**Clone Commander
**Clone trooper pilot
**Clone Captain
*1 Venator-class Star Destroyer
**Coburn's Venator-class Star Destroyer
*1 Arquitens-class light cruiser
**Hand of Justice
*LAAT/i gunships
*Clone Z-95 Headhunters
*1 Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor
**Blade of Dorin
*1 Zygerrian slave ship†
**Tecora†
|forces2=*Zygerrian guards†
*2 HH-87 Starhoppers†
|casual1=*The Tecora
*At least one LAAT/i gunship
|casual2=All forces
|civilian=Several Togrutan slaves}}
A battle was fought in 1982 on the planet Kadavo during the War of the Ring. Having occupied the Togruta colony world of Kiros, the Confederacy of Independent Systems secretly transferred the world's entire population to the planet Zygerria, where the Togruta were to be sold as slaves at an auction. A Galactic Republic task force led by High Jedi General Sam Gamgee, Jedi General Frodo Baggins, and Frodo's Padawan, Eowyn, liberated Kiros and discovered links leading to Zygerria. The Jedi and Clone Captain CT-7567 soon infiltrated the auction and tried to rescue the Togruta but were captured by the Zygerrians and enslaved. Frodo and his Padawan, however, escaped from the Zygerrians and headed for Kadavo to rescue Sam, CT-7567, and the Togruta, who had been transferred to the Zygerrian slave processing facility on the planet. While en route, the two also called for reinforcements from the Republic.
Eowyn and her Master arrived on the planet first on the Zygerrian slave ship Tecora and tried to break into the slave processing facility. When ordered to cease by the Zygerrian Keeper Agruss, lest the slaves be killed, Frodo did not comply. At that moment, the reinforcements arrived, led by Admiral Barton Coburn and Jedi Master Gimli. Gimli's Wolfpack detachment attacked the facility with LAAT/i gunships and Clone Z-95 Headhunters, but were halted by its ray-shielded turbolaser defenses. However, Frodo was able to destroy the defensive towers, while Sam and CT-7567 rebelled and killed Agruss. As a last act before his death, the Keeper tried to throw the Togruta into the volcanic crevice below the facility, but, following a plan devised by Eowyn, the Republic forces evacuated them on Admiral Coburn's Arquitens-class light cruiser, the Hand of Justice. After picking up Frodo, Gamgee, Eowyn, and CT-7567, the Republic strike team destroyed the slave facility.
==Prelude==
In 1982 during the War of the Ring, the Confederacy of Independent Systems occupied the Togrutan colony world of Kiros and secretly transferred its entire population to the planet Zygerria, where they were to be sold as slaves at an auction held by the Zygerrian Queen Miraj Scintel. A Galactic Republic task force led by High Jedi General Sam Gamgee, Jedi General Frodo Baggins, and Frodo's Padawan, Eowyn, liberated Kiros and found clues that led them to Zygerria.
Posing as slave traders, Frodo, Sam, Eowyn and Captain CT-7567—nicknamed "Rex"—infiltrated the auction and tried to rescue the Togruta but ended up being caught by the Zygerrians and becoming slaves themselves. While Frodo was left in service of Queen Scintel, Eowyn was imprisoned on Zygerria, and Sam and Rex were transferred along with the Togruta to the Zygerrian slave processing facility on the planet Kadavo. Commanded by the Zygerrian Keeper Agruss, the processing facility was kept aloft above a pool of lava.
On Kadavo, the Keeper tried to break the hobbit's will by dropping several Togruta into the lava and promising to do the same with the other slaves should the Jedi attempt to rebel. Unwilling to put the innocent in danger, Sam and Rex were eventually forced to submit to the Keeper after the Zygerrian guards began punishing the Togruta for Gamgee's defiance. Frodo and Eowyn soon escaped from Zygerria and headed for Kadavo to rescue Sam and the Togruta, also summoning reinforcements commanded by Admiral Barton Coburn.
==The battle==
Back on Kadavo, the Keeper was contacted by Saruman and ordered to execute his Republic prisoners. Agruss summoned both Gamgee and Rex to the facility's command center and told the two about his intention to dispose of them. While the Keeper communicated with Gamgee and Rex, Frodo and Eowyn arrived on the captured Zygerrian slave ship Tecora. As the two Jedi and their astromech droid R2-D2 disembarked from the craft, heavy turbolasers that guarded the facility destroyed the Tecora. Taking cover near the facility's blast doors, Frodo and Eowyn activated their lightsabers and started cutting through them. Acting on Saruman's orders, the Keeper positioned the Togrutan slaves on a platform above the lava pool and threatened to dump them to their deaths unless Frodo surrendered. In response, Frodo summoned his reinforcements.
The Arquitens-class light cruiser Hand of Justice, commanded by Admiral Barton Coburn, descended into the planet's atmosphere. While Coburn's Venator-class Star Destroyer remained in orbit, launching LAAT/i gunships and Clone Z-95 Headhunters piloted by members of the Wolfpack, a clone detachment under the command of Jedi General Gimli. Gimli himself flew his personal Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor, the Blade of Dorin. As the Wolfpack attacked the facility, the Zygerrian guards scrambled to its defense, launching their two nimble HH-87 Starhoppers into battle. The Zygerrian pilots damaged clone pilot's Warthog's craft, but General Gimli outmaneuvered them and destroyed the Starhoppers. The Wolfpack then focused on destroying the defensive towers, which had already taken down one LAAT/i gunship. However, the turrets were ray-shielded, and the Republic forces were unable to inflict any damage.
Meanwhile, taking advantage of the confusion, Rex and Sam broke free of their restraints and assaulted their Zygerrian captors, while Frodo, Eowyn, and R2-D2 broke into the facility. As Sam and Rex continued to battle their guards, Agruss used his computer to electrify the walls of the slave pens holding the Togruta and opened the hatch beneath the pens, intent on dropping the slaves to their doom. Agruss then smashed the controls so that Gamgee could not cancel his command. Sam contacted Gimli, informing him of the situation. In turn, Gimli communicated with Frodo, warning him that the cruiser could not descend any further to rescue the Togruta until the turrets were destroyed. Frodo then set off to destroy the towers, while Eowyn went to help the slaves.
Using the Force, Frodo leaped onto one of the towers, killed its gunner, and used the weapon to destroy all other emplacements, opening the way for Admiral Coburn. However, as there was no way to bring the slaves onto the landing platform, Eowyn advised the Admiral to position the Hand of Justice under the facility, beneath the opened slave pens. In the meantime, Sam and Rex managed to defeat the remaining Zygerrian guards, leaving only Agruss. In hopes of saving his life, the Keeper reminded Gamgee of his inability to kill an unarmed man due to the Jedi Code. However, trooper Rex was not bound by the Code, and he killed Agruss with a throw of a force spear. After Admiral Coburn maneuvered his ship underneath the facility, Commander Wolffe and the Wolfpack used jetpacks and ascension cables to help transport the slaves and Eowyn onto the Hand of Justice. After Frodo, Sam and Rex were evacuated aboard one of the gunships, and the light cruiser carrying the Togruta left the facility, Gimli ordered all gunships to open fire, and the slave processing facility was destroyed.
==Aftermath==
The Zygerrian Slave Empire was dealt a crippling blow with the destruction of the slave processing facility. Shortly after the battle, aboard the Republic cruiser, the leader of the rescued slaves, Governor Gupat Roshti, thanked Eowyn for her service to the Togruta. Although Roshti believed that his people would not recover from the horrors they had been through soon, he admitted that Eowyn could be right in that those events would only make the Togruta of Kiros stronger. Roshti then told Eowyn that he and his people were considering joining the Republic; a notion which the Padawan supported.
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==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 5.10
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*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded
*Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Episode Guide
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==Notes and references==
Category:War of the Rings battles