Battle of Saleucami

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|name=Battle of Saleucami
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|conflict=War of the Ring
|date=October 29, 1981
|place=Saleucami
|result=The Republic accomplishes its primary objective of rescuing Eeth Koth, but fails its secondary mission to capture The Mouth of Sauron
|side1=Confederacy of Independent Systems
|side2=*Galactic Republic
*Independent farmer
|commanders1=*The Mouth of Sauron
*TV-94†
|commanders2=*High General Sam Gamgee
*General Adi Gallia
*General Frodo Baggins
*Jedi Master Eeth Koth
*Admiral Wullf Yularen
*Marshal Commander CC-2224
*Captain CT-7567
*Trooper CT-5597 
|forces1=*1 Mordor general
*B1-Series battle droids
**Unidentified B1 battle droid
*B2 super battle droids
*BX-series droid commandos
*2 Nazguls†
*1 T-series tactical droid†
*1 Sheathipede-class transport shuttle
*Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droids
*27 Hyena-class bombers
*27 Droid tri-fighters
*1 C-9979 landing craft†
*6 Munificent-class star frigates
*1 Recusant-class light destroyer†
**The Mouth of Sauron's Recusant-class light destroyer†
|forces2=*4 Jedi
*Clone troopers
**501st Legion
*1 farmer
*BARC speeders
*2 All Terrain Tactical Enforcers
*10 V-19 Torrent starfighters
*2 BTL-B Y-wing starfighters
*1 Eta-class shuttle
*3 Consular-class cruisers
*1 Arquitens-class light cruiser†Star Wars: The Clone Wars Official Episode Guide Series 1 & 2
**Surrogator†
*1 Acclamator-class assault ship
*7 Venator-class Star Destroyers
**Resolute
|casual1=*Many battle droids
*Both Nazguls
*The C-9979 landing craft
*TV-94
*The Recusant-class light destroyer
|casual2=*Many clone troopers
**CT-7567 seriously injured
*1 AT-TE
*Surrogator
|civilian=Damage to Cut Lawquane's homestead}}
During the War of the Ring between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Battle of Saleucami occurred between the two factions on and in orbit of the Outer Rim world Saleucami. The conflict was the result of the capture and torture of Jedi High Council member Eeth Koth at the hands of the Confederate Supreme Commander, The Mouth of Sauron. With the Jedi Master as his captive, The Mouth of Sauron sent a transmission to the remainder of the Council on Minas Tirith in which he brutally tortured Koth to express his hatred for the Jedi Order. Unbeknownst to the Mordor General, Koth used discreet hand signals to inform the Council of his location. Using the information provided by Koth, Jedi Masters Sam Gamgee and Adi Gallia, as well as Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins, organized an assault force to engage the Confederacy at Saleucami, rescue Koth, and capture The Mouth of Sauron.
Sam was the first of the Jedi to arrive at Saleucami and engaged The Mouth of Sauron's forces with a fleet of Star Destroyers and nimble Consular-class frigates under the command of Admiral Wullf Yularen. Early in the battle, Gamgee's Surrogator|light cruiser]] was caught in a tractor beam from The Mouth of Sauron's Recusant-class light destroyer and was boarded by battle droid forces and the Mordor General himself. While The Mouth of Sauron was dueling Gamgee aboard the cruiser, Frodo and Gallia entered the battle and infiltrated the General's destroyer to rescue Eeth Koth. Despite The Mouth's preparations for such an occurrence, the two Jedi were successful in freeing the captive Master and getting him off the ship. Meanwhile, The Mouth of Sauron, understanding that Gamgee had the upper hand in their duel, retreated to his destroyer and led his battle droids onto a landing craft bound for Saleucami's surface. During the descent, the craft collided with debris from the battle, forcing The Mouth of Sauron to flee the doomed vessel in an escape pod.
While Frodo continued the battle in orbit, Sam led a force of clone troopers to the planet's surface to hunt down the Mouth. The Mordor General evaded and fled from the Republic forces, hoping to reach an escape pod with a functioning transmitter in order to call for an evacuation transport. During the search for The Mouth of Sauron, Clone Captain CT-7567 was seriously injured, necessitating aid from local farmer Cut Lawquane, a clone who had deserted the Grand Army of the Republic. During the Captain's stay at Lawquane's farm, droid commandos that had previously escaped the doomed landing craft attacked the farm homestead and were repelled by CT-7567 and the former trooper. Meanwhile, Sam caught up with and engaged The Mouth of Sauron, who fled the battle once a Sheathipede-class shuttle arrived to ferry him away.
==Prelude==
===The General's threat===
In 1981 during the War of the Ring, The Mouth of Sauron, the Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, decided to target members of the High Council of the Jedi Order for capture. The Mouth of Sauron, who had a deep-seated hatred of the Jedi, chose Master Eeth Koth to be the victim of his aggression. Deep in the Outer Rim Territories, Mouth of Sauron led a fleet of Confederate warships into battle against Koth and his Republic forces. After boarding the Jedi Master's Star Destroyer, Mouth of Sauron engaged Koth in a pitched lightsaber duel that ended when the General's Nazguls repeatedly electrocuted the Jedi. With Koth defeated, The Mouth of Sauron took him hostage aboard his Recusant-class light destroyer and subjected him to excruciating torture. The Mordor General displayed Koth in a video transmission sent to the Jedi Council on Minas Tirith, in which the Mouth expressed his loathing for the Order and explained his plans give the hostage Jedi Master a prolonged and painful death.
In the communication center of the Jedi Temple, Council members Bilbo Baggins, Aragorn, Sam Gamgee, and Adi Gallia viewed the transmission alongside the holographic forms of Council members Legolas, Gandalf, and Gimli and Master Luminara Unduli. The Council was joined by Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins and several other Jedi present in the Temple, who watched as the Mouth gloated over his capture of Koth before having the Jedi Master electrocuted once more. When the transmission ended, the Jedi Council members and Skywalker discussed the need to eliminate Grievous despite their inability to locate him. Gimli's clone commander, Wolffe, had also been watching the transmission and noticed that the otherwise inert Master Koth had been using discreet hand signals before the transmission ended. High Jedi General Sam was able to interpret that Koth was signaling that the Mouth of Sauron was bound for the Saleucami system. Sam, Frodo, and Gallia volunteered to use this information to ambush the General and rescue Koth. This was exactly the outcome The Mouth of Sauron had desired, as he had hoped to use Koth as bait to lure in Frodo and Sam, his two most hated Jedi foes.
===Plan of attack===
The three Jedi organized a fleet consisting of three Venator-class Star Destroyers, three Consular-class frigates, one Acclamator-class assault ship, and one Surrogator|Arquitens-class light cruiser]]. Their plan was for the fleet, under the command of Admiral Wullf Yularen aboard the Star Destroyer Resolute, to engage The Mouth of Sauron's forces over Saleucami while General Sam and Marshal Commander CC-2224, nicknamed "Cody," would intentionally allow for their Republic light cruiser to be boarded by the Mouth and his battle droid forces. With the Confederate Mordor General distracted, Frodo, Gallia, and Clone Captain CT-7567, nicknamed "Rex," would execute a hyperspace jump into the system in their Eta-class shuttle and infiltrate The Mouth of Sauron's destroyer to find and rescue Master Koth while Gamgee trapped the Mordor General on his cruiser to be taken into custody.
Meanwhile, The Mouth of Sauron arrived at Saleucami with a fleet of three Munificent-class star frigates and his own Separatist destroyer. Alongside his T-series tactical droid, TV-94, the General prepared to invade the planet, but before he could begin landing his troops on the surface, the Republic fleet arrived in the Saleucami system and advanced toward the Confederate warships. The Mouth of Sauron boasted to Master Koth, who was imprisoned in a containment field on the destroyer's bridge, that he had expected such an occurrence and was prepared for the Republic's imminent attempt to rescue the Jedi Master. The Mouth of Sauron then opened an open communication feed with General Gamgee, and after the two engaged in a short repartee, the general cut the transmission and ordered his vessels to open fire on the Republic fleet.
==The battle==
===Conflict in orbit===
As the Confederate ships began to fire on the Republic cruisers and frigates, Gamgee ordered Admiral Yularen to engage Mouth of Sauron's fleet to provide cover for Frodo and Gallia's arrival. Yularen complied, issuing a fire-at-will command to the Star Destroyers and frigates, which promptly entered the fray, opening fire. The swift and nimble Consular-class frigates charged past the Confederate lines, harassing Mouth of Sauron's capital ships as the larger Venator-class Star Destroyers fired on the Separatist forces from a distance. While Gamgee's and Cody's light cruiser approached Mouth of Sauron's destroyer, the Clone Commander relayed the exact coordinates of the Mordor General's vessel to Frodo, Gallia, and Rex, who were waiting with a clone infiltration team outside the combat zone. Receiving the coordinates, Frodo took their shuttle to jump to hyperspace with the intent of emerging a short distance from Mouth of Sauron's warship. As the battle continued, The Mouth of Sauron, who held a personal grudge against Gamgee after repeated encounters with him, insisted upon boarding the Jedi Master's cruiser and killing him personally. When the Republic light cruiser was targeted with a tractor beam and was reeled toward Mouth of Sauron's ship, Sam barred Cody from firing on the beam's source, as the Confederate Mordor General's assault on the ship was essential to their plans of capturing him.
Meanwhile, Frodo's shuttle emerged from hyperspace just behind Republic lines. Using his formidable skill as a pilot, Frodo maneuvered the ship across the battlefield and through the hollow hull plates of Mouth of Sauron's destroyer. Upon reaching the slim aft section of the destroyer, Frodo landed his shuttle on the larger ship's underbelly, having successfully avoided detection by the Confederate forces. He, Gallia, and Rex led their squad of troopers onto the destroyer through a hole that Frodo carved with his lightsaber in the ship's superstructure. Rex and the troopers were ordered to guard the exit to their shuttle while the two Jedi left to rescue Koth, whom Gallia had determined was being held on the ship's bridge. The Mouth of Sauron had just left the bridge to lead the boarding of Sam's cruiser via an armored docking tube that had extended from the destroyer to connect the two ships.
Aboard the cruiser, Sam, Cody, and their contingent of clone troopers prepared for Mouth of Sauron's attack. The Mordor General cut an entryway onto the Republic vessel with his lightsabers and dispatched four BX-series droid commandos into the cruiser in an initial wave. While one of the droids was destroyed immediately, the remaining three succeeded in killing most of the vessel's defenders, leaving Gamgee alone to face Mouth of Sauron and two of his Nazguls. The Jedi Hobbit Master retreated from the boarding party's entry point toward the cruiser's bridge, which had been cleared of personnel. There, he was surrounded by the Nazguls and Mouth of Sauron, but managed to engage and destroy one of the ringwraiths. Before pressing his attack, Mouth of Sauron informed Gamgee that he had anticipated the Republic's attack plan and was prepared for Frodo's attempt to rescue Koth. Gamgee was then set upon by the other Nazgul, but continued his conversation with Mouth of Sauron in spite of the distraction. The two argued over the general's role in the war and the reasoning behind his actions before the hobbit destroyed the Nazgul and appropriated its sword. Mouth of Sauron himself then engaged Sam in a lightsaber duel.
Frodo and Gallia had meanwhile been cutting through patrols of B1 and B2 battle droids in their race to the bridge of the Confederate Mordor General's destroyer. Upon reaching the bridge, they were greeted by the imprisoned Master Koth, TV-94, and a squad of droid commandos who had been left there in anticipation of the Jedi's rescue mission. TV-94 remotely electrocuted Koth several times through the use of a control on his wrist panel; however, before the droid could kill the Jedi Master, Frodo used the Force to pull TV-94 to him and sever his arm. The droid commandos attacked the Jedi in response while the tactical droid tried to retrieve his severed arm. Although thwarted several times in the ensuing melee between the Jedi and the commandos, TV-94 eventually collected his arm and attempted to electrocute Master Koth to death, but was unable to do so due to the fact that the droid could not activate the electrocution control while using his intact arm to hold his severed one. Frodo and Gallia defeated the last of the commandos before destroying TV-94 and releasing Koth. The three Jedi then made their way back to their shuttle.
====Complications====
On Gamgee's light cruiser, Surrogator, the Jedi General succeeded in gaining the upper hand over Mouth of Sauron by using the Force to throw the severed sword of the deceased Nazgul at the general. The impact slammed Mouth of Sauron into the forward viewports of the bridge before he fell into the pilot's chair. Sam demanded that Mouth of Sauron surrender, but the general instead lunged at the hobbit, forcing him to the ground before escaping the bridge and sealing the hatchway behind him. As Gamgee cut through the hatch with his lightsaber, he contacted Frodo to appraise him of the situation. Frodo decided to escort the wounded Master Koth back to the shuttle while Gallia would attempt to intercept Mouth of Sauron before he escaped Gamgee's cruiser. Meanwhile, the bridge crew of the cruiser returned to their command consoles on orders from Gamgee to detach from the Confederate destroyer before Mouth of Sauron jumped ship. Sam, who had escaped the bridge, raced to catch up with the Mordor General while Commander Cody assessed the damage to his unit taken during Mouth of Sauron's boarding. The Clone Commander and his men were directly in the way of Mouth of Sauron's escape route and opened fire on the General upon visual contact with him. The Mouth of Sauron raced past the clones and contacted the bridge of his destroyer, ordering it to fire on the cruiser's engines and begin preparations for a landing on Saleucami.
Before Mouth o fSauron could reach the docking tube and escape back to his destroyer, one of Cody's men fired their blaster rifle's cable at the General and electrocuted him, giving the clones an opportunity to reel the general in and pile on top of him. The Mouth of Sauron threw the troopers off of him and made a break for the docking tube, but was followed into the tube by Gamgee, Cody, and several clones. The Separatist destroyer had meanwhile begun firing on the cruiser's engines, causing the vessel to jostle and heave uncontrollably. The tremors shifted the docking tube into a steep angle, throwing Mouth of Sauron, Sam, and the clones to the floor. The general escaped the tube after a short duel with Gamgee and attempted insure the hobbit's death by sealing him within the damaged docking tube. Mouth of Sauron was stopped by Gallia, who engaged him in duel. During their melee, the heavily damaged Republic cruiser dipped far below the Confederate destroyer, causing the docking tube to rupture and expose those within to the vacuum of space.
While Mouth of Sauron escaped the distracted Jedi, Gallia pulled Sam and Cody into the safety of the destroyer via a grappling cable. Gamgee reluctantly agreed to put off his pursuit of Mouth of Sauron in favor of escaping the destroyer, and contacted Frodo to arrange an extraction from the ship. He, Gallia, and Cody met Frodo in one of the destroyer's hangars and fled the vessel on the Eta-class shuttle. As the damage to the Surrogator caused it to explode, The Mouth of Sauron boarded a C-9979 landing craft bound for Saleucami's surface. Debris from the destroyed cruiser collided with the craft during its descent, throwing it into an uncontrolled free-fall toward Saleucami. The Mouth of Sauron and the droids aboard the landing craft scuttled the doomed vessel, fleeing on numerous escape pods that scattered across a large region of Saleucami. The Jedi returned to the Republic fleet to prepare for the next phase of the battle, with Gamgee leading the hunt for Mouth of Sauron on the surface while Frodo commanded the battle in space.
To eliminate the remaining Confederate naval forces, General Baggins ordered the deployment of all starfighters in a concentrated effort to destroy Mouth of Sauron's Recusant-class destroyer. The Republic's BTL-B Y-wings and V-19 Torrent fighters were engaged by waves of Vulture droids, Hyena-class bombers and tri-fighters while making their way towards the Confederate forces, but managed to destroy their attackers and disable the turbolaser turrets on the destroyer and its escorting frigates. After the Republic pilots managed to completely destroy one of the frigates, three more Munificent-class frigates emerged from hyperspace to support the crumbling Separatist forces. These vessels were supported by several more waves of Vulture droids, but Frodo's fighters were able to destroy the droid combatants. Once the droid starfighters were neutralized, the Confederate frigates were almost immediately met by four newly-arrived Republic Venator-class Star Destroyers, marking the end of the orbital engagement. Frodo recalled his fighters as his reinforcements mopped up the remaining Separatist vessels.
===Hunt on the surface===
Sam arrived on Saleucami's surface in an Acclamator-class assault ship carrying a contingent of clones and All Terrain Tactical Enforcers assigned to search the planet and capture Mouth of Sauron. Accompanying Sam were Commander Cody and Captain Rex, the latter of whom was leading a squad of troopers from the 501st Legion on BARC speeders. While Sam's forces headed for the downed Confederate landing craft, The Mouth of Sauron and the droids he had escaped with regrouped and assessed their situation. Their pod's transmitter had been destroyed in the landing, and only one other escape pod was still functioning. Unable to contact the Separatist fleet in orbit for extraction, Mouth of Sauron and his droids set off for the other functioning escape pod. During the trek to the pod, the general used one of Saleucami's reeks as a mount and several eopies to carry supplies, but refused to allow the droids under his command to ride any of the creatures or stop to recharge their power cells. When one of the B1 battle droids accompanying him explained that their power was running low, Mouth of Sauron bisected it with one of his lightsabers in frustration.
The Republic forces reached the destroyed landing craft and searched its remains, determining that the vessel's crash had occurred only a short time before. Sam ordered Rex to take troopers Jesse, Hardcase, and Kix to scout the Saleucami wetlands on their BARC speeders while he and Cody continued to lead the AT-TEs in their search through the dry territories. After departing for their scouting mission, Rex's team was targeted by a pair of droid commandos. Using a sniper rifle, one of the commandos shot Captain Rex in the chest, knocking him off his speeder. While Jesse and Hardcase pursued and destroyed the droids, Kix, the squad's medic, protected the wounded Captain. After a cursory examination, Kix decided that he would need to remove Rex's armor to see the full extent of the damage, but the squad agreed to search for cover from possible enemy reinforcements first. Realizing they were on farm land, the clones set off in search of the farm's homestead. Meanwhile, General Gamgee, Commander Cody, and trooper Crys performed a robolobotomy on an inert battle droid found near the downed landing craft. The droid's memory logs indicated that the escape pod it had been aboard had crashed because of a near-collision with another pod during its descent. Using this information, Cody was able to determine the approximate location of the other pod.
Rex's squad arrived at the farm homestead and was greeted by Suu Lawquane, the Twi'lek wife of the farm's owner. Although she initially rejected the men's request for assistance, she eventually agreed to let them use the benches in her eopie barn as a bed on which they could tend to their Captain. Kix mended Rex as best he could with the use of a bacta patch to cover his wound; however, the Captain had serious nerve damage, leaving his left arm temporarily paralyzed. Upon revival, Rex insisted on continuing the search for the Mouth of Sauron, but Kix refused to allow his Captain to leave his makeshift sickbed. After a short argument and an interruption from Suu and her daughter, Shaeeah, Rex consented to stay in the barn while the remainder of his squad resumed the search under Jesse's command.
After leaving the farm, Jesse, Kix, and Hardcase were contacted by General Gamgee, who had discovered a second pod that he believed to have carried Mouth of Sauron to Saleucami's surface. Sam surmised that the Mordor General was headed toward another escape pod and ordered Jesse to rendezvous with him at Mouth of Sauron's location. The Mouth of Sauron, meanwhile, was nearing his destination, but was gradually losing battle droids as their power ran out and they shut down. As night had fallen on Saleucami, Rex was confronted by Suu's husband, who had returned from delivering his harvest. The man was Cut Lawquane, whom Rex soon realized was a clone trooper deserter from the Grand Army. Despite initial tension between the two, Lawquane accepted Rex into his home for dinner and spent time with the trooper discussing his reasons for deserting the army and attempting to convince Rex that the practices of the GAR were counteractive to the process of free will. Rex disagreed, but found a grudging respect for Lawquane through his devotion to his children, Shaeeah and Jek.
====The hunt ends====
While Shaeeah and Jekk were playing in Lawquane's field, the two children stumbled upon an escape pod that had fallen from Mouth of Sauron's ship in the aftermath of the battle in orbit. Not knowing what it was, the two of them entered the pod and inadvertently activated it and the full platoon of BX-series droid commandos it was carrying. The frightened children ran back to the homestead claiming that they were being chased by monsters from the "big egg" in the field. Lawquane investigated and found that the commandos—numbering twenty in all—were converging on the house. The former trooper told Suu to escort Jekk and Shaeeah to the upper level of their home and hide with them there. Suu complied and took the children to hide from the droids while Rex and Lawquane armed themselves in preparation for the droids' arrival. Although the Captain wanted to stay beside Lawquane, the farmer insisted that he could handle himself on the first floor, and that he needed Rex to station himself upstairs as the last line of defense for his family.
Rex agreed and left Lawquane on the lower floor. The droids began to come through the doors and windows, but were easily repelled by the farmer. Nevertheless, they eventually made their way into the cellar and surprised Lawquane by coming up through a hatchway in the floor. As Lawquane was overpowered by a commando and pinned beneath support beams that had fallen from the home's ceiling during the melee, several of the droids made their way upstairs, where they encountered Rex. The clone destroyed the droids but was ambushed and tackled by an oncoming commando. Rex fell through an opening in the second story floor as the home's integrity was weakened by blaster fire from Lawquane's battle on the first floor. The Captain landed beside Lawquane and was nearly killed by an attacking commando, but was instead saved by the farmer, who shot the droid in the head. With all the droids destroyed, the family was able to breath a sigh of relief.
Elsewhere on the planet, The Mouth of Sauron arrived at the location of the final escape pod. While the B1 battle droids at the pod transmitted a distress signal to the fleet in orbit, Mouth of Sauron prepared for battle against Gamgee and his forces, who were rapidly approaching his location. As the Republic forces came within range, the droids under the general's command opened fire on Gamgee's AT-TE walkers. The walker ridden by the Jedi General was quickly hit in the leg by a missile, crippling the walker, while the other was able to use its mass-driver cannon to thwart the following missile fire. Jesse, Kix, and Hardcase arrived at the battlefield and engaged the droids aboard their BARC speeders while a Confederate Sheathipede-class shuttle from the fleet arrived to ferry Mouth of Sauron away from the battle zone.
Sam was alerted to the arrival of the shuttle and ordered his remaining AT-TE to shoot it down. Although the walker had some success in preventing the shuttle from landing, its cannon soon overheated, rendering it useless. The shuttle's droid pilots used the opportunity to make their approach toward Mouth of Sauron's location, prompting Sam to enter the fray. The hobbit charged toward the general, cutting down several of his droid defenders before leaping into battle against Mouth of Sauron himself. The two dueled for a short time, but Mouth of Sauron was able to escape Gamgee by throwing his cape in the hobbit's face and scaling the side of the downed escape pod. As Sam attempted to give chase, Mouth of Sauron ordered that the shuttle abort its landing procedures and simply hover over the battlefield. The general reached the top of the escape pod and fired a grappling hook built into his arm into the hull of the waiting shuttle. The shuttle sped away with Mouth of Sauron dangling beneath it, deflecting blaster bolts from clone troopers below. When Commander Cody arrived at Sam's side to check on the General's status, the hobbit asked that the clone contact fleet in orbit and order that it attempt an interception of the ship. General Gamgee understood, however, that The Mouth of Sauron had once again escaped his grasp.
==Aftermath==
The following morning in October 30th, the Republic forces remaining on Saleucami's surface regrouped and began boarding an Acclamator-class assault ship for transport off the world. At the Lawquane farm, Captain Rex was preparing to leave and rejoin his men. As he loaded an eopie loaned to him by the family, Suu questioned whether or not he planned to report her husband to Republic authorities for his desertion. Rex admitted that it was still his duty to do so, but likely would not "remember" the encounter due to his injuries. Rex was thanked for his discretion before being contacted by General Gamgee. The hobbit lamented that Rex had missed the fight against Mouth of Sauron, but the Clone Captain reassured Gamgee that he had a worthy engagement of his own. The Captain then left the farm to rejoin the larger war and leave the Lawquane family in peace.
Despite Mouth of Sauron's defeat there, Saleucami once again fell to the predations of the Confederacy during the Middle-Earth Sieges in the later stages of the war.Star Wars: Republic: Siege of Saleucami
==Behind the scenes==
The first battle of Saleucami was featured in the ninth and tenth episodes of the second season of the The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring television series. The episodes, respectively titled "The Mouth of Sauron Intrigue" and "The Deserter," were the only episodes of the season to feature the Mouth of Sauron, despite his role as a major recurring character in the series' first season. The episodes and the battle also served as a means to introduce two pre-existing characters to the series—Jedi Masters Adi Gallia and Eeth Koth. Koth, who had been previously confirmed as having been killed during the First Battle of Isengard,Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones was retconned into surviving specifically so that he could appear in "The Mouth of Sauron Intrigue."
Besides the characters, the battle also introduced three new starship models to the series. The Separatist destroyer featured in "The Mouth of Sauron Intrigue" was inspired by the design of the Confederate Recusant-class destroyer, which was first seen in The Lord of the Rings: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. The other two ships—the Republic light cruiser and the Jedi ambassadorial shuttle—were completely new to both The War of the Ring series and to Star Wars canon.
This battle is in fact the second portrayal of a conflict on the world. The first battle to be shown on Saleucami was seen in the Siege of Saleucami story arc of the Star Wars: Republic comic series, and was briefly viewed in Revenge of the Sith. That conflict, known as both the "Battle of Saleucami," and the "Siege of Saleucami," takes place in the last stages of the war, well after the battle seen in The Clone Wars. Due to the chronological placement of the pre-existing conflict, this article first adopted the "first battle of Saleucami" as a conjectural title for The Clone Wars battle, but now uses simply the "battle of Saleucami," since the event's official naming in Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures.
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