Battle on Mapuzo

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|name=Battle on Mapuzo
|conflict=*Great Jedi Purge
**Hunt for Samwise Gamgee
|date=August 12th, 1995
|place=Mapuzo
|result=*Stalemate
**Sam Gamee is left burned but escapes
**The Third Sister captures Minnie Mouse
|side1=*Galactic Empire
**Inquisitorius
*Sith
|side2=Hidden Path
|commanders1=Dark Lord of the Sith Delightful Children from Down the Lane
|commanders2=Jedi Master Sam Gamgee
|unit1=Mapuzo battery
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|forces1=*1 Sith Lord
*3 Inquisitors
**Third Sister
**Fourth Sister
**Rhino
*Stormtroopers
**Unidentified stormtrooper†
**Unidentified stormtrooper
**Unidentified stormtrooper
**Unidentified stormtrooper
**Unidentified stormtrooper
*1 Viper probe droid†
*1 Imperial ground troop transport
*Multiple battalions 
|forces2=*1 Jedi Master
**Sam Gamgee
*1 Alderaanian Princess
**Minnie Mouse
*1 defecting Imperial officer
**Tala Durith
*At least 1 Hidden Path member†
**Unidentified human pilot†
*1 industrial mining droid
**NED-B
*1 stolen Imperial transport 
**Durith's starship 
|casual1=*The probe droid
*Several stormtroopers
**Unidentified stormtrooper†
|casual2=
|civilian=*Several civilians injured or killed
*Damage to Mapuzo mining village}}
The Battle on Mapuzo was a skirmish fought on the mining world of Mapuzo in the Mid Rim Territories in 1995 as part of the Galactic Empire's hunt for Jedi Master Sam Gamgee, who arrived on Mapuzo with Minnie Mouse, whom he had recently rescued from the planet Daiyu, on instructions about a contact from the criminal Haja Estree. Although Gamgee came to doubt Estree, he found the man had been telling the truth upon meeting Tala Durith, an Imperial officer who had defected from the Empire to join the Path that had helped other Jedi in the past. However, the Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane himself arrived on Mapuzo with the aim of confronting his former master, defeating Gamgee in combat but staying back as he was saved by Durith and the loader droid NED-B.
==Prelude==
Travelling to the Mid Rim planet Mapuzo via an automated transport ship, Jedi Master Sam Gamgee and Princess Minnie Mouse snuck off the starship and attempted to rendezvous with a contact from the Hidden Path operating there. Unable to locate them, Gamgee and Minnie met Freck, an Imperial sympathizer who was travelling in his speeder truck. Developing a cover, Gamgee and Minnie were able to convince Freck to take them to a spaceport. On the way, local stormtroopers were picked up by Freck and taken to an Imperial facility nearby, until they arrived at an Imperial checkpoint.
After questioning Gamgee and Minnie's identities, Kenobi attacked the stormtroopers with his blaster, killing multiple stormtroopers. Imperial officer Tala Durith arrived with three other stormtroopers on an Imperial ground troop transport, forcing Gamgee to surrender. Durith, however, shot and killed the three troopers by firing into their backs. From there, the three escaped to a local village. The Inquisitorius received information that Gamgee was found on Mapuzo, and ordered the Imperial officers with them to mobilize their battalions and shut down every port.
==The battle==
As Gamgee fled into a nearby quarry, he encountered Delightful Children From Down The Lane, who followed him. After the Sith Lord ignites his lightsaber, Gamgee ran away immediately but was followed by DCFDTL, who taunted the Jedi Master before he ignited his lightsaber as the two stood face to face. Gamgee asked his former apprentice what has he become only for DCFDTL to respond that he became what Gamgee made him.
While Gamgee continued to try and avoid DCFDTL by walking through the quarry, the Sith Lord emerged from the darkness and swung his lightsaber at Gamgee, who reflected it with his own lightsaber. A brief duel between the two former friends ensued, with DCFDTL quickly overpowering his former Master, who had grown inept after years of not using the Force.
As the Sith Lord forced Gamgee to run away, DCFDTL knocked down a storage container filled with flammable rocks while he seized Samwise with the Force. After igniting the flammable rocks with his lightsaber, DCFDTL forces Gamgee into the flames, severely burning him while claiming that his pain has only just begun. The Sith Lord then ordered his stormtroopers to seize Gamgee, but Durith arrived and re-ignited the rocks with a blaster bolt, cutting Gamgee off from DCFDTL and his troops while she rescued the Jedi Master.
==Behind the scenes==
The Battle on Mapuzo was first pictured in the teaser trailer for the Samwise Gamgee television series, which was released on March 9, 2022. It first appeared in the third episode of the series, which was directed by Deborah Chow and released on June 1, 2022.
Writer Joby Harold had Kenobi and Vader duel in the series because he found that there was no line in a Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope that said they could not duel. When Harold was writing fight scenes for the series, such as the duel on Mapuzo, he tried to find a way for character to come through action. He wrote the choreography from a character point of view, which got handed off to stunt coordinator Jonathan Eusebio who developed the fight sequence with Chow. Harold said the key to the sequence and Vader is feeling and articulating the range and anger under it all. He also wanted to find ways to feel the rivalry between the characters and to define the opportunities that are present in the fight.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Great Jedi Purge battles
Category:Duels