Escape from the Republic military base

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|name=Escape from the Republic military base
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|date=August 24th, 1983Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the Battle of Erebor and the Eowyn's departure from the Jedi Order to 1984. As the episode this event takes place within takes place between the events of the episodes the other events are attached to according to , this event must take place in 1983.
|place=Republic Center for Military Operations, Minas Tirith
|result=Jedi Padawan Eowyn escapes
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|side2=Galactic Republic
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|commanders1=Padawan Eowyn
|commanders2=*Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins
*Clone Commander CC-1010 ("Fox")
*Clone Captain CT-7567 ("Rex")
|commanders3=Barriss Offee
|forces1=1 Jedi Padawan
|forces2=*1 Jedi Knight
*Coruscant Guard
**Clone shock troopers
*Clone troopers
*ARF trooper
**Hound (Clone Trooper)
*Clone trooper pilot
**Davijaan "Odd Ball"
*Several massiffs
**Grizzer
*Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
|forces3=1 fallen Jedi
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|casual2=Three clone troopers
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After her arrest for the murder of Letta Turmond, Jedi Padawan Eowyn managed to effect an escape from the Republic military base where she was being held.
==Prelude==
After the bombing of the Jedi Temple killing several Jedi, clone troopers, and Temple workers, Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins and his Padawan Eowyn discovered that Letta Turmond, the wife of a Temple worker by the name of Jackar Bowmani, had fed her husband nano-droids which then exploded when Bowmani was working inside the Temple. The Jedi placed Turmond under arrest and she was later transferred to the custody of the military at the request of Chancellor Palpatine. While being held at the Republic military base, Turmond asked to see Padawan Eowyn.
Suspicious of her motives, Padawan Eowyn sought to personally interrogate the prisoner in order to better understand the reasoning behind the murder of her Jedi compatriots. Turmond revealed that she had been approached by another Jedi, disillusioned with the Jedi Order, who had asked her to give the nano-droids to Bowmani. However, before Turmond could reveal that Jedi to be Barriss Offee she was Force choked by Offee who had hidden herself and thereby framed Tano for Turmond's murder. Commander Fox of the Coruscant Guard, seeing the chocking Turmond on the monitor screen, rushed in with two other troopers and placed a confused Eowyn under arrest on suspicion of murder. After reviewing the footage which had no audio, but appeared to show Eowyn chocking Turmond; Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin believed Eowyn to be guilty, given that she was displeased with Turmond being placed under military jurisdiction. Tarkin then restricted visitors, especially to Baggins, who was forced to leave when he demanded to be let through.
==The escape==
After a brief stay in a cell, Eowyn noticed a security access card sitting on the floor just beyond the force field barring the door. Assuming it had been planted by her master, she levitated the card with the Force and used it to escape her cell. Proceeding through the corridors, Eowyn came upon lightsabers and comlink—amidst several unconscious troopers. As she was answering her beeping comlink, Commander Fox entered the security observation room and seeing Eowyn among the unconscious clones, immediately assumed she was the guilty party and sounded the alarm. Instead of staying to face Fox, Eowyn ran, trying to escape the facility. After evading several clone patrols, Eowyn found three dead clones, killed by a lightsaber. A chase through the facility ensued, with orders given by Fox to shoot to kill, until the arrival and intercession of Frodo Baggins and Captain Rex, at which point the troops were ordered to only fire stun blasts and capture Eowyn alive.
All clone shock troopers were placed on alert throughout the base and the hunt continued into the landing area outside the base and past the memorial. It was there that the shock troopers spotted Eowyn and gave chase with increasing numbers of troopers and LAAT/i craft pursuing her. During the chase, as she deflected stun bolts, one clone fired a rocket launcher, knocking her off her feet. As she dropped her lightsabers, Eowyn retrieved one before continuing to run. Eventually, Eowyn found herself cornered, but was once more able to escape by cutting into a nearby piping system. She managed to evade the troopers before finding herself at the end of the pipe leading to a sinkhole towards the Minas Tirith Underworld. Frodo managed to find her and pleaded with her to come back, saying that escaping would only make things worse. However, Eowyn refused to be punished for crimes she did not commit and pleaded him to trust her as she trusted him while she was searching for proof of her innocence. As Rex and Fox caught up to Frodo, Eowyn jumped onto a transport descending into the underworld.
==Aftermath==
In response to the escape, the Jedi High Council ordered Eowyn's arrest, assigning Baggins and Jedi Master Gimli to the task. Eventually, Eowyn was recaptured after a disguised Barriss Offee lured her into a trap, and taken back to the Jedi Temple.
As the Council debated on Eowyn's fate, Tarkin requested to them—on behalf of the Galactic Senate—that Eowyn be expelled from the Jedi Order and returned to military custody to be put to a military tribunal. Though not in total agreement, the Council decided to do as the Senate asked, expelling Eowyn and handing her back to the Republic military prison. Eowyn was subsequently put on trial before members of the Senate, with Tarkin serving as the prosecution and Senator Padmé Amidala serving as the defense. However, before the jury could render its decision, Frodo and Erza Scarlet, who had conducted their own investigation, burst into the room with Offee. She finally confessed her crimes, thereby acquitting Eowyn and leading Offee to be imprisoned in her place. However, Eowyn chose not to rejoin the Jedi Order when offered readmission, as her faith in the Order was shaken due to their disbelief in her innocence.
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