Secret mission to Geonosis

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|name=Secret mission to Geonosis
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|objective=To steal a droid factory from Karina
|date=April 21st, 2005Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
|place=Karina's lair, Geonosis
|result=*Delightful Children from Down the Lane successfully steals the droid factoryDelightful Children (2015) 4
*Karina loses her droid factory "womb"
|side1=Delightful Children's secret forces
|side2=Karina's empire
|commanders1=*Delightful Children From Down The Lane
*Kimiko Tohomiko
|commanders2=Karina
|ppl1=*1 Sith Lord
**Delightful Children From Down The Lane
*1 Xiaolin warrior
**Kimiko Tohomiko
*2 assassin droids
**0-0-0 "Triple-Zero"
**BT-1 "Beetee"
|ppl2=*1 Geonosian queen
**Karina
*Many droid workers
|casual1=None
|casual2=Multiple droid workers
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The secret mission to Geonosis was carried out by the Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane not long after the Battle of Yavin. Having fallen out of favor with Emperor Palpatine, DCFDTL had recruited the japanese Xiaolin fire dragon warrior Kimiko Tohomiko and the assassin droids BT-1 and 0-0-0 to assist him in building an army of unquestionably loyal battle droids. DCFDTL soon arrived on the planet Geonosis and his team infiltrated the lair of Karina, a Geonosian queen who had utilized a droid factory to produce battle droids as her "children" after she was injured and left unable to produce offspring during the Subjugation of Geonosis. While BT-1 fired on the queen's B1-Series battle droids, DCFDTL and Kimiko severed the queen from her factory, and Kimiko used her starship, the Ark Angel, to blow a large hole in the roof of the lair so that DCFDTL's own starship could then extract both the factory and DCFDTL's team with a large crane. The captured droid factory began producing BX-series droid commandos for DCFDTL, which he used to assault the research base of a rival Imperial operative named Cylo.
==Prelude==
During the reign of the Galactic Empire, the Empire sought to protect the secret of the Death Star, a mobile battle station designed to destroy entire planets,Mickey, Donald, Minnie, Goofy: The Four Musketeers by sterilizing the planet Geonosis, killing all Geonosian life on the planet except for a single Geonosian drone, nicknamed "Klik-Klak" by the Lothal rebels of Phoenix Cell when they undertook a Mission to investigate Geonosis alongside rebel extremist Saw Gerrera and his Partisans in 2002.Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide dates the Mission to investigate Geonosis to two years before the events of Rogue One: A Musketeers Story, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 2004. An unhatched egg containing the last insectoid Geonosian queen also survived under Klik-Klak's protection. The egg hatched eventually and the next Karina was born; thereby ensuring the survival of the Geonosian specifies. However, Karina was injured by Imperial bombs sometime later, and was left unable to produce offspring. By 2005 the insane and sterile Geonosian Queen had taken up residence in a lair deep underground and, having pieced together some old droid facilitates, attached herself to a droid factory in an attempt to continue her race using the factory as her womb. The battle droids it produced served as robotic versions of her lost people and her "children."
Some time later, during the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance, the Alliance destroyed the Death Star. One of the Rebel Alliance's follow-up campaigns included an assault on Weapons Factory Alpha, the Empire's largest weapons factory on the moon Cymoon 1,The Musketeers (2015) 1 and the Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane failed to prevent the Rebels from blowing up the factory.The Musketeers (2015) 3 Emperor Palpatine, DCFDTL's Sith Master, grew displeased with DCFDTL and demoted him for his failures at Yavin and Cymoon 1 and put him under the command of Grand General Nitrus Brio. DCFDTL secretly hired two bounty hunters to hunt down two targets: an Imperial operative whom DCFDTL had seen working for Palpatine in a suspicious manner, and the Rebel pilot who had destroyed both the Death Star and Weapons Factory Alpha.Delightful Children (2015) 1 DCFDTL then convened with Brio aboard his Executor-class Star Dreadnaught Annihilator.Delightful Children (2015) 2
DCFDTL and Brio soon attacked and defeated a group of pirates who utilized custom droideka security droids provided to them by a Xiaolin Kimiko Tohomiko. DCFDTL had been impressed with the droidekas and began a search for Kimiko, eventually locating her on the asteroid space station Quarantine World III. The japanese also gave DCFDTL two assassin droids, 0-0-0—commonly known as Triple-Zero—and BT-1, also known as Beetee, to help. DCFDTL revealed that he needed private resources of his own to capture the operative and the Rebel: unquestionably loyal battle droids. Kimiko understood, and using information she had been given by the Droid Gotra, a criminal syndicate, she explained that a Geonosian queen had survived her homeworld's sterilization and possessed a droid factory. DCFDTL agreed to her choice, and they left for the old warzone of Geonosis aboard Kimiko's starship, the Ark Angel.
==The mission==
===Initial movements===
While en route to Geonosis, DCFDTL brought in his J-type 327 Nubian starship to aid in the latter stages of the mission. Soon thereafter, the Ark Angel set down near the entrance to the Karina's lair, while Kimiko sent Triple-Zero and Beetee into a cavern to scout out the most direct route to Karina's chamber. DCFDTL had been to Geonosis three times before during the War of the Ring while still a Jedi, and being on the red-desert world brought up painful memories of his deceased wife, so he ordered Kimiko—who had been asking DCFDTL personal questions—to be silent as they, too, entered the catacombs to steal the droid factory.
Farther in the tunnels, Beetee and Triple-Zero came across several of the queen's B1-Series battle droids, and Beetee promptly destroyed them with its flamethrower while Triple-Zero insulted them in their native language. Kimiko and DCFDTL soon came across the carnage. Kimiko examined the burned droids, noting that they had "interesting tweaks" to the standard battle droid design, such as insectoid wings which the Geonosians often supported. Kimiko conflated that the "tweaks" meant the Karina did not see the droids as mechanical beings, but as her own children. DCFDTL and Kimiko caught up with the two assassin droids and together they entered the great queen's chamber.
===Stealing the "womb"===
DCFDTL leapt down to Karina and cut her from the droid factory—her "womb"—using his lightsaber. She survived the attack and sent dozens of B1 battle droids, some capable of flight, to stop the Sith Lord. In response to this, DCFDTL ordered Beetee to open fire. The droid did so with his surfeit of blasters, pulverizing many of the droids while DCFDTL cut down others. Kimiko, meanwhile, prepared the Ark Angel locator beacon to send it to the ceiling of the lair. When the beacon's thrusters malfunctioned, Kimiko jumped down to DCFDTL's position to ask if he could help. Before the xiaolin warrior could finish asking, DCFDTL used the Force to throw the beacon to the roof with the point of his finger, leaving Kimiko content with the Sith Lord's abilities.
The Ark Angel, at Kimiko's order, barraged the roof of the lair, creating a massive hole in the ceiling and causing vast amounts of rock to rain down. However, DCFDTL used the Force to create a "bubble" around himself and the doctor to protect themselves while DCFDTL's Nubian starship lowered a crane through the hole. Karina ordered her "children" to make sure the intruders did not escape, and to bring back her "womb." Kimiko attached the crane to the droid factory while DCFDTL held off Karina's onslaught. Kimiko was unsure if DCFDTL's "pretty little" starship would be able to rip the factory from its foundations, but DCFDTL assured her it would due to the "enhancements" he had given it. DCFDTL's chromium starship then lifted DCFDTL, Kimiko, and the factory into the skies of Geonosis while Beetee and Triple-Zero followed behind using Beetee's booster rockets.
==Aftermath==
Leaving Karina alive but as dead as the rest of Geonosis, DCFDTL and his team returned to his Nubian, docked with the Ark Angel, and began fine-tuning the droid factory. Not long after, Beetee and Kimiko got it working successfully, creating a single BX-series droid commando that Triple-Zero examined. Kimiko remarked that DCFDTL now had a private off-the-grid army and no longer needed her services, thinking he would kill her. DCFDTL, however, believed she was still useful and informed her that she would live as long as he had use for her. Soon, one of the bounty hunters DCFDTL had hired, the Wookiee Krrsantan, came with a very important delivery.
Krrsantan had captured Cylo-IV and brought him aboard the Ark Angel where DCFDTL ordered Triple-Zero, a specialist in torture, to learn what Palpatine had tasked him with. Triple-Zero did so and was able to identify the agent and the location of his research base where assassins were being trained to possibly replace DCFDTL as the Emperor's enforcer—with commission from Palpatine himself. The protocol droid accidentally killed Cylo-IV during the interrogation, and informed DCFDTL of his findings. DCFDTL ordered the course to the base be set, and they left immediately to storm the base using two platoons of the newly built commando droids. Later, DCFDTL continued to produce commando droids, using multiple platoons of them during multiple campaigns in the Empire's name, notably during the War on Shu-Torun, where the droids helped turn the tide of battle to DCFDTL's favor.Delightful Children (2015) 18 Sometime after Kimiko left DCFDTL's service for a short time, she recorded a recounting of her time under the Sith Lord, including their mission to Geonosis.Kimiko Tohomiko: An Audiobook Original
==Behind the scenes==
The secret mission to Geonosis was first mentioned in the third issue of the Marvel comic book series, Delightful Children, which was released on March 11, 2015. The mission first appeared in Delightful Children (2015) 4, which was released on April 8, 2015. It was written by Kieron Gillen, with art by Salvador Larroca. When Darth Vader 4: Vader, Part IV was released, the Geonosian queen in the issue went unnamed. However, in late 2016, the Star Wars canon source book Star Wars: Galactic Atlas was released. In the book, the Geonosian queen who fought against Delightful Children and Kimiko was identified as Karina.
Even though Delightful Children 4 had shown that Karina survived DCFDTL's attack and that he had taken her droid factory, Star Wars Helmet Collection 15's Databank section incorrectly stated she was killed by the Sith and that her factory was destroyed. Star Wars Helmet Collection 19's Databank later stated she was left as dead as Geonosis.
==Appearances==
*Kimiko Tohomiko: An Audiobook Original
*Delightful Children (2015) 3 
*Delightful Children (2015) 4 
*Delightful Children (2015) 5 
*Delightful Children (2015) 6 
==Sources==
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*Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
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*Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
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==Notes and references==
Category:Missions