Liberation of Calodan

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|conc=
|next=*Battle of Tython
*Eventually the Attack on the Vesper 
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|name=Liberation of Calodan
|conflict=Quest to find Danny the Cat
|date=August 19-21, 2010The events of "Chapter 13: The Jedi," including the liberation of Calodan, took place in 2010 per the reasoning here.
|place=Calodan, Corvus
|result=*Calodan is liberated from Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth
*Wing becomes the governor of Calodan
*Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth is arrested for acting as an Imperial sympathizer and placed under New Republic custody 
*Her army continued to exist
|side1=Clan Mudhorn
|side2=Elsbeth's regime†
|commanders1=Eowyn
|commanders2=*Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth
*Captain of the Guard Lang†
|unit1=
|unit2=Morgan Elsbeth's forces
|forces1=*1 Lady of Rohan
**Eowyn
*1 Mandalorian warrior
**Din Djarin
|forces2=* 1 Nightsister
**Morgan Elsbeth
*1 mercenary
**Lang†
*2 HK-87 assassin droids†
*Scout guards
|casual1=
|casual2=*Lang
*Both HK-87 assassin droids
*Many scout guards
}}
In August 2010, during the New Republic Era, the city of Calodan located on the forest planet of Corvus was liberated from Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth and her army of guards by the former Jedi Eowyn during her search for Danny the Cat and Grand Admiral Technor with the help of the Mandalorian warrior Din Djarin.
==Prelude==
===Eowyn's mission===
During the War of the Ring, Morgan Elsbeth's people, the Nightsisters of the planet Dathomir were massacred by the command of Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies The Mouth of Sauron, though she survived. In her anger, she partook in an industry that contributed to the production of the Imperial Starfleet after the Galactic Empire's rise to power at the end of the War of the Ring, plundering worlds for resources and destroying them in the process. At some point she acquired a staff of pure beskar. By 2010, after the death of the Emperor and during the time of the New Republic, Elsbeth had become Magistrate of the walled city of Calodan on the forest planet of Corvus, from where she continued her business and worked under her master, the exiled Grand Admiral Technor. Calodan's citizens suffered under Elsbeth's ruthless rule, for she oppressed the villagers and considered their lives to be meaningless, torturing prisoners and forcing the citizens, who she would use as hostages, to live in poor conditions. She maintained her rule with an army of scout guards led by a hired gunslinger, Lang, and was guarded by two HK-87 assassin droids.
At this time, the Lady of Rohan, Eowyn came into conflict with Elsbeth, seeking the knowledge of her master's location and the freedom of Calodan's citizens by defeating her. Eowyn and Marinette Dupain-Cheng had undertaken a quest to find Danny the Cat, a Jedi Padawan that went missing with Grand Admiral Technor during the Liberation of Lothal. Marinette and Eowyn followed different leads, with Eowyn seeking Magistrate Elsbeth on Corvus as she knew Elsbeth was previously under Technor's command.
Meanwhile, the Mandalorian warrior Din Djarin, sought a Jedi in order to reunite his foundling child, Grogu, back with his Order. Having received information on Eowyn, including her location, from fellow Mandalorian Lady Bo-Katan Kryze. Djarin arrived to town and was summoned by Elsbeth, who offered the bounty hunter the beskar staff in exchange for killing the Jedi, unaware that Djarin had in fact already been seeking her out and believing that as a warrior of Mandalore, who's people had clashed many times with the Jedi, Djarin would happily accept the task. Elsbeth provided Djarin with the coordinates to the Jedi's location, and he along with Grogu set out into the woods.
===Forming an alliance===
Upon traveling deep into the woods, Djarin put Grogu on a rock as he surveyed the area through his visor, he was startled when hearing a snapping sound, however after using his rifle scope he decided it was a false alarm after noticing an indigenous beast. However right after letting his guard down, Eowyn jumped out of the treeline and began striking him, although Djarin was able to block her strikes using his vambraces. He then used his flamethrower to make Eowyn retreat, burning her cloak in the process. While Eowyn was recovering, Djarin managed to tie her up with his fibercord whip. During the brief pause, Eowyn noticed a branch above and gave Djarin a smirk, before using a Force jump to leap over the branch, pulling Djarin into the air, which forced his to detach the cord.
While landing Eowyn used her lightsabers to cut free from the cable before turning to face Djarin again. While Djarin had raised his blaster, he informed Eowyn that Bo-Katan had sent him, and she noticed Grogu, and with that, the fight was over. The next day, Eowyn was practicing the Force with a stubborn Grogu, who finally practiced telekinesis when Djarin offered him a knob from the Razor Crest he liked to play with. Eowyn declined to train the infant after noticing Grogu's strong connection to Djarin, but they agreed to an alliance; if Djarin helped Eowyn defeat Elsbeth and take Calodan, she would make sure that Grogu was properly trained.
==The liberation==
Appearing from the midst of the forest, Eowyn leaped over the city's walls, defeating the scout guard posted on the battlements before confronting Morgan Elsbeth and her forces in the city. Elsbeth ordered her hired gunslinger Lang and her forces to kill Eowyn and execute the remaining citizens before locking herself behind the inner gate. Eowyn ran across the roofs of nearby buildings evading blaster fire, and as Lang, the guards, and Elsbeth's two HK-87 assassin droids split up across the city, Din Djarin arrived on his jetpack to free the prisoners before they could be terminated.
Across the city, Eowyn defeated the remaining scout guard and one of the assassin droids while Djarin freed the prisoners and helped them inside Wing's home. Lang caught Djarin and realized he had joined forces with Eowyn, who leapt over the gate and confronted Elsbeth in a duel behind it while Lang and Djarin listened on in a stand-off. Elsbeth, fighting with the beskar staff, disarmed Eowyn of one of her lightsabers but Eowyn eventually disarmed her and demanded to know the location of her master. Lang attempted to trick Djarin into letting his guard down and blast him when they heard Elsbeth's staff drop, but Djarin shot and killed Lang before he could blast him. Wing warned Djarin about the other assassin droid from above and behind. Djarin then shot the droid before it could kill him.
==Aftermath==
The citizens of Calodan celebrated their freedom after Elsbeth's defeat while Wing took up the mantle as governor of Calodan with Eowyn's support. Eowyn gave the staff to Djarin outside the city.
Djarin eventually returned to his Razor Crest ship to say farewell to Grogu and bring him to Eowyn for training. However, Djarin remained with Grogu for some time before eventually departing his ship. There, Eowyn told Djarin that Grogu saw him as a father and refused to train him due to their strong bond. Eowyn instead advised Djarin to travel to the ruins of an ancient temple on Tython, where Grogu could choose to reach out through the Force and possibly be sensed by other Jedi who could come looking for him. Djarin agreed and parted ways with Eowyn, who walked back towards the town as Djarin and Grogu flew away on the Crest. Elsbeth, meanwhile, informed Eowyn that there existed a device hidden in an ancient Nightsister stronghold constructed on the planet Arcana, which Elsbeth believed to be a map that would lead to her lost master's location, although the witch kept silent about the HK-series assassin droid she had sent to guard it. With this in mind, Eowyn set off with the droid Huyang to Arcana while Elsbeth was arrested for crimes as an Imperial sympathizer and taken by the Vesper to face justice for her atrocities, though the cruiser was intercepted by mercenaries in her employ, former Jedi Knight Baylan Skoll and his apprentice, Shin Hati, who massacred most of the ship's crew and freed Morgan.
==Behind the scenes==
The battle appeared in "Chapter 13: The Jedi" of Jon Favreau's 2019 Disney+ television series The Mandalorian, written and directed by Dave Filoni and released on November 27, 2020.
==Appearances==
*The Mandalorian Season 2 Junior Novel
*The Mandalorian – The Graphic Novel of Season 2
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*Star Wars: Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition
*Star Wars: The Mandalorian Handbook
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==Notes and references==
Category:Quest to find Danny the Cat battles
Category:Duels