Rescue of Adi Gallia

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|name=Rescue of Adi Gallia
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|conflict=War of the Ring
|date=October 26, 1982
|place=Space
|result=*Galactic Republic victory
**Jedi General Adi Gallia rescued
*The Mouth of Sauron escapes
|side1=Confederacy of Independent Systems
|side2=Galactic Republic
|commanders1=The Mouth of Sauron
|commanders2=*General Gimli
*General Adi Gallia
*Commander Wolffe
|forces1=*1 Mordor general
*B1-Series battle droids
*1 Providence-class carrier/destroyer
**The Mouth of Sauron's Providence-class carrier/destroyer
|forces2=*2 Jedi Masters
*Clone troopers
**104th Battalion
*Clone trooper pilots
*Aggressive ReConnaissance-170 starfighters
*BTL-B Y-wing starfighters
*5 Venator-class Star Destroyers
|casual1=Many battle droids
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In the second year of the War of the Ring, Jedi General Gimli launched a Galactic Republic mission to rescue Jedi Master Adi Gallia, who had been previously captured by The Mouth of Sauron of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. After locating Mouth of Sauron's flagship in space, Gimli took a fleet of five Republic Star Destroyers to ambush the Separatist dreadnaught. Boarding Mouth of Sauron's flagship with the Republic Grand Army's 104th Battalion, Gimli and his clone troopers fought through the warship's battle droid defenders while Clone Commander Wolffe, nicknamed "Wolffe," took a squad to rescue Gallia from the ship's bridge. Mouth of Sauron was forced to flee from his overwhelmed flagship, allowing Wolffe to rescue Gallia. The Republic emerged victorious, while Gimli and Wolffe also retrieved the Hobbits Merry, Pippin and R2-D2, who had been stranded on Mouth of Sauron's flagship after a series of escapades.
==Prelude==
During the War of the Ring between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Confederate General The Mouth of Sauron gained notoriety for targeting members of the Jedi High Council. Such was the case in 1982, the war's second year, when he ambushed Jedi Master Adi Gallia's flagship near the planet Patitite Pattuna. Gallia's Venator-class Star Destroyer was crippled in the assault, and she was taken into custody aboard Mouth of Sauron's Providence-class carrier/destroyer while her cruiser was destroyed.
It was not long before Jedi General Gimli, a fellow member of the Dwarves and the Jedi Council, received word of Gallia's capture and set out to rescue his comrade. Commanding a fleet of five Venator-class Star Destroyers, Gimli located Mouth of Sauron's destroyer in space, just after Mouth of Sauron had ordered his battle droid crew to attack the Weequay pirate ship Marauder for target practice. The two young Hobbits Merry Pippin and astromech droid R2-D2, both belonging to Republic's Jedi Knight, Frodo Baggins and Padmé Amidala, were aboard the Marauder at the time that it was targeted by Mouth of Sauron. Although they managed to escape from the pirate ship's destruction, they were forced to come aboard Mouth of Sauron's flagship and were subsequently set to be incinerated into scrap metal for the Confederacy.
==The rescue==
Immediately after emerging from hyperspace near Mouth of Sauron's destroyer, Gimli's five-cruiser fleet of Star Destroyers began to exchange heavy turbolaser fire with the Separatist dreadnaught. The Republic fleet quickly gained the upper hand, launching squadrons of ARC-170 starfighters and BTL-B Y-wing starfighters to challenge the destroyer's defenses. The clone trooper pilots moved in with their starfighters and assaulted the enemy battleship, hitting several places along its hull. Koon was thus able to board the destroyer with a rescue team, taking the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic's 104th Battalion to push through the Separatist battle droid forces. While Gimli and his men from the 104th Wolfpack squad fought B1-Series battle droids in one of the vessel's hallways, Clone Commander Wolffe, nicknamed "Wolffe," took another squad of troopers to the bridge, where Gallia was being held in custody.
Wolffe and his men were successful, rescuing Gallia from the Separatists, and they rendezvoused with Gimli to join his fight against the battle droids. Between the Jedi's lightsabers and the clones' blasters, they were able to defeat the squad of droids. His droid troops overwhelmed, Mouth of Sauron fled from his flagship, leaving the Republic forces to eliminate the remainder of the battle droids aboard the Separatist warship.
==Aftermath==
The mission was a success for the Republic due to Gimli's rescue of Gallia. The wayward Merry, Pippin and R2-D2—having avoided being incinerated by the Separatists—were also rescued, coming upon Wolffe, Gallia, and Gimli while aboard Mouth of Sauron's destroyer. Having delivered the two hobbits earlier to Gallia's flagship from the planet Aleen, Wolffe could not believe it when he and the others found the droids aboard the Separatist dreadnaught, though Wolffe was less than pleased when the talkative Pippin began thoroughly recounting their adventures since escaping from Gallia's ship.
==Behind the scenes==
The rescue of Adi Gallia was created for the Star Wars: The War of the Ring television series and was featured in the fourth season episode "Nomad Hobbits," which aired on October 14, 2011. Because of a lack of information presented in the episode, a specific location for the battle cannot be determined beyond being in space.
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==Sources==
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*Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.27 
*Star Wars: The Clone Wars Magazine 9 
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==Notes and references==
Category:War of the Rings battles