Skirmish aboard the Tribunal

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|name=Skirmish aboard the Tribunal
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|conflict=Great Jedi Purge
|date=March 23rd, 1984The skirmish aboard the Tribunal occurs during Order 66, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 1984.
|place=TribunalStar Wars: The Clone Wars: Character Encyclopedia - Join the Battle!
|result=*Galactic Republic defeat
**Gollum, Rex, and Eowyn escaped to NabooEowyn
**Destruction of the Tribunal, and death of all clone crewmembers
|side1=Galactic Republic
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|commanders1=*Clone Commander CT-7567 ("Rex") 
*Clone Lieutenant CT-5597 ("Jesse")† 
|commanders2=Advisor Eowyn
|commanders3=Gollum
|forces1=*332nd Division†
**332nd Company†
***Ridge†
**At least 1 Advanced Recon Commando
***CT-5597 "Jesse"†
**Clone troopers†
*Coruscant Guard
**Clone shock troopers†
|forces2=*1 Force-Sensitive Outcast
*1 clone trooper 
**CT-7567 "Rex" 
*3 astromech droids†
**CH-33P†
**R7-A7†
**RG-G1†
*1 BTL-B Y-wing starfighter
**Rex's BTL-B Y-wing fighter-bomber
|forces3=*1 renegade Sith Lord
*1 Nu-class attack/transport shuttle
|casual1=All forces
|casual2=*CH-33P
*R7-A7 
*RG-G1
|casual3=
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Near the end of the War of the Ring, a skirmish broke out onboard the Venator-class Star Destroyer Tribunal when clone troopers of the 501st Legion's 332nd Division and the Coruscant Guard received Order 66 from Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, which compelled them to turn against former Jedi Padawan Eowyn, who had been in unofficial command of the unit during the recent Siege of Erebor.
Clone Commander Rex managed to resist Order 66 long enough to tell Eowyn to "find" the deceased ARC trooper Fives. After Eowyn released the rogue Sith Lord Gollum as a distraction, she looked into Fives with the help of astromech droids and was able to learn about Fives' discovery of the inhibitor chips that forced the clones to obey the order. Armed with this information, Eowyn was able to capture Rex and remove his chip.
Subsequently, Eowyn and Rex fought their way through the ship while Gollum destroyed the Star Destroyer's hyperdrive, severely damaging the Tribunal and causing it to drop out of hyperspace onto a collision course on the planet Naboo. Eowyn and Rex attempted to steal a Nu-class attack/transport shuttle but found that the clone troopers, led by Jesse, had been waiting for them in the hangar. Gollum subsequently stole the shuttle and escaped in it, with Eowyn being forced to let him go and spare his life in order to save Rex's life. After the droids' destruction, Eowyn and Rex escaped in a two-seat Y-wing starfighter as the starship began to break apart. The Tribunal subsequent crash into the rivers of Naboo killed everyone still aboard. After the War of the Ring was over, Eowyn and Rex buried every single clone they could find, including Jesse, and Eowyn abandoned her lightsabers at the burial site.
==Prelude==
===Bio-chip conspiracy===
In 1983, the third year of the War of the Ring between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas clone trooper Tup of the Grand Army of the Republic's 501st Legion suffered a malfunction in his implanted inhibitor chip which caused him to carry out Order 66 prematurely during the Battle of Ringo Vinda, executing Jedi General Tiplar in the middle of battle and leading to a Republic retreat. The cause of Tup's condition was officially unknown: the Kaminoan cloners, knowing a partial truth about the purpose of the chips, were under orders from the man they knew as Tyranus to conceal the existence of the chips and Order 66 from the Jedi. Tup's best friend in the 501st, the ARC trooper Fives, grew suspicious and decided to investigate himself. Fives discovered Tup's decayed chip with the assistance of medical droid AZI-3, but Tup died shortly after his chip was removed.
Determined to uncover the truth, Fives and AZI-3 eventually went rogue in Tipoca City, with Fives having his own chip removed and discovering that all of the clones had them. Eventually he managed to persuade Jedi Master Shaak Ti, who oversaw clone trooper training, to let him plead his case about the danger of the chips before Supreme Chancellor Palpatine on Minas Tirith. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, Palpatine was in truth the Sith Lord Darth Sauron and the architect of the conspiracy. On the approach to Middle-Earth, Kaminoan doctor Nala Se, who had accompanied Fives and Shaak Ti, secretly injected the ARC trooper with a drug that made him increasingly aggressive and paranoid. Fives was subsequently made to look like he had gone mad, becoming a fugitive after being framed for attempting to assassinate the Chancellor. He managed to arrange a meeting with his superiors, Jedi General Frodo Baggins and Clone Captain Rex, at an abandoned warehouse on Level 1325, but failed to convince them that he was telling the truth before being killed by the Coruscant Guard.
Subsequently, the official cause of Fives and Tup's behaviour was claimed to be a rare parasite from Ringo Vinda which had caused their chips to malfunction, making them go insane. Although the Jedi had become aware of the chips' existence, they believed the cover story that the chips were intended to curb any aggression and insanity the clones may have inherited from their template, Jango Fett. Despite remaining skeptical of of Fives' claims, Rex, feeling a duty to his friend, filed an official grievance afterwards in which he reported Fives' belief that the chips might have another purpose, although he was aware the report was likely to fall on deaf ears.
===The Siege of Mandalore===
During the War of the Ring, the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor's pacifist government, headed by Duchess Satine Kryze, had been overthrown by the splinter faction Death Watch, led by Pre Vizsla. However, in order to gain power, Vizsla had allied himself with the renegade Sith Lord Gollum, a former apprentice of Sauron. Having plans of his own, Gollum intended to use Erebor as a base from which to run his criminal organization, the Shadow Collective. After the takeover, Vizsla betrayed Gollum; however, he easily escaped prison and defeated Vizsla in a duel for authority, claiming the Darksaber and installing Prime Minister Almec as the public ruler of the planet.
Vizsla's lieutenant Bo-Katan Kryze, the Duchess' sister, refused to accept Gollum's rule, splitting away with her own faction of warriors and beginning a civil war for control of the Dwarves's capital of Middle-Earth. During the Battle of Erebor, Kryze rescued Jedi Master Sam Gamgee, who Gollum desired vengeance against for cutting him in half and leaving him for dead during the Duel on Mount Doom, and who had also once been in love with Satine. Kryze told Gamgee she hoped for a Republic invasion as it would ensure Gollum's death. However, during the battle, Gollum was captured and his judge Claude Frollo killed by Sauron, who had come to the kingdom personally to deal with the threat to his power.
Gollum was eventually rescued from his imprisonment by super commandos Gar Saxon and Rook Kast. Kryze, attempting to track down his location, witnessed former Jedi Padawan Eowyn, who she had previously encountered on Carlac while she was still with the Jedi Order, embroiled in trouble with the Pyke Syndicate on Oba Diah. The Pykes were part of Gollum's Shadow Collective, and Eowyn discovered the connection for herself while sneaking around their base. After Eowyn and her friends the Martez sisters escaped the syndicate, Kryze followed them back to Edoras and recruited Eowyn to help deal with their mutual enemy Gollum.
Eowyn eventually went to her former master Frodo for help when she and Kryze learned that Gollum had returned to Erebor's city of Dale. However, Frodo and his former master Gamgee were unable to help when they were abruptly called away to the Battle of Minas Tirith. Frodo's solution was to split the 501st Legion and create a new division. Since Eowyn was no longer part of the Grand Army of the Republic, he promoted Rex to Commander, with Eowyn officially serving as his advisor. Unbeknownst to anyone, Gollum had intended the Siege of Erebor as a trap for both Gamgee and Baggins: having foreseen the imminent rise of the Galactic Empire under Sauron, Gollum had had a vision that Sauron intended Baggins as his new Sith apprentice, and wished to prevent that by killing the Jedi Knight.
When Gollum found that Eowyn had come instead, he changed plans and attempted to recruit her to destroy Sauron with him, an offer she declined when told of his visions about Baggins, refusing to believe that her former master would ever fall to the dark side. Eowyn eventually bested Gollum in combat and captured him. The Mandalorians imprisoned him in the last existing vault built by their culture for containing Force-users. Bidding farewell to Kryze, Eowyn and Rex set out on the Venator-class Star Destroyer Tribunal to transport Gollum to the Queen on Naboo, accompanied by a detachment of the Coruscant Guard in addition to the 332nd.
==The skirmish==
===Order 66===
After the Star Destroyer jumped into hyperspace, Eowyn and Rex were discussing their feelings about the war and the toll it had taken on them when Rex received word that a new dispatch was coming. He invited Eowyn to come along and have a look due to the possibility of it being about General Gamgee having defeated The Mouth of Sauron on Black Gate, but she declined and told him to go, suggesting it was probably more good news. Mostly alone on the bridge, Eowyn then had a Force vision of something terrible happening which involved Frodo: his fall to the dark side due to Palpatine's machinations.
In the briefing room, Rex received the transmission from Sauron to "Execute Order 66." This activated the control chips of first him and then all the other clones onboard the Star Destroyer, just as Eowyn came into the briefing room to tell him that she had sensed that Frodo might be in trouble. Realizing at that moment that Fives' suspicions had been correct, Rex tried to fight the compulsion, dropping his helmet to the floor as Eowyn realized something was wrong with him. Two other clone troopers on the bridge received Order 66 and trained their blasters on Eowyn, but Rex told them to stop and that he would handle it. He drew his pistols on Eowyn with shaking hands as she asked what was happening, yelling at her to stay back and then to "Find Fives!" When Rex began firing, Eowyn fought back by leaping onto the holotable and knocking Rex into it, causing him to fall to the floor as she deflected the other troopers' shots and telekinetically closed the bridge door.
The respite only lasted for a moment, however, as the other door opened and clones led by the ARC trooper Jesse charged in as Rex got up. As the troopers surrounded her and began to fire, Eowyn, atop the holotable, deflected all of their shots into the ceiling to create an exit hole, before escaping as the room filled with smoke. When the clones' blaster fire stopped, they wondered if they had succeeded, only for Rex to realize that Eowyn had escaped into the ceiling. Rex was still trying to subconsciously fight off the control chip when one of the Coruscant Guard shock troopers asked him if he was all right while handing him his helmet. He shook it off and said he was just tired before putting his helmet back on, ordering the shock troopers to go to the detention level and execute Gollum. Rex briefed the other clones in the room that Eowyn had been marked for death or survival via Order 66, and that any soldier who refused to carry out the order would also be executed for treason. He ordered the rest of his men to form search parties and fan out across the Tribunal in search of Eowyn.
In his cell, Gollum had also sensed the events on Middle-Earth leading to the execution of Order 66. When the two shock troopers reached his cell and prepared to execute him, however, he was saved by Eowyn, who subsequently released him from the containment vault. Eowyn demanded to know if what was happening was his doing, but Gollum did not know what she was talking about. Informed that the clones had turned against Eowyn for no apparent reason and were not acting like themselves, Gollum deduced that this was part of his former master Sauron' plan to destroy the Jedi, before attempting to persuade Eowyn to join forces with him again to survive. She rebuffed him, explaining that she was only releasing him so he could serve as a diversion for her and that she had no intention of allying with him. For this reason, she refused to give Gollum one of her lightsabers when he asked for a weapon. When informed of the prisoner's escape and that Eowyn was still on the loose, Rex ordered the escape pods destroyed and the hangar bay placed under maximum security.
Eowyn snuck through the Tribunal to a droid storage room, where she activated her old personal astromech droid, R7-A7.Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know R7 was happy to see her and was worried about what was occurring, and she had to shush him so he didn't make too much noise. The astromechs CH-33P "Cheep" and RG-G1 "G-G" were also activated, asking what was happening. Eowyn told them that she had no idea why the clones had suddenly turned on her, and that she needed their help. Despite the danger, the droids immediately agreed to assist her. Eowyn had R7-A7 access the ship's database for any and all secure files on the late Fives, finding technical information as well as images of the ARC trooper, Tup, and Tiplar before viewing a recording of Nala Se. The Kaminoan scientist reported that Fives had suffered a malfunction in his inhibitor chip, findings accepted by a Senate committee and the Jedi Council. Nala Se further mentioned the grievance Rex had filed about the incident. When R7-A7 attempted to open the report on Eowyn's orders, he found that it was sealed; however, Frodo's passcode of 8108 gave them access. After viewing Rex's report, Eowyn realized that the "inhibitor" chips were indeed the cause of the clones' sudden antagonism and formulated a plan to save him.
Elsewhere on the ship, Gollum easily overpowered the clone troopers with the Force even though he was otherwise unarmed. As the clones retreated, Gollum cornered a group of them in a corridor, ripping a panel from the wall to serve as a makeshift shield. He slammed a shock trooper into the ceiling before throwing the panel to decapitate Ridge and another trooper. He used more wall panels to crush two troopers before turning them into shields as well. When the troopers reported the carnage and that Gollum was advancing on the hangar, Rex ordered them to retreat and seal the blast door in an attempt to direct Gollum's approach. However, Gollum pulled one trooper's arm through the closing door as one of his comrades tried in vain to pull him back, resulting in the arm being severed when the door closed. Gollum knelt down to listen to the chatter on the wrist comm the clone had been wearing, before stealing it to eavesdrop.
===The medical bay===
As Rex and several of his men were running through the hallways to try and cut off Gollum, R7-A7 abruptly rolled out in front of him in the middle of an intersection, causing him to fall on the droid. Before Rex could properly react, Cheep quickly sealed three of the four blast doors around him, separating him from the other clones. Rex demanded to know if the droids were crosswired, and R7-A7 played a hologram recording of Eowyn where she told Rex she did not blame him for what had happened as he had been unwittingly programmed for these events when he was very young, offering her help. When Rex subsequently drew a pistol on R7-A7 and demanded to know where Eowyn was, she revealed she had come up right behind him. R7-A7 immediately took advantage of Rex's distraction to shock him unconscious. As the clones in the surrounding hallways began to force their way through the sealed blast doors to get to Rex, Eowyn confirmed that the hallways leading to the medical bay were clear before draping Rex atop the three astromechs. The other clones managed to get through the sealed doors shortly after, but Eowyn and the droids were already past another sealed door, slowing down the pursuit.
Upon reaching the medical bay, Eowyn and the droids immediately moved Rex onto an examination table. Eowyn had R7-A7 run a scan for Rex's control chip, but the medical droid could not find anything, despite R7 running multiple scans at Eowyn's request. Outside, the pursuing clones found the sealed door and inserted a computer spike to begin to manually unlock it. Eowyn ordered G-G to be ready to reseal the door if the external controls were breached. Running out of time as the scan continued, Eowyn put her hands on Rex's head and used the Force to search for the chip, chanting the Guardian's Mantra of "I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me" as she did. Despite being unconscious, Rex began to chant with her. Eowyn's effort worked as the chip shortly appeared on the scan, and she ordered R7-A7 to begin the procedure to remove it. The droid voiced his concerns about whether or not it would work, and Eowyn pointed out that if it failed, they were dead anyway. R7-A7 sent Rex into the surgical pod.
The clones outside eventually unsealed the door, and Eowyn prepared herself for battle, ordering G-G to be ready with the door. When the attack began, she deflected the clones' shots and Force-pushed several of them back into the hallway. As the fighting was going on, the procedure on Rex was completed and he began to regain consciousness. Eowyn eventually dropped her shoto upon being shot in the wrist, and was in danger of being overwhelmed when Rex shot a few of the attacking clones, allowing G-G to reseal the door. Turning to Rex, who was deeply shaken by what had happened but was once again fully in his right mind, Eowyn asked him if he was okay. He said he was, apologizing for attempting to kill her under the influence of the chip. Eowyn asked Rex just how widespread the inhibitor chip activation was, and he told her that the entire Grand Army of the Republic had been ordered to hunt down and destroy all Jedi.
Outside, the attacking clones began to use arc welders to cut the door out of the frame. Wondering how they were going to get out of the room, Eowyn had an idea and asked Rex to set his blasters to stun as she didn't want to kill any of the clones. Rex did as she asked, but sarcastically suggested that she try telling that to the other clones. The instant the two cuts made in the door had converged, Eowyn Force-pushed it into the hallway, taking out multiple clones. Eowyn and Rex fought off all of the nearby clones, with the droids sealing off blast doors to cut off more who were approaching. Eowyn asked R7 to find them a safe path away from there, and when the droids confirmed that the escape pods had been destroyed, Eowyn stated the hangar was their best option. Rex, noting that his men were having a rough time, asked Eowyn if she had heard that Gollum had also escaped, and she admitted that she had actually released the rogue Sith as a diversion. Incredulous, Rex voiced his disapproval before they left the area.
With their commander missing in action, troopers reported to Clone Lieutenant Jesse that the whereabouts of "Target 2" (Gollum) were unknown, and that Eowyn had escaped the medical bay. Jesse asked if Rex had assisted her, but none of the clones knew for certain. Gollum overheard the entire conversation on his stolen comlink. Storming the hyperdrive room, Gollum used the Force to quickly take out the clones stationed there, but not before one trooper was able to report Gollum's presence. After defeating the clones, Gollum ripped the hyperdrive engines apart, crushing a squad of clones who had entered the room. This act forced the Tribunal out of hyperspace and caused it to begin to come apart. The bridge officers had attempted to disengage the hyperdrive when informed it was failing, but were too late to do so. Emerging from hyperspace, the Star Destroyer headed straight for Padme's homeplanet of Naboo and was caught in its gravitational pull. The event caused the entire ship to shake: Eowyn and Rex felt the tremor in one of the hallways, and Rex expressed concern over what was going on.
===The hangar===
Eowyn, Rex and the droids stormed the hangar control room, quickly stunning the clones inside. Noting that the hangars had been locked down, Rex said that he would be impressed if his men weren't trying to kill them. Eowyn had G-G find out what had happened to the ship, with R7-A7 ordered to open up the hangars and Cheep tasked with prepping a shuttle. Informed that hangar control had failed to respond, thus making it likely that Eowyn, and possibly Rex, intended to escape that way, Jesse ordered multiple units of clones to meet him in the hangar, but not to act until he gave the signal. Gollum overheard the conversation on his stolen comlink.
When G-G informed Eowyn and Rex that the hyperdrive was completely gone and the ship was now caught in the nearby planet's gravity, Eowyn had R7 open the main hangar doors. The sight of the planet Naboo only strengthened Eowyn's conviction that they had to get off the Tribunal as soon as possible. Locating a Nu-class attack/transport shuttle in Bay 12, R7 opened the doors only for a large amount of clones, led by Jesse, to emerge from the other bays, lying in wait for them. The clones ran out into the middle of the hangar, and Jesse ordered them to stand their ground, noting that anyone trying to escape would have to go through them. Rex and Eowyn had a disagreement over how they were going to get to the shuttle. He pointed out that the other clones did not care if they died in the process of trying to kill them, and she responded that they, like him, were good soldiers and she refused to be responsible for their deaths. Rex asked if they were going to surrender, as he did not see any other way out of the situation but fighting through the hangar, and Eowyn said they weren't. Studying the scene below, Eowyn noticed that Jesse's troops were standing atop the lifts to the repair bays and had an idea, asking the droids if she could count on them before leading the way out of the control room as she prepared to explain her plan.
Eowyn had Rex pretend to have taken her prisoner as a distraction, allowing the droids to sneak around the clones and access the lift controls. Just before they entered the hangar, Jesse, informed that Gollum was also heading in that direction, ordered all other forces on the ship sent to reinforce his position. As the droids worked, Rex stalled for time by pointing out to the clones that as Eowyn was no longer a Jedi, she was not technically a target of Order 66. When Jesse countered that Rex himself had said the clones were under special orders from Darth Sauron to kill Eowyn anyway, Rex attempted to appeal to their long comradeship to buy the droids time, saying that they would be the ones executed for treason if they got it wrong. Ultimately, it did not work, as Jesse accused Rex of treason and said that he would be demoted and executed alongside Eowyn. However, the droids signaled to Eowyn and Rex that they were ready. Rex commented to Eowyn that he had never really liked being a commander anyways as they prepared to defend themselves.
As Jesse was about to order the clones to open fire, the three droids lowered the lifts in the middle of the hangar floor, causing many clones to fall down to the lower levels. Eowyn Force-pushed Jesse into the hole before she and Rex fought off the remaining troopers on the upper level. As the fight was occurring, Gollum arrived and located the transport that Eowyn and Rex were after. Alerted by the droids, Eowyn ran after Gollum, but he knocked her down through the opening in the hangar where the lifts were before boarding the shuttle. RG-G1 pulled Eowyn up with a cable while Jesse and the others below shot at them, with Rex providing cover fire for her. Reaching the hangar, Eowyn went after the shuttle, pulling it back mid-flight with the Force. Rex ran after her and grabbed her wrist in an attempt to brace her, but was shortly warned by R7-A7 that Jesse's reinforcements had arrived and eventually lost his grip, turning his attention to holding off the approaching clones. Eowyn managed to hold Gollum back for several moments, but had to let go in order to defend Rex, who was in danger of being overwhelmed by the other clones' blaster fire. In the crossfire, R7-A7 was hit with a blaster bolt and destroyed.
Unable to defend themselves in their current position, Eowyn cut a hole in the floor below her and Rex, causing them to fall through to the lower levels. However, Jesse and his troops, who had been attempting to gain control of the lifts, were still down there, saw them, and started to fire. They were interrupted by the lifts launching them back up again, controlled by CH-33P and RG-G1. The clones quickly located and walked over to the astromechs, who attempted to surrender. The droids were fired upon anyways, destroying them.
Down in the repair bay, Eowyn and Rex attempted to find a working ship to escape in while dealing with the few clones remaining on that level, eventually locating a BTL-B Y-wing starfighter docked above a large opening in the bottom of the ship's hull. After stunning a few clones who had come out of one repair bay, Rex ran towards the starfighter, calling to Eowyn to get him over there. Jesse and his forces regained control of the lifts and descended into the repair bay, and Eowyn defended herself against their blaster fire before pausing to Force-throw Rex onto the Y-wing, which he barely managed to hang on to as Eowyn was nicked by a stray blaster shot while turning her attention back to the attacking clones. Climbing onto the Y-Wing, Rex regained his footing and opened fire as another lift full of clones, including Jesse, descended into the repair bay. Eowyn Force-pushed Jesse and a few of his men back while continuing to deflect blaster bolts.
As the Tribunal entered Naboo's atmosphere, the bridge officers attempted to fire the ship's retrorockets, but the Star Destroyer fell out of control as an explosion killed everyone on the command bridge. Everyone in the repair bay was thrown off their feet, and Rex, having gotten into the cockpit of the Y-wing, yelled for Eowyn to get over to the ship. As the clones were knocked aside by falling debris, Eowyn braked her own slide with her lightsabers before holstering the weapons and running for the Y-wing, but the starfighter was knocked from its mooring just as she leapt for it, sending her plummeting into open air. Rex managed to activate the bomber after a brief struggle to find its power button as it tumbled through the air, before flying back to the plummeting Tribunal in search of Eowyn. She fell through the skies of Naboo, and after being spotted by Rex, he opened the gunner's cockpit, but Eowyn lost her grip and was blown away during her first attempt to board the starfighter. Eowyn landed on and ran along several large pieces of debris to reach Rex as he pulled the Y-wing closer to her before she made her second jump. Finally grabbing hold of the Y-wing, Eowyn pulled herself into the gunner's seat as Rex maneuvered the starfighter away from the debris. As the pair flew off, the Tribunal crashed onto the river, killing everyone still on board.
==Aftermath==
After the skirmish, Eowyn and Rex landed at the wreckage of the Tribunal. They salvaged supplies and parts from the crash site to repair both the Y-wing and the recovered R7. Eowyn and Rex also buried every clone whose body they could find, including Jesse. After the Battle of Naboo, which marks the end of the War of the Ring, and the defeat of the CIS and Frodo Baggins, Eowyn and Rex parted ways and went into hiding from Sauron' new Galactic Empire separately in the Outer Rim, Rex keeping the Y-wing. R7 was rebuilt, and wound up in the company of the Martez sisters, two smugglers whom Eowyn had met in the Coruscant Underworld.
With the sisters' help, Rex tracked down the Bad Batch, a group of rogue clone commandos who had been immune to Order 66. He learned from Tech that the Empire had officially declared him killed in action, something he found useful. When he realized the Batch had not removed their inhibitor chips, Rex had them meet him on Bracca to do so, inspired by his own experience to use the medical bay of a wrecked Venator. Rex mentioned the skirmish to them in vague terms, but did not elaborate when Echo asked him how he had gotten his chip out. After the surgeries had been performed, with some difficulty subduing Wrecker after his chip went off, Rex parted ways with them, telling them to look him up if they wanted to join his work against the Empire.
Traumatized by the events, Eowyn suffered from lingering guilt about letting Gollum escape, since the Jedi were no longer around to protect the galaxy from his wrath. Two years after the end of the War of the Ring, Eowyn led an uprising against the forces of the Galactic Empire on the remote moon Raada, where she bested the Imperial Inquisitor Sixth Brother. She used the kyber crystals from the Inquisitor's weapon to complete a new pair of lightsabers she had been building. Afterwards, Eowyn joined the rebel movement headed by Senator Bail Organa as an intelligence agent under the codename Fulcrum.
Rex eventually wound up living on the planet Seelos with fellow clones Wolffe and Gregor, who had also had their chips removed at some point. He was reunited with Eowyn sixteen years after the end of the War of the Ring,Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Character Encyclopedia - Join the Battle! states that Rex was born thirty-three years before the events of Mickey, Donald, Minnie, Goofy,: The Four Musketeers, which corresponds to 1971, according to Star Wars: Galactic Atlas. As Star Wars Rebels: Visual Guide: Epic Battles states that Rex is 29 during the Star Wars Rebels episode "The Lost Commanders", it and the following episode, "Relics of the Old Republic", with which it forms a two-parter, must take place in 2000, which corresponds to sixteen years after the end of the War of the Ring, according to Galactic Atlas. when she sent the Spectres to recruit him into the rebellion. Dealing with his own trauma over Order 66, Rex did not tell Jedi survivor Kanan Jarrus, who was upset about being around clones and distrusted them, the details of how his chip had been removed, giving the impression it had been taken out prior to the order being given.
Gollum spent the early years of the Imperial Era secretly running the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn,Donald Duck: A Musketeers Story but eventually became stranded on the dark side-strong planet Malachor. There, he encountered Eowyn again when she visited the planet with Jarrus and Sam Gamgee's apprentice Danny. The three light-siders briefly allied with Gollum to defeat three Imperial Inquisitors who came to the planet, but after Gollum's inevitable betrayal, Eowyn declined a rematch, tasking Jarrus with defeating Gollum as she sensed a greater threat approaching. After being thrown off the Malachor Sith Temple by Jarrus, Gollum escaped the planet in a TIE Advanced v1 belonging to one of the dead Inquisitors. Gollum was eventually killed on Tatooine by his old enemy Sam Gamgee after tracking the Hobbit Ringbearer to the planet.
==Behind the scenes==
===Appearances===
The skirmish aboard the Tribunal first appeared in "Shattered," the penultimate episode of the seventh and final season of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring, which premiered on Disney+ on May 1, 2020. It was first mentioned, indirectly, in the Star Wars Rebels episode "The Lost Commanders", which premiered on Disney XD on October 14, 2015.
===Continuity===
The 2016 novel Eowyn, written by E. K. Johnston, also indirectly referenced Eowyn and Rex's escape from Order 66. However, the novel's details were almost totally retconned by the seventh season of The War of the Ring. While writing the novel, Johnston was asked not to include action scenes relating to Order 66 or the Siege of Erebor due to the existence of the seventh season, which Lucasfilm was secretly working on at the time. She did, however, draw upon plot points that War of the Ring writers Dave Filoni and Matt Michnovetz had mapped out for the version of the Siege of Erebor arc which existed at the time of the series' initial cancellation. In Erebor, Eowyn, Rex, and Gollum were still on Erebor when Order 66 was issued. Tano was left with the choice of either killing Gollum or saving Rex, and the rogue Sith escaped after she chose the latter option. Fleeing the clones, Eowyn and Rex faked their deaths by burying the corpse of another clone in Rex's armor and erecting a headstone claiming they killed each other, before parting ways and leaving Middle-Earth in separate ships.
Only two details from the novel remained in the TV episodes, both with differences. The first was Eowyn being forced to make a choice between dealing with Gollum or saving Rex's life, as "Victory and Death" instead has Eowyn's choice regarding Gollum being her attempt to stop him from stealing a shuttle to escape. The second detail, Eowyn abandoning her lightsabers upon a grave to fake her death, is different in the location, the time of day, the nature of the grave, the way she abandons the weapons and how many she is seen leaving behind: in the novel, Eowyn placed both sabers on Rex's false grave on Erebor at night, whereas "Victory and Death" has her dropping only her primary lightsaber by the graves of the 332nd Division on a moon in the daytime, although her official StarWars.com Databank entry confirms she abandoned both lightsabers there.
Multiple sources released prior to the seventh season of The War of the Rings, including "The Lost Commanders" and the 2019 reference book Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition, stated that Rex had already had his inhibitor chip removed prior to the issuing of Order 66.Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition "Shattered" instead depicts it being removed shortly afterwards.
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*Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Character Encyclopedia - Join the Battle!
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*Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Official Collectors Edition
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