Siege of Mandalore

The Siege of Mandalore, also known as the Battle of Mandalore, was an invasion of Outer Rim world of Mandalore led by a coalition of Galactic Republic forces and Mandalorian rebels to oust the former Sith Lord Maul and his Shadow Collective cartel from control over the planet at the end of the Clone Wars.
Having received visions of the coming rise of the Galactic Empire under his old master, Darth Sidious, Maul provoked the invasion as a trap for Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his two apprentices — former and current — Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Padawan Jarik Shan, intending to finally enact his vengeance on Kenobi and to kill Skywalker and Shan so Sidious could not turn either of them into his new Sith apprentice. Though Maul's plan was foiled when the three Jedi were called away to the Battle of Coruscant, his Mandalorian Super Commandos were nonetheless defeated in the capital of Sundari by the coalition of Bo-Katan Kryze's Nite Owls and a company of 501st Legion clone troopers — the 332nd Company — led by Clone Commander Rex, and Maul himself defeated by Republic advisor and former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano.
With a Republic military occupation established in the capital and Kryze placed as Regent of Mandalore, Tano and Rex left to transport the captive Maul to the Jedi High Council — only for Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, who was in fact Sidious, to instigate the Great Jedi Purge through the issue of Order 66, and transform the Republic into the Galactic Empire. As a result, the effort to apprehend Maul was rendered essentially meaningless, while the temporary Republic occupation over Mandalore was consolidated into a permanent Imperial one.
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