Battle on Florrum

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|name=Battle on Florrum
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|conflict=War of the Ring
|date=July 11th, 1983
|place=Florrum
|result=*Confederacy of Independent Systems victory
**Hondo's complex destroyed
**Florrum captured by the Confederacy
*Eowyn, the Jedi Younglings, Hondo Ohnaka, and a few pirates escape
|side1=*Confederacy of Independent Systems
*Order of the Sith Lords
|side2=*Ohnaka Gang
*Jedi Order
|commanders1=*Saruman the White 
*General The Mouth of Sauron
|commanders2=*Captain Hondo Ohnaka
*Padawan Eowyn
|forces1=*1 Mordor general
*B1-Series battle droids
*B2 super battle droids
*BX-series droid commandos
*1 OOM command battle droid
*OOM pilot battle droids
*Rocket battle droids
*2 Nazguls
*1 T-series tactical droid
*1 combat speeder
*3 Single Trooper Aerial Platforms
*Armored Assault Tanks
*2 Multi-Troop Transports
*1 C-9979 landing craft
|forces2=*Weequay pirates
*1 Jedi Padawan
*6 Jedi Initiates
*1 Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft
**Slave I
|casual1=Many battle droids
|casual2=*At least 3 pirates
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A battle on the Outer Rim planet of Florrum took place in 1983. The battle was fought between Hondo Ohnaka's pirates, backed by the Jedi Order, and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Because Ohnaka had held Saruman the White for ransom, General The Mouth of Sauron launched an assault on Ohnaka's pirate outpost. Catching the pirates by surprise with his attack, Mouth of Sauron entered the outpost and met Ohnaka in person. Mouth of Sauron then opened a holo-communication channel through which Saruman spoke with Ohnaka. The White Wizard, who had neither forgotten nor forgiven Ohnaka's questionable hospitality during their first encounter, announced that he was taking control of the planet and planned to dismantle Ohnaka's arsenal. When Ohnaka protested against this, he was swiftly incarcerated. Gwarm, who was returning from recapturing Eowyn and the six Jedi younglings, was surprised upon seeing droids in the outpost. Eowyn convinced her captors that the Jedi and pirates needed to join forces against the invaders. When they agreed, the Jedi and pirates proceeded to free Ohnaka and the captured pirate forces. Mouth of Sauron, however, learned of their presence and ordered AATs to destroy the outpost. After a chase through the trenches of a dried geyser field and a brief confrontation with Mouth of Sauron, the Jedi and pirate forces escaped Florrum aboard Slave I to Samwise Gamgee's flagship.
==Prelude==
During the War of the Ring, Hondo Ohnaka and his pirates had hijacked a Paladin-class corvette, the Crucible, in an attempt to steal lightsaber crystals. They were repulsed from the ship, but they captured Padawan Eowyn as they escaped. The Jedi younglings on the Crucible, Byph, Ganodi, Gungi, Katooni, Petro, and Zatt, rescued Eowyn from the pirates by disguising themselves as circus performers within Preigo's Traveling World of Wonder, but the pirates began chasing them once they figured out their plan. When they reached the Crucible, they took off, but the ship's engines were shot by a pirate's WLO-5 speeder tank. The Crucible crashed and Eowyn and the younglings were recaptured by the gang. When the pirate captors returned to the outpost, they spotted a droid army massing an invasion against the base. The Separatist forces, led by General The Mouth of Sauron and a tactical droid, had first seized control of the Florrum system, which the Republic had held up until that point, before leading an attack on Florrum itself. Confederate Head of State Saruman the White, having been previously captured and held for ransom by the Ohnaka Gang, ordered Mouth of Sauron to launch an assault on Florrum in retribution for Ohnaka's actions.
==The battle==
With the Jedi and the pirate joined forces together, Eowyn devised a plan to use R2-D2 and the pirate's tank to divert the droids' attention for a bit while they sneaked into the pirate base and freed Hondo Ohnaka from the captivity. After they rescued Ohnaka, they freed the rest of the pirate forces, but one droid managed to alert Mouth of Sauron to their presence. Mouth of Sauron decided to cut the problem short by having the prison section leveled by his tanks, but the Jedi and the pirates managed to break out, fight through the droid forces, and flee the outpost. Ohnaka, his pirates, and Katooni piloted Starhawk speeder bikes, while Eowyn, Professor Huyang, R2-D2 and the other younglings piloted a WLO-5 speeder tank. Mouth of Sauron then pursued them in his combat speeder with three commando droids piloting STAPs for support. During the chase, the Jedi and pirates were separated; Ohnaka, Katooni and pirates were able to reach Hondo Ohnaka's secret starship vault, while Eowyn's team were still pursued by Mouth of Sauron. Ohnaka was going to fly away from the battle at first, but Katooni succeeded in appealing to his sense of honor.
In the meantime, Mouth of Sauron prepared to board the Jedi's speeder tank, which forced R2-D2 to execute some risky maneuvers in an attempt to shake him off. However, this move crashed the tank, causing both Mouth of Sauron and the Jedi to fall from the vehicle. The stunned Jedi were recovering just as Mouth of Sauron moved in for the kill when Slave I arrived to help the Jedi. Eowyn sent her youngling charges to the craft and engaged Mouth of Sauron in combat to cover their escape. She then barely escaped onto the ship on her own, and before Ohnaka had a chance to properly repay Mouth of Sauron for his cordiality, a squad of AATs fired at them and forced them to escape.
==Aftermath==
With the last of Ohnaka's pirates and the Jedi retreated from Florrum, the planet was fully conquered by the Separatists. The pirates and the Jedi met with Samwise Gamgee, who had been defeated by Mouth of Sauron and rescued by the Republic rescue team. Aboard Gamgee's Jedi cruiser, Ohnaka boldly attempted to weasel his way out of trouble by claiming the various expenses he incurred saving the younglings, so Gamgee decided to leave it at that. Ohnaka then departed and the younglings were invited by Gamgee to form a wheel with their ignited lightsabers.
Later during the War of the Ring, Ohnaka returned to his destroyed base with the remaining of his pirates. The resurfaced Gollum and his apprentice Claude Frollo launched an attack on Ohnaka's destroyed outpost with his renegades pirates. However, they were repelled from the outpost and eventually defeated with Frodo and Sam's help, forcing the villains to retreat.
==Behind the scenes==
The battle was first mentioned by Hondo Ohnaka in "Revival" then, StarWars.com's episode guide wrote that "A Necessary Bond" answers what exactly happened to Hondo Ohnaka's base, which was seen destroyed in "Revival," the season opener. Originally, "Revival" was planned to air later in the season, in proper chronological order, but it was moved to the start in order to better showcase the Gollum storyline. In "Revival," Ohnaka describes his base being overrun by The Mouth of Sauron."
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Category:War of the Rings battles