Battle of Rendili

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|name=Battle of Rendili
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|conflict=War of the Ring
|date=April 6th, 1983 (2 years, 25 months after the Battle of Isengard)
|place=Rendili
|result=Galactic Republic victory
|side1=*Galactic Republic
*Jedi Order
|side2=*Confederacy of Independent Systems
*Independent Provisional Government of Rendili
|commanders1=*General Saesee Tiin
*General Samwise Gamgee
*General Gimli
*General Frodo Baggins
*Marshal Commander CC-2224
*Commander Adar Tallon
*Captain Jace Dallin
*Captain Jan Dodonna
|commanders2=*Lieutenant Mellor Yago†
*Lieutenant Gallan†
*The Mouth of Sauron 
|forces1=*3 Jedi Masters
*1 Jedi Knight
*Clone troopers
**Third Systems Army
*LAAT/i gunships
*V-19 Torrent starfighters
**Blue Squadron
**Yellow Team
*At least 3 Acclamator-class assault ships
**Triumph
**Sundiver
**Doneeta
*Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptors
**Azure Angel II
*Skorp-Ion
*Rendili Home Defense Fleet 
**Mersel Kebir
|forces2=*2 Lucrehulk-class Core Ships†
*Vulture droid starfighters
*Rendili Home Defense Fleet 
**Mersel Kebir
**At least 5 other Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers
|casual1=*Starfighters
**At least one-third of Blue Squadron
*LAAT/i gunships
*Damage to Acclamator-class assault ships
|casual2=*Both Lucrehulk-class Core Ships
*Vulture droid starfighters
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The Battle of Rendili was a battle of the War of the Ring, occurring twenty five months after the First Battle of Isengard, in 1983.
==Prelude==
When word came that Rendili, the planet home to the Rendili StarDrive corporation and producer of the Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers, was possibly going to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the Galactic Senate ordered a Jedi-led task force to Rendili. Their mission was either to convince the Rendili Home Defense Fleet to remain with the Galactic Republic or, if that failed, to destroy them lest they fell into the hands of Saruman. As the commander of the Rendili Fleet was Captain Jace Dallin, Jedi Master Gimli and Captain Jan Dodonna were sent as part of the fleet to negotiate with him, the three having fought together during the Stark Hyperspace War.
Arriving at Rendili, the Republic force discovered that an Independent Provisional Government had already assumed power on Rendili, and joined with the Separatists. Gimli and Dodonna headed over to the Rendili flagship, Mersel Kebir, to speak with Dallin anyways. Despite some initial reluctance, Dallin agreed to order the fleet to defect to the Republic. At that time, Lieutenant Mellor Yago with the help of other junior officers such as Gallan arrested Gimli, Dodonna, Dallin, and the other senior officers of the Mersel Kebir for treason against Rendili. Yago used them as hostages preventing an immediate attack, hoping that Saesee Tiin, commanding the Republic fleet, would hold off firing for at least twenty hours—the time at which General The Mouth of Sauron had promised a Confederate Navy support group would arrive at Rendili.
===Interlude on the Titavian===
Just before the negotiating team crossed to the Mersel Kebir Samwise Gamgee, one of the Jedi assigned to the Republic fleet, was asked by the Exploration Corps to investigate a missing ship for the Mycroft Intergalactic Zoological Society. Going to the coordinates given, he found the crippled ship, Titavian IV, with an old Jedi signal coming from it. Expecting perhaps to find Zao or Jerec onboard, Gamgee instead found Quinlan Vos, a renegade Jedi who had fallen to the dark side and defected to Saruman.
Vos was being hunted by seeker droids released by two of Saruman's minions, Jinx and Tol Skorr, who were charged with punishing Vos for his failure following the Battle of Honoghr, where he had realized that he had indeed followed the wrong path. Stranded on the Titavian IV when the two Dark Jedi had placed his ship, the Skorp-Ion, out of reach, Vos had nearly been overwhelmed before Samwise's arrival. Retaking Vos' ship, evading the Dark Jedi's droids and a rancor released by them, and destroying their own ship, the two Jedi reversed the situation, escaping while leaving Jinx and Skorr stranded onboard the Titavian IV. Samwise piloted their ship back to Rendili, despite the fact he anticipated trouble from Tiin over Vos.
==The battle==
Meanwhile, Yago—expecting the arrival of the Confederate support group at any minute—had given Tiin an ultimatum: in one hour he would execute his hostages, starting with Gimli. Onboard the Republic flagship, Sundiver, Tiin and Frodo debated what to do. Deciding that there was no way to save the hostages, Tiin wished to destroy the Rendili Fleet ships, but Frodo was convinced that in his starfighter, the Azure Angel II, he could set charges on the rear of the cruisers, leaving them stranded in space via a flaw in their original Mandalorian design. Tiin refused, as did Gamgee when he arrived shortly later with Vos. Tiin ordered Vos confined in a prison cell as Commander Adar Tallon, the Naval commander, reported that Confederate Lucrehulk-class Core Ships had emerged from hyperspace. Ordering the Sundiver to begin firing on the Mersel Kebir and the Triumph and Doneeta to fire on the Confederate ships, Tiin and the other Jedi headed to their starfighters to enter the battle.
Without permission, Frodo had the charges loaded onto his fighter and prepared to put his plan in motion. When the Sundiver was hit and suffered a power loss, Vos was able to leave his cell and get onboard a starfighter, entering the battle. Together with Samwise, they infiltrated the Mersel Kebir as a means of destroying its Vulture droids from within, giving the distraction Frodo needed to pull his plan through. Yago, in preparation for a hyperspace jump, had all the Rendili ships slave themselves to the Mersel Kebir; when sensors revealed this, Tiin ordered Tallon to ram the Sundiver into the Mersel Kebir, but this was made unnecessary when Frodo succeeded in disabling the astrogation of the Mersel Kebir, leaving it and the other Rendili Fleet ships slaved to it stranded.
On board the Rendili flagship, Vos and Gamgee had managed to release the hostages. Dallin personally shot Yago, and retook command of the Rendili Fleet. Ordering that all other mutineers be summarily executed, he and Tiin ordered their combined fleets to concentrate fire on the Confederate ships, destroying them and ending the battle.
==Aftermath==
After the surrender of the fleet, the Independent Provisional Government was presumably quickly subdued as Rendili returned to the Republic by the end of the war.
Following the battle, the Rendili Fleet was taken to Coruscant to be refitted and used in the war effort. Due to their strong design, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine planned to turn them into prison ships for use in transporting captured Dark Jedi loyal to Saruman. Presumably they became some of the Imperial dungeon ships used during the Great Jedi Purge, alongside the Lictor-class.
At Palpatine's urging, the Senate passed a resolution that mandated all defense fleets to be assimilated into the Republic Navy, to prevent a similar situation from arising in the future. This influx of power into the central military while weakening local systems would form the basis of the Imperial Navy and the Imperial ability to "rule through threat of force rather than force itself".
At a meeting before the Jedi High Council, Vos was cleared of all suspicion and welcomed back into the Jedi Order. They failed to realize that his true allegiance still remained with Saruman, who had engineered the entire situation as a means to get a spy into the Jedi ranks.
==Appearances==
*Republic 70 
*Republic 71
*Republic 78 
==Sources==
*The New Essential Chronology
*The Essential Atlas
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*The Essential Guide to Warfare
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==Notes and references==
Category:War of the Rings battles