Bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar

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|date=August 21, 1983Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the Battle of Erebor and the Eowyn's departure from the Jedi Order to 1983. As the episode this event takes place within takes place between the events of the episodes the other events are attached to according to , this event must take place in 1983.
|place=Jedi Temple, Minas Tirith
|outcome=*Damage inflicted on the Jedi Temple hangar
*8 clone troopers, 12 crew workers,Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious and 6 Jedi killed
**Tutso Mara killed
**Jackar Bowmani killed
*Dozens wounded
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|participants=*Jackar Bowmani 
*Barriss Offee
*Letta Turmond}}
The bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar occurred late in the War of the Ring. Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee—having become disgruntled with the fact that the Jedi Order, traditionally guardians of peace, were leading the Galactic Republic's war against the Confederacy of Independent Systems—carried out the bombing. The attack killed six Jedi Knights, a number of clone troopers, and members of the Jedi Temple's maintenance crew. A number of suspects were considered before the evidence implicated Eowyn, Padawan of General Frodo Baggins, who was tried for murder and treason. Baggins later discovered that it was Offee who carried out the attack, saving his Padawan.
==Prelude==
As the War of the Ring continued throughout the galaxy and Middle-Earth, many citizens of the Galactic Republic started to disagree with the ways of the Jedi, and no longer viewed them as peacekeepers due to their new role as generals leading the fight against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Barriss Offee, Padawan to Jedi Master Luminara Unduli, grew to harbor similar views—ultimately believing that both the Jedi and the Republic had lost their way. As a result of this mindset, she sought to make a statement against the Jedi by detonating a bomb within the Jedi Temple. Enlisting the help of citizen Letta Turmond, a radical anti-war activist, Offee gave Turmond NM-K reconstitutor nano-droids to feed to her husband, Jackar Bowmani, turning Bowmani into a living bomb. Bowmani was a munitions expert in the Jedi Temple, giving Turmond and Offee direct access to the temple hangar.
==Bombing==
Jackar Bowmani was working in the Jedi Temple hangar when the nano-droids within him detonated, killing Bowmani and multiple bystanders. The casualties who died as a result of the explosion were six Jedi, including Jedi Knight Tutso Mara, as well as several clone troopers and maintenance workers. In addition to the fatalities, several workers were injured by the attack and subsequently taken to the temple's medical facility.
As rumors began to spread of possible Jedi involvement in the attack, Grand Master Bilbo Baggins recalled General Frodo Baggins and his Padawan Eowyn from their defense on Minas Morgul. Upon their return to Minas Tirith, the Jedi Council assigned Baggins and Eowyn the task of discovering the culprit behind the attack. As neither of them were present in the temple at the time of the bombing, Bilbo believed that they could be trusted to lead the investigation.
Frodo and Eowyn were partnered with Russo-ISC, a crime scene analysis droid, to investigate the crime, and Eowyn and Russo began to interview the witnesses. During these interviews, Eowyn and Russo learned about potential suspect Jackar Bowmani, who went missing after the bombing. After informing Frodo about the suspect, Frodo found Letta Turmond in a protest that was occurring outside the Temple and brought her in for questioning. She claimed that Bowmani could not have been involved, but after further investigation nano-droids were discovered at the site of the bomb and later in Bowmani's bloodstream, allowing the Jedi to believe that Bowmani himself was the bomb. Baggins and Eowyn went to Bowmani and Turmond's house to further investigate, and found traces of nano-droids in the food, confirming their suspicions. The Jedi were interrupted by Turmond, who ran when asked to come in for further questioning. Once captured, Turmond was arrested for the bombing of the Jedi Temple and sent to prison. With Turmond locked away, any suspicions that a Jedi could have been involved were lost.
==Aftermath==
Shortly after the funeral ceremony for the Jedi victims of the attack, Offee killed her co-conspirator and framed Eowyn for the deed. Eowyn escaped from Republic custody in the hope of proving her innocence, but was consequently hunted as a fugitive by the Jedi and Republic Military. Following her capture, Eowyn was expelled from the Order and subsequently placed on trial for murder and treason. Although the charges were dismissed after Baggins apprehended Offee and forced her to make a full confession, Eowyn declined the Council's offer of reinstatement and chose to head back to Rohan for home instead.
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==Notes and references==
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