Capture of Eowyn

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|date=August 25, 1983Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the Battle of Erebor and the Eowyn's departure from the Jedi Order to 1984. 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=Minas Tirith Underworld, Minas Tirith
|result=Eowyn recaptured
|side1=Nightsisters
|side2=*Galactic Republic
*Jedi Order
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|commanders1=*Eowyn
*Jinx
|commanders2=*Jedi Master Gimli
*Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins
*Clone Commander CC-3636 ("Wolffe")
*Clone Captain CT-7567 ("Rex")
|commanders3=Barriss Offee
|forces1=*1 Jedi Padawan
*1 Nightsister/bounty hunter
|forces2=*1 Jedi Master
*1 Jedi Knights
*Coruscant Guard
**Clone shock troopers
*501st Legion
**Clone troopers
*Coruscant Security Force
**Coruscant underworld police
*2 LAAT/le patrol gunships
|forces3=1 Jedi Padawan
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Jedi Padawan Eowyn was captured in the Minas Tirith underworld by Coruscant Guard shock troopers under the command of Jedi Master Gimli and Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins. Prior to the capture, Eowyn was framed for bombing the Jedi Temple, murdering suspect Letta Turmond, and killing three clone troopers, by her fellow Padawan Barriss Offee. Looking to prove her innocence, she descended into the Underworld, pursued by Frodo, Gimli, their respective commanders, and multiple clone shock troopers.
While in the underworld, Eowyn teamed up with bounty hunter Jinx. Eowyn contacted Offee, oblivious to the fact she was the one framing Eowyn. Offee told her to find a clue in an abandoned munitions warehouse. There, the Mirialan attacked Eowyn, and left her beaten, where she was stunned and taken back to the surface for a trial. Ultimately, however, Frodo and Erza Scarlet, Eowyn's friend uncovered Offee as the real perpetrator of the crimes alleged at Eowyn, and she was given a full pardon, though she chose not to rejoin the Jedi Order.
==Prelude==
During the third year of the galaxy and Middle-Earth-wide conflict known as the War of the Ring, the Jedi Temple on Minas Tirith was bombed, killing six Jedi, several clone troopers, and maintenance workers, and injuring many more. Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins, and his Padawan Eowyn, were called in to investigate, the Jedi High Council believing that them not being present when the bombing occurred would offer an impartial investigation.
In their investigation, Frodo and Eowyn, assisted by crime scene analysis droid Russo-ISC, discovered the perpetrator of the bombing; Letta Turmond, who fed her husband, Jedi temple worker Jackar Bowmani, food covered in volatile nano-droids, that would explode when he was inside the temple. This was because she believed that the Jedi had become warmongers who killed when they should be keeping the peace. Turmond was arrested, and awaited trial in the Republic Center for Military Operations.
During her imprisonment, Turmond requested Eowyn's presence, and would speak to nobody apart from her. After her arrival, Turmond explained to Eowyn she was supplied the nano-droids, and shown how to make them into a weapon, by a Jedi accomplice who sided with her beliefs about the Order. Turmond claimed this fallen Jedi also set her up to take the fall for this conspiracy. However, before she could reveal the name of the Jedi, she was Force choked to death by an unseen individual. Unbeknownst to Eowyn, Turmond was secretly killed by her friend and fellow Jedi, Barriss Offee, who shared Turmond's radical views on the Jedi, and was framing Eowyn for Turmond's murder, and the hangar bombing, because Turmond was killed before she could give any information about the bombing to the Republic. The Coruscant Guards stationed at the center, led by Clone Commander Fox, arrested Eowyn, incorrectly interpreting the scenario as a murder on Eowyn's part.
After a brief stay in her cell, Eowyn found an access card that would allow her to leave her cell. Assuming it was her master who supplied her with the card, she used the Force to unlock her cell. Proceeding towards the exit, she found her lightsabers, her comlink, and multiple incapacitated clone troopers, clearing the way for her exit. In actuality, this was done not by her master, but again by Offee, further framing Eowyn for the hangar bombing. Before she could escape, however, she was spotted by Fox, who was joined by Frodo and Captain Rex in pursuing Eowyn in what was to be a lengthy chase. Eowyn eventually escaped into the Minas Tirith Underworld. Consequently, the Council decided to send Baggins and Jedi Master Gimli to recapture Eowyn.
Meanwhile, Eowyn, wanted by the Galactic Senate for a large fee, and after escaping numerous Coruscant Underworld Police units, was seized by former Sith assassin—turned—bounty hunter, Jinx. Jinx intended to hand Eowyn to the authorities to collect her bounty. However, the two struck an agreement; Jinx would help prove Eowyn's innocence, and in return, Eowyn would try to convince the Jedi and Senate to pardon Jinx for her war crimes.
==The capture of Eowyn==
While descending into the underworld, Frodo and his forces spotted Jinx and Eowyn, but the two were able to escape. Baggins then ordered his clones to dispatch their probe droids, which would attempt to locate them.
Trying to prove her innocence, Eowyn contacted Offee via holobooth, oblivious to the fact it was in fact her who was framing Eowyn. Offee told Eowyn she could find a clue, which could be found in an Abandoned munitions warehouse on Level 1315. During their exchange, Eowyn and Jinx were spotted by a probe droid, which alerted Clone Commander Wolffe and several Coruscant guards temporarily under his control. They attempted to arrest the two women, but they overpowered Wolffe and the other clones. As the two made their escape, Wolffe, left battered on the floor, alerted Gimli of their failed arrest.
Upon arrival to the munitions warehouse, Eowyn and Jinx parted ways. Shortly after her departure, Jinx, caught by surprise, was attacked, and left reeling on the floor, by Offee, who then took her lightsabers and helmet.
While searching the warehouse for the mentioned clue, Offee met Eowyn in a heated duel. Eowyn assumed her foe was Jinx, due to her stolen lightsabers and helmet. Offee, intending to alert the authorities to the Human's presence, caused multiple explosions, slashing through a container with highly flammable content and using the Force to throw barrels and tubing at it. She hoped this would further frame Eowyn because the warehouse housed the same type of nano-droid that was used to bomb the Jedi Temple. Eventually, Offee overpowered Eowyn, and left. Beaten, Eowyn was stunned by Wolffe, arriving at the scene. She was then cuffed and brought back to Minas Tirith.
==Aftermath==
Following her capture, the Jedi Council decided to comply with the Senate's request to expel Eowyn from the Order, so she could be tried by a military court. Following a brief hearing, which Baggins came to regard as "just a formality", Eowyn was stripped of her rank and status as a Jedi, and transferred to military custody.
While Eowyn was awaiting her trial, Frodo and Erza Scarlet, Eowyn's great friend, determined to prove his former padawan's innocence, searched for Jinx. They fought, but without her lightsabers, Jinx was soon bested. Jinx, while being interrogated, told Frodo and Erza about her being ambushed, and said that only a Jedi could sneak up behind her in the way that happened to her. She also revealed the only other person Eowyn had contacted while on the run was Barriss Offee.
Arriving at Offee's quarters in the Jedi Temple, Frodo and Erza, discovering Offee in possession of Jinx' stolen lightsabers, dueled her, and won. She was brought to Eowyn's trial, and confessed to all crimes allegedly committed by her fellow padawan.
Eowyn was offered a full pardon by the Jedi Council, and asked to rejoin the Order. However, her faith in the Jedi shaken by their refusal to stand by her, Eowyn chose not to accept, and instead left to seek her own path.
==Behind the scenes==
The capture of Eowyn was first shown in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring television series episode "To Catch a Jedi." While the duel between Eowyn and Offee was first shown in that episode, it was only revealed to be Offee later, in the episode "The Wrong Jedi."
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