Duel at the Jedi Temple

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|date=August 27, 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=Jedi Temple, Minas Tirith
|result=Barriss Offee is captured by Frodo Baggins and Erza Scarlet
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**Frodo Baggins
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**Barriss Offee
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During the War of the Ring, Jedi Knights Frodo Baggins and Erza Scarlet fought fallen Padawan Barriss Offee in a lightsaber duel in the Jedi Temple on Minas Tirith. The duel occurred after Frodo and Erza learned that Offee framed his Padawan, Eowyn, for the Bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar that occurred three days earlier. After speaking with Jinx, and learning about the ambush that occurred during the attempted capture, Frodo felt that Offee was the only other person capable of bombing the Jedi Temple. This proved to be true and she engaged Frodo and Erza with Jinx' Sith lightsabers. Offee was ultimately defeated and brought to Eowyn's trial, where she confessed to bombing the Jedi Temple, believing that the Jedi had become an army fighting for the dark side and it was only a matter of time before the Republic failed.
==Prelude==
After Jedi Padawan Eowyn was both framed for and charged with the Bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar and the murder of Letta Turmond, Eowyn decided to hide in the underworld and prove her innocence on her own, but was eventually recaptured by Frodo Baggins and Gimli. Eowyn was taken back to the Jedi Temple, where she was expelled by the Council and turned over to the Republic Military. During her military tribunal before the Galactic Senate, Frodo and his companion Erza Scarlet went into the underworld and found Jinx, assuming she was the mastermind behind the recent events. Jinx pleaded innocence and revealed that someone else had attacked her and stole her lightsabers, after she parted ways with Eowyn at the warehouse which contained the nano-droids used in the bombing.
The only other person to have known that she and Eowyn went to the warehouse was Barriss Offee, the one who sent them there. Frodo and Erza returned to the Jedi Temple and found the Jedi in her quarters. When he questioned her, Offee admitted to have been in contact with Eowyn, but claimed that she was only trying to help her. To prove his suspicions, Frodo attempted to strike at Offee with her own lightsaber. Offee summoned Jinx' lightsabers, which she had kept hidden in a pot instead of disposing, to defend herself, proving that she was behind the bombing and framed Eowyn for her crimes. Frodo and Erza then engaged Offee in a duel.
==The duel==
After engaging Offee in lightsaber combat, Frodo and Erza kicked her out of her room and Offee escaped into the Temple hallways. Frodo and Erza quickly followed her and the duel continued. When she broke off in an attempt to escape, four Jedi Temple Guards arrived, boxing Offee from the two ends of the corridor. Seeking an alternative escape route, Offee broke the Temple's windows and jumped off from the Temple. After Offee knocked Erza off a balcony, the duel spilled onto the training grounds where Tera Sinube was instructing a group of Jedi younglings. Sinube ignited his sabercane to defend the younglings and assist Frodo and Erza. As the Temple Guards closed in, Frodo was able to disarm Offee of one lightsaber by squeezing her right wrist. After another round of clashing blades, Frodo used telekinesis to slam and pin her to a tree. Offee was then taken before the court of Eowyn's trial and was forced to confess her crimes. As she confessed, Offee denounced the Jedi, claiming they had lost their way and were the real villains of the War of the Ring.
==Aftermath==
With Offee's confession, the charges against Eowyn were dropped and she was released from Republic custody. The Council personally apologized to her for their actions and asked Eowyn to rejoin the Order, but to everyone's shock, she refused and left the Jedi Order.
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Category:Duels