Attack on Jabba's Palace

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|name=Attack on Jabba's Palace
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|conflict=War of the Ring
|date=August 10th, 1983
|place=Jabba's Palace, Tatooine
|result=*Jabba allies with Gollum and the Shadow Collective
|side1=*Shadow Collective
**Death Watch
**Black Sun
**Pyke Syndicate
|side2=*Jabba's criminal empire
|commanders1=*Gollum
*Pre Vizsla
*Claude Frollo
*Bo-Katan Kryze
|commanders2=*Jabba Desilijic Tiure
*Gorga Desilijic Aarrpo
|forces1=*2 Sith
*Several Death Watch soldiers
|forces2=*Gamorrean guards
*Quarren and Nikto soldiers
|casual1=
|casual2=Multiple guards
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In 1983, the underworld conglomerate known as the Shadow Collective, under the command of the disgraced Sith Lord, Gollum, attacked Jabba's Palace on Tatooine in order to force Jabba the Hutt, a prominent member of the Hutt Grand Council, into cooperation with the Shadow Collective.
A junction between the criminal organizations of Black Sun, Death Watch, and the spice mining Pykes, the bulk of the attack was conducted by Mandalorian super commandos of the Death Watch, who attacked the perimeter of the Palace, paving the path for Gollum, Judge Claude Frollo, and Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla into Jabba's inner sanctum. After a very brief and violent struggle proving the Shadow Collective to be the more formidable, Jabba agreed to surrender his criminal empire, channeling his resources to the organization's cause for an imminent takeover of the Dwarves kingdom of Erebor.
==Prelude==
Following a major defeat on the planet Florrum at the hands of the Jedi Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee and a ragtag band of pirates under the command of Hondo Ohnaka, Gollum and Claude Frollo were left for dead, only to be discovered in a wayward escape pod by Pre Vizsla and his band of Mandalorian warriors known as the Death Watch. Gollum promised Vizsla a conquest over the dwarf kingdom of Erebor, home of the King under the MountainThe Essential Atlas government of pacifists which the Death Watch refused to recognize. In an effort to gain resources for his growing "Shadow Collective", Gollum led a takeover of the Black Sun criminal syndicate, ordering the execution of its top members and bringing the remainders under his own influence. Soon gaining the support of the Pykes, known for their spice mining, Gollum decided to lead an attack on the planet Nal Hutta to bring the Hutt Grand Council, the governing body of the Hutt species and their criminal activities, under his control. Gollum's appeal to Jabba the Hutt, who was present via hologram, ended in failure, and the Hutt council retreated as a group of bounty hunters that included Sugi, Embo, and Dengar, along with many Nikto guards, kept Gollum, Frollo, and the Mandalorian warriors at bay. In the aftermath of the skirmish, only Oruba the Hutt remained on site, the bounty hunters had escaped, and all the Nikto guards were killed. Oruba promptly revealed the location of Jabba's Palace on the remote world Tatooine. Oruba was then executed by Frollo.
==The mission==
Gollum had Vizsla mobilize his soldiers and traveled to Jabba's fortress on Tatooine with his brother in tow. The small attack force was comprised of three Kom'rk-class starfighters loaded with squads of Death Watch foot soldiers, a lone Gozanti-class cruiser, and two Pyke patrol ships. Completely taking Jabba and his men off guard, the Kom'rk starfighters laid suppressing fire on the palace, killing many outside, including two Gamorrean guards engaged in a leisurely game of arm wrestling. Death Watch foot soldiers were dispensed from the starfighters' underbellies, using their jetpacks to fly to the palace and engage the inhabitants in close quartered combat; flamethrowers and wrist-mounted blasters found heavy use in the skirmish with members of various species, including Gotal, Nikto, and Quarren thugs. Gollum, Frollo and Vizsla cut through the entry and made their way into Jabba's main audience chamber, with Bo-Katan and a few others close behind. When they met with the crime lord, Vizsla and Gollum gave the Hutt one last chance to ally with them. Jabba merely laughed and spoke Huttese, and his translator droid stated that Jabba and the Hutt families would join them.
==Aftermath==
The Death Watch assisted with the cleanup of the palace, helping up Jabba's men, or at least, the ones who survived the skrimish. Gollum and Vizsla finalized their plans for the conquest the Dwarves capital city on Erebor. Gollum stated that their army was complete and that they had enough resources, and he requested that Vizsla send a guard to Dale to find the places with the most security in Erebor. Vizsla then left Gollum, and spoke with his lieutenant, Bo-Katan Kryze. He stated that once Erebor was in their grasp, the two assassins would lie dead with the Duchess of Erebor, Satine Kryze, Bo-Katan's sister. The Hutt families then gave them some of Hutt enforcers made of red-skinned Niktos which would later prove useful in the takeover of Dale and subsequent battle of Erebor.
==Behind the scenes==
The attack on Jabba's Palace first appeared in the episode Eminence of The War of the Ring TV series. The idea for the attack originally came from franchise creator George Lucas himself.featurette
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==Notes and references==
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