Battle of Umbara

The **Battle of Umbara** was a big battle from *Star Wars: The Clone Wars*. It deals with the Republic fighting the Separatists on the planet, Umbara during which Captain Rex and his Clone Squad are assigned to a new Jedi general named Pong Krell. The battle takes place in the Season 4 episodes, "Darkness on Umbara," "The General," "Plan of Dissent," and "Carnage of Krell."

## History

### Background

It all started when the Republic went to battle against the Separatists on the planet, Umbara which was a Separatist-controlled planet whose system had good trade routes that the Republic could use. After breaking through the Separatist blockade around Umbara, the Republic was able to get through he Separatist blockade, onto the planet, and take the fight there.

### The Battle

Anakin and Obi-Wan go over a plan with their Clone Squads telling them that they are to take the capital city and to take out the Umbara militia fighters. The Republic fights off the Separatists in their gunships to get to the landing site while some of the gunships get shot down but some manage to get to the landing site and send out Clone Troopers on Walkers. The Clone Troopers fight off the Umbarans with the rest of the Clone Troopers arriving on foot to help out on the gunships led by Anakin. However, the battle gets hard due to the fog on the planet, and some of the Clone Troopers are attacked by a Vixus but manage to beat it. Anakin and the Clone Troopers are able to set up a perimeter to fight off the Separatists while Obi-Wan tries to take the capital. But then the Umbarans send out a Millicreep Droid to attack the Clone Trooper which gives away their position allowing the Umbarans to ambush them. Anakin is able to beat the Millicreep Droid then Captain Rex orders an air bomb strike on the Umbarans. Anakin and the Clone Troopers are able to move out to safety before the air bomb strike happens which defeats the Umbarans but then Jedi Master, Pong Krell arrives who was leading the air bomb strike and tells Anakin that the Jedi Council has ordered him back to Coruscant effective immediately by request of Chancellor Palpatine. Krell also declares that he will be taking over leading Rex and his Clone Squad on Umbara for the remainder of the battle. After Anakin leaves on a gunship, Krell starts leading the Clone Troopers with strict orders then they are attacked by some Banshees which Krell fights off and defeats. They continue to walk until the Clone Troopers get tired and decide that they all need to rest but Krell refuses to let them rest as he is only focused on winning the battle. When Krell and the Clone Troopers reach the capital, Captain Rex plans on launching a surprise strike which was given to them by Anakin but Krell instead decides to have Rex and his squad storm the capital with a frontal assault despite Rex's objections. While walking to the capital, the Clone Troopers walk right into a minefield that takes down two Clone Troopers named Oz and Ringo. Suddenly, they are attacked by the Umbarans who advance on them forcing the Clone Troopers to fall back so Krell sends in more Clone Troopers to help them out. They are able to beat the Umbarans and drive them away but Krell scolds Rex and his squad for not following orders and failing to take the capital until Rex tells him that because of his plan, they lost some men and that he fell back on the plan because he has a duty to protect his men which Krell agrees on. Krell and the Clone Troopers are then attacked again by the Umbarans who have regrouped for a counter-attack so the Clone Troopers fight them off and continue with Krell's plan to take the capital but soon retreat from it when Krell's plan fails.

As Krell and the Clone Troopers continue to fight off the Umbarans who are using fighter ships while lots of Clone Troopers start to get injured. Krell then gets a transmission call from Obi-Wan telling him that he and Rex's Clone Squad are to capture a nearby Umbaran airbase to cut off the Umbaran arm shipments which will help the Republic get into the capital so Krell has Rex gather up his men and they all head for the Umbaran airbase. When they arrive, Krell orders Captain Rex that he and his squad shall head for the Umbaran airbase through the gorge and then engage the airbase with a full forward assault. When Rex asks Krell for a more secure route for them to go through to get to the Umbaran airbase, Krell tells him that there is no time to look for one and they go with the plan. When Captain Rex tells his squad about Krell's plan and that they should split up into two groups to get the airbase, they all disagree with the plan claiming that it's too dangerous but Rex makes them all go with the plan. But while walking through the gorge the Clone Troopers are attacked by some Umbarans using Caterpillar Tanks that burst out of the ground but the Clone Troopers are able to fight them off and defeat them by luring them all together and blowing them up with bombs. The Clone Troopers then continue through the gorge to the Umbaran airbase but are soon attacked by more Umbarans using some Spider Canons, forcing the Clone Troopers to retreat. When Krell contacts them, Captain Rex tells him that they need reinforcements but Krell tells him that he and his squad are to stand their ground and are ordered not to fall back. With no other option, the Clone Troopers all go with Krell's plan and continue their forward assault on the Spider Canons but when some of the Clone Troopers get killed and injured, Captain Rex comes up with a new plan to infiltrate the Umbaran airbase by sending Fives and Hardcase to it to get some Starfighters to use against the Spider Canons. When Captain Rex reports his plan to Krell, he immediately tells Rex to launch a forward strike or else he will be revealed of duty which Rex does until Fives and Hardcase arrive. Fives and Hardcase are able to sneak into the Umbaran airbase while Rex and the other Clone Troopers continue to fight off the Spider Canons. They distract the Umbarans with an explosion and then get control of two of the Umbaran Starfighters which were hard to control. Fives and Hardcase then use the Umbaran Starfighters to attack the Spider Canons and destroy them then Krell sends the rest of the Clone Troopers to attack the Umbaran airbase and they succeed in capturing it then take the Umbarans to the prison cells in the airbase. This succeeds in cutting off supply lines to the capital but when Captain Rex reports to Krell about the amount of men they lost in the process, Krell tells him that it was all a good price to pay for such a great victory then dismisses him.

As the Umbaran insurgents step up to reclaim the Umbaran airbase, Krell orders Captain Rex and his Clone Squad to lock down the airbase and question the Umbaran prisoners. Then Krell gets a transmission call from Obi-Wan at the airbase tower who tells him that their plan to take the capital has now gotten difficult because the Umbarans' attacks have increased and that they are now getting new arm shipments from a supply ship. But the Umbarans jam the transmission signal before Obi-Wan can tell Krell where the supply ship is so Krell gathers up the Clone Troopers and plans to storm the capital even though Captain Rex warns him that they will be marching into a blast zone if they do. When Rex reports Krell's plan to the other Clone Troopers they except for a Clone Trooper named Dogma once again disagree with the plan and claim that Krell is out of control, is not acting like the other Jedi, and has no respect for them. But Rex claims that even though he also doesn't agree with Krell's plan he doesn't have a better plan to deal with the Umbarans at the capital. However, Fives and Jesse come up with a plan to use the Umbaran Starfighters to take down the supply ship to cut off the Umbarans' arm shipments which they can get into by using the Umbarans' access codes and hardware to sneak past the Separatist blockade which Jesse and Fives are able to crack. When Rex reports Fives and Jesse's plan to Krell, he refuses to do it and claims that he will need every Clone Trooper to take the capital. When Rex tells the other Clone Troopers about Krell dismissing the plan but Fives decides that they all should go with their plan anyway. While Rex insists that what they do is not their call to make, Fives declares that he can't just follow orders when he knows that they're wrong especially if they put lives in danger. So the Clone Troopers all go with the plan with Hardcase trying to use one of the Umbaran Starfighters but since he can't fly it well it causes their cover to be blown to Krell just as Hardcase gains control of the Umbaran Starfighter. When Krell comes, Hardcase claims that there was a malfunction with the Umbaran Starfighter which he was able to get control of. But Krell is convinced that the Umbaran Starfighters are dangerous and orders them all to be locked down but Fives, Jesse, and Hardcase come up with a plan to secretly take the Starfighters. They also plan to use an old trick Fives learned from Anakin to take down the supply ship by hitting the main reactor from the inside. At night, they tell Captain Rex that they are all about to go through with their plan which he allows even though it could get them court-martialed but will claim no responsibility if they get caught by Krell. Fives, Jesse, and Hardcase take the Umbaran Starfighters and fly to the supply ship while the other Clone Troopers are asleep or patrolling the Umbaran airbase. However, Dogma finds out that they are gone and goes to tell Krell about it along with Tup so they won't be court-martialed either but are stopped by Captain Rex. Fives, Jesse, and Hardcase fly right to the Separatist blockade in the Umbaran Starfighters that is in the middle of a battle with a Republic fleet. When Krell finds out about the Umbaran Starfighters taking off and talks to Captain Rex about it, he claims to Krell that it was all part of a reconnaissance mission to help Krell take the capital which he believes. Fives, Jesse, and Hardcase fly up to the Separatist supply ship and then fly inside of it where they fight off the Battle Droids to get to the main reactor. But some of the Battle Droids report the Clone Troopers' actions to the Tactical Droid in charge of the supply ship so it has the room with the main reactor ray shielded which prevents the Clone Troopers from getting to it. They then fight off the Battle Droid until Hardcase gets out of his Starfighter and goes to take out the main reactor using a missile pod from his Starfighter through the small entrance. This allows Fives and Jesse to escape the supply ship but Hardcase stays behind as the main reactor explodes and destroys the whole supply ship. But when Fives and Jesse get back to the Umbaran airbase, Krell finds out about what they, has both Fives and Jesse court-martialed, sends them to the prison cells, and plans to have them both executed for disobeying his orders.

Sometime later, Captain Rex tries to get Krell to reconsider court-martialing Fives and Jesse but he refuses and claims that their actions will inspire others to do the same so he orders Captain Rex to have them executed immediately. Rex and some of the other Clone Troopers visit Fives and Jesse in the prison cell and tell them about their execution. Fives tries to convince Captain Rex that Krell is using him to control the other Clone Troopers but Rex takes both Fives and Jesse out of their cells to prepare for their execution. But just as they are both about to be executed by the other Clone Troopers, Fives speaks out to them claiming that Krell is just using them and that the orders he is giving to them are wrong. All the Clone Troopers agree on it and decide to let both Fives and Jesse go but Dogma refuses to believe it and insists on executing them. Captain Rex and Dogma are then ordered to the Umbaran airbase tower by Kreel to discuss the aborting of Fives and Jesse's execution until a transmission call comes in from a Clone Trooper telling Krell that some Umbarans are planning to attack the airbase dressed up in Clone Trooper armor. So Krell orders Captain Rex to lock up Fives and Jesse back in the prison cells and to gather up his men to fight back against the Umbarans dressed up as Clone Troopers. Rex leads his squad outside the Umbaran airbase when they are suddenly attacked by the Umbarans disguised as Clone Troopers. They fight them off but during the battle, Captain Rex finds out that they are actually fighting off other Clone Troopers and tells both sides to stop fighting. Both sides are devastated to learn that they are attacking and killing their own kind then Waxer, the leader of the other Clone Squad reveals with his last bit of breath that he and his squad were ordered to attack Rex's squad by orders of Krell to fight the Umbarans which they thought were them. So both Clone Squads head back to the Umbaran airbase except for Dogma, Captain Rex frees Fives and Jesse from their prison cell again, gives them blasters, and all the Clone Troopers confront Krell to place him under arrest for treason against the Republic. But Krell fights them off with his Lightsabers and kills most of them while he tries to escape the Umbaran airbase. When the Clone Troopers try to go after him, Dogma confronts them as his is conflicted over his duty to Krell but Rex convinces Dogma to standdown, has him sent to the prison cells, then the Clone Troopers goes after Krell. During the search, Krell takes down some of the Clone Troopers like a hunter while at the same time admitting to Rex that he was using him and that all the Clone Troopers in Rex's Clone Squad had all been his pawns. As Krell attacks and takes down more Clone Troopers, Tup comes up with a plan to lure Krell towards him which gets him attacked by a Vixus. While Krell is able to defeat it and escape, Tup is able to subdue Krell then Captain Rex and the other Clone Troopers take him to the prison cells at the Umbaran airbase. Later, Captain Rex, Fives, Jesse, and Tup questions Krell about his actions and Krell reveals that he did it because he foresees the Jedi and the Republic losing the Clone Wars from the inside and that a new order will rise which he will be a part of. He also reveals that he is not a Separatist but plans to become Count Dooku's new apprentice when he helps drive the Republic away from Umbara. Dogma is outraged by this news even though he followed Krell's orders exactly but Krell states to Dogma that he was the biggest fool of them all because of his blind loyalty which allowed Krell to succeed. Krell then reveals that the Umbarans are going to come to try and retake the Umbaran airbase and when they do he will be free. As Captain Rex, Fives, Jesse, and Tup leave they are reported by another Clone Trooper that the transmission was sabotaged and that Obi-Wan has succeeded in taking the capital but the remaining Umbarans are heading back to the airbase. Rex and the Clone Troopers realize that Krell had sabotaged the transmission and that he had been playing them since the beginning. Fives also states that if Krell escapes he'll turn over their intel to the Umbarans which will strike a crippling blow to the Republic. So Rex, Fives, Jesse, and Tup all decide that in order to stop Krell from doing it they have to kill him then they return back to the prison cells and free Dogma. Captain Rex prepares to execute Krell with his blaster but is too scared to do it but Dogma does it instead using Fives' blaster. Later, Rex and his Clone Squad are reported that Obi-Wan and his Clone Squad have taken down the remaining Umbaran holdouts and have taken the capital.

### Aftermath

With the defeat of the Umbarans and the Separatists, all of Umbara is now under Republic control while Dogma is arrested and taken into Republic custody. But Captain Rex questions what the point is in fighting the Clone Wars and states that if it ends what will all the Clone Troopers do then.

## Belligerents

### Republic

* Anakin Skywalker
* Obi-Wan Kenobi
* Captain Rex
* Commander Cody
* Sergeant Appo
* Fives
* Jesse
* Hardcase
* Tup
* Kix
* Hawk
* Dogma
* Oz
* Ringo
* Waxer
* Oddball
* Clone Troopers

### Separatists

* Umbarans
* Tactical Droid
* Vulture Droids
* Millicreep Droid
* Battle Droids

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