Battle of Pelek Baw

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## Battle of Pelek Baw

### Date

21.51 BBY, 6 months after the First Battle of Geonosis

### Outcome

* Balawai surrender to Galactic Republic
* Upland Liberation Front disbanded

Combatants| Balawai | * Upland Liberation Front
* Galactic Republic

Commanders| * Colonel Lorz Geptun (early in battle)
* High General Mace Windu (late in battle)
* High General Depa Billaba
* High General Mace Windu (early in battle)

Strength| * At least 24 *Turbostorm*-class gunships
* At least 1 Ground Assault Vehicle
* At least 2 mobile artillery pieces
* Turbolaser emplacements
* Ion cannon emplacements
* Militia
* Armored groundcars
* At least 200 Vulture droids early in battle
* 1 *Turbostorm*-class gunship
* 10 *Jadthu*-class landing ships
* 510 clone troopers
* At least 200 Vulture droids late in battle

Casualties| * At least 286 captured militia
* At least 48 killed militia
* At least dozens of civilian ships
* Widespread damage to city
* Capture of all Vultures
* At least 24 clones

> We're going to *take Pelek Baw?**"
> "*No. We are going to take the whole *system*. All of it. Right now.
>
> Depa Billaba and Mace Windu, Shatterpoint (novel)

The **Battle of Pelek Baw** was a conflict between the Balawai militia of the Haruun Kal government, under the command of Colonel Lorz Geptun, and the Korunnai Upland Liberation Front, led by Jedi Generals Mace Windu and Depa Billaba, and Korun *lor pelek* Kar Vastor. It was the final engagement of the Summertime War.

## The battle

The battle began with the capture of the Pelek Baw spaceport by a surprise assault of ten *Jadthu*-class landing ships with their clone trooper complements, masked by the arrival of a decoy *Turbostorm*-class gunship and by the gunships' position in a waterfall. 286 militia were captured (35 of them seriously wounded) and 48 were killed. As the ULF worked on accessing the Vulture droid control center at the spaceport, Jedi General Mace Windu went into the city to find Colonel Lorz Geptun, the leader of the Balawai militia, and force his surrender.

### Betrayal

However, once he left, the ULF killed the clone trooper guard he had left behind, informed the others in the gunships that he had been killed, and using both their command of the clones and their control of the Vulture droids, began attacking the city, hoping to raze it to the ground and kill its populace.

Windu was able to force a surrender from Geptun, and then using his militia, make his way back to the spaceport, returning in contact with the clones and disabling the droid command center. The clones under Major Nick Rostu killed the Korunnai Akk Guards while Windu dueled with and defeat ULF leaders Kar Vastor and Depa Billaba, placing them under arrest for trial on Coruscant. The attack also enabled Geptun to call off the Vulture Droids, preventing them from destroying the city.

Shortly later, a Republic task force arrived in the system. The ULF was disbanded, the militia reduced in size with many of them joining the Republic Army, and Haruun Kal officially rejoined the Republic, ending the Summertime War.

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## Appearances

* *Shatterpoint*

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