Battle of Christophsis

The **Battle of Christophsis** was a huge battle from *Star Wars: The Clone Wars*. It deals with the planet, Christophis under attack by the the Separatists and is is one of the first early battles of the Clone Wars. The battle takes place in the Season 1 episodes, "Cat and Mouse," "Hidden Enemy," and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie."

## History

### Background

It all started seven weeks after the Clone Wars had begun where the Confederacy of Independent Systems or for short the Separatists had sought out to conquer other planets throughout the Galaxy with their powerful Droid Army. One of their first planets was the planet, Christophsis which they tried to conquer to recruit its people and get its resources by placing a huge blockade around the planet led by Admiral Trench. The Separatist Droid Army then attacked the planet but Senator Bail Organa and his group of both Clone Troopers and Christophsian fighters tried to hold them off but then they requested help from the Republic to send in supplies. So the Republic sent a fleet of Republic Cruisers led by Anakin Skywalker to deliver the supplies to Senator Organa. Obi-Wan Kenobi was also supposed to come with Anakin and help deliver the supplies to Christophsis but he was running late.

### The Battle

Anakin and his fleet try to fight through the Separatist blockade to deliver the supplies even though Obi-Wan told Anakin not to engage until he arrives. But Anakin's fleet is taken on heavy fire by the blockade and the Separatist command ship which is commanded by Admiral Trench who is able to shoot down some Republic Cruisers and supply ships. But then Obi-Wan shows up on his own Republic Cruiser and orders Anakin and his fleet to withdraw their attack so Ob-Wan can use a new weapon against the Separatists. After Anakin's fleet falls back and regroups with Obi-Wan behind Christophsis' Moon, he reveals that the new weapon is a prototype stealth ship which Anakin and some Clone Troopers will use to sneak past the Separatist blockade and deliver the supplies to Senator Organa on Christophsis but not to engage the blockade again. But then Admiral Yularen discovers something about both the Separatist command ship and the tactics it used and realizes that Admiral Trench is commanding it so he orders Anakin to hold his departure with the stealth ship. Admiral Yularen then tells Anakin about Admiral Trench along with his past history with him who both Anakin and Yularen thought was dead. So Admiral Yularen volunteers to help Anakin as a consultant on board the stealth ship so it can avoid Admiral Trench. The stealth ship then takes off with Anakin and Admiral Yularen while being piloted by Clone Troopers who cloak the ship which makes it look invisible and undetectable by Admiral Trench and blockade. However, while they are using it, Trench orders some Vulture Droids to drop some Hyena Bombers on Senator Organa's group and command center on the surface of Christophsis to draw out the Republic fleet. When they do, Anakin and Admiral Yularen notice them but can't attack them as it would give away their position. When the Vulture Droids attack, Senator Organa calls Obi-Wan for help so he orders Anakin to continue to deliver the supplies on the stealth ship while he deals with Amiral Trench and his fleet despite Anakin and Admiral Yularen's warnings that Trench is leading him into a trap. So Anakin decides to use the stealth ship to attack Trench on the Separatist command ship instead, when they do they de-cloak the stealth ship and give away their position to Admiral Trench who protects himself from their attack using the shields of the Separatist command ship. Then Trench prepares to attack the stealth ship but Anakin manages to get the ship to miss the attack using flares and re-cloaks the stealth ship. However, Trench now knows that he is fighting a Jedi so he sends out a transmission to Anakin on the stealth ship. He tells Anakin that he knows how to fight against cloaking ships and orders Anakin to turn back and retreat or he will destroy him and his crew. When Anakin and Admiral Yularen report to Obi-Wan, he tells them about Trench's history with cloaking ships which Trench was able to find by tracking their magnetic signatures which gives Anakin an idea. Anakin and his crew manage to strike down Admiral Trench's Separatist command ship by using the stealth ship to redirect one of Trench's missiles at him after Trench had the shields of the Separatist command ship turned off in order to fire the missiles. Which destroys the Separatist command ship and allows Anakin and his crew to diver the supplies to Senator Organa and his group on Christophsis with the stealth ship while Obi-Wan deals with the rest of the Separatist blockade.

But later during the battle, the people of Christophsis can't hold off the Separatists Droid Army any longer as they destroy most of the planet's buildings. So the people of Christophsis call the Jedi to help them fight the Separatists so they send Anakin, Obi-Wan, and their Clone Squads to help by planning an ambush on the Droid Army. During which, the Battle Droids advance toward their holdouts at some towers along with some tanks but then they split up into three groups. Suddenly, the Battle Droids attack Obi-Wan and his Clone Squad but they manage to escape after fighting them off with help from Anakin and his Clone Squad but now they all have to abort the plan and evacuate the towers on a gunship after being compromised. But during the fight, Captain Rex steals the head of the Tactical Droid to find out how they knew about their plan. However, when they take it back to their base and try probing it to find out the circuits of the Tactical Droid head suddenly fry up. Obi-Wan deduces that they have a spy in their ranks, so Obi-Wan and Anakin go to the enemy lines to find out, leave both Captain Rex and Commander Cody in charge of finding the spy in their ranks, and order them to let no one know about their mission. But Suddenly, after Anakin and Obi-Wan leave, Cody finds out that someone used a comlink to listen in on them then Rex finds the spy and chases after him along with Cody. But the spy is able to escape to the mess hall with the other Clones but Rex and Cody now know that the spy is a Clone. They try to call Anakin and Obi-Wan to warn them but the spy had the Battle Droids jam their communications. So Rex and Cody instead try to have R2-D2 find the spy by tracking his messages to the Battle Droids, during which they suspect that the traitor is a Clone named Sergeant Slick or one of his own men since the messages came from Slick's barracks. Meanwhile, Anakin and Obi-Wan search the enemy lines but then Anakin realizes that they are heading for a trap since the Battle Droids aren't attacking them, then they run into Count Dooku's assassin, Asajj Ventress and fight her off after the spy told her that they were both coming. Rex and Cody soon question Slick and his men to find out who the spy is only to find that some of them are innocent. During which, they find out that a Clone Trooper named Chopper was secretly taking Battle Droid fingers which is against regulation, however, he wasn't the spy either. The Clones all soon find out that the spy is actually Slick because Chopper saw him going to the command center while he was collecting the fingers plus Slick also knew about Anakin and Obi-Wan being gone. Slick tries to escape with Rex and Cody going after him but during the chase, he blows up some AT-TE Walkers and the weapons depot making Rex and Cody realize that he's not trying to escape but to get rid of them. Back at the enemy lines, Anakin and Obi-Wan find out that Asajj has brought a whole Separatist army to take control of the Christophsis but they manage to escape back to their side. However, Asajj sends the whole army led by General Whorm Loathsom to march on the city to delay the Jedi as part of Count Dooku's plan. Soon Rex and Cody fight off Slick in the command center after tricking him into a trap but during the fight, Slick reveals that the reason he became a spy for the Separatists was because Asajj paid him to and for freedom from the Republic. Rex and Cody are able to defeat and capture Silck then present him to Anakin and Ob-Wan after they return where Slick reveals to them all that he thinks the Clones are all slaves of the Jedi and the Republic who just send them all to die in battle. Slick is sent to lock up while everyone else prepares to fight against the Separatists marching toward them.

Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the Clone Army fight off the Droid Army when they arrive at the city with both sides sustaining major causalities with the Clone Army in desperate need of reinforcements. Which is hard because the Republic fleet led by Admiral Yularen is fighting off a Separatist fleet in space over Christophsis. But Anakin and his Clone Squad take down some Tri-Droids which allows Obi-Wan and the Clone Army to advance forward against the Droid Army until the Droid Army is ordered by General Whorm Loathsom to fall back, regroup, and set up their deflector shields. After which, Anakin and Obi-Wan are given help which is Anakin's new Padawan, Ahsoka Tano who was sent by Master Yoda. Meanwhile, the Republic fleet takes on heavy fire from the Separatist fleet who have them on the brink of defeat, forcing the Republic fleet to retreat. But one of the Clones on the fleet helps Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka out by contacting Yoda who agrees to send in reinforcements but the transmission gets cut off during the fight with the Separatist fleet then the Republic fleet leaves but Ahsoka agrees to help them out. Suddenly, General Whom Loathsom and the Droid Army return with their projected deflector shields to protect them as they prepare to attack the Clone Army again. So the Jedi and the Clones plan to take out the deflector shield by sneaking into the enemy lines and taking out the deflector shield generator. With Anakin and Ahsoka being the ones to do it while Obi-Wan and Captain Rex try to distract General Whom Loathsom and the Droid Army. Meanwhile, Yoda decides to go to Christophsis with the reinforcements to help out Obi-Wan and the Clone Army. The Clone Army tries to fight off the deflector shield but nothing seems to work until they all get inside the shield and fight off the Droid Army but the Droid Army advances on the Republic lines which forces them to fall back until they are all safely under the deflector shield. But Anakin and Ahsoka manage to get beyond the Droid Army and under the deflector shield by hiding under a crate then they secretly go after the deflector shield generator but are soon discovered by a Droideka which they fight off and defeat. Then when the Obi-Wan and the Clone Army get cornered by General Whorm Loathsom and the Droid Army, Obi-Wan sends the Clone Troopers to get the heavy cannons. While he fights off the Droid Army alone to delay them until the Clone Troopers arrive with the heavy cannons then when he is confronted by General Whorm Loathsom, Obi-Wan decides to surrender. Obi-Wan starts to negotiate the terms of surrender with Whorm Loathsom which Obi-Wan uses to stall him while the Clone Troopers arrive with the heavy cannons. Finally, Anakin and Ahsoka reach the deflector shield generator but are then attacked by Mine Droids but they are able to fight them off and defeat them then Ahsoka places the charges to destroy the deflector shield generator while the Clone Troopers are fighting off the Battle Droids to prevent them from getting to the heavy cannons. Soon General Whorm Loathsom finds out about Obi-Wan's trick, has Super Battle Droids seize him, and orders him to call off the Clone Troopers or he'll be destroyed but by that time, Anakin and Ahsoka have destroyed the deflector shield generator. Obi-Wan then escapes from the Super Battle Droids' grasp and takes General Whorm Loathsom hostage then the Clone Troopers are able to get the upper hand against the Droid Army by using the heavy cannons to fight them off. After that, Admiral Yularen calls Obi-Wan telling him that the reinforcements have arrived and have taken out the Separatist fleet then they arrive to help out in the form of Yoda and a large Clone Army battalion which is able to defeat the Droid Army and save Christophsis.

### Aftermath

With the Separatists defeated on Christophsis and General Whorm Loathsom arrested, Anakin and Ahsoka begin a new mission from Master Yoda to save the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hut. Which was orchestrated by Jabba the Hut's uncle, Ziro the Hut with cooperation from the Separatists to become leader of the Hutt Clan. Which was the thing Count Dooku, Assaj Ventress, and the Separatists tried to distract the Jedi from by fighting them off on Christophsis. Anakin and Ahsoka managed to succeed in saving Jabba's son and in return, Jabba allowed the Republic access through the Outer Rim. Ziro was also arrested by the Republic for his crimes with help from Senator Padme and C-3PO. However, Admiral Trench survived the destruction of his Separatist command ship but in the process was turned into a cyborg who would continue to fight for the Separatists until the Battle of Anaxes.

## Belligerents

### Republic

* Anakin Skywalker
* Ahsoka Tano
* Obi-Wan Kenobi
* Yoda
* Admiral Yularen
* R2-D2
* Senator Bail Organa
* Captain Rex
* Commander Cody
* Commander Blackout
* Spark
* Chopper
* Gus
* Hawk
* Jester
* Punch
* Sketch
* Clone Troopers
* Christophsian Soldiers

### Separatists

* Asajj Ventress
* General Whorm Loathsom
* Admiral Trench
* Sergeant Slick
* Tactical Droids
* Vulture Droids
* Tri-Droids
* Spider Droids
* Mine Droids
* Droidekas
* Super Battle Droids
* Battle Droids
* Service Droids

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