Malevolence Campaign

The **Malevolence Campaign** (also known as the **Battle of the Malevolence**) was a huge space battle from *Star Wars: The Clone Wars*. It deals with the Republic fighting the Separatists who are armed with a dangerous and powerful warship called the Malevolence. The battle takes place in the Season 1 episodes, "Rising Malevolence," "Shadow of the Malevolence," and "Destroy the Malevolence."

## History

### Background

It all started when the Separatists created a powerful new weapon called the Malevolence which was a huge warship commanded by Count Dooku and General Grievous that could neutralize Republic fleets entirely with a huge ion cannon on the side of the ship. The Malevolence would then attack those fleets and kill all the crew members on the Republic Cruisers but some of the crews managed to escape on escape pods. However, the Malevolence would also send out pod hunters for the Battle Droids to hunt down and destroy what was left of the crews on the escape pods. The whole purpose of it was to test out the Malevolence's capabilities and to keep its existence a secret from the Republic so they wouldn't fight back against it.

### The Battle

However, the Republic hears rumors about the Malevolence so they send out Jedi Master Plo Koon to lead a Republic fleet and investigate it in the Abregado System. When Plo Koon's fleet encounters it, Count Dooku orders the Battle Droid crew on the Malevolence to jam their transmissions so they can't call for help which is right when Plo Koon was asking Anakin and Ahsoka for backup against the Malevolence since their fleet was nearby. Afterwards, Anakin and Ahsoka call both the Jedi Council and Chancellor Palpatine to report the Malevolence's whereabouts and discuss their next course of action but while they were talking, the Malevolence attacks Plo Koon's fleet. Plo Koon and some of his Clone Squad manage to escape in the escape pods before the Malevolence destroys the whole fleet and kills most of the Clone crew. However, Count Dooku and General Grievous send out some pod hunters who find and kill some of the surviving Clones in their escape pods while the escape pod Plo Koon and some of his Clone Troopers; Commander Wolffe, Sergeant Sinker, and Boost are in is damaged which strands them as it runs low on air so they all try to fix it. Meanwhile, Anakin and Ahsoka hear about the destruction of Plo Koon's fleet so they plan to lead a search party to find Plo Koon and any other survivors. But they are ordered by the Jedi Council to deploy to a new mission to rendezvous with other Republic fleets to guard supply conduits since there haven't been any survivors from the Malevolence's attacks. However, Ahsoka is certain that Plo Koon is alive and wants to rescue him so Anakin, Ahsoka, and R2-D2 secretly take a small ship called the Twilight and go to rescue him themselves while Admiral Yularen takes care of the supply conduit mission with his fleet. But Obi-Wan soon finds out about their plan, contacts them when they arrive at the Abregado System, and orders them to report back to the supply conduit mission before they miss the rendezvous which Chancellor Palpatine later does as well. Meanwhile, Plo Koon and his Clone Squad manage to fix up their escape pod and fight off the pod hunters after being discovered by them with Plo Koon, Sinker, and Boost fighting them off from outside the escape pod in space while Wolffe tries to keep the pod signal alive so they can be rescued. After they defeat the Battle Droids, Plo Koon and his Clone Squad are later found and rescued by Anakin and Ahsoka after R2-D2 detects their escape pod signal then they bring them aboard their ship and have a Medical Droid nurse them all back to health while Plo Koon tells both Anakin and Ahsoka about the Malevolence. However, the Malevolence comes back after losing the pod hunter signal so Plo Koon has Anakin and Ahsoka shut down all power on the ship including R2-D2 so it wouldn't find them but the Malevolence manages to find them after tracking a signal from the Medical Droid since they forgot to shut it down too. So they turn the ships' power back on as well as R2-D2 and they all manage to escape into hyperspace before the Malevolence could attack them with their ion cannon then they regroup with Admiral Yularen's fleet while Count Dooku leaves the Malevolence to talk to his master, Darth Sidious. Soon Anakin, Plo Koon, and Ahsoka all report to the Jedi Council about the Malevolence and they all agree to stop it.

Both Anakin and Admiral Yularen prepare a squad fleet of Republic fighters known as the Shadow Squadron with some Clone Troopers to fight against the Malevolence. Anakin also states that he has a plan to stop the Malevolence which is to evade the ion cannon and attack the main bridge with bombers in order to take out General Grievous. Which will take down the whole ship and try to bring the Clone Wars to a quicker end, despite Plo Koon and Ahsoka's warnings that the main bridge might be well protected. Meanwhile, the Malevolence attacks and destroys a whole Republic medical transport fleet with Count Dooku ordering the droid crew through a transmission. Count Dooku also plans to have General Grievous use the Malevolence to attack and destroy a secret Republic outer rim medical station in the Ryndellia System which is treating many Clone Troopers to weaken the Republic's forces which the Malevolence goes to by going into hyperspace. When Anakin, Ahsoka, Plo Koon, and Admiral Yularen hear about the attack on the medical transport fleet, and realize that it's near the medical center in the Ryndellia System. They prepare the Shadow Squadron to fight against the Malevolence and get to the medical station through a shortcut with Plo Koon accompanying them and Ahsoka acting as Anakin's gunner. Admiral Yularen then warns the medical station about the attack but the Kaminoan in charge of it, Nala Se claims that they won't be able to evacuate everyone in time. So Obi-Wan calls and tells her that he is going to help protect the medical station with help from a Nabooian fleet after just hearing about the Malovence's next attack while the staff on the medical station tries to evacuate before the Malevolence arrives. Shadow Squadron takes off and tries to go through the short cut which is going through a certain route in the Kalidda Nebula that smugglers ounce used called the Balmorra Run. However, Plo Koon warns Anakin that they must turn around because the Balmorra Run is also a nesting ground for Neebray Mantas which approach the Shadow Squadron but they all manage to get out of the Kalidda Nebula with small damages. But then the Malevolence arrives at the medical station while it's still evacuating and prepares to attack the station starting with the transport ships until Shadow Squadron shows up. So Grievous sends out some Vulture Droids to attack Shadow Squadron which they fight off but during the fight, the Malevolence's ion cannon is fired which knocks out three medical transport ships. Then the Malevolence fires the ion cannon again which takes out three fighter ships and two fighter ships get destroyed when trying to escape it, it even takes out some of the Vulture Droids. The rest of Shadow Squadron then fights off the Malevolence using Anakin's plan but Ahsoka insists that they change the plan since some of Shadow Squadron is getting shot down in the process. Plo Koon suggests that they attack the ion canon just as it is about to fire on the medical station instead of General Grievous on the main bridge which Anakin complies with. The new plan works and the ion canon gets taken out by Shadow Squadron's torpedoes when it is about to fire which causes the Malevolence to take heavy damage and causes its hyperdrive to become disabled. Then a Republic fleet led by Obi-Wan arrives and attacks the Malevolence just as it is trying to escape while the rest of Shadow Squadron lands at the medical station where they wait until Obi-Wan calls them for backup.

The Republic fleet continues to fight off the Malevolence with Anakin and Ahsoka being called in to help as backup as the Malevolence continues to take on heavy fire due to their hyperdrive still being damaged which is preventing them from escaping the Republic fleet. Obi-Wan even requests help from Master Luminara Unduli but she's busy fighting off some Separatist reinforcements. When the Republic fleet starts targeting the main bridge of the Malevolene, General Grievous calls Count Dooku for help so he sets up a trap to turn the fight in their favor. This came in the form of Senator Padme and C-3PO who arrive right in front of the Malevolence after being tricked into coming to the area for a treaty negotiation with the Banking Clan. Padme and C-3PO are then both captured by the Malevolence's tracker beam and taken aboard it where Count Dooku has Grievous use her as a way to get the Republic fleet to stop attacking the Malevolence. When Anakin and the others find out about it, they call off the attack and Anakin goes to rescue Padme and C-3PO with R2-D2 even though Padme insists that the Republic fleet must keep attacking to destroy the Malevolence. General Grievous then goes down to the main hanger of the Malevolence to get to Padme's ship but Padme overloads the ship's power systems which will cause it to self-destruct and she escapes with C-3PO then by the time General Grievous arrives the whole ship explodes. Meanwhile, Anakin and R2-D2 take the Twilight to get to the Malevolence with Obi-Wan accompanying him where Anakin plans to dock at the Malevolence's emergency airlock due to the Malevolence's enemy sensors being damaged then he and Obi-Wan will sneak around the ship to find Padme and C-3PO. Back on the Malevolence, Padme, and C-3PO try to contact the Republic fleet using one of the ship's companel's with Grievous and the Battle Droids hunting them down. But while doing so, Grievous is reported by one of the Battle Droids on the main bridge that they plan to get the Malevolence's hyperdrive operational again so Grievous leaves to report to Count Dooku while the Battle Droids continue to search for Padme and C-3PO who secretly hear them. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and R2-D2 then dock onto the Malevolence but are soon spotted by Battle Droids but they manage to beat them and then go looking for Padme while ordering R2-D2 to stay put. Padme also manages to contact the Republic fleet and she later makes contact with Anakin then with help from Ahsoka, Padme and Anakin agree to meet up at an open area in the center of the Malevolence which is halfway between them. However, General Grievous and the droid crew are able to detect the communication so Grievous orders the droid crew to monitor all internal communications of the Malevolence. But while trying to meet up, Padme and C-3PO are confronted by Battle Droids but manage to escape them on rail jets. Anakin and Padme then manage to meet up while fighting off the Battle Droids but C-3PO gets separated from the others on one of the rail jets so Obi-Wan goes after him. However, he loses C-3PO and reports it to Anakin who orders R2-D2 to go find him while Padme tells Anakin about the Battle Droids planning to fix the Malevolence's hyperdrive. So Obi-Wan tries to sabotage the hyperdrive but is soon confronted by General Grievous and the Droid Army which consists of Battle Droids, Super Battle Droids, and Droidekas, fights them off, and tries to escape from them. Obi-Wan then reports to Anakin and Padme about Grievous being onto them so after fighting off some Super Battle Droids, Anakin and Padme go to the main bridge to sabotage the hyperdrive themselves while R2-D2 manages to find C-3PO. When Anakin and Padme arrive at the main bridge, Anakin defeats both the Battle Droids and Super Battle Droids then he sabotages the hyperdrive while Obi-Wan continues to fight off General Grievous throughout the Malevolence until he eventually escapes from him. Everyone manages to regroup, get back to the Twilight, escape from the Malevolence, and get back to the Republic fleet. However, General Grievous gets into his fighter ship and leads a fleet of Vulture Droids to follow and attack them but the Republic fleet is able to fight them off. So Grievous orders the Battle Droids to try and activate the ship's hyperdrive on the bridge so they can escape and meet up with him at the Separatist's secret base at Sector 4. But when the Battle Droids activate it, the hyperdrive's navicomputer redirects the Malevolence towards a Moon instead which causes the Malevolence and the whole Droid Army on it to crash on the Moon and get destroyed.

### Aftermath

With the Malevolence destroyed, General Grievous retreats to Sector 4 after dismissing a transmission from Count Dooku which makes him realize the defeat of the Malevolence while the Republic fleet cheers for their victory.

## Belligerents

### Republic

* Anakin Skywalker
* Ahsoka Tano
* Obi-Wan Kenobi
* Plo Koon
* Admiral Yularen
* Senator Padme Amidala
* R2-D2
* C-3PO
* Commander Wolffe
* Sergeant Sinker
* Boost
* Broadside
* Flyby
* Contrail
* Matchstick
* Tag
* Clone Troopers

### Separatists

* Count Dooku
* General Grievous
* Vulture Droids
* Droidekas
* Super Battle Droids
* Battle Droids

### Other

* Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious
* Mace Windu
* Yoda
* Nala Se
* Luminara Unduli

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