Kalani

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**Kalani** was a Super Tactical Droid and a General in service to the Separatist Alliance during the Clone Wars. During the civil war on Onderon, Kalani was sent by Count Dooku to aid King Rash of Onderon in defeating a rebel movement against their Confederate occupation. However, after continued resistance, Kalani and Dooku came to the conclusion that the fighting on Onderon was not worth the time and resources required, and as such, Count Dooku ordered the Confederacy to abandon the planet and relocate to Agamar. With the retreat in motion, Kalani executed Rash before departing. the General Kalani's advanced processors and robust frame made him a threat to be reckoned with. Long after the Clone Wars, the *Ghost* crew with the Clone Captain Rex arrived on the world of Agamar in search of some proton bombs, only to be captured by Kalani, who had sought to end the Clone Wars conflict on his terms.

## History

### General of the Droid Army

#### Rebel Campaign on Onderon

When pro-Separatist King Sanjay Rash had Onderon reported to Count Dooku on the rebels' attacks, Dooku had decided to send Confederate Super Tactical Droid General **Kalani** to deal with the situation, along with the Battle Droids reinforcements. After the successful capture of the rebels leader, Saw Gerrera, the Separatists General Kalani interrogated alongside a Royal Militia General Tandin. However, Tandin objected to the torture of Saw Gerrera for his intel. Kalani saw that Tandin pitied him.

Later, King Rash ordered the former king of Onderon Ramsis Dendup to be executed, in the hopes of stopping the rebel attacks in the kingdom. Against his wishes, the rebellion attempted to rescue the King, but were stopped by droid army reinforcements. With all the major rebels captured, Rash continued the former King's execution but were stopped by the Royal Militia and General Tandin, who took Rash as hostage. As the others made their escape, Kalani ordered the battle droids gun down Tandin as soon as he released Rash. However, before he could do that, a Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano jumped out of the crowd and used the Force to push down droids for their escape. The public realized the Confederacy forces were their true enemy, which started mass riots in the kingdom. With the rebellion having their leaders back and them gaining a rebel base of operations in the distant mountains, the Separatist-ally King Rash was growing desperate.

General Kalani soon ordered the droid army to push on the rebels base, which were supported by a few droid gunships. Their massive firepower and ability to deploy droids into a battlefield proved highly effective against rebels. Despite the heavy support and massive droid numbers, they were all destroyed due to underestimating the rebels' tactical prowess. With the battle lost and the public against the Separatist occupation, the Count Dooku decided that it was not worth the time to reestablish themselves on the planet, which Kalani agreed with. Count Dooku then had ordered Kalani to retreat with what was left of his droid army to the planet Agamar. As Rash attempted to protest Dooku's actions, Kalani pointed his blaster at King Rash and shot him, before proceeding with his orders. What was left of Kalani's Separatist army had then retreated to the Agamar System within the Outer Rim Territories, where they would remain for almost two decades.

### Age of the Galactic Empire

#### Separatist Holdout of Agamar

Eventually the Clone Wars ended with the Order 66 and the Jedi Purge. After executing the Separatist Leadership, Darth Vader issued a shut-down order that deactivated most of the droid forces scattered across the galaxy; bringing their war to one rapid conclusion. These events coincided with a transformation of the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire. He however, correctly deduced that the shut-down order was a trick, and overrode the command signal for battle droids under his command. Kalani and his garrison therefore survived the end of the Clone Wars but were indeed unaware that they had ended. They were left marooned at their base on Agamar, where they waited for their supposed "retrieval" for a total of seventeen years. Kalani's remaining garrison consisted mostly of B1 battle droidsand a few droidekas. The base was heavily damaged, and it lacked heavy weaponry. Nonetheless the munitions depot they were protecting at the base kept Kalani and his droids well-provisioned enough remain reasonably functional for next two decades without resupply.

#### Final Battle of the Clone Wars

About two years prior to the Battle of Yavin and the beginning of the Galactic Civil War, the old Agamar Separatist base was visited by several members of the Phoenix Squadron including the former Clone Captain Rex, a Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus, his apprentice Ezra Bridger, and the Lasat Garazeb Orrelios. Upon being found by droid B1-268, Kalani had him capture the rebels alive for a "war game" that would end on *his* terms. After he learned about the end of the Clone Wars, Kalani was upset that the Separatist Droid Army lost. Based on his calculations, he'd estimated that the Separatists had the chance of defeat with only 23.6% had the shut-down order not been sent. Rex, for that matter, also felt let down at how the war suddenly ended, instead of the Clone Troopers finishing their mission on the battlefield like they were bred and trained to do. Kalani held their crewmate Garazeb Orrelios hostage to play out a Jedi rescue scenario: Rex, Kanan, and Ezra Bridger had to battle their way back into the command center of the base so as to free their rebel Lasat friend.

General Kalani correctly anticipated their movements based on spending years examining the statistical probabilities of past battles against the Jedi and Clone Troopers. The trio were eventually able to beat the droid forces, however - albeit barely - because the droids were so old and in need of repair that several of them malfunctioned under strain. Rex then argued that he had won, while the General argued that he had won the "simulation" of which side would have truly won the Clone Wars had the shut-down order not gone out, given that the droid army at a time wouldn't have malfunctioned. Ezra Bridger then intervened and pointed out that this was all irrelevant, and that both sides had lost: and the Empire is the only true winner, as Emperor Palpatine had played both sides off against each other - a shut-down order was always meant to go out, the droids were meant to lose, and clones were never meant to beat droids but their own Jedi General.

Rex and Kalani were grieved by this, but the droid general could not deny Ezra's logic. Ezra asked Kalani why he fought in the war at all, and he concluded that the Separatist Alliance were fighting against what they'd perceived as tyranny of the Republic. Ezra pointed out that the Republic became the Empire, which was now openly tyrannical, and the General agreed that they now shared a common enemy. Their base was then assaulted by Imperial forces who had picked up on the distress call C1-10P sent when they were captured, but Kalani and his droids joined forces with them to escape the planet in a repaired trio of *Sheathipede*-Class shuttles but only one didn't manage to escape and was shot down. Kalani declined to join the nascent rebellion movement, however, as he calculated that they had a less than 1% chance of ever successfully overthrowing the Galactic Empire and parted ways with the newfound rebel allies to live on in the new time.

After the First Death Star destruction, Kalani was encourage by the rebel's victory but rather join HK47's Droid Gotra in hope to rebel for droid rights as well as to eliminate the worse Republic-transitioned tyranny.

## Droid Overview

### Characteristics

**Super Tactical Droid:** Kalani was a cold and logical Super Tactical Droid who was programmed by the Confederates to be a military commander. Kalani was a competent battle tactician who had a single-minded obsession to secure victory and produce results. As a Super Tactical Droid, he was familiar with Separatist military strategies, tactics, and protocol. Super Tactical Droids were created for the Confederate military forces during the Clone Wars. They were very intelligent, strategic, and masterful commanders in the Droid Army. These droids were seen as very dangerous to a veteran officer. They would often resort to threats and torture as a interrogation route. These droids had been made to analyze a battle, calculate a possible battle-winning solution, and a time frame to carry out their plan. Being programmed with Separatist beliefs, they ruled through fear and through the lack of courage and hope in their victims and specifically "freedom from the tyranny of the Republic". Being programmed for success, they were willing to kill or be killed for the Confederacy. A Super Tactical Droid was better made than old tactical units, able to better process and adapt to a sudden complication and have more variables in calculation. Although better than those before, flaws in the programming were still prevalent.