Battle of Devaron

The Battle of Devaron took place on and in orbit of the planet Devaron during the Clone Wars in 22 BBY. Bounty hunter Cad Bane led a force of Confederate Munificent-class star frigates in a surprise attack on the Galactic Republic's Temple of Eedit on the Devaronian homeworld to take the Jedi Master Bolla Ropal hostage. While Sith Master Darth Sidious gave Bane the assigned task of stealing a Jedi holocron, Ropal kept a Kyber memory crystal, which contained a list of every known Force-sensitive child in the galaxy, essentially the future of the Jedi Order.

In the ensuing battle, Ropal was taken hostage by Bane, and the Republic outpost on Devaron was destroyed. As Cad Bane attempted to make a jump to hyperspace out of the system, a task force led by Anakin Skywalker and Wullf Yularen in the Resolute arrived and intercepted Bane's frigate. Since they hadn't brought the necessary boarding craft along with them to board his ship, AT-TEs were used as makeshift boarding craft, since they were pressurized and had magnetic feet, a tactic suggested to Yularen by Skywalker.

During a botched attempt to force Ropal to activate the holocron, Ropal was accidentally tortured to death. Bane thought of it as only a minor setback to his mission and was determined to get Anakin Skywalker to activate the holocron for him. He manipulated the battle on board his frigate to separate Skywalker's Padawan Ahsoka Tano from him and used her as bait to lure Skywalker in. Left with no other options that would end in his favor, Anakin was forced to open the holocron for Bane, who then attempted to flee the ship. The ship was set to self-destruct, and as the Jedi task force prepared to leave, Bane confronted two clone troopers while making his escape. To the Republic forces, he appeared to be killed in the ensuing struggle, but in reality, Bane had switched his clothing with the armor of the clone trooper Denal after killing him. Under the guise of Denal, Bane managed to leave the doomed frigate on the same shuttle as the Republic survivors.

Upon return to the Resolute, Bane's cover was blown by Ahsoka Tano, and despite attempts by Skywalker and Yularen to block his exit, Bane escaped in a stolen V-19 Torrent starfighter with the active holocron.

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