Battle of Lola Sayu

A battle took place in the Confederate prison, the Citadel, located on the planet Lola Sayu, in 20 BBY during the Clone Wars. Because Jedi Master Even Piell and his captain, Wilhuff Tarkin, had knowledge of a secret hyperspace lane known as the Nexus Route, which was situated between the heart of the Republic and Confederate systems, the two were captured by Confederate forces while returning from an assignment in the Outer Rim Territories. The Galactic Republic sought to free the Lannik warrior, who was incarcerated in the Citadel prison. Despite having to rely on old data from the Jedi Temple's archives on the planet Coruscant, the strike team sent for the rescue—Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, the astromech droid R2-D2, reprogrammed battle droids and clone troopers—devised a plan to infiltrate the facility in a captured Separatist shuttle, freezing themselves into carbonite to evade scanners. This tricked the fleet guarding Lola Sayu into giving them permission to proceed. Landing on a pad near the Citadel, the group—supplemented by Ahsoka Tano, who had stowed aboard without permission—proceeded to free-climb a cliff protected by electro-mines. However, their attempt to sneak in undetected failed when a clone trooper was killed by a mine, alerting the facility to their presence. The prison's commandant, Osi Sobeck, activated turrets and electric walls to stop the intruders, but the rescue team succeeded in saving Piell from torture and free his fleet officers as well.

After warding off droid commandos, the group split up, with Kenobi and some troopers creating a diversion while Skywalker and the rest of the team proceeded towards the landing pad, where a shuttle was to pick them up. Kenobi's troops were saved from capture by R2-D2 and his battle droids, but the craft sent for the rescue was destroyed by a cannon, forcing the group to hide in the caverns beneath the Citadel and call for support. Several of Piell's officers were killed by pursuing battle droids while trekking across the landscape, but R2's droid team held off the chasers long enough to allow the rest of the group to escape. However, a pack of anoobas released by Osi Sobeck tracked them down, with one of them killing Piell before being killed by Tano. Following the Jedi Master's brief funeral, the team went on towards the extraction point, where they were confronted by Sobeck himself. In an act of rage, Sobeck tried to kill Tarkin by throwing him into a river of lava, but was killed by Tano before a space gunship dispatched by Admiral Coburn's rescue fleet evacuated the group.

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