Battle of Quell

The Battle of Quell was a battle that took place in 21 BBY—also dated to 2 BFE—during the Clone Wars in orbit and later the upper atmosphere of the planet Quell, where the Galactic Republic fleet of Jedi General Aayla Secura was assaulted by a squadron of Confederacy of Independent Systems Munificent-class star frigates commanded by the T-series military strategic analysis and tactics droid TF-1726. As her forces suffered heavy losses to the Separatist squadron, Secura requested aid from fellow Jedi General Anakin Skywalker alongside his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, who traveled across the galaxy aboard his flagship, the Venator-class Star Destroyer Resolute to mount a rescue with little time to spare.

During the battle, Secura's two supporting Star Destroyers had been destroyed by the Separatist capital ships, while her flagship, the Venator-class Star Destroyer Liberty, succumbed to a boarding action undertaken by dozens B2-RP super battle droids as well as consistent heavy turbolaser fire from the Separatist frigates. After Skywalker arrived, he proceeded to board the Liberty while a Consular-class cruiser docked in the lower hangar in order to retrieve Secura and the others from the doomed vessel. However, while escaping Skywalker was severely injured after holding back an explosion with the Force while Secura, his Padawan, the Clone Captain Rex and Clone Marshal Commander Bly boarded the rescue frigate. Amid their departure from Secura's doomed flagship, the Republic frigate had suffered damage from Separatist cannon fire, which caused it to enter hyperspace at an unknown trajectory, causing Admiral Wullf Yularen to calculate the ship's trajectory in order to locate them after the end of the battle.

By the end of the fighting, while Secura was saved, the Republic had suffered heavy casualties among her 327th Star Corps of clone troopers as well as significant numbers of the clone crews aboard the three Jedi cruisers, who were unable to escape the destroyed vessels prior to their impact on the planet's surface. The Separatist victory, although an unqualified one, also underscored how the Republic's ultimate triumph in the war was not certain.

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