Mission to Haariden

The Mission to Haariden took place in 26 BBY.

The Galactic Senate and the Jedi High Council dispatched a team of Jedi Knights to the planet Haariden—a world embroiled in civil war—to rescue and retrieve five Republic scientists who had traveled there on an environmental research expedition that emphasized titanite mapping, sponsored by the Galactic Senate.

Caught between the planet's warring sides, the scientists included Fort Turan (mission leader), Tic Verdun (scout, Force Blank Granta Omega in disguise), Joveh D'a Alin, Talie Heathe, and Reug Yucon.

The Senate sought to defuse the civil war and secure peace by secretly sending a scientific expedition that would examine the planet's mineral rights and equitably divide the wealth among both sides of the conflict; Omega, interested in maintaining the civil war in order to secure the world's total wealth for his own galactic business interests, seized the opportunity to infiltrate the expedition team through a Senatorial contact, Sano Sauro of Eeropha.

Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi were assigned to the Jedi rescue mission, along with Master Soara Antana and her Padawan Darra Thel-Tanis, who was wounded in a fierce battle as they protected the expedition team.

By mission's end, peace was restored to the planet when, ironically, its great volcano Kaachtari erupted, and when Omega's machinations were stopped through the actions of Kenobi and Skywalker—though the elusive Omega himself, once again, escaped their grasp.

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