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Skirmish of unidentified village (Genbara)

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Twenty years after the failed Sith rebellion, a skirmish took place at a village on the planet Genbara in the Outer Rim Territories. Shortly after a wanderer known as "The Ronin" arrived at Tono's Teahouse, Bandit Troopers raided the village, rounding up the citizens for extortion, which they referred to as "tax." However, the child village chief had hired bounty hunters to protect the village from the bandits. At his call, the bounty hunter village guards counterattacked the bandits.

The village guards began to turn the tide against the bandits when the bandits' leader, a female Sith named Kouru, stepped out of the Troop Transport Tank the bandits had arrived in. Kouru, who claimed to be a Dark Lord of the Sith, killed the commanding guard, a Trandoshan male individual before engaging the other bounty hunters defending the village. Meanwhile, the bandits fired weapons on much of the village, and the shrapnel damaged the Ronin's astromech droid companion R5-D56.

The Ronin, who was as-yet still inside the teahouse, asked the Sullustan shopkeep, who had once been a mechanic, to repair his droid by the time a pot of tea boiled. The Sullustan agreed, and the Ronin departed the teahouse to challenge Kouru to a lightsaber duel.

The Ronin and Kouru dueled in the town square before fighting on a river and down a waterfall. The Ronin, in his old age, fell from the waterfall, but Kouru correctly suspected that he survived the fall. He took refuge in a hidden temple hidden beneath the waterfall, lying in ambush for Kouru when she appeared. The Ronin, who had two lightsabers, activated one of them and placed in the hands of an old Jedi statue. The bandit leader rushed into the temple, striking with her lightsaber parasol and cutting the statue down; believing she had felled the Ronin. However, the elderly man appeared behind Kouru and killed her with his second lightsaber before saying a prayer over her corpse.

Kouru was later resurrected as a Sith demon by a disembodied voice, who was secretly the daughter of the Ronin and the Sith witch with whom the Ronin had once led the Sith rebellion.

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Date
Two decades after the Sith rebellion
Place
A village, Genbara
Result
Village victory with heavy losses of guards
All bandits eliminated
Kouru killed, but later revived as a Sith demon
Side 1
Villagers
Bounty hunters
The Ronin
Side 2
Bandit Troopers
Commanders (side 1)
A child village chief
A Trandoshan guard
The Ronin
Commanders (side 2)
Kouru
Forces1
Bounty hunters
A Dug guard †
A Gran guard
A RA-7 protocol droid guard †
Unidentified Trandoshan guard †
A Tusken Raider guard †
One former Sith
The Ronin
One astromech droid
R5-D56
Forces2
Many bandits
1 Dark Lord of the Sith-claimant
Kouru †
Casual1
The Dug, Trandoshan, Tusken Raider, and RA-7 protocol droid guards
Casual2
All forces
Kouru later resurrected

Appearances

3 works, in story order
  1. Visions 1
  2. Ronin: A Visions Novel
  3. The Duel (first appearance)

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