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The ambush on Ilum was a small-scale battle occurred during the Clone Wars a few months after the Battle of Geonosis | Battle of GeonosisEventThe Clone Wars |
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, Count Dooku | Dooku(Human)CharacterMajor Characters |
ordered an attack on the Crystal Caves on Ilum | IlumPlanet |
, sending a force of chameleon droids | Arakyd Chameleon DroidDroid |
to destroy the temple and the lightsaber crystals housed within. As these battle droids began landing on the snow-covered surface of Ilum, Barriss Offee | Barriss Offee(Mirialan)CharacterSupporting Characters |
was completing construction of a lightsaber within the temple itself, supervised by Luminara Unduli | Luminara Unduli(Mirialan)CharacterSupporting Characters |
.Both Jedi | Jedi OrderOrganizationGalaxy-Wide Organizations |
felt the approach of the chameleon droids, and began the counterattack. The droids, using camouflage to hide from the Jedi, had already began laying mines within the temple, causing explosions that caused the caves to collapse. Though they fought valiantly, the Jedi were unable to stop the detonation, and became trapped under a pile of rubble held aloft by the weakening Luminara's Force power.Meanwhile, traveling aboard Senator Padme Amidala | Padme Amidala(Human)CharacterMajor Characters |
's H-type Nubian yacht | H-type Nubian YachtStarshipStarship Models |
, Jedi Master Yoda | YodaCharacterMajor Characters |
sensed trouble on Ilum, and convinced Amidala to divert her course for the planet. Her bodyguard, Gregar Typho | Gregar Typho(Human)CharacterSupporting Characters |
, was less easily persuaded, though a Jedi mind trick soon brought him around to Yoda's point-of-view. The yacht arrived at Ilum, and Yoda immediately set out for the Crystal Caves alone, asking his companions to remain with the ship. Amidala, however, braved the dangers of Ilum - both natural and otherwise - with C-3PO | C-3PO(3PO-series Protocol Droid)CharacterDroids |
and R2-D2 | R2-D2(R2-series Astromech Droid)CharacterDroids |
in tow, believing Yoda would require her help.Both Yoda and Amidala soon encountered the cloaked chameleon droids, though while they proved little match for Yoda's lightsaber, Padme was forced to rely on her wits to survive their attack. She used her cloak as a decoy, sighting and destroying one of her attackers as they opened fire. Using the same trick with Threepio, she destroyed the last two droids.C-3PO emerged from the firefight unscathed, and the team continued on its way. Presently, they encountered Yoda, who had by now rescued Unduli and Offee from the ruined temple. Though Yoda had completed his mission, he still did not know who had sent the chameleon droids. Artoo, plugging into a damaged chameleon droid's head, uncovered a hologram of Dooku ordering the temple's attack.Read more... |
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