In the final days of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Saesee Tiin was dispatched to the numbingly
cold Mid-rim world of Diado, after the Jedi council received shocking reports of a brand
new model of separatist battle being created there.
Once master tiin uncovered the hidden separatist weapons factory, he was floored to discover
a highly advanced droid model, which unbeknownst to him, would serve as a precursor to the
Sentry droids used by the Kaminoans at the citadel training ground and thrawn, and likely
later evolving into the Dark Troopers used by the Imperial remnant.
So how did the mission pan out?
Lets find out.
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So the story begins in the town centre of Diado, where the local citizens are sitting
around a blazing fire, and enjoying a range of warm meals, trying to shield themselves
from the freezing cold weather of this desolate world.
One mysterious hooded figure is sitting alone, simply enjoying his meal, when two of the
locals walk up to him, and are suspicious because they haven’t seen him around town
before.
The town’s tough guy then picks up the mysterious figure’s bowl and empties it onto the floor
in an attempt to embarrass the robed man, while blaming it on him…
The weasly man than turns to the rest of the town’s people and his crew, teasing the
robed figure and telling them “don’t you think he should clean up his mess, boys”,
before bursting into laughter.
The boss then pulls the robe draped man out of his seat, and thrusts him to the ground,
arrogantly demanding that he clean his boots.
At this point, the person underneath the robe has had enough, and to the absolute shock
of the blue jacketed boss, he gets flipping onto his back with only one hand, sending
him crashing into a nearby table.
This causes absolutely embarrassment for the entire crew, leading them to draw their blasters.
Unfortunately for them however, the figure lowers his hood and ignites a bright blue
lightsaber, revealing that he is jedi master, Saesee Tiin.
Following this, Master Tiin makes easy work of these scoundrels, slicing each of their
blasters in half, leaving them completely and utterly useless.
After realizing that they have no chance against the Jedi master, they scram, but the other
citizens quickly rise up from their tables and prepare to mob the Jedi Master out of
town because they don’t want any trouble..
Luckily for master Tiin, a young lady walks up to him and whisks him away from the crowd
to safety, explaining that the guy from earlier was called Birok, and his gang is employed
by the separatists…
Because of this connection, they’ll be back very shortly, this time with battle droids.
The young lady tells Saesee Tiin that things have been pretty bad since the separatis took
control of the planet, before introducing herself as Na-Jia.
Master Tiin returns the gesture, but out of nowhere he demands that she hand his lightsaber
back.
During her introduction, Na-Jia pickpocketed the Master’s weapon away from him…
Not the best idea to try this on a Jedi.
Na Jia pleads with Tiin, telling him that she wasn’t going to keep it and demanding
that he not judge her because a person needs to survive.
Master Tiin is not happy with the thief, but hands her a small bag of credits anyway, following
the Jedi way to help those in need.
When she opens the tiny bundle she finds 600 credits, and realizes that she has to steal
20 lightsabers to make that much.
This is honestly pretty weird because that places the price of a lightsaber at 30 credits…
awfully low for such a rare and sought after weapon.
As master tiin walks through the outskirts of the town, he is given menacing glances
by almost every citizen, until he eventually reaches a pack of white painted droids, who
warn him that the upcoming area is off limits and that he must show his id tags.
Now these droids are likely very early proto-dark troopers and one of the first iterations of
them, since we know they were in development for a very long time, going through a lot
of phases.
These ones are known as cold assault droids, and you can still see the similarity to the
B2-super battle droids, showing the evolution down the chain.
Either way, the cold Assault droids demand that Tiin show his ID, but instead of complying,
the master simply ignites his blue blade and slices the droids in half, showing you that
they definitely weren’t using beskar just yet, obviously being very early on in the
process and still just a small amount passed the b-2 units.
The horrendous performance by these droids here is probably the reason the Phase 0 dark
troopers reverted to using human, clone soldiers inside of them...
Tiin is then corned by one right behind him, but he uses the force to sweep his surroundings,
instantly reacting and preparing to take the threat out behind him, but before he can even
lift his lightsaber, the girl from earlier returns and puts a blaster bolt right through
its back.
Na jia demands a thank you for saving his life, although that’s definitely debate
and Master Tiin grants her wish.
Sadly for him though, he is immediately entangled by a rope, and and its being dragged away
by a speeder, piloted, by none other than the thug from earlier.
Na jia shouts out Saesee’s name in horror, but Birok is not backing down.
He doesn’t want anyone to think they can make a fool out of him.
As Saesee’s helpless body is dragged through the snow in circles, Birok’s underlings
watch on and they’re pretty concerned believing that he might actually be dead.
They check Saesee Tiin out, and he is still alive, but they continue to hurl insults at
him without any stop.
The amount of Patience master tiin is showing here is truly remarkable.
With his arms still bound, Master Tiin manages to leap up out of the snow, and begin using
some masterful legwwork to knock the underlings out cold all around him, in a show of pure
skill.
Tiin even mangoes to send Birok hurling into a nearby building, leaving him pretty badly
hurt.
After he does this, he uses sheer strength and his connection to the force to burst out
of his ropes, sighing a massive breath of cold air, before igniting his lightsaber,
ready to finally put a stop to this ridiculous situation.
The crew immediately try to blast Master Tiin from multiple directions, but he’s not going
to go down that easily.
Instead he ducks and weaves in every direction, swiftly deflecting each of their blaster bolts
back, and taking them out with precise shots to the heart…
That’s the accuracy of a Jedi master for you…
Na Jia is shocked and impressed at the master’s display, but notices the boss rushing out
of sight…
Saesee is definitely not one to kill a fleeing man, so he lets him go, and continues on forward
with Na Jia…
She says that Master Tiin is lucky to be with her because she’s an expert at avoiding
trouble… but the moment these words come out of her mouth, the cold assault troopers
from earlier arrive on the scene… and this time, with plenty of reinforcements.
The cold troopers declare that the two are under arrest, with many of them posted at
every angle of the nearby hill, and many sentry towers primed and ready to fire…
This one is not gonna be an easy escape.
Aaaand, Master Tiin doesn’t even attempt it.
He’s a jedi that knows when he’s outnumbered and outmathced.
Instead, he chooses to surrender himself and get thrown into the local prison, where he
begins to meditate on his next move.
Na Jia is furious and this, wondering why she even bothered to help Saesee when all
it did was get them both thrown into a cell.
Moving inside of the separatist factory on the planet, Birok is taken inside and is questioned
harshly by his boss, a Separatist officer.
The seppie officier is furious at this whole situation going down, knowing he has to deal
with a jedi on his tail, and demanding to know who the girl is.
Birok tells the separatist that she’s just a local street pocket, and asks what the big
deal is, but he is quickly told off and told that the big deal is that they’ve just completed
construction on a special prototype starfighter…
This weapons factory is top of the line, light years ahead of all the other ones.
The officer then demands that the girl be brought to him…
Birok agrees and presents Na Jia to him for questioning.
The officers says “you claim to have just met this jedi?
And you’re not a republic spy?
Then why were you seen accepting payment from him”...
Na jia tells the truth about the situation, and how she stole the Jedi’s lightsaber,
explaining how he only paid her as an act of kindness, but the officer is having none
of it.
Following this, Na Jia pretends to have a sudden sharp pain her head, before falling
into the arms of the officer and sneakily grabbing Master Tiin’s saber using the exact
same trick that he used on the Master…
She is then rushed back to her cell, where Saesee is still meditating, and she explains
the situation to him and is suspicious that ever since they met, he’s been acting like
he wanted to get caught…
Master Tiin then responds and once again knows that she has his saber.
Na jia bursts into laughter, wondering how the Jedi master could tell, and he uses the
same line that she used on her, saying “a person needs to survive, eh!”.
She hands the saber back, before Saesee tiin cuts a hole in their cell door and bursts
out, slicing every b-1 battle droid in his sight.
The separatist officers and Birok quickly notice this, but there’s no stopping master
tiin now.
Na jia quickly realizes that he did actually want to get captured so he could get inside
the factory, but can’t figure out why.
He quickly snaps back and gives her the answer.
Saesee points into the distance and exclaims that he broke in so that he could steal that.
The brand new, prototype separatist ship.
Na Jia calls Master tiin out, saying “so you’re a thief too, huh”, and she gets
no response.
It takes a thief to know a thief.
Master Tiin, knowing he can fly anything, hops into the cockpit and takes off, while
Na Jia finds another escape route.
The officer soon notices the commotion and is completely stunned to see his prototype
ship in the air…
Master Tiin then Blasts all of the separatist leadership inside, killing them all in a blazing
fire, before exiting the factory and destroying all of the facilities on the outside.
Definitely a very successful mission for the Republic.
And to end the story, Na Jia waves to the jedi Master as he jets up, out of the atmosphere,
telling him to finally go home.
Master Tiin then reveals a rare smile, and says “be safe, Na-Jia”....
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