Throughout much of its history, the Bounty Hunter’s Guild worked alongside the Republic
and other recognized planetary governments when it came to hunting down legitimate bounties,
usually galaxy wide criminals who were wanted for crimes against civilizations, with a few
cases of Bounty Hunters even working alongside Jedi.
However, during the Clone Wars, a few overly ambitions bounty hunters decided to hunt Jedi
in exchange for the large credit sums afforded by the Separatists, with an entire sub faction
of the Bounty Hunter Guild called the Crimson Nova going out of its way to hunt Jedi as
it was funded by a wealthy separatist leader.
Once the Jedi Order found out about this sub faction of the Bounty Hunter’s guild, it
was having none of it.
So Mace Windu, who was absolutely livid of this guild having dared to hunt Jedi for credits,
decided to put an end toward their entire operation by personally coming to their base
of operations located on a massive space station.
The Crimson Nova guild was led by an overly ambitious Farghul named Mika, alongside her
second in command, a man named Stroth who had encountered Jedi firsthand before and
had paid the price by losing an arm.
When word came that a Jedi was coming to put an end to their operations, Stroth suggested
caution when dealing with the Order, and that it was always a bad idea to target their knights.
However, Mika didn’t want to hear his concerns, even mocking his fear over a single Jedi coming
to their headquarters.
She then got on the communications of her station and announced doubling the credits
awarded to anyone who brought her the head of the Jedi Master that was arriving to their
headquarters.
When Mace Windu finally arrived on the Crimson Nova’s space station, he was met with Stroth
and a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters.
Stroth tried to keep the peace, by allowing the Jedi to introduce himself and explain
why he was there.
Mace Windu did just that, calmly stating that he had arrived to take the leader of the guild
with him, along with every bounty hunter who had hunted Jedi back to Coruscant so that
they could face a trial for their crimes.
But the bounty hunters around him were not so willing to accept Windu’s offer, so they
all immediately jumped on him in an attempt to collect his bounty.
Windu cut all 4 foolish bounty hunters down with a single, quick strike with his lightsaber.
Understanding he was not facing against any ordinary Jedi, Stroth accepted to negotiate
with him.
But Windu was in no mood to waste his time, stating that there will be no talking between
them, and that instead only he will talk, and the rest of them will listen.
Windu restated his offer again: the leader of the guild must come out and surrender immediately,
among all the others that were involved in the bounties of the Jedi.
Refusal to do this, and Windu threatened that he would cripple their entire operation and
the facility they were in.
Upon hearing the Jedi’s demand, Mika was outraged that he had dared come on her territory
and expect her to surrender so willingly.
As the leadership of the Crimson Nova debated on what to do next, Windu made himself home
at the bar of the station, calmly sitting at a table surrounded by bounty hunters and
waited for Mika and her cronies to come out.
But the Jedi Master had not come alone, as he never had any intention of leaving the
Nova Crimson unscathed, for he had brought a few friends to do some dirty work.
Posing as a smuggler, Saesee Tiin arrived on the space station and left his ship to
make way toward the bounty hunter bar.
Unknown to everyone at the hanger, the ship was fitted with large amounts of explosives.
On the other side of the Crimson Nova space station, Agen Kolar posed as a bounty hunter
who had caught a target, a target who happened to be another Jedi Master: Kit Fisto.
Now inside the Crimson Nova’s prison cell facility, Kit Fisto made his move and broke
free from his restraints, taking down the nearby guards and freeing the other prisoners
in order to cause a chaotic riot.
Once the ruckus got going, Fisto happily made his way back to his Jedi group toward the
bar.
Outside in the waiting hall with the other bounty hunters, Agen Kolar made a ruckus over
how the prison guards were unable to hold their prisoners, and he demanded to get paid
regardless of their escape, causing a riot of bounty hunters outside who demanded their
credits.
With his job done, Agen Kolar made his way to the rest of the group.
Now safely away from the explosives, Saesee Tiin set off the bombs within the cargo he
brought aboard, exploding the storage and hanger area of the station and causing further
chaos.
All the while this was happening, Windu remained seated at the bar and simply stared at the
security cameras right at Mika who was watching from her command center.
This of course played mind games on her, who was unable to understand how a single Jedi
whom had not moved an inch was able to cause so much destruction to her station.
Now having demonstrated his seriousness, Windu offered Mika to surrender once more.
But she refused, angrily shouting that she was going to kill him.
And with that, Windu told her that they had nothing more to discuss.
Windu then went to meet with the other masters.
As the four came together, Windu simply stated one word on each of their respective missions
to see if they had been successful.
Storerooms?
Blown.
Bounty Hunters?
Warring
Prisoners?
Revolting.
And now that they had the Crimson Nova leaders’ attention, it was time to teach them a lesson.
The 4 Jedi Masters made their way to the center of the space station, standing right outside
of the main entrance of the command center.
There they were surrounded by dozens, maybe even hundreds of bounty hunters as they awaited
their orders.
Windu offered them one more sign of mercy, by offering there to not be any death if the
guild’s leader were to just surrender and come with them to stand trial.
But Mika was not flinching, and foolishly began to mock Windu over the pleasure she
had of having one of her hunters take the life of another Jedi.
That was the final straw.
Following that, absolute chaos took place outside the commander center entrance, as
all the bounty hunters attacked the 4 Jedi.
The Masters were able to hold their own against the horde of bounty hunters, with Mace Windu
and Kit Fisto teaming up to go after Mika; while Saesee Tiin and Agen Kolar were to take
over the space station’s control room.
When Windu and Fisto made their way toward Mika, they were forced to face against her
giant of a bodyguard.
As Fisto took out the regular bodyguards nearby, Windu was able to successfully bring down
the massive beast he was facing off.
In the control room, Tiin and Kolar were able to take out all the bounty hunters and locked
down the station preventing reinforcements, along with disabling all escape pods.
Back at the command center, Windu and Fisto faced down Mika and her only remaining ally
by her side, her right-hand man: Stroth.
But even now, despite everything that has happened, she still refused to surrender,
and was even willing to die fighting.
But before she could end her life by attacking the two Jedi, she was shot from behind by
Stroth.
Stroth explained that he didn’t wish to see her die over something so stupid, and
that he rather her be alive in prison, which is why he stunned her.
He then gave up the name of the Separatist leader who had funded the entire Crimson Nova
operation.
And with that, the conflict was over.
Mika was arrested and brought back to Coruscant to face trial, and the chapter known as Crimson
Nova was largely crippled, with nearly all of its members killed, all because they decided
to target Jedi and refused to surrender when given
the chance.