Throughout the Clone Wars, senators were sent on my diplomatic missions by their home planets,
in order to negotiate better trade teals, protection from the opposing side and peace
talks . On one of these missions, Senator Padme Amidala was sent to a large meeting
of the Galaxy’s toughest senators, with a Jedi escort by none other than Anakin Skywalker.
So what could go wrong?
Well…
One rogue separatist Gonk droid had a different idea.
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The story begins on the heavily contested moon, Gus Talon, where peace negotiations
are in progress between many diplomats, all trying to claim parts of the moon.
Padme is attending the peace negotiations R2-d2, and C-3po, and has been assigned a
Jedi escort, who happens to be Anakin…
I wonder how that happened…
As the two enter the main complex where the negotiations are going down, Anakin is stunned
by how massive the place is, and how it was built solely to host diplomatic negotiations.
Padme is equally as impressed with the complex and notes that they really must take diplomacy
seriously on Gus Talon.
Anakin then adds “it must take a lot of staff to run it”, to which threepio chimes
in and tells him that he’s wrong, and instead, the whole facility is automated and self-sufficient,
run entirely by droids.
Anakin simply ignores is nosy droid and continues on with Padme, and the two share a moment
together remembering that with the ghastly clone wars raging on, they don’t really
get much time to spend together any more.
Anakin reminds her that she’s a diplomat and that every diplomat needs a Jedi Knight
to protect them, to which Padme responds that they can’t forget to take time for themselves,
away from the politics and conflict of the war… otherwise, they will have lost sight
of what they are truly fighting for.
As they are sharing this touching moment, they are again interrupted by artoo and threepi,
this time, and this time with the droids informing them that the peace negotiations are finally
ready to get under way.
After hurrying down to the main negotiations room, Padme and Anakin move ahead to greet
the other diplomats, and behind them, Threepio is bumped into by a gonk droid, simply gonking
his way through the room.
Threepio is infuriated by the rudeness of the gonk and begins to call him a jumped-up-circuit
breaker, which im sure is a deeply rude name in droid culture, but the power droid simply
continue gonking, leaving Threepio to be scolded by Padme as she needs his translation skills
immediately.
Following this, Padme moves to the table and is greeted by the diplomat, each representing
certain interests on the moon.
First is Prefect Orf Madroo, twi’lek diplomat, next is Slotho, rodian negotiator and bail
bondsman, followed by Captain Jamb Beetilles, corellian negotiator, Senior Foreman, Emf
Diddar, an ugnaught negotiator and union rep, Febull dow, a Theelin negotiator, and finally,
Chief Liaison Hrthek Val Voz, representing the Trandoshans.
The ugnaught is having a little trouble seeing over the table because of his height and the
cold blooded Trandoshan is feeling quite frosty , but Padme moves to begin the negotiations
immediately.
As she begins, Padme notes that everyone at this table has notices a sharp increase in
separatist activity in the region, which is deeply worrying all of them.
While Padme is speaking however, the gonk droid from earlier has snuck off into the
back, computer room, and is attempting to gain access into the mainframe of the building.
After a few moments of slicing, the gonk droid gets in, and nobody at the meeting has a clue
about it.
Padme continues her point, telling the other diplomats that as a representative of the
Republic, she proposes a peace battalion be posted around Gus Talon for the duration of
the war, but she is quickly met with backlash from the others, who believe the republic
can feel its grip on the galaxy slipping and are simply attempting to play on their fears
by stationing troops on the this moon.
Before Padme can even respond however, the rogue gonk droid in the computer room manages
to alter the mainframe, and initiate the shutdown sequence for the building’s power.
Pamde was literally in the middle of telling the diplomats that the Republic would never
let any system plunge into darkness, when the lights go out, making some of them believe
they are being insulted.
At this point, anakin is deeply concerned and realizes that it isn’t only the lights
that are out, but the whole complex is powering down.
Anakin suggest that they move the meeting outside because of this, but as they try to
leave, Padme finds that all of the exit doors have been locked, and all of the passcodes
have been reset.
Definitely not a good sign.
Anakin believes it must be a glitch somewhere in the building’s mainframe, but remains
confident that he can keep all of the diplomats safe and secure while things back on track…
While he is saying this, the rogue gonk is again tapping into the mainframe of the building,
this time giving it new commands and instructing it to do the direct bidding of the separatist.
The ruthless separatist gonk droid continues gonking, as he unleashes a mass of droids
on the diplomats, with the sole command to “kill all occupants”.
While this is going on, Anakin and the diplomats have no idea that the droids have been unleashed
because of course they are still wrapped in a veil of darkness, but before long anakin
reaches out with the force and discovers the droid, causing him to ignite his lightsaber
in an instant.
Anakin then spots the mysterious droid, and threepio follows him, being incredibly relieved
that it is only a cleaning droid..
Threepio jokes “at least we can rest assured the room will remain pristine during this
power-cut”, but Anakin realizes that this is no laughing matter, and tell Threepio to
think again, because this droid is only interested in cleaning the floor with the diplomats.
While Anakin si dealing with the droid problem, Padme notices that a service door has been
left open, before quickly whisking all of the other diplomats away from the danger.
Anakin warns Padme to run, telling her that he’ll join the rest of the group as soon
as he can deal with the droids.
Following this, the entire group rush down the hallway, away from the droids, and Padme
urges to to keep moving, because they need to put as much distance as possible between
themselves and the droid.
Threepio is terrified as always, but R-2 on the other hand has a deep suspicion.
ARtoo then rushes away from the main group, telling threepo to follow him quickly.
Threepio protests this, but he follows his astromech friend down the hall anyway, knowing
he’ll probably regret it.
Meanwhile, back in the main area, Anakin manages to completely destroy the dangerous droid,
and is shocked that a cleaner droid could make such a mess.
Following this, he now sets his sights back on finding padme and the others… but he
is interrupted when a large group of astomechs approach him, confusing him badly.
Elsewhere, Padme reassured the other diplomats, still in the dark, that they’ll be quite
safe as long as they stay quiet, but just as she finishes her sentence, padme is lifted
up off the ground by a massive droid, this time a garbage one.
The other senators are shocked to see this, and are very worried, realizing that it isn’t
just a regular garbage droid, but the industrial-strength one they use to clean the compactor.
Cutting back to threepio and artoo, the gold protcol droid is continuing to complain, but
artoo tells him to be quiet, which of course ends in another argument.
Going back to Anakin, he realizes he has to find a different route because all of those
rogue astromechs are going to pilot him to an early grave.
To do this, he uses his lightsaber to cut through a nearby wall, but when he manages
to get through, he is greeted by an even worse site.
An entire horde of B-1 battle droids and droidekas are lined up, ready to strike the young jedi.
Anakin says he has a bad feeling about this, before lifting his lightsaber, ready for a
fierce showdown.
On the other side of the building, the diplomats are in deep trouble, now being captured by
robotic arms protruding out the wall… and while this is all happening, the Trandoshan
diplomat is still feeling rather cold.
Anakin then swings his blue blade cleanly through a pair of B-1 Battle droids without
hesitation, and as he does so, he is surprised to feel absolutely no resistance from the
droids…
Upon further inspection, Anakin is shocked to learn that these are actually holograms,
and not a threat whatsoever.
Over his shoulder however are the rogue astromechs from earlier, and these ones certainly aren’t
holograms.
They try to attack anakin, leaving him very confused, not being able to tell what’s
real and what’s not…
Either way, Anakin knows he’ll be worn down very shortly, leaving everyone in the building
in a pretty bad state.
Cutting back to threepio and artoo, they eventually manage to locate the separatist gonk droid,
catching him red handing, connected to the central computer system.
After being caught, the Gonk rushes away from the terminal and attempts to escape the room,
but not before clanking straight into threepio, prompting him to go an an angry tirade against
the separatist power droid.
Artoo on the other hand is more composed, and immediately shocks the gonk, leaving him
disabled, and finally defeated.
The two droids now know that he managed to access the mainframe, and is probably behind
the entire building failure.
This leads Artoo to reboot the system as quickly as his circuits allow him, powering down the
garbage droid, causing the holograms to fade out of existence and the rogue astromechs
to switch off.
Finally, the day is saved and the separatist gonk droid has been stopped.
Shortly after, Anakin and Padme embrace once more after that pretty eventful day, and Padme
tells Anakin that just because she’s not a jedi, doesn’t mean she can’t handle
a few droids.
As this is happening, threepio informs the two that he and artoo went on quite an adventure.
He tells them that this whole event was part of a major plot to derail the negotiations,
and that a separatist gonk droid took control of the building’s main frame.
Threepio is very proud of his effort in stopping the separatist gonk and the Trandoshan is
still freezing cold…
Someone definitely needs to turn the heat up for him at this point.
Either way, the other diplomats are eager to get back to their negotiations after such
a drama filled day
And to end the story, Anakin and Padme are very happy that they managed to get a few
moments together after all, and Anakin tells her that he wishes the war would stop for
them, at least for a few moments… before adding “which is why we must win it”.
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