As the Clone Wars raged on, Jedi Generals Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi
were deployed deep into the Outer Rim, where they were tasked with overseeing the combat
operations. Just as the two were about to regroup with the fleet, ready for return to Coruscant,
Anakin received a very faint distress signal from nearby,
young Jedi, desperately begging for help. So, I’m going to breakdown how Anakin Skywalker
saved this young lady from certain death, and why it took a horribly tragic turn not too long after.
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So, the story begins deep in the outer rim, where Obi-Wan and Anakin are about
to complete their mission and regroup with the other Republic forces immediately because
they are very rapidly running low on supplies and armaments. As Obi-Wan urges Anakin to get moving,
he stops his master and tells him that he is receiving a very weak communications signal.
Anakin then asks R2-d2 to lock onto the frequency to see it’s location.
Anakin’s loyal droid successfully locks on to the feint signal, allowing Anakin to tap
in and hear the words “priority one emergency call.. Jedi Knight Keto… I need immediate evac”.
Obi-Wan then demands to know what Anakin heard on his comms device,
and Anakin tells him that it was a priority one distress call,
before telling his master that he will have to lead the fleet on his own.
Obi-Wan is not exactly happy with this because the Council is expecting them to regroup immediately,
but reluctantly gives Anakin permission to investigate the worrying distress call.
Following this, Anakin zooms towards the station, known as
“The Brink of the Celestial Wake”, before landing his ship safely in a
nearby bay and tasking R-2 to keep whatever might be lurking inside.
A horrible sense of dread washes over Anakin as he continues moving forward
and countless bodies of the brave fallen clone troopers surround him. As small fired burn and
broken glass litters the area, Anakin carefully traverses through the rubble, until he comes
across a sight that shocks and angers him to the core. He sees that a fellow Jedi Knight has been
savagely killed by whatever creatures are inside the station, and his lightsaber lies beside him
showing that he put a fight right to the end. Anakin notices that this brave Jedi
master fought alongside his men until the last moment, and until he was completely overwhelmed.
Anakin then pauses in memory of this fallen Jedi,
but is quickly jolted out of it by a loud swoop sound, before he sees the fallen Jedi’s lightsaber
zoom away from him. In shock, Anakin ignites his blue lightsaber without a second thought,
before quickly noticing the shimmer of two emerald green blades.
As Anakin turns around, he sees a fellow young Jedi knight wielding the two green
blades. The young Jedi is slightly annoyed at Anakin for taking so long,
and he very quickly introduces himself by saying “I’m anakin skywalker. I’m here to rescue you”...
A very nice reference to his future Son Luke's line from A new hope,
where Luke is rescuing Leia. Also Anakin’s daughter, so a very cool family reference.
The young Jedi is not impressed with Anakin,
telling him to spare the heroics, before introducing herself as Serra Keto.
Serra urges Anakin to get moving while pointing her green blade at him, but Anakin grins,
telling her that he’s not the kind of Jedi who runs from a fight and
that she can wait here while he does the dirty work. Serra sarcastically responds,
telling him that she’s not going anywhere, leading to storm off.
Soon after, Anakin rushed forward, finally discovering the creatures
which have been causing so much harm and destruction aboard the station.
When he sees the tiny pink blob creatures, Anakin gains an incredible amount of confidence,
before gliding forward and slashing each of the clawed pink bloods in half.
He then confidently turns to Serra, saying “See -- no problem!”,
before sprinting forward, ready to take on the next wave of slimy, pink blob creatures.
As he does this, Serra shouts out to Anakin, warning him to stop because she knows he
horrible reality of exactly how these creatures work. Anakin is then stopped in his tracks,
stunned at the creatures, as he sees them joining together to form a structure.
As the structure begins to come together and the pink blobs continue to pile up, he quickly
realizes that he is now facing a spider droid, completely made from the pink blob creatures.
This worries Anakin deeply, as the spider droid manages to tear his cloak,
causing him to shout “I could use some help here!”.
Serra of course berates Anakin, because he didn’t listen to her concerns earlier,
but the two stand firm, deflecting a flurry of red blaster bolts from the ridiculous droid.
As the two continue blocking and deflecting the scorching blaster bolts,
Anakin asks “Do these things have *any* weaknesses?. In response to this,
Serra says “If I knew that, I wouldn’t sent that distress call now, would I”.
Eventually, a second spider droid is formed from the pink blob creatures
and the two young Jedi are having a lot of trouble repelling their rapid advances.
Moments later, Serra sarcastically asks Anakin “What now Hero?”, but before she go any further
the looming arm of the droid grabs her by the waist, and forcefully pulls her towards him.
Luckily however, Anakin quickly comes the rescue,
freeing her from the droid’s harsh drip, and leaving her to plummet to the ground.
Following this, Anakin summons all of his might,
all of his power in the force and all of his strength, targeting it at the
two spider droids to violently slam them into eachother with a monumental crash.
After that, Anakin gracefully throws his blue lightsaber towards the central column of the room,
before again summoning his strength in the force to lift the heavy column
and direct it straight into the nearby wall.
Anakin then pats himself on the back for his valiant effort in saving Serra,
but only moments after he does this the air inside the station begins to be rapidly sucked
out in the vacuum of space, leading her to snap back with “you were saying--?”.
As Serra is only moments away from being flug out deep into cold void of space, Anakin grabs her,
and carries her inside of an Airlock, where he is quickly able to take them out harm’s way.
After this, Anakin sees a flashing red button on a control panel nearby, which he believes
will activate the ship’s emergency ray shields, which *should* seal the breach on the outer walls.
As he is about to press in the flashing button however,
Serra shouts to him, warning him not to touch it. Anakin protests,
saying “but this place is falling apart”, but surprisingly he does listen realazing
that the only way to keep these creatures from spreading is to let the station destroy it self.
Knowing this, Anakin grabs serra by the arm and pulls her to his ship,
where he warns Artoo to immediately prepare for takeoff. His droid buzzes in a rush,
and Serra looks over, frustratingly asking “You brought a one-person ship on a rescue mission”?
Anakin grins and says “You can wait for a bigger ship to come along, if you’d like.
Serra is left blank-faced, saying “I can’t believe this”.
Despite her not being the happiest about the situation, Anakin gets her into his cockpit
and seats her on his lap, as they zoom away from the soon to be destroyed station.
As the two are riding along, Anakin has a smile on his face for the whole journey, before Serra
says “If you weren’t a Jedi, I’d think you planned this”. And in the typical Anakin spirit,
he responds to this by saying “If I weren’t a Jedi, we’d both be going down with that ship.
And to end the story, Anakin continues to joke around saying, I’ve heard there are
some spectacular crystalline asteroids nearby. Maybe we could go take a look-. Serra softly
smiles at him with a mix of frustration and fun, telling Anakin “Just take me home
flyboy. I’ve had enough excitement for one day… Obviously another reference to A New HOpe there.
Padme certainly will not be happy when she hears about this little war story, that’s for sure.
Some time after this mission is where the tragic turn comes. Unfortunately, during
Operation Knightfall, Anakin faced Sera Keto inside of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, before
savagely defeating her in a duel and throwing over the railings of the top level, to a large,
painful fall, before brutally crushing her to death with a nearby stone pillar.
Serra was the top student of Cin Drallig, the Battlemaster of the Jedi Order, and her death
left him shocked and saddened, causing him to rush over to confront Anakin. Unfortunately for him,
Anakin, or Darth Vader as he was now, also got the better of Cin Drallig and slaughtered him.
Those of you who have played the Revenge of the Sith PS2 wil know this story very well.
So let me know if you’ve played the game.
But that is the story of when Anakin Saved Serra Keto from certain death during the Clone Wars,
before their fateful duel in the Jedi temple during Operation Knightfall.
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