As the Clone Wars raged on, Jedi Knight Knight Anakin Skywalker and his apprentice Ahsoka
Tano were dispatched to a remote, outer rim farming moon where the local military reported
something extremely troubling.
Their fighters encountered a brand new separatist ship which had a completely impenetrable shield.
No matter what firepower they threw at it, it could not be cracked.
This deeply concerning new separatist technology sent shockwaves through the Jedi council and
the Republic, because of how dangerous this could be.
So, lets find out what happened when Anakin and Ahsoka were sent to deal with this threat.
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So the story begins on the previously peaceful moon of Gal, orbiting the massive Gas Giant
Zhar, deep in the Outer Rim.
On the surface, the citizens are in full panic, realizing that the day they have all been
dreading has finally arrived.
The separatists have entered the atmosphere of their small moon and have launched a full
scale attack.
Up in the skies above the luscious green moon, the local defence force is attempting to fight
back against the hordes of battle droid fighters, but notice something astounding.
The shields protecting the main separatist command ship is stronger than any they have
seen before.
The sergeant of the local forces immediately relays this information to Anakin and Ahsoka,
who have been assigned here to defend the moon, and they are equally as shocked.
None of the local forces can get through the shield, no matter how much force they direct
towards it.
The sergeant tells Anakin and Ahsoka that he has no idea what new technology the seppies
have obtained for them to have a shield this strong, but knows that they’re utterly defenceless
against their attacks right now…
Anakin however reminds the sergeant that with a Jedi at his side, he certainly isn’t defenceless,
but there isn’t much time to discuss the point.
Anakin and Ahsoka immediately rush off of the command ship, into the spacious green
fields, ready to take to the skies.
Ahsoka is worried by this, warning her master that their ships are still being refuelled.
Anakin however tells her that he’s not talking about their ships, and instead chooses to
steal some local ships.
Following this, the two immediately burst into the skies and attempt to get as close
as possible to the new shield technology so that they can assess the situation.
When they do leave the atmosphere of the Moon, Ahsoka becomes even more concerned, realizing
that these Jet-wings are for spraying fertilizers down on the fields, and certainly not to attack
droid ships.
Anakin then tries to calm Ahsoka down, telling her that while it isn’t exactly dusting
crops, it’s the only way to make it near the shielded separatist vessel without being
detected by the sensors.
Handily, it’s also slow enough to break through the shields of
the ship, and allow a boarding…
Not long after this, Ahsoka ignites her lightsaber and the two leap on board the separatist vessel,
chopping down a nearby organic separatist commander.
After clearing this easy objective, both of their crop dusters are completely destroyed
and sent bursting into flames, again panicking Ahsoka and leading her to ask How they are
supposed to get back down.
Anakin tells his apprentice to worry about one problem at a time, before they leap down
in a dark, droid storage area, where hundreds of unppowered down b-1 battle droids are currently
sitting.
Ahsoka says she has a bad feeling about this, but her master tells her not to worry because
they must have diverted all power to the shield generator, so there shouldn’t be enough
left for the droids…
Anakin says that experimental models like this draw a lot of energy, so really, they
should be safe.
Following this, Anakin and Ahsoka make it to the core of the ship, where they unload
a bunch of blast devices, before inspecting the systems that are powering the shield Anakin
is shocked at what he's seing because never before has he witnessed a shield projector
like this.
He asks Ahsoka if this looks like Geonosian Technology to her, but Ahsoka says it looks
*way* too advanced to be geonosian, it must be somebody new to the scene.
Either way, they can’t worry about it too much right now, as they need to take it down
by any means necessary.
Anakin then hands some of the blast charges to his apprentice, setting each of them on
a 5 minute timer, before beginning to spread them around.
Racing against the clock, Anakin and Ahsoka both begin scrambling through the corridors
and platforms of the ship, placing the blast charges wherever they look like they’ll
do the most damage.
As the timer keeps ticking down, Ahsoka notices a blaring red light flashing on the nearby
dashboard, signalling that something has gone wrong.
As Anakin turns around to inspect the area, a pack of -b-1 battle droids come marching
down the hall and surround the two Jedi, repeating “intruder alert” on a loop.
Ahsoka sarcastically tells Anakin “So much for those droids being useless”, before
they both ignite their blades and prepare for the horde of droid to keep growing.
With time quickly running down, Ahsoka asks her master if he has any more bright ideas,
and he immediately tells her that they need to get to the airlock.
Hearing this, Ahsoka leaps into action, slicing every B-2 battle droid that comes into her
line of sight with her emerald green blade, While Anakin handles the B-1 units.
Ahsoka continues leaping and flipping from droid to droid, while Anakin protects her
from incoming fire, but they unfortunately run dangerously low on time.
If they don’t get out of here very quickly, they’ll be in deep trouble.
While Ahsoka continues jumping from droid to droid, piercing each of them with her lightsaber,
Anakin uses the force to pummel a few B-1 battle droids with tremendous force, sending
them flying back to their deaths.
The two then join forces to deflect blaster bolts, with a flurry of red filling their
views.
Anakin and Ahsoka are swinging their lightsabers are fast as they can, but are losing confidence
that the droids will ever stop rushing out towards them.
With a huge pile of Battle droids mounting in front of the two Jedi, there is still no
end in sight to the ravaging horde of battle droids, putting them right on the brink of
destruction.
They continue deflecting incoming fire from every direction, quickly getting tired and
even beginning to lose focus.
With 17 seconds left on the timer, Anakin closes his eyes and thinks.
He asks the force to guide him to the solution, and he is granted this wish.
He then casts his mind back to his homeworld of Tatooine, remembering the Womp Rats from
back home.
Ahsoka is incredibly confused and just plain scared at this point, with only 11 seconds
left on the clock, but Anakin decides to explain his thoughts anyway.
He tells Ahsoka that back home on Tatooine, Romp Rats burrow into the sand to escape Predators,
before shouting “Follow me”.
Anakin is about to pull of something that will stick with Ahsoka for the rest of the
war, all the way to Order 66 and the final hours of the Clone Wars.
With a mere 3 seconds left on the clock, Anakinn slices the floor below him in a circular motion,
with his lightsaber, dropping the Master and Apprentice out of the vehicle and sending
them plummeting towards the surface of the moon.
Ahsoka would later use a similar trick in her escape from the Clone Troopers on her
Venator after Order 66.
On the way down from the main separatist ship, Anakin and Ahsoka slow her descent with the
force, and are very relieved to see ARtoo and R7 arriving just on time, bringing the
two starfighters with them.
Ahsoka then takes the advice of her master, using the force just as he suggested to guide
herself down to her ship.
Just as Anakin and Ahsoka touch down on the tops of their ships, the separatist main ship,
along with all of the droids on board erupts into a massive, searing fireball that spreads
out and takes out the other ships around it.
On board this ship was one of the most advanced pieces of technology that the separatists
had ever obtained, and if used throughout the rest of the war, could spell disaster
for the Republic.
With most forms of Republic weapons being blocked by these incredibly resilient shields,
they could simply roll up to any planet they wished and take control of it.
There would be nothing the Republic could do.
Of course, Palpatine would never let this happen, pulling the strings from behind the
scenes, but it may have pushed the Jedi to their limits even faster than they did because
of the grave threat.
The one major question remaining however is, why did the separatists never attempt to recreate
this weapon after their prototype ship was destroyed.
It could be due to cost or the complexity of the shielding system, but we will never
know.
Back on the moon, Anakin and Ahsoka manage to leap into their cockpits just in time to
avoid the heat of the fireball above them, jetting off, on their way back to space.
As the two fly off, Anakin is confident that with the highly advanced shield now permanently
disabled, the local defence of this small farming moon should have no problem taking
care of the few remaining droid fighters.
With the two Jedi and their astromechs on their way out, Ahsoka asks her master if their
actions just saved this moon, and many more like it by destroying the highly advanced
shield, to which Anakin admits, they just might have.
And to end the story, Anakin and Ahsoka look down upon the luscious green moon that they
just saved, being very proud of their achievement and stopping the separatist’s new technological
terror.
So that is how Anakin destroyed one of the most powerful pieces of technology that the
separatists managed to create during the Clone Wars.
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