During the Clone Wars, members of the Jedi Order quickly became hated by many citizens
across the Galaxy on both the separatist and republic side for their actions and increasing
disconnection from the general needs of the population.
Because of this, simply wearing Jedi robes or displaying a lightsaber in public could
put a large target on one's back…
Mace Windu experienced this first hand when he received a distress signal from a remote
outer rim world, claiming to be in dire need of help…
Of course, when he arrived, Mace Windu found something that shocked and disgusted him…
So, what did Mace Windu discover?
Let's find out.
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So the story begins at the edges of the OUter rim, where Mace Windu finds himself heavily
outnumbered by a large horde of SEparatist battle droids.
Not long before he got himself into this situation, The Jedi Temple intercepted a distress call
coming from this abandoned planet, which reported severe danger and imminent death.
Obviously, the Jedi were immediately suspicious about this, but on the very small chance that
someone was really in danger, it simply couldn’t be ignored, so they sent one of their most
powerful fighters, Mace Windu to investigate.
Sadly, Just like the Jedi initially suspected, the distress call turned out to be a dud,
intended to lure a Jedi into an inescapable trap, for some unknown reason.
Once he lands on the surface, Master Windu very quickly notices a large pack of Battle
droids, who believes are part of the trap, and were sent to hunt him down.
As Mace Windu is evading the massive amount of droids with his purple lightsaber ignited,
he notices something strange about the way the droid commander is speaking.
The B-1 commander says “The Jedi went this way!
The rogue signal must have transmitted from his ship”...
Once Windu hears this, he realizes that the droids must have been lured to this abandoned
planet by the exact same false distress signal that was intercepted by the Jedi…
So as usual, lets give this B-1 battle droid commander a nickname and a serial number in
the comments below, since the story doesn’t give him one.
This deeply confuses the Jedi Master and leads him to wonder who would want to lure both
a Jedi and battle droids to the same location and for what reason.
Being completely and utterly confused, Master Windu continues on his mission, until his
attention is quickly grabbed by something absolutely ridiculous…
As he turns, Mace Windu seese the battle droids fall into a large hole which appears right
under their feet, sucking them down into the depths below… the Master is shocked by this
and simply exclaims “what the--”, before moments later becoming a victim of the exact
same trap, with the floor opening up under him and taking him down below the surface.
Unlke the battle droids, who were left in pieces, crushed badly after their fall, Windu
was able to use the force to brace his impact and land safely on the metallic floor.
Once he’s back on two feet, he very quickly spins his head around and notices that has
found himself in an underground carbon-freezing facility… but has no idea why he’s there
or why a carbon freezing facility would even exist on a planet with no major exports…
and more creepily, how it could still be operational when the planet has been long abandoned.
Moments later, the trapdoor where Mace Windu fell into the facility suddenly seals closed
above him, and he is pretty sure that the B-1 battle droids who are facing him, are
just as surprised as he is.
Something very strange is happening, something that Master Windu cannot sense or see with
his own eyes.
After this happens, two of the B-1 battle droids who survived, turn to face Master Windu
and are moments away from firing on him… but before they even pull their triggers,
the carbon freezing machine is started up and the two b-1 units are frozen in carbonite.
This frees up Master windu to focus on the real threat at hand, and to explore his surroundings,
but before he even had the chance to go far, he noticed the blaring sound of starship thrusters
raging on all around him.
Mace isn’t certain that it is thrusters causing the loud noise and vibration ,but
he does know that something not too good is happening.
The B-1 battle droids on the other hand are completely puzzled, saying “the ground is
moving-- no, it’s a starship”, with his friend saying “what a lousy place to park”.
Not long after the ship takes off, Mace Windu realizes that he was actually right that that
they were starship thrusters, before adding “why would anyone hide a starship underground”.
As Windu continues to explore the very confusing ship, he notices that inside are frozen creatures
of every variety.
Just from the ones he can recognize immediately, there are wampas, dewbacks, and hundreds of
others that he simply can’t name, all trapped inside like flies in amber.
While windu inspects all of the frozen creatures, he even happens to reconigze some of the separatist
agents that he had under surveillance for months, until they dropped off of their scopes.
Now he knows exactly why the REpublic lost track of them.
They were literally frozen and out of action for all of this time.
Someone has been carefully kidnapping and storing living creatures from all over the
galaxy, but Master Windu wants to know why someone would do this.
As he is inspecting one of the frozen creatures, he hears a booming voice in the distance calling
out “so you heard my beacon!”
As he hears this, Windu turns around and ignites his purple blade immediately, before the mysterious
collector shouts out and tells the Jedi master that his name is Kenna, and that he gathers
and catalogs examples of many living species from the galaxy.
After the twi’lek collector notices that Mace Windu is a Jedi he is amazed and notes
that he has never owned a Jedi KNight before.
Mace is disgusted by this, asking “What do you mean owned!?, just who do you think
you are”... which is a bit ridiculous coming from Windu considering the Jedi Order literally
kidnap children and induct them into their order before they can even think for themselves…
But either way, Kenna notes that a Jedi will make a fine addition to his war toy collection
and now all he needs to do is freeze Windu to keep him in mint condition for many years
to come.
Windu of course tells the collector that this is something he is not going to allow, to
which Kenna responds “oh is that so?
My executioner droid says different”, before he unleashes the behemoth of a droid, firing
it’s massive blaster cannon at windu.
Windu then turns himself into General Grievous for a short few moments, as he swings his
purple lightsaber in every direction, valiantly defending himself from this savage executioner
droid.
Kenna tells Master Windu that he should be honored to face such a legendary droid in
combat, and that there are only 3 of this model in the entire galaxy, but Windu doesn’t
care and continues leaping and weaving through the air, trying to find any weakness he can
in the droid.
Shockingly, Mace Windu admits to himself that the droid is actually much tougher than it
looks and awesomely calls it an old clanker, meaning he does actually care about his clones
at least somewhat and listens to what they say.
With the executioner droid’s massively powerful personal shield, Mace Windu couldn’t even
dent the thing with his lightsaber, which leaves Kenna laughing in amazement.
After failing and failing, over and over again, Windu finally remembers the words thatr were
taught to him by his master, when he was just a padawan.
He must use control, even in the most difficult situations… which stretches the truth heavily
for him in particular, but either way, he remembers his training and finds a loophole
in his master’s teachings.
Instead of controlling his own rage, he channels it to target the controls of the carbonite
freezing staion, slashing them with haste and instantly destroying the circuits which
are keeping all of the creatures frozen.
As his prized creatures begin crawling out of their carbonite confinement, Kenna is outraged
and hysterical that his collection is literally running away from.
Windu then tells the fat Twi’Lek that his colletion is hereby disbanded, and pushes
him right into one of the freezing spots, before pulling the lever and instantly encasing
the massive collector in carbonite ready for transport back to coruscant, where he will
certainly be tried for his horrendous actions.
Once Mace arrives back at coruscant in the Collector’s ship, he is initially denied
access because he’s in a rogue ship, but as soon as he identifies himself as a Jedi
General, he is given landing clearance right at the Coruscant prison.
Once inside, Master Yoda is very pleased that many of the collector’s catches were actually
separatist activists who have been wanted by the republic for months, and now they are
all in safely locked away in coruscant prison.
As for the collector himself, Master Yoda and mace Windu agree to keep him frozen in
hibernation for the time being, where he canot do any further harm to the galaxy, and certainly
can’t capture any more creatures for his little experiments.
And to end the story, two Coruscant Guard troopers
carry the frozen Twi’lek off to be stored for the rest of the war… or at least until
they’re ready to ask questions of him.
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