Only a few months after the horrific battle of geonosis, which marked the beginning of
the Clone Wars, General Luminara Unduli and her apprentice, Commander Barriss Offee were
sent to the Hellish mountain world of Nadiem, where they were forced to evacuate the civillian
population from an incoming separatist invasion.
During the intense evacuation however, Barriss Offee was forced to do something incredibly
brave to save the lives of her men and herself.
So, I’m going to breakdown the story of how Barriss Offee saved the lives of her Clone
troopers by faking their deaths while the Separatist droid army marched past.
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The story begins inside of the treacherous Threadneedle Canyon, on the rocky world of
Nadiem, where Republic High Command has deployed General Luminara Unduli and her Padawan, Barriss
Offee to ensure the safety of the local citizens.
Luminara’s ARC Trooper Commander, who unfortunately doesn’t have a name, begins to scout out
the interior of the tall canyon, before he spots a single file advancing line of Separatist
battle droid.
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think he should be called after you finish the story!
As soon as he makes this dangerous observation, he immediately orders his men to fall back
to the next marker, before marching back to their General, Luminara.
While on the rigorous trek back to the main village of Nadiem, Red Commander begins a
transmission with Master Luminara, informing her that the droid army is rapidly advancing
and that if they continue on at their break-neck speed, they will reach the village in less
than one hour.
Luminara is slightly concerned for the safety of the citizens inside the village, but she
brushes this off and instructs Red Commander to continue as ordered.
As Luminara ends the transmission, Barriss Offee walks up to her with great concern on
her face, and asks Luminara, “worried about the battle Master?”.
Of course, as we know from Lumianra’s cold and calculated personality, she doesn’t
let her internal fear or worry slip out through her expressions, telling Barriss that she
has extreme confidence in her Clone Soldiers.
As the evacuation operation continues, Luminara moves into the centre of the Village and asks
Blue Lieutenant how the evacuation operation is proceeding.
Blue Lieutenant reluctantly tells his general that things are going well, but moving very
slowly.
He tells Luminara that the reason for this ridiculously slow-moving evacuation is because
most of the civilians are being extremely greedy and trying to bring their personal
belongings with them, and even some farm animals and pets.
With limited space on board the evacuation vessels and even more limited time, Luminara
comes up with a plan to get things moving along much more quickly, so that the separatists
aren’t able to surround the villiagne and decimate everyone inside.
Master Luminara immediately calls everyone in the village for attention, bringing them
together to listen to her very important announcement.
With great caution and care in her words, Luminara delicately tells the citizens of
the village that her and her men are doing absolutely everything they can to bring everyone
to safety, but simply cannot fit their personal belongings.
She delivers the news that nobody in the village wants her, but is absolutely necessary for
their own survival.
As soon as she finishes her sentence, Luminara is met with extreme anger and disdain from
the villagers, who call out to her and begin shouting reasons why they don’t want to
leave their belongings behind.
One local farmer even walks up to Luminara and asks to bring his Eopi on board, but she
coldly and calmly dismantles the man, telling him that the animal will require the space
of three people, before asking him the brutal question “Which of your neighbours do you
suggest we deny passage?”.
The farmer of course doesn’t know how to respond to Luminara’s destruction of his
argument, leading the farmer to release the animal far into the arid landscape of the
planet.
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Master Luminara then quickly extends her warning out to the rest of the citizens, telling them
that if they wish to board the transports to be evacuated in a quick manner, they must
abide by the rules.
Luminara’s message does begin to be accepted by the villagers, with one man agreeing that
getting all of the families out of danger from separatist invasion is much more important
than any objects they may own.
This comments sends a chain reaction through the villagers, with each of them painfully
dumping their prized possession into a pile, under the supervision of the two Jedi.
Moments later however, a stern, angry look washes over Luminara’s face, as she notices
a very suspicious man.
Luminara uses her methodical thinking to realize that there is absolutely no way that this
tiny village produces enough food every month to make a man that fat.
Because of this, she rips her lightsaber off of her hilt in an instant, igniting the bright
green blade, before viciously slashing the man in two.
Of course, Luminara’s precise lightsaber strike doesn’t harm the man, but instead
reveals his disgusting attempt to smuggle credits, food and other valuable items into
the Republic transports, while everyone else was forced to dump their possessions.
Most of the villagers gasp in fear, as a controlled rage flows through Lumianra, exclaiming that
the man should be deeply ashamed of himself.
In response, the man profusely apologises to the Cold Jedi Master, agreeing to dump
all of his belongings onto the pile.
Luminara quickly sends the dodgy man to the back of the evacuation line, and the rest
of the villages stare at him with deep disgust.
Immediately following that, Red commander reports in, telling Master Luminara that they’ve
found another group of refugees nearby, but that one of them is sick, meaning they won’t
be able to bring them to the village centre.
Because of this, Barriss offers to lead the other evacuation group, and bring them to
safety.
Luminara reluctantly agrees, worrying that her Padawan is not ready.
As soon as her gunship arrives at the other group, Barriss Leaps down onto the rocky surface,
and greets her squad of clones.
Meanwhile, behind separatist lines, General Grievous is directing his forces, and orders
his heaviest tanks to smash through Barriss forces, while Luminara is informed that General
Saesee Tiin's fleet has successfully destroyed all separatist air forces.
Luminara immediately relays this information to Barriss with her squad, but Barris unfortunately
delivers the bad news that there was only enough room on the transport to carry the
civillians back to the village centre, leaving Offee and her troopers stranded inside of
the dusty valley.
Barriss refuses to abandon her Clone Troopers, and demands that her master not send another
transport, because Grievous’ forces will be quickly closing in.
Luminara offers her the best of luck and asks the force to strongly guide her apprentice,
before Red Commander fill Barriss in on their earlier plan to ambush the droid forces and
detonate massive, destructive blast charges in the narrowest part of the canyon to block
the droid’s advances.
Barriss is not comfortable continuing with the initial plan, because she quickly realizes
that it will be a death sentence for all of her men.
Immediately following this, Barriss and her men open fire on the incoming droid forces,
sending a barrage of blaster fire rapidly bolting through the canyon.
Moments later however, Barriss orders men to drop the floor and pretends to be dead,
with the very slim hope that the B-1 battle droids are dumb enough to continue marching
forward, without noticing.
Fortunately, the B-1 battle droids do not notice that all of the Clone Troopers and
the Jedi still have vital signs, and report to General Grievous that they can proceed
without worry.
Immediately after, Barriss Ensures that all of her men are alright, before a separate
unit of battle droid forces approaches the village, beginning a vicious firefight.
Many brave men are sadly killed in the hot red explosions that line the village border,
as the droid forces continue to advance.
Back in the canyon, Grievous is incredibly confused to learn that his forces are being
attacked from behind, after believing that all of the Clones and Jedi had been killed
earlier.
Barriss then orders all of her men to open fire on the droids and deploy all blast charges,
sending a horrific shockwave through the canyon, followed closely by a bright red and yellow
fireball, destroying almost every single droid there.
As soon as Grievous learns of this, he viciously smashes his command holo table in anger, as
Barriss returns to the village to greet her Master.
Luminara is shocked to learn that she actually made it out alive and that none of her clones
were killed in the blast.
Barriss then quickly explains the tactic and how she faked her own death, and the deaths
of her men in order to ambush the droids from behind, saving countless lives in the process.
As you can expect, Luminara is incredibly pleased with the incredible strategy and planning
that went into this, smiling at her Padawan, as the village is eventually saved from Grievous’
forces.
So that is the story of how Barriss Faked the deaths of her clone troopers to save their
lives.
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