Late in the Clone wars, Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were forced to
escape their Republic cruiser and crash land on the wild, dangerous world of felucia,
where something terrible happened. Obi-Wan ordered an orbital bombardment of a local
separatist outpost, but before the order executed, they discovered a group of young children nearby.
In order to save these children, one brave Clone Trooper had to do something absolutely heroic.
So, let's find out how this Clone Trooper sacrificed his life to save a group of younglings.
So the story begins high above the planet Felucia, where Obi-Wan and Anakin are stationed,
monitoring any signals from the separatist base that is located on the planet.
ON the deck of the ship, Anakin and Obi-Wan are told by their Clone Sergeant that he’s picking
up a strong transmission from the surface of Felucia. The sergeant tells the two Jedi that
the separatists have detected their presence above the atmosphere and are now locking their weapons.
Surprisingly, Obi-Wan is very happy with this news and tells his sergeant that this situation
is exactly what they wanted. As Anakin hears this he is shocked, asking “wait,
did I miss something here? We want them to target us?”... Obi-Wan and Anakin then begin
walking down the hall, the wise master tells anakin thats what he gets for missing briefings,
before ordering the sergeant to put the ship on autopilot so that they can begin their mission.
Following this, Obi-Wan rushes Anakin and his Clone Sergeant into the ship,
telling Anakin, the more skilled pilot to the take the controls. At first,
Anakin is very confused at why they were carrying this T-6 shuttle on board the cruiser at all,
but very quickly realizes that it will serve as a decoy ship.
Obi-Wan tells him however that it wont be a decoy ship if they don’t hurry up and take off,
before opening the cargo bay doors and allowing the shuttle to zoom out into space. Obi-Wan
knows the separatist weapons that they detected earlier are only moments away from impacting.
The shuttle just barely makes it out of the larger cruiser before
three separatist missiles impact the larger ship,
completely obliterating it and sending pieces of the ship flying in every direction.
Unfortunately some of these pieces also impact the shuttle that the group are escaping on, and that’s
not even the worst of their problems. Obi-Wan warns Anakin and the Clone Sergeant to grab onto
something immediately as a massive shockwave from the blast will be arriving any minute.
Anakin then reports that the ship is hit, but isn’t too concerned because its only
debris from the transport. Obi-Wan however isn’t as impressed, asking “just, anakin”?
As the ship continues falling through the atmosphere of felucia, The Clone Sergeant,
named Thill, reports even more bad news, telling the two Jedi that the gyro stabilization systems
on the ship are badly damaged, meaning they’re not going to have a calm trip to the surface.
Not to mention that the engine is down to only one quarter power. Because of this,
the sensors that the separatists are using to monitor felucia will very soon report
that the ship and everyone on board it are dead, giving them perfect cover to roam the surface.
Obi-Wan however hopes that this doesn’t become a reality.
Anakin then shouts out to Obi-Wan that he can fly this thing with both engines on quarter power,
confidently claiming that the mold cover on the surface of Felucia will make for a nice
cushion for their landing. Obi-Wan isn’t too happy with this risky flying at all, but Anakin is far
too skilled to fail and makes a successful landing, right near their mission target.
After this, Obi-Wan again tells Anakin and Sergeant Thill that any separatist
life monitors that are planted around the area will detect that they are just one of the many,
ferocious, roaming creatures that live in the area… Or at least, Obi-Wan Hopes.
As they continue walking, Anakin feels a slight jolt in the force, before turning around to see
a massive, slimy creature grab sergeant thill and try to devour him. Obi-Wan very rapidly
realizes that Thill’s light is attracting the creature, before ordering him to turn it off.
The brave trooper is then willing to sacrifice himself and be eaten by the beast
in in order to let Anakin and Obi-Wan escape, but the two Jedi certainly won’t be letting
that happen. Obi-Wan immediately telling Thill that he’s giving the orders here
and that if he and Anakin have to eat field rations, so does Thill.
Obi-Wan then slices through the slimy tentacles of the beast, freeing sergeant thill from the trap,
before Anakin whisks the young trooper away and asks if any of them got inside of his armor. The
trooper however is unscathed and is ready to continue trekking forward on the mission.
Following this, Obi-Wan, Anakin and Thill reach the separatist outpost that has been
transmitting their details and they begin placing homing transmitters around the installation,
which should hopefully allow the Republic fleet
to triangulate the position of the base through hit’s cloaking shields.
After placing the devices, Obi-Wan realizes that it will be only minutes
before his friends in the Republic fleet vaporize the entire mountain top, and
know that they should probably gt back to the transport before…
But something cuts of his sentence. Something that Anakin can even feel in the force.
In the distance, Anakin and Obi-Wan see a group of shadowy figures,
and sense a liviing hum through the force. As they get closer,
they come across Anakin’s favourite Lightsaber practice tools, a group of younglings.
When the younglings emerge from the dense plant cover,
they are startled by the two Jedi and wonder if they have come to hurt them.
Obi-Wan calms the young children down and assures them that he wont hurt them,
before one of the kdis tells him that his name is Kralla and the whole group live out here in
these dangerous conditions now. Ever since their parent’s were killed by the soldiers,
they have been forced to eat vegetables that they manage to grow in between the thick plants.
After realizing that there are civilians in the area,
Sergeant Thill warns Obi-Wan that they have to deactivate the transmitters immediately…
but unfortunately, it is far too late. The fleet will already have received
their signals by now and will be ready to obliterate the entire area in only minutes.
Obi-Wan knows that they must take all of the kids onto the transport with them, despite the
horrible danger that will put them in since the ship is… let's just say not in the best condition.
This also deeply worries anakin, leading him to say “you’re kidding master… This bucket
of bolts may get us off-planet… barely, but not carrying them”... The kids are curious,
wondering if they are going to fly out of here, but Obi-Wan tells them “not exactly”,
before whisking them all into the transport, ready for their daring escape from Felucia.
As Anakin gets into the pilot’s chair he is again completely worried,
insisting to his master that the ship just wont fly with all of these extra bodies on board.
Obi-Wan hower has a much different plan. He tells Anakin that it only has to slide.
Anakin is astounded by this, saying it’s just not possible,
but Obi-Wan tells him that if he has a better plan, he’s open to suggestions.
As the Master and Apprentice are arguing between eachother,
The children in the background are getting slightly rowdy, so the Clone
Sergeant walks up to them and tries to calm them down by giving them his trooper torch.
He tells them that this torch has always given him luck throughout the battles.
The trooper puts his torch on one of the kids heads and he is fascinated with,
but Anakin and Obi-Wan are having quite a bit more trouble in the cockpit.
Anakin manages to bring the ship to a halt, while Obi-Wan marches around the outside of the ship,
slowly walking on the hull with Sergeant Thill, where he sees a pack of B-1 battle droids.
On top of the ship, Obi-wan tells his sergeant to cover him while he defends the engines,
but this trooper is too brave and has chosen to sacrifice himself to save the younglings on
board the ship, and Obi-Wan’s life. The trooper leaps from the ship, right in to the barrage
of blaster fire from the savage B-1 battle droids below, bravely taking his last stand,
while declaring “I respectfully disobey sir… This is the job I was bred for”...
Just as the sergeant gives his life to save everyone on board the ship, Obi-Wan thanks
and declares that he will never be forgotten, but quickly notices something terrifying.
The republic fleet is just arriving, meaning the whole area is only moments
away from going up in smoke, and their ship is barelling straight towards a massive ravine.
In order to successfully make it out without being burnt to ash, Obi-Wan shouts over to anakin,
telling him to fire whatever weapons he has on board to take as many trees out as possible,
so that they can use them to create a bridge over the ravine,
away from the shocking destruction of the orbital bombardment.
Obi-Wan then concentrates deeply and channels the force as strongly as he can, moving a large,
dead plant over the ravinge, just in time for the ship successfully make it across, saving
both their own lives and those of the all of the younglings on board. Tragically, the only casualty
today was the brave Clone Sergeant named Thill who gave his life to save Obi-Wan and the kids.
And to end the story, the Republic fleet do finally move in to bombard
the separatist station from orbit, turning to base into a massive pile of charred rubble, meaning the
separatists won’t be conducting any recognisance from this location for the foreseeable future.
Anakin and obi-Wan then leave their ship and Anakin ensures all of the younglings
are accounted for, being thankful to the force that they were all saved.
Obi-Wan then tells Anakin that they can thank Sergeant Thill for that,
disappointed that they have lost yet another good man in the face of the separatist threat.
Heartbreakingly, the little kid who the trooper spoke to on board the ship says
“it’s so sad about the sergeant. We’ll always remember him.”
And he will always have the Sergeant’s trooper torch to remember him by for the rest of his life.
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