Shortly after the first battle of Geonosis, which began the brutal Clone Wars, Jedi General,
Mace Windu was deployed to the distant, grassy world of Omphalos where the Republic had received
reports about a deadly planet killing superweapon.
While there, his ship was viciously shot down, killing all of his Clone Troopers on board,
leaving him shocked and saddened at their brave sacrifice.
So, I’m going to break down the time Mace Windu lost his whole Squad of Clone Troopers,
and was able to stop a planet killer superweapon from threatening the Galaxy.
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So the story begins high up in the cloudy atmosphere of the planet Omphalos, with Mace
Windu and his loyal Clone Troopers rapidly descending to the surface of the lush planet
in their Republic gunship.
They have been assigned by the Jedi council scout out and destroy a potential planet killer
superweapon, which they have received multiple reports about in the past weeks.
As you can imagine, Windu is very concerned about this potential development, so is taking
no risks.
Unfortunately, only moments after the squad are able to see solid ground for the first
time in a long time, a raging, red hot, separatist missile is gloding aggressively through the
air, pointed directly at Mace Windu’s gunship.
As soon as Windu notices the flaming missile rocketing towards his ship, he bravely warns
his men to hold on as tightly as they can, but moments later the craft is viciously impacted,
sending it plummeting through the thick, atmosphere of the planet, until it eventually is crumbled
to pieces by the hard, rocky surface below.
Unfortunately, every single Clone Trooper on board the Republic gunship is killed instantly,
and Windu himself is knocked unconscious, before being thrown out of the craft, onto
a nearby rock.
Eventually, he is awoken out of his hazy state, to the sight of a large creature right above
his head, poking his nose.
Windu quickly brushes this off, before moving standing up and glancing in horror over at
the flaming wreckage of his Republic gunship, horrified at just how many of his men were
killed in the violent crash.
Following this, Windu closes his eyes in remembrances of the brave Clones who gave their lives for
his mission, and is quickly greeted by the voice of Master Yoda.
Master Yoda gives Mace some very important advice, telling him that “to give to the
all-- sometimes the few must sacrifice their lives”.
But forget their sacrifice we must not, for to be ungrateful is to be unenlightened.
Windu accepts Master Yoda’s advice, think that he holds weakness inside of him, but
knows that he must move on and out of the area or else he will face death.
Following this, Windu buries his fallen soldiers, before leaping off into the vast planes, passing
a variety of local wildlife as he does so.
Windu then arrives at a massive, probably unstable bridge, but he is unphased by the
danger, swiftly cross the thin widden bridge, where a few B-1 Battle droids are waiting.
The two b-1 units very quickly spot the JEdi Master traversing the bridge, before rapidly
opening fire on him, sending a flurry of red blaster bolts his way.
Mace Windu has no trouble dodging this fire however, leaping up into the air with the
force, before quickly igniting his purple lightsaber, and landing directly in front
of the battle droids.
The droids continue their rapid advance, towards Windu, and before he moves in to fight back,
the voice of Master Yoda again enters his head, telling him that the path of the force
is a straight line, and to walk this path, one must have focus and vigilance.
Mace probably takes his advice a bit too literally, running up to the three of the droids, before
slicing them with a clean, straight cut of his amethyst blade, sending them clanking
to the ground.
Immediately after, Windu shifts his focus to another group of Battle droids, again pulling
the same move, viciously slicing 7 more battle droids in a straight line.
Master Yoda continues guiding Windu in the force, reminding to be focussed, and that
nothing is impossible with the guidance of the force.
Following this, Windu pulls an absolutely awesome move, slicing one more Battle droid’s
head off, before forcefulling punching another in the head, crushing it’s inner circuitry.
And let me know down below where Mace Windu ranks for you on your list of Jedi.
He certainly has done some things that make people not like him, but when you see him
in action with his awesome purple blade, you can’t help but just enjoy his combat skill.
Yoda then tells Windu that through a mountain, one can carve a path with the proper focus
and attunement to the force, leading him to rush wildly into a large horde of B-1 units.
Windu is very quickly surrounded by an incredible amount of the B-1s, but focuses his mind,
leading him to slice more and more battle droid units to shreds.
Windu is quickly lost in the fog of fire, smoke and spare parts, but soon after he emerges
from the encounter, leaving only a pile of scrap metal on the ground, with smouldering
circuits and electronics rising up in a thick smoke behind him.
Mace then looks around the area, quickly noticing two B-2 units rapidly running towards him.
In the background, he sees something which shocks him to core, and genuinely worries
him for the first time in a long time.
Behind the b-2 units is the horrid, planet killing super weapon with the potential to
blow Coruscant, and any other planet the Separatists choose, to pieces.
Instead of waiting for the droids to come to him, he zooms through the air, using Master
Yoda’s advice to slice them into pieces.
He even steps on the head of one of them, crushing it instantly, before continuing his
leap through the air.
Honestly, how cool is this.
After this, Windu finally makes his way to the shocking and terrifying superweapon, before
leaping up through the air and placing his blade directly through the outer shell.
The quickly melts a small hole in the shell using her purple lightsaber to make his way
inside the external casing.
He then pulls out the crucial electronics inside, before disabling the weapon, and rendering
it completely useless.
Windu also throws the electronics into the air, before the quickly erupt into a massive,
red and yellow fireball, ensuring that they will never be used for evil again… of course
until Galen Erso figures out how to use kyber crystals to power such a weapon.
Only moments later, the engineer who worked on the superweapon, is standing proud and
confident in his designs, presenting them to count dooku.
He tells Dooku that he will not demonstrate the full power of the Planet Killer, a weapon
that will catch the Republic off guard so badly that the war will be over.
The green engineer presses the trigger, and is left speechless and shocked when nothing
happens.
Dooku is confused and annoyed with the engineer’s failure, and the engineer is absolutely stunned.
Dooku then berates the green man saying “the only big thing I see here is your fat body.
You have wasted my valuable time trying to sell me a defective weapon.
Dooku then angrily orders that the man be taken away, and he pleads with Dooku to let
him try once more.
Dooku then creepily mentions that he and his “colleagues” will simply continue with
their own planets for their version of the planet killer, which we all know of course
later becomes of the death star.
After this Yoda once again speaks to Mace Windu through the force, telling him “delicate
is the balance of the force… nurtured it must be.”, As Mace stands atop the superweapon,
having just saved the Republic and the whole galaxy from brutal and horrific devastation,
of a very, very early death star.
I’m surprised this tiny device could even destroy a planet, when the death star was
so massive.
And to the end of the story, Master Yoda then communicates again to Windu, but this time
channeling his thoughts through the local wildlife, telling him, Sacred is all life.
From the largest of planets to the smallest of insects, protected must they all be.
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So that is the story of how Mace Windu’s clone troopers gave their lives to save the
Republic for a devastating planet killing superweapon, rivalling the power of the horrid
death star.
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