1065, Master and Apprentice Part Ways
Burdened with heavy thoughts, Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived in Coruscant's military district to make final arrangements for the 212th Attack Battalion under his command. After that, he would take a reconnaissance team to Cerea.
Cerea had recently descended into chaos. Its third civil war was on the verge of erupting, so it was only natural for the Galactic Republic to send troops to intervene and attempt to instigate a coup on this planet near the Modell Sector.
But anyone could see that this was clearly a suicide mission.
Cerea was indeed close to the Modell Sector, but it also lay deep within Dawn Star Planet's sphere of control. For a large fleet to travel along the hyperspace route to Cerea, it had to pass through Kinyen and Yago-Dul—yes, that very planet the Republic 20th Army had spent months unable to breach.
So if the Galactic Republic wanted to stir up trouble there, the outcome was easy enough to imagine...
And precisely because of that, Obi-Wan Kenobi was the most suitable person to "die" there.
As for the reconnaissance team accompanying him, their best possible outcome might be to blend into the civilian population and lie low. But that possibility was extremely slim. More likely, they would die in the conflict—or even be captured.
Clone Troopers captured by the Separatists suffered miserable fates. As clones, they had no human rights whatsoever. The Separatists would conduct all manner of cruel experiments on them, trying to uncover the secrets of cloning.
But for Obi-Wan Kenobi, this was only the beginning.
Because he had to stand before that man—that Sith Lord who had deceived the Galactic Republic for more than a decade, secretly built his own strength and influence, and now possessed power and secrets enough to shake the