Chapter Summaries

Obi-Wan Kenobi discovered that Kamino had secretly built a massive Clone Army under a commission from the late Master Dias, a project unknown to the Jedi Council. After learning that Jango Fett was involved, Obi-Wan pursued him to Geonosis.

• Obi-Wan arrived at Tipoca City, where Lama Su welcomed him and said the Clone Army commissioned by Master Dias was ready.
• Obi-Wan inspected the army and learned that Jango Fett was its Primarch and had helped train the clones.
• Obi-Wan recognized Jango as the bounty hunter who had tried to assassinate Senator Amidala and reported the army and Jango to Yoda and Windu.
• Yoda ordered Obi-Wan to bring Jango in for interrogation, while the Jedi leaders realized they had known nothing about the army.
• Obi-Wan moved to capture Jango, but Jango fled Kamino, and Obi-Wan pursued him to Geonosis.

On Tatooine, Shmi Skywalker died as Rock-Johnson and C-3PO were confronted by agents searching for her family. Anakin felt his mother’s death through the Force and set out with Padmé for Tatooine, while Darth Malthael revived Shmi, though her mind and soul were badly damaged.

• Rock-Johnson traded for medicine and food, then returned home to find black-suited agents outside the house.
• Rock-Johnson fought the T-850s, but C-3PO told him Shmi had died before the agents arrived with a doctor and medicine.
• Anakin awoke in tears, sensed that his mother was gone, and decided to leave for Tatooine with Padmé.
• Darth Malthael found Shmi’s body and used his Life Force to restore her body and soul.
• Shmi opened her eyes, but Darth Malthael realized that much of her soul had dispersed and she was left with severe dementia.

Anakin Skywalker reunited with his mother and Rock Johnson on Tatooine, only to discover that Shmi had died and been brought back to life by Darth Malthael. Malthael vanished after warning Anakin and Padmé, leaving them to decide how to keep Shmi safe.

• Anakin found Shmi in their home, where she mistook him for his younger self and called for someone to save him.
• C-3PO explained that Shmi had died and been revived, while Rock Johnson was being repaired by the Fourth Group.
• Darth Malthael confronted Anakin, claimed he had revived Shmi, and urged Anakin to tell Master Yoda that their goals currently aligned.
• Padmé offered to take Shmi to Naboo, and Darth Malthael disappeared before Anakin could stop him.
• Rock Johnson returned after the Fourth Group repaired him and told Anakin that he had killed Shmi when she died of illness.
• Anakin embraced Rock Johnson and reassured him that Shmi's death was not his fault.

Anakin learned that the Archangel of Death had resurrected his mother, then received Obi-Wan’s emergency call from Geonosis, where a Separatist fleet was gathering. He left Padmé to take Shmi to Naboo and set out with Rock-Johnson to rescue Obi-Wan and warn the Republic.

• Rock-Johnson told Anakin that Shmi had died of a fever and returned to life after the Archangel of Death intervened, while Anakin sensed the Dark Side within her.
• Obi-Wan called from Geonosis and reported that a huge fleet had destroyed his hyperspace ring and trapped him, urging Anakin to warn the Galactic Republic about the Separatists.
• Rock-Johnson told Anakin about a garbage ship at a spaceport, and Anakin asked Padmé to take Shmi and C-3PO to Naboo.
• Anakin and Padmé kissed before she left with Shmi and C-3PO, while Anakin and Rock-Johnson boarded a garbage ship bound for Geonosis.
• Anakin arrived near Geonosis and saw a massive fleet bearing blue-and-white paint and an unfamiliar hexagonal emblem.

Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi discovered a huge Separatist fleet around Geonosis and flew down to investigate its activities. After Geonosian fighters crippled both ships, the Jedi landed and escaped into a ventilation shaft as Tang Xiao watched the intrusion alarm in the main hive’s command center.

• Anakin Skywalker spotted a massive fleet around Geonosis, and Padmé Amidala had already returned to Naboo to report what she learned to the Galactic Republic.
• Anakin joined Obi-Wan Kenobi in the asteroid belt, and the Jedi destroyed several pursuing Nantex-class fighters before more fighters swarmed after them.
• Obi-Wan and Anakin flew through Geonosis’s atmosphere, evaded ground defenses, and detected massive metal readings in the eastern hemisphere.
• A Geonosian pilot rammed Obi-Wan’s fighter, destroying its wing, while repeated laser hits damaged Anakin’s junk ship.
• Anakin jumped from his failing ship, deflected laser bolts, and joined Obi-Wan beneath a rock spire, where they entered a ventilation shaft.
• Tang Xiao heard the fighter-intrusion alarm in Geonosis’s main hive and watched the two invading ships on the command-center screen.

Tang Xiao tried to prevent the Battle of Geonosis from unfolding as Count Dooku prepared the Separatists for war, but Obi-Wan and Anakin continued investigating the fleet. After Padmé reported the threat to the Republic and prepared to travel to Coruscant, Palpatine ordered her killed, and Jango Fett set out with Boba to act.

• Tang Xiao reflected on why he could not stop the events leading to the Battle of Geonosis as Count Dooku announced that the Separatists would launch a full-scale offensive in three days.
• Jango Fett reported that Padmé’s assassination had failed and that the Jedi had discovered Kamino; Tang Xiao ordered him not to return to Geonosis until he had dealt with the pursuit.
• Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Johnson reached a ventilation shaft, sensed danger nearby, and decided to investigate what the Separatist transport fleet was carrying.
• Padmé warned Palpatine, the senators, and the Jedi that a massive fleet had gathered at Geonosis; she agreed to travel to Coruscant while Master Windu organized a rescue for Obi-Wan and Anakin.
• After the meeting, Palpatine ordered Padmé killed, and Count Dooku relayed the signal to Jango Fett, who left with Boba to clean up their mess.

After Padmé Amidala’s ship was shot down, Tang Xiao warned Count Dooku that the Republic would blame the Separatists and urged him to prepare for war. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Rock Johnson discovered Geonosis’s vast droid factory and set out to find its communications center.

• Jango Fett returned to pursue Padmé Amidala, and her ship was shot down on a moon near Coruscant.
• Tang Xiao argued that Padmé’s death would accelerate the war and urged Count Dooku to begin preparations.
• Tang Xiao revealed that two Jedi had arrived on Geonosis, and Count Dooku ordered General Grievous to redeploy the fleet to defend it.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Rock Johnson found a vast factory producing battle droids and war machines.
• Anakin grabbed a droid and was carried away, while Obi-Wan went to capture a more advanced droid and cut down patrolling Geonosian Soldiers.

The Confederacy of Independent Systems formally declared independence and established its joint government, while Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi fought through a Geonosian factory to locate a concentrated communications signal. The chapter left the Confederacy preparing a full-scale offensive as Anakin and Obi-Wan advanced toward the signal.

• Count Dooku read the Declaration of Independence, and the Confederacy of Independent Systems’ core members signed public and confidential agreements.
• The twelve members formed the Confederacy’s joint government, appointed its leaders, and established its parliament and administrative department on Luks Major.
• The Confederacy was formally established on May 21, 22BBY, with a wider independence declaration and full-scale offensive planned for the following days.
• Anakin Skywalker fought through the factory, destroyed a communications droid, and brought its head to Rock Johnson while Obi-Wan Kenobi held off Geonosian guards.
• Rock Johnson cracked the droid’s head and detected a concentrated communications signal 560 meters away, so Anakin called Obi-Wan to follow him.

After Padmé Amidala was injured in another assassination attempt, Chancellor Sheev Palpatine used the crisis and intelligence from Geonosis to secure emergency powers from the Senate. He ordered the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic, while Master Yoda headed to Kamino to deploy its clone troops against Geonosis.

• Doctors told Sheev Palpatine that Padmé Amidala had survived the attack but remained unconscious, and officials identified Jango Fett's Slave I as the ship that fired on her.
• Sheev Palpatine and other senators debated the Military Creation Act and the need to respond to Separatist activity on Geonosis, while Mas Amedda raised granting the Chancellor emergency powers.
• Anakin Skywalker sent the Jedi Order intelligence that Geonosis was producing droids and war machines, but his transmission was cut off by gunfire and explosions.
• Jar Jar Binks submitted a motion to grant Sheev Palpatine emergency powers, and the Senate passed it with the support of pacifist and Loyalty Committee senators.
• Sheev Palpatine ordered the establishment of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Master Yoda departed for Kamino to lead two hundred thousand clone troops to Geonosis.

Sheev Palpatine secured emergency powers and rapidly prepared the Republic for war, while the Jedi mobilized to capture Count Dooku on Geonosis. The chapter ended as Geonosian forces opened fire on Master Windu’s arriving fleet, beginning the Clone Wars.

• Jar Jar Binks proposed granting Sheev Palpatine emergency powers, and the Senate approved the motion.
• Palpatine ordered the Grand Army of the Republic established, prompting rapid warship production, military reforms, and intelligence operations.
• Master Yoda arrived on Kamino, where 200,000 trained clone soldiers prepared to deploy aboard Acclamator-class assault ships under the Republic Strategic Command.
• Master Windu led 212 Jedi Knights toward Geonosis after Padmé Amidala’s message and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s report confirmed Count Dooku’s location.
• Geonosian forces detected the Jedi fleet, launched more than 1,700 Nantex-class fighters, and fired on the incoming starfighters, starting the Clone Wars.

The Jedi fought their way through Geonosian and Separatist forces before Master Windu ordered them to descend toward Geonosis and attack its orbital defense cannons. In the hive command center, Count Dooku insisted the invasion plan would proceed and revealed that his Sith master held great authority within the Galactic Republic.

• The Jedi fighters evaded Geonosian fire and battled 1,700 Nantex-class fighters, destroying more than a hundred without losing any of their own.
• General Grievous brought in ten Munificent-class frigates and summoned the Saboss Clan, whose fighters targeted Jedi already under pressure.
• Several Jedi destroyed a Geonosian cruiser, while more than a dozen Jedi fighters were shot down as enemy forces accumulated.
• Master Windu ordered the Jedi to enter Geonosis's atmosphere and destroy the orbital defense cannons.
• Count Dooku ordered Archduke Poggle the Lesser to capture Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker alive, then rejected Glosse Shelbia's suggestion to delay the invasion preparations.
• Count Dooku declared that the Separatists would win and revealed that his Sith master held a powerful position within the Galactic Republic.

Count Dooku revealed that Darth Sidious had given the Separatists plans for the planet-destroying DS-1 platform, while Jedi forces attacked Geonosis’s defenses. Dooku’s forces moved to repel the Jedi, and he brought the captured Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the dungeon, where Obi-Wan confronted Tang Xiao.

• Count Dooku told the Separatist leaders that Darth Sidious was a high-ranking Republic figure directing their plan to overthrow the Republic.
• Tang Xiao questioned why the Separatists were targeting the Republic’s ruling core rather than powerful worlds such as Kuat, Rendili, or Corellia, and asked which Republic official Sidious was.
• Archduke Poggle the Lesser projected the completed DS-1 battle station blueprints, and Count Dooku said the 120-kilometer weapon could destroy planets.
• Poggle reported that Jedi were destroying the orbital defense cannons, so Count Dooku ordered General Grievous to send the Saboss Clan into battle.
• Saboss Destroyers and Nantex-class fighters engaged the Jedi squadrons, while Master Windu ordered Adi Galia to lead an attack on the Saboss ships.
• Count Dooku and Poggle brought Tang Xiao and the other leaders to the dungeon, where Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were imprisoned; Obi-Wan told Tang Xiao they had backed the wrong person.

Count Dooku ordered Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin taken to the arena for public execution as the Jedi attacked Geonosis’s factories. With the planet’s defenses under threat, Master Yoda arrived with a fleet of twenty Acclamator-class assault ships and gave Colonel Mabel Gason command.

• Count Dooku tried to persuade Obi-Wan to join him, but Obi-Wan refused, so Poggle the Lesser ordered him and Anakin taken to the arena for execution.
• Master Windu destroyed one of Geonosis’s Orbital Defense Cannons with the last Proton Torpedoes and led the surviving Jedi into the underground factories.
• Master Windu counted just over 160 surviving Jedi Knights and pointed them toward Count Dooku and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• General Grievous warned the Geonosian command center that a large-scale hyperspace jump had been detected and ordered the fleets to prepare for battle.
• Master Yoda arrived aboard the Indomitable with twenty Acclamator-class assault ships and put Colonel Mabel Gason in command of the fleet.

Mabel Garsen led the Republic fleet in a close-range assault that shattered Trabo's formation, while Nim and the Rock Avengers joined the battle against the Separatists. As the Clone Army transports advanced to land on Geonosis, Tang Xiao sent the command to attack.

• Mabel Garsen ordered seven Acclamator-class ships to charge the Separatist fleet, and Nim arrived with six Mel-class cruisers to attack its flank.
• The Republic launched more than four hundred V-19 Torrent fighters as Nim's Rock Avengers sent up H-6 Havoc fighter-bombers.
• Mabel Garsen drove the Acclamators into the Separatist formation, leaving Trabo unable to use his frigates' forward guns effectively.
• General Grievous ordered Trabo to regain control and pull back, then began redeploying reinforcements.
• Mabel Garsen ordered a breakthrough and landing on Geonosis, and twelve troop-carrying Acclamators advanced.
• Tang Xiao watched Obi-Wan's public execution in the arena and sent the message, "Attack!"

The Republic began its ground assault on Geonosis, but Sefrans Tann arrived with fifteen Kohl-class Battlecruisers and took command of the Separatist fleet. Her coordinated attacks badly damaged the Republic warship Arkon as the Republic struggled to finish deploying its troops.

• Master Yoda warned Mabel Gason of danger, and the twelve Acclamator-class assault ships entered Geonosis's atmosphere to begin the invasion.
• Clone Troopers established landing zones and attacked the main hive while 1.1 million B-1 battle droids counterattacked; Yoda flew toward the arena to aid Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Master Windu.
• Mabel Gason received word of incoming warships, and fifteen Kohl-class Battlecruisers emerged from hyperspace under Sefrans Tann's command.
• Sefrans Tann attacked the Republic ships, seized control of Admiral Trabo's fleet, and reorganized the Generous-class frigates into coordinated combat groups.
• The Separatist ships concentrated fire on the Arkon, breached its shields, and severely damaged it while Tann waited for the Republic forces to come up from Geonosis.

Sefrans Tann outmaneuvered Mabel Gason’s fleet and used the Kohl-class Battlecruisers’ Hypermatter Railguns to devastate the Republic warships. Mabel collapsed as Tann began a ten-minute countdown to recharge the weapons and left the remaining Acclamator-class ships to the Generous-class frigates.

• Sefrans Tann berated Mabel Gason for hesitating, then cut communications and revealed that her maneuvers had split apart the Republic fleet.
• Mabel recognized the danger posed by the fifteen Kohl-class Battlecruisers and ordered his ships to retreat into the atmosphere, but his warning came too late.
• Sefrans Tann ordered the Hypermatter Railguns to fire, and the Kohl-class Battlecruisers launched forty-meter shells at the Republic fleet.
• The Magnificent and Twin Stars were destroyed, the Inspector lost power, and the already damaged Arkon warship broke apart.
• Mabel Gason collapsed after seeing the destruction, while Sefrans Tann ordered a ten-minute countdown and began recharging the Railguns.

Mabel Gason’s hesitation left the Republic fleet trapped and facing defeat at Geonosis, while Sefrans Tann’s forces controlled space. In the arena, Tang Xiao watched Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker survive the execution spectacle as Count Dooku praised his foresight.

• Nim fled the battle with six Mel-class cruisers, and Sefrans Tann sent Vulture droids after them.
• Mabel Gason realized Sefrans Tann had anticipated his plans and destroyed four Acclamator-class ships; only three remained in space.
• Mabel Gason asked Master Yoda for guidance, and Yoda ordered a retreat while the remaining ships awaited reinforcements.
• Mabel Gason told the Borg, Sharp Fang, and Valiant to scatter and withdraw, but the three captains cursed him and then declared they would fight to the last man.
• Tang Xiao watched Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker defeat the beasts in the arena, and Count Dooku congratulated him on deploying a fleet in advance.

Tang Xiao concealed his connections from Count Dooku as Master Windu and more than a hundred Jedi Knights attacked the arena. Dooku trapped them amid an army of two hundred thousand battle droids, and Coleman Trebor was killed as the Jedi were overwhelmed.

• Tang Xiao denied knowing the mysterious Chiss Commander and claimed he did not know where Edra-Kestis had gone.
• Master Windu led more than a hundred Jedi Knights out of the underground passages and confronted Count Dooku, while other Jedi rescued Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Count Dooku used the Force to block Master Windu and sent B-2 Super Battle Droids to open fire, trapping the Jedi in the arena with the droid army.
• Luminara Unduli used the Force to turn a rocket back at the droids, but Count Dooku revealed that he had prepared two hundred thousand droids.
• Master Windu charged into the droid army to help the surrounded Jedi, but Coleman Trebor was shot, knocked down, and killed by the droids.

Count Dooku halted his droid army long enough for Republic transports to rescue the surviving Jedi, but the Separatist fleet then began bombarding Geonosis. Dooku stopped the bombardment after ordering Sefrans Tann to withdraw with his droids, while Master Windu and Yoda planned to seize the planet’s main hive and await reinforcements.

• Count Dooku offered Mace Windu a chance to surrender, then ordered his droids to resume their attack when Windu refused.
• Republic LAAT/I transports arrived and evacuated the surviving Jedi as clone troopers held back the droids; Master Yoda said the space battle had failed and urged them to hold their ground.
• Mabel Garsen reported that the remaining Republic warships had been destroyed, and Master Windu planned to attack Geonosis’s main hive and recover Jedi fighters.
• Sefrans Tann’s fleet launched an Orbital Bombardment that devastated the ground forces and damaged the Republic ships, prompting Mabel Garsen to warn Master Yoda and Master Windu.
• Archduke Poggle protested the bombardment, and Count Dooku ordered Sefrans Tann to stop firing and take his eight hundred thousand droids back to their war zones.

Tang Xiao withdrew Sefrans Tann’s fleet after it helped protect the Confederacy’s transport fleet, while the Republic regained the advantage in the ground battle on Geonosis. The chapter ended with General Grievous reinforcing the collapsing front with Geonosian soldiers and droids.

• Tang Xiao praised Sefrans Tann and ordered her fleet to leave Geonosis after its objective was achieved.
• The Republic clone army repelled the droid assault with fortified positions, heavy weapons, and air support, while Adi Gallia’s fighters destroyed the Saboss Clan warships.
• After Tann’s fleet departed, the Republic counterattacked and split the droid army’s lines, forcing Nute Gunray, San Hill, Count Dooku, and Poggle the Lesser to flee or retreat.
• Trabo’s ten Generous-class frigates arrived and fought thirteen Acclamator-class assault ships, recovering some ground for the Confederacy.
• General Grievous took command and ordered Poggle the Lesser to send 150,000 Geonosian soldiers and more than 400,000 droids into the battle.