Chapter Summaries

General Kalani waited on Dexen Satellite while the Republic fleet began its invasion of Onderon, hoping Izzy City would fall within three days. Republic forces quickly seized air superiority and began landing troops around the capital.

• General Kalani told Liu Zhichao that he would wait for news from Izzy City and explained that its fall within three days would be good news.
• Doctor Zhang Jiarui said he needed two or three chances to calibrate his research before Izzy City fell.
• Republic fighters bombed Onderon's military targets and cut rail links while overwhelming its outdated Vulture droid fighters.
• Anakin Skywalker's forces secured air superiority and encircled Izzy City with three Acclamator-class assault ships.
• Republic transport ships landed troops near Izzy City, where soldiers established an outer defensive line and crews set up support facilities.

Anakin Skywalker led the Republic invasion of Onderon, ordering a cautious advance toward Izzy City while General Tanding prepared to resist. As fighting broke out in the city, Anakin insisted that his troops protect civilians, even as Torrent Company 2 advanced toward a defended avenue.

• Anakin Skywalker ordered Republic forces to establish landing zones around Izzy City, limit heavy fire, and send Ahsoka Tano north while he joined the western advance.
• Luna Dream and Luna Phantom stayed behind to protect the transport fleet and speculated that Onderon's governor had a plan to disrupt the invasion.
• General Tanding ordered Onderon's forces to defend major routes and delay the Republic, citing the planet's history of exploitation under Republic rule.
• Republic tanks and soldiers broke into Izzy City, where Anakin used his Lightsaber and the Force to overwhelm a defensive position and take its soldiers prisoner.
• After Stila Gerrera reported anti-tank guns and civilians near Fifth Avenue, Anakin sent Torrent Company 2 forward and ordered his troops to avoid harming civilians.

Anakin Skywalker led Torrent Company 2 through Izzy City while Republic forces overwhelmed Onderon’s defenses, but he grew furious when Tarkin ordered transports to fly into the city under heavy anti-aircraft fire. Tarkin defended the order by accusing Anakin of fighting too cautiously, leaving their command dispute unresolved.

• A Republic squad entered a building under fire, and a panicked civilian woman jumped from a fourth-floor window as Anakin ordered his troops to advance.
• The Republic army pushed several kilometers into Izzy City, while General Tandin committed more Onderon troops and battle droids to slow the assault.
• Anakin and Torrent Company 2 destroyed an Onderon strongpoint, and Anakin told his soldiers to follow the plan and cut off the enemy’s counterattack routes.
• Anakin saw a transport fleet force its way through the city’s anti-aircraft defenses; one ship exploded and another was forced into an emergency landing.
• Anakin learned from Luna Huan that Tarkin had ordered the transport fleet forward, then demanded an explanation from Tarkin, who accused him of wasting time on the outskirts.

Anakin Skywalker and Wilhuff Tarkin clashed over Tarkin’s brutal strategy for capturing Izzy City, with Anakin insisting that the Republic protect civilians. Tarkin asserted his authority and introduced Sola Gerrera, who claimed he could help the Republic occupy Onderon within a day.

• Anakin Skywalker condemned Tarkin’s transport assault on Izzy City, warning that it risked thousands of soldiers’ lives.
• Tarkin argued that Anakin’s cautious approach would prolong the fighting and advocated using fear and severe punishment to stop resistance.
• Anakin insisted that the ground operations on Onderon were under his command, but Tarkin invoked his Governor’s authority to change the battle plan.
• Tarkin introduced Sola Gerrera, who criticized his sister Stila Gerrera and claimed he could help the Republic occupy Onderon within a single day.

Stila Gerrera discovered that coordinated bombings had demolished major towers in Izzy City, trapping civilians and sealing off the city center. Sola Gerrera revealed to Anakin Skywalker and Wilhuff Tarkin that he had arranged the demolitions to aid the Republic’s assault, while declaring his ambition to rule Onderon.

• Stila Gerrera organized civilian evacuations, then learned that several major towers had collapsed with civilians trapped inside and Rebel squads missing.
• Seth confronted Stila over the devastation, while she confirmed that Republic transports were breaking through toward the city center.
• Judgment mapped the destroyed towers and found that their blast sites formed a ring blocking Izzy City’s main roads and enclosing its core.
• Sola Gerrera told Anakin Skywalker and Wilhuff Tarkin that his people had planted explosives in the buildings to isolate the city center as Akenat Tanding’s troops moved out.
• Anakin condemned Sola for killing civilians, but Sola defended the demolitions as a way to end the war quickly and announced that he intended to become king of Onderon.
• Wilhuff Tarkin praised Sola’s plan and said Republic troops were striking toward Unifar Temple.

The Republic’s surprise assault on Izzy City collapsed the Central Trade Tower and caused massive civilian casualties, prompting Stila Gerrera to condemn Anakin Skywalker. Their argument ended when Anakin recognized similarities between Stila’s masked companion and a mask associated with Depa Barris, raising his suspicion that the woman was a fallen Jedi and that Stila might have joined the Separatists.

• Republic fighters bombarded Izzy City, collapsing the Central Trade Tower, killing many civilians, and clearing the way for Republic soldiers to charge toward the city center.
• Stila Gerrera called Anakin Skywalker and accused him of causing tens of thousands of civilian deaths with his plan.
• Anakin defended the assault as a way to end the war quickly, but Stila and her masked companion accused him of disregarding Onderon’s people and their reasons for resisting the Republic.
• Anakin recognized that the masked woman’s ornate mask resembled one worn by Depa Barris and wondered whether she was a fallen Jedi and whether Stila had allied with the Separatists.

The Galactic Republic conquered Onderon in a single day, captured Akhenaten Tandin, and celebrated Wilhuff Tarkin’s appointment as Governor of the Fourth Army. Tarkin turned his attention to the still-intact Separatist stronghold beneath Dexen Satellite and concluded that the Republic needed super battleships capable of destroying planets.

• Sola Gerrera’s Proton Bombs and Wilhuff Tarkin’s costly advance helped Republic forces capture Izzy City and the Unifar Temple within twenty-seven standard hours.
• Republic soldiers arrested Akhenaten Tandin, while Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano’s troops broke the Royal Guard’s lines and the surviving defenders surrendered.
• Sheev Palpatine announced Onderon’s takeover, praised Tarkin’s victory before the Senate, and arranged to deliver his commission as Governor of the Fourth Army.
• Tarkin recognized that the Separatists’ main strength remained uncommitted and focused on Dexen Satellite, whose underground steel city had survived orbital bombardment.
• Tarkin decided the Republic needed planet-destroying super battleships to inspire fear and deterrence across the galaxy.

Tyran Heavy Industries’ forces prepared for a harsher Republic assault on Dexen Satellite while Tarkin imposed his rule on Onderon through Sola Gerrera. Anakin pursued the mystery of the masks, and Stila’s rebels reaffirmed their commitment to Onderon’s people as Sola escalated his revenge.

• General Kalani told Liu Zhichao that Helmut Zemo’s plan relied on waiting for Tarkin’s judgment to falter, while Dexen’s orbital cannons fought off the Republic fleet.
• Tarkin made Sola Gerrera king of Onderon, dismissed Anakin’s objections, and focused on establishing a supply base for the Republic army.
• Anakin asked Luna Dream about the masked woman he had seen on Onderon, and she warned that the woman was likely beyond the Dream Sisters’ ability to handle.
• Luna Dream and Luna Illusion left to investigate the masked woman, and Anakin went with them, leaving Ahsoka in charge beside Tarkin’s hologram.
• Stila learned that Sola planned to publicly execute General Akhenaten Tandin and, after Judgment reminded the rebels that they fought for the people, grew resolute.

Sola Gerrera seized Onderon’s throne and carried out a bloody purge while turning Izzy City into a supply base for Wilhuff Tarkin’s seven-million-strong army. Anakin Skywalker accepted that he could not stop the occupation, and he and the Dream Sisters remained unable to find Stila Gerrera or the Mask Woman amid the city’s chaos.

• Sola Gerrera executed General Akhenaten Tandin and more than a hundred former royal guards and government officials.
• Sola Gerrera filled Onderon’s government with unqualified allies and emptied much of Izzy City to make room for Tarkin’s forces.
• Onderon’s residents were displaced or forced into labor as they cleared rubble and prepared the city for Tarkin’s army.
• Tarkin demanded that Izzy City become a military camp within three days as Republic soldiers poured into the city.
• Anakin Skywalker tolerated the occupation and helped suppress unrest because the army needed a vast supply base to attack Dexen Satellite.
• After two days of searching, Anakin and the Dream Sisters found no trace of Stila Gerrera or the Mask Woman.

Sola Gerrera rejected Stila Gerrera’s accusations and ordered a manhunt for her after learning she was hiding King Dundrup. As Tarkin’s fleet prepared to invade Dexen Satellite, its sensors detected a powerful energy signature behind the fleet.

• Sola Gerrera demanded faster cleanup at the Central Commercial Building ruins and ordered the clerk to send another five thousand workers.
• Sola Gerrera argued with Stila Gerrera about his rule and claimed Onderon had never had a choice under the Galactic Republic and the Separatists.
• Stila Gerrera revealed that King Dundrup was with her, and Sola Gerrera threatened to make her a wanted fugitive unless she handed him over within a day.
• Sola Gerrera ordered guards to launch a worldwide manhunt for Stila Gerrera after she ended the call.
• Wilhuff Tarkin ordered his fleet to prepare to land on Dexen Satellite and destroy the Separatists’ battlecruiser production line.
• An alarm sounded aboard Tarkin’s Will, and a controller reported a powerful energy signature behind the fleet.

Doctor Zhang Jiarui and General Kalani used eight concealed Yamato Cannons on Dagori Satellite to ambush Tarkin’s fleet, leaving Tarkin furious and his flagship damaged. Zhang refused to leave before testing his modified Thor, while the battle continued.

• Tarkin’s fleet detected a weapon charging behind them, and Tarkin realized the attack was coming from Dagori Satellite.
• Eight Yamato Cannon plasma spheres struck Tarkin’s Will and two Hunter Class Battlecruisers, breaching the flagship’s shields and disabling its power.
• Tarkin’s guards forced him into an escape pod, and he ordered his fleet to land and destroy the Separatists.
• Doctor Zhang Jiarui confirmed the cannons were ready, while General Kalani urged him to enter an underground shelter and return to safety.
• Zhang refused to leave before testing his modified Thor, and thousands of droids operated eight concealed Yamato Cannons on Dagori Satellite.

General Kalani and Doctor Zhang Jiarui used eight concealed Yamato Cannons on Dagori Satellite to cripple the Republic fleet’s orbital bombardment capability. Enraged by the ambush and his own humiliation, Wilhuff Tarkin ordered an all-out assault on Dexen Satellite, where Republic forces began a costly landing attempt.

• General Kalani’s evacuation plan left partially assembled Behemoth-class battlecruisers on Dexen Satellite as decoys while Doctor Zhang Jiarui installed eight concealed Yamato Cannons on Dagori Satellite.
• As Dagori Satellite passed behind the Republic fleet, its Yamato Cannons struck Tarkin's Will and damaged two Hunter Class Battlecruisers, then fired a second volley that damaged another Hunter Class Battlecruiser and destroyed two transport ships.
• The Republic fleet’s return fire destroyed the Yamato Cannons on Dagori Satellite, but the two volleys deprived the fleet of its orbital bombardment capability.
• Wilhuff Tarkin, furious that Tarkin's Will was crippled and that he had fled while its crew stayed aboard, ordered the entire fleet to attack Dexen Satellite and demanded Kalani’s head.
• Republic fighters and warships unleashed heavy fire on Steel City while troop transports attempted landings along its less-defended edge, and many transports were shot down.

The Galactic Republic launched a massive assault on Steel City on Dexen Satellite, but its city-class shield withstood the attackers’ bombardment as Separatist defenses inflicted heavy losses. Republic troops landed around the city and began advancing toward the shield.

• Over a hundred Republic transport ships descended through Dexen’s atmosphere and attacked Steel City, whose one-way shield blocked incoming fire while Separatist guns, missiles, and droids fired back.
• Republic ships failed to penetrate the shield and instead unloaded troops outside its perimeter, where Separatist long-range fire destroyed transports and killed soldiers.
• Republic soldiers charged toward Steel City under heavy fire as Siege Tank shells struck their landing areas.
• Republic AT-TE walkers disembarked and fired high-explosive shells at the shield, while the Republic established more than a dozen landing zones around the city.

The Republic Army struggled to break through Steel City's formidable shield while suffering devastating losses in repeated assaults. A few soldiers reached the shield's range, but the attack continued amid the slaughter.

• Steel City's costly one-way shield withstood the Republic Army's bombardment, leaving the army to seek a way to enter the city.
• An officer ordered Company 107 and Company 108 to charge across exposed ground, and battle droid fire wiped out both companies.
• A Republic LAAT/C transport and its AT-TE walker were destroyed, but some soldiers used the wreckage as cover and reached the shield's range.
• The Republic soldiers who reached the shield deployed smoke grenades, drones, and remote-controlled bombs while reinforcements continued to be sent forward.
• After Company 129's transport was shot down, a company commander refused to advance, and a soldier killed him before the officer ordered his deputy to lead the charge.

The Galactic Republic intensified its assault on Dexen Satellite, using SPHA-T cannons to weaken Steel City's shield while suffering enormous casualties. The fighting continued as hospitals in Onderon's capital, Izzy City, overflowed with wounded and dying soldiers.

• The Galactic Republic expanded its landing operation on Dexen Satellite, sending thousands of LAAT transports and vast quantities of supplies to the surface.
• Republic forces deployed more than a dozen SPHA-T cannons, whose sustained bombardment weakened Steel City's shield and opened breaches.
• Republic fighters entered the shield to bomb air-defense emplacements, destroying several turrets before being shot down.
• Republic soldiers charged Steel City through devastating fire, while commanders forced reluctant units forward under threats of execution and reprisals against their families.
• Wilhuff Tarkin continued the assault despite 470,000 Republic organic soldiers becoming casualties in four hours.
• Hospitals in Izzy City filled with wounded, and medical droids abandoned patients with low chances of survival as casualties continued to arrive.

Ramses Dundup decided to reclaim Onderon’s throne and lead its people through the war, while Judgment agreed to help him before heading to Dexen Satellite. Stila Gerrera learned that Judgment intended to rescue Zhang Jiarui, the Thor Mech designer whose weapon had massacred Rebel Alliance fighters.

• Stila Gerrera urged Ramses Dundup and Seth to overthrow Sola Gerrera, but Dundup explained that Onderon’s rulers had little power to avoid the war or protect civilians.
• After hearing that Republic forces had displaced thousands of civilians from an agricultural district, Dundup told Stila that Onderon’s answer lay outside and that the old generation needed to act.
• Dundup declared that he would reclaim the throne and asked Judgment to help Stila and the Onderon warriors storm the Unifar Temple.
• Judgment agreed to help as an observer, then said he would travel to Dexen Satellite to rescue Zhang Jiarui, a Tyran Heavy Industries engineer who had led the Thor Mech’s design.
• Stila recognized Zhang Jiarui as the Thor Mech’s designer and remembered the massacre the weapon had inflicted on Rebel Alliance fighters.

Judgment persuaded Stila Gerrera to accept her help in overthrowing Sola Gerrera, while Izzy City descended into violence under Republic occupation. Sola tried to send Onderon’s Royal Guard to the front, but Wilhuff Tarkin rejected the plan so he could later blame Sola for the suffering and win the civilians’ support.

• Judgment defended her decision to take Zhang Jiarui and told Stila that sacrifice without purpose could not change the world; Stila then asked her to help overthrow Sola Gerrera.
• Republic soldiers committed murder, arson, rape, and other crimes in Izzy City as officers largely tolerated their violence, while Sola Gerrera barred civilians from leaving and recruited workers for the Republic.
• Sola dismissed reports of the soldiers’ crimes and claimed the dead had served the Separatists, then revealed that he had offered to send all two hundred thousand Royal Guard troops to Dexen Satellite.
• Wilhuff Tarkin rejected Sola’s offer, intending to let Sola’s abuses continue so he could later arrest and execute him and turn Onderon’s civilians against their king.

Wilhuff Tarkin pressed the assault on Steel City, but General Kalani unleashed a reserve force of Scorpion tanks that struck the Republic Army’s exposed rear. The Republic was forced to retreat from parts of the shield perimeter, and its artillery suffered heavy losses.

• Tarkin ordered his forces to capture Dexen Satellite quickly and abandon fantasies about using Sola Gerrera as a scapegoat.
• The Galactic Republic Army battered Steel City’s shield and defenses, capturing two orbital defense cannons at the cost of more than 700,000 soldiers.
• Tarkin concentrated the Republic assault in nine directions after abandoning landing points where attacks had stalled.
• General Kalani sent more than 400 Scorpion tanks, supported by over 100 M-9 Wolverine vehicles, through gaps between the Republic’s offensive sectors.
• The Scorpion tanks severed supply lines, forced Republic units to retreat, and destroyed several artillery positions, including at least five SPHA-T cannons.

Wilhuff Tarkin held back Republic assault ships as his forces struggled against the Separatists’ artillery, while Onderon soldiers searched brutally for Stila Gerrera. Stila and her elite squad reached a hideout near the Unifar Temple, where Ramsis Dumbledore prepared to challenge the occupation politically in her place.

• A Scorpion tank crippled a SPHA-T, and Wilhuff Tarkin assigned more fighters to battlefield patrols rather than risk sending Acclamator-class ships into range of the missing J-1 Proton Cannons.
• Wilhuff Tarkin smashed his terminal into a staff officer after receiving the battle report.
• Onderon soldiers raided a rebel hideout and received an order to capture Stila Gerrera within one day, then launched a violent citywide search.
• Stila Gerrera led her elite squad through patrols and search teams to a hideout a few kilometers from the Unifar Temple.
• Ramsis Dumbledore said he would use political means to resist the Republic occupation so Stila would not yet have to face its attacks.

Stila-Gerrera agreed to lead the Rebel Alliance in overthrowing Sola-Gerrera while Ramses-Dundup stayed out of the operation to preserve his political position. As Judgment prepared to help them enter the Unifar Temple, Seth revealed that a Jedi Knight had killed his father and insisted on joining the fight.

• Ramses-Dundup refused to involve himself or the Royal Guard in the assault, explaining that he needed a suitable position in the Galactic Republic Senate after reclaiming the throne.
• Stila-Gerrera promised to restore Dundup to power and asked Judgment to help the rebels break through the Unifar Temple's defenses.
• Judgment agreed to draw the guards' attention at the main gate and told Seth not to join the coming battle, but Seth insisted that he wanted to fight for Onderon.
• Seth told Stila-Gerrera that a Jedi Knight had killed his father during the battle around Izzy City's Energy Center.
• Stila-Gerrera apologized for the circumstances surrounding Seth's father's death, while Seth blamed the Jedi and said he wanted to witness their destruction.
• Seth told Judgment that he trusted her because she differed from the Jedi Knights and acted on what she could do in the moment.