Battle of Nadiem
From Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Battle of Nadiem occured during the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Separatists. In 22 BBY, five months after the Battle of Geonosis, the Separatist Droid Army, commanded by Confederacy General Grievous, invaded the Republic-controlled planet of Nadiem. The Republic then sent a Jedi-led detachment of their own clone army to counter the invasion, resulting in a full scale battle, with Nadiem's civilian populace caught in the middle of the fighting.
Contents |
[edit] Prelude
In 22 BBY—five months after the Battle of Geonosis and the start of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems—the Confederacy Droid Army, under the command of the Separatist cyborg General Grievous, invaded the planet of Nadiem in the Baxel Sector. Even though Nadiem really had no strategic value to either side, the Separatists attacked the planet mainly because the Republic had chosen to defend it. In response to the invasion, the Republic reinforced their clone army on Nadiem, as well as several Jedi Generals. Among the Jedi dispatched were High Generals Saesee Tiin and Luminara Unduli, Unduli's apprentice/Jedi Commander Barriss Offee, and General B'dard Tone and his apprentice Zephata'ru'tor.
Grievous and his Confederate forces managed to grab a strong foothold on Nadiem before the Republic could respond, and landed a large amount of troops and tanks. When the Jedi-led support arrived, General Unduli, Commander Offee, and several other Jedi landed on the planet and began to reinforce the Republic's defenses, while General Tinn set up a strong Republic blockade around Nadiem. During the invasion, the citizens' of Nadiem had been caught in the middle of the fighting, killing many and displacing many more. As a result, the Jedi started an evacuation of the planet's civilian population, with General Unduli and her apprentice personally overseeing the evacuation themselves.
During the evacuation, Threadneedle Canyon became a point of contention between the two sides on the planet, with the Republic fortifying there defenses of a valley on one side of the canyon, while the Separatists' controlled the other. Grievous, from a command bunker deep inside Confederate territory, ordered the bulk of his droid soldier and heavy tanks to move through the canyon and sieze the valley on the other side, and ordered several droid starfighter squadrons to break through the Republic blockade over the planet and provide air support. Meanwhile, the Jedi continued to evacuate Nadiem's populace, with Unduli and Offee focusing her attention on evacuating a small town in the valley.
[edit] The battle
[edit] Evacuation
- General Unduli: "How goes the evacuation, Lieutenant?"
- Clone Lieutenant: "Slowly, General. Most of the civilians want to bring possessions with them, but we have limited space..."
- ―A clone lieutenant to Luminara Unduli on how slow the evacuation of Nadiem is going.[src]
A strike team led by Barriss attempted to set off explosives to block the droid army's path, but then she decided to play dead as the droid army walked past and attack them from the rear. Then they set off explosives, tumbling the canyon walls on top of the droids. An orbital blockade under Saesee Tiin prevented additional CIS reinforcements and air forces from reaching the planet.
Grievous' remaining forces were eventually defeated, and he fled the system in his starfighter, severely wounding B'dard Tone and killing Zephata'ru'tor, Tone's Padawan, before escaping into hyperspace.
It was during the Battle of Nadiem that Crys Taanzer's husband was killed and her son, Kennan, was taken into the Jedi Order.
[edit] Appearances
"Hide in Plain Sight" - Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 2 (First appearance)
- Star Wars: General Grievous (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Dark Times 7: Parallels, Part 2 (Appears in flashback(s))
