Raid on the Armand Isard Correctional Facility

The Raid on the Prison was a mission attempted by Seff Hellin, who, affected by the same illness as Jedi Knight Valin Horn, hoped to rescue Horn, who was encased in carbonite. Darkmeld, recently formed by Sword of the Jedi Jaina Solo, hoped to capture Seff Hellin.

Prelude
"He has to be evaluating the prison defenses. So he can break Valin out."

- Jaina Solo to Tahiri Veila, after the latter saw Seff Hellin near the Armand Isard Correctional Facility

Jedi Knight Valin Horn came down with Force Psychosis in 43.5 ABY. After a long hunt, he was finally frozen in carbonite and placed in the Armand Isard Correctional Facility. Seff Hellin, however, suffered from the same disease, and was thus compelled to attempt to free Horn. Hellin was spotted outside the prison by former Sith apprentice Tahiri Veila, who had become a member of Darkmeld, a secret Jedi organization formed by Jaina Solo. Veila informed Solo of the sighting, and they realized instantly what Hellin's intentions were. They also realized that if they could capture Hellin, they would be able to study the disease, and hopefully come up with a cure for it. Darkmeld created a plan to capture Hellin.

First Confrontation
"Seff, things will be a lot better if you just surrender."

- Tahiri Veila to Seff Hellin at the beginning of the raid

At last Hellin began his long-planned-out attempt to free Horn. As he neared his objective, however, he was intercepted by Veila and Jagged Fel, who were going by the codenames of Sand and Gaunt, respectively. Hellin thought Veila was an imposter, and, because of Fel's Mandalorian armor, thought he was a Mandalorian. Hellin attacked them, sending Fel flying backwards with the Force. Hellin and Veila began a lightsaber duel. Fel stood and shot a stun bolt at Hellin, who deflected the shot into Veila's leg. Hellin then turned and ran to a blast door into the prison, and threw a thermal detonator at Veila and Fel. Fel picked up Veila and took off running, with the detonator rolling after them. After they were far enough away that the blast probably wouldn't kill them, Hellin triggered the detonator, and then continued with his plan.

Fel's armor had protected him and Veila from the blast, and Winter Celchu, codenamed Hoth, called in. Fel informed her of the situation, and told her to bring in the rest of Darkmeld.

Escape
As Hellin got nearer to his goal, he was confronted by three security guards in a turbolift. He quickly incapacitated them, and moved on, fuzzing holocams as he passed them. He reached the room in which Horn was being kept and began to melt his way through the blast door with his lightsaber. Veila, however, was not far behind. She began jumping up and down in front of one of the holocams. Hellin got through the blast door and saw the carbonite slab which held Valin Horn. Hellin moved towards it and attempted to free him, but an error code came up, and an alarm went off. Then Fel, who Hellin still believed was a Mandalorian, came through the door. Hellin slashed at him with his lightsaber, but Fel caught the blow on his beskar crushgaunts. Hellin continued the attack, but failed to land a serious blow. Then Veila came in the room as well. Hellin Force-threw Horn's slab of carbonite at his combatants. Fel wasn;t quite quick enough to get out of the way and was knocked aside. Hellin then ran out of the room, and dropped the slab in the doorway, blocking the exit behind him. He ran down the corridor to the turbolift shaft and dropped a few meters. The shaft came to a halt at the corridor above his head, and security guards looking for him took to the corridor.

Hellin was going through his planned-out escape route when he passed by the place where his thermal detonator had exploded and was cut off by security troopers. He Force-flung the debris created by the blast at the troopers and then charged them, knocking them aside. He then took a blaster rifle from one and a pistol from another. As he made for his escape, Jaina Solo&mdash;codenamed Slicer&mdash;arrived on the scene, having managed to ditch her observer, Dab Hantaq, moments earlier. Sensing many presences closing in around him, Hellin made a break for the shaft to the surface.

Capture
Outside the prison, Mirax Terrik Horn, codenamed Credcoin for the operation, arrived in a speeder. She spotted Hellin escaping and shot towards him, but was sideswiped by a cargo hauler piloted by bounty hunter Zilaash Kuh, who was working for the Galactic Alliance. Kuh's Quarren partner, Dhidal Nyz, fired an electric net at Hellin, who attempted to dodge the shot. The net, however, was too large, and caught him. The connecting cable went taut and Hellin was yanked into the air behind the moving cargo hauler. Jaina contacted Mirax, who was coming back around, and told her to go after Hellin, who was being dragged along in the net. The cargo hauler passed over Jaina, who threw her lightsaber at the cable connecting the net to the gun, and severed it. She slowed Hellin's fall with the Force, still letting him hit hard enough to incapacitate him. She then knocked Hellin out with a swift blow to his head with her lightsaber hilt. Mirax quickly landed the speeder beside Jaina, and she lifted Hellin aboard and climbed in as well. Four of the prison security's speeders took off after them, but Veila and Jag&mdash;carrying with them Winter, whom Hellin had knocked out during his escape&mdash;quickly stole a speeder and took off after them.

Speeder Chase
"Running out of time. As soon as they get more pursuit on Jaina, this becomes a chase we can't win."

- Tahiri Veila to Jag Fel

Five security speeders&mdash;one piloted by Veila&mdash;and the cargo hauler now followed Mirax and Jaina, with the bounty hunters third in line. They flew into a tunnel used for maintanance and waste haulers. Veila quickly maneuvered past two of the security speeders, passing just above the second one so that their speeder's repulsor wash knocked the security speeder into the wall. Veila then piloted up underneath the bounty hunters' cargo hauler, and Jag stood and began destroying servos and repulsor nozzles with his crushgaunts, and then he squeezed an auxiliary energy cell, causing an explosion. The cargo hauler slowed, and Veila piloted by.

Meanwhile, in Mirax's speeder, Jaina injected Hellin wih a sedative. Then, turning back to a pursuing security speeder, she Force-pushed it sideways into the tunnel wall, keeping it there until the pilot was forced to decelerate and drop to the ground in order to keep control of the vehicle. She repeated this process twice more, until only Tahiri's speeder remained in pursuit. She then guided the conspirators to a small niche off of a major thoroufare, where the speeders were parked.

Aftermath
Winter removed all forensic evidence from the two speeders, so that they could not be traced. Fel was later dropped off at the Imperial Remnant embassy. Veila, Mirax, and Winter met up with Tekli back at the speeder hangar of the Jedi Temple, where nearby Jedi Masters would be less likely to sense them. They met up with Jaina, who had had to return to her observer, but was free of him once more. They took a turbolift to the second medical level, where Tekli opened up a special chamber which only Tekli and Master Cilghal were authorized to enter, and strapped Hellin to a bed inside.

The next day the raid was all over the news. Later, Hantaq revealed to Jaina that he knows what she did, but had no proof, and so planned to do nothing about it. She then returned to the room where Hellin was hidden to find Cilghal inside. The Mon Calamari Jedi decided to help them run tests on Hellin in order to find out more about the disease that he and Valin had suffered.

Appearances

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