Mission to Rodia/Legends

The Mission to Rodia was an operation that took place around 22 BBY during the Clone Wars.

Prelude
Around 22 BBY during the Clone Wars, pirates raided food shipments and supplies on the planet of Rodia. Senator Onaconda Farr, Rodia's representative in the Galactic Senate, returned to his homeworld with the Senate's Rodian delegation. A Senatorial vote for a relief effort was postponed, and Farr contacted his longtime friend, Senator Padmé Amidala, but was unable to speak with her, as she was preoccupied with other business. The Rodians on the planet starved, and the Rodian senator began to lose hope. To help his people, Farr entered into an alliance with Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Gunray held a grudge against Amidala, and in exchange for her capture, Farr was promised relief supplies. Battle droids were dispatched to Rodia to aid in Amidala's capture. Amidala learned of the pirate attack on Rodia, and to ensure that Rodia remained loyal to the Republic, Amidala traveled to Rodia.



The mission
Jar Jar and C-3PO get into even more trouble when droids come to arrest them. Jar Jar messes with a magnetic crane, destroying some droids but badly damaging their Naboo yacht, ruining their chance to contact help. Jar Jar put on a Jedi robe Padmé had stored in the back closet of the damaged ship, but droids spotted him and he was presumed to be a Jedi. Jar Jar managed to escaped to the water down below, while C-3PO was taken off to be scrapped. Word of a Jedi around gives Padmé an idea, bluffing the droids into thinking the Jedi had rescued her already while she slips out of her manacles, and she then grabbed a droid's blaster and escaped.

Padmé rescued C-3PO, but she is dismayed to learn that the Separatists think Jar Jar is a Jedi. Padmé then sent C-3PO to find a communication station to call for help. Meanwhile, Gunray arrived on the planet and told Onaconda that the supplies would be delivered after Padmé is executed. Onaconda tried to protest, but Gunray insisted, declaring that Rodia was under his "protection" now. Onaconda then realized that Padmé was right, and that he has made a grave mistake in allying his planet with the Separatists.

Jar Jar tried to rescue Padmé, only to be spotted and shot at. He again jumped into the water, while droids threw down thermal detonators and fire a rocket at him. While swimming away from the weapons, Jar Jar ran into a Kwazel Maw he met previously, about to swallow him up as the rockets were about to collide. The beast saved him thanks to its thick hide, and Jar Jar declared it his friend.

C-3PO managed to send out a message before being captured. By Gunray's order, a trio of droidekas lined up to execute the two while Jar Jar and the "boogie monster" come up behind them. In the ensuring chaos, Gunray tried to get away, but the Kwazel Maw sends his shuttle out of the hangar into the water below, and he was held at gunpoint by Padmé. Onaconda appeared behind Padmé, his own blaster at the ready, and Gunray ordered the Rodian to shoot her. However, Padmé turned to her old friend and suggested he tell Gunray their "little secret", that Onaconda planned to trap Gunray all along. Onaconda agreed: he is with the Republic, and he places Gunray under arrest.

Aftermath
A Republic cruiser arrived with reinforcements to take Gunray away, while Onaconda thanked Jar Jar for being either the bravest or most foolish Jedi he has ever met. Palpatine, via holoprojector, promised supplies to Rodia. Onaconda asked Padmé if she can ever forgive him, but she replied that it was the Republic who should ask him for forgiveness. Padmé stated that far too often, they forget that their most important allies are not always the most powerful ones.

Notes and references
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