Raid on the New Jedi Temple

"Alert, alert, Main Hall under attack. The doors are compromised&mdash;''" "State enemy strength and disposition." "''It's Mandos."

- A Jedi speaker and Kenth Hamner, as the Mandalorians invade the Temple

This raid took place in 43.5 ABY. Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala ordered several Mandalorians to attack the Jedi Temple in retaliation for the Jedi Order's continued actions against the government. The Mandalorians were eventually defeated, but they managed to overrun the Temple hangars and the food warehouses, as well as cripple the Temple's communications and coordination. The Galactic Alliance then blockaded the Temple, allowing no one and nothing in or out.

Prelude
In 43.5 ABY, several Jedi Knights began to contract a mysterious psychosis which caused them to believe that everyone they knew had been replaced by impostors. The Galactic Alliance attempted to apprehend the affected Jedi due to the danger to the public that they presented, and the government decided to encase the psychotic Knights in carbonite. The Jedi Order objected to this, however, as they wanted to study the affected Jedi and the psychosis themselves, in hopes of curing it.

This led to confrontations between the government and the Jedi Order, as the Jedi began to undermine the Galactic Alliance's efforts to capture the psychotic Jedi. The Jedi Order captured several Jedi and ferried them to safety in the Hapes Cluster, and even managed to make their situation appear more sympathetic to the public by showing how Galactic Alliance Security forces were treating some of the carbonite-encased Jedi as prizes.

The raid
"I am Jedi Thul. I have not fought for real in many years. I should be a pushover. Come and get me."

- Raynar Thul challenges five Mandalorian commandos

In 43.5 ABY, Jedi Master Cilghal captured the psychotic Jedi Sothais Saar, Jedi Knight Jaina Solo was tasked alongside Tyria Sarkin Tainer to take Saar to the Transitory Mists. They watched a live news feed as they prepared to ferry Saar offworld, but Tainer suddenly noticed that the newsfeed looped. Solo recognized this as a possible imminent attack and contacted the Temple's communications center, ordering them to warn Grand Master Kenth Hamner.

The doors on the Temple's hangars were locked down, and a Jeid apprentice, Bandy Geffer, approached Solo and Tarkin from the main starfighter hangar. Solo ordered that he stay with them, and she suddenly received information via comlink that the Main Hall was being attacked by Mandalorian commandos. Solo began organizing the defense of the hangar area, and she ordered Geffer to find a hardwired intercom away from any exterior wall. As Solo and Tarkin headed toward the StealthX hangar, where the Mandalorians were entering, they found that their comlinks were being jammed. Meanwhile, other Mandalorians attacked the food warehouses, dealing heavy damage to the Temple.

Five Mandalorian commandos suddenly broke into the Temple hangar, using charges to blow open holes in the hangar door. They quickly attacked Solo and Tarkin, the first Mandalorian firing a series of mini rockets at them. Solo moved debris from the damaged hangar wall into the path of the rockets, causing them to explode near to the Mandalorians and sending three of the attackers off their feet. Sarkin ordered Geffer to report the intrusion through the intercom, and she and Solo continued to fight the Mandalorians. Solo temporarily took two out of the fight by using the Force to wrap a net that had been fired at her from one commando around another commando and then toss them both out one of the holes in the hangar door.

Still, the Jedi continued to struggle in close combat against the three other Mandalorians, as their lightsabers could not cut through the Mandalorians' beskar armor. One Mandalorian managed to land a punch with his crushgaunt on Sarkin's jaw, knocking her unconscious. Another group of five Mandalorians suddenly attacked from another position in the hangars, moving toward the turbolifts that led into the Temple. Geffer moved out to defend against them, but Jedi Knight Raynar Thul suddenly arrived and began to fight the Mandalorians. He took severe shrapnel damage from the detonation of mini rockets and his left arm was broken, but Geffer came to his aid, and together they managed to defeat the rest of the Mandalorians.

Aftermath
"We can't reinforce Uncle Luke. We can't do anything about the Sith or the Maw.''" "''We can't even get Jedi Saar offplanet."

- Jaina Solo and Kyp Durron

The Mandalorians were defeated, and Hamner reported that, due to Solo's early warning, the Jedi had been able to prepare for flanking maneuvers and counter them, and he added that no Jedi had died during the attack. However, the attack on the Main Hall had been a feint, the Mandalorians' main attack had been through the hangars and food warehouses, and they had managed to create indefensible passages throughout the Temple and cripple the Temple's coordination as well as communications. Meanwhile, the Mandalorians had retrieved their fallen comrades, so the Jedi remained unsure of how many casualties their opponents suffered. Also, the Galactic Alliance had set up a blockade around the Jedi Temple, preventing anyone or anything from entering or leaving and setting up artillery at all known entrances to the Temple.

After the battle, as Solo conversed with Kyp Durron&mdash;who had led the defense of the food-preparation level in the Temple&mdash;Durron revealed that the StealthX hangar was being watched too closely for them to fly out; the Galactic Alliance had turbolaser emplacements waiting to open fire on any attempted escape. Durron also revealed that the government was calling for the Jedi's surrender, and that Hamner, Solo, Sarkin, Thul, and Durron himself were on the list of Jedi to be arrested by the government, along with any other Jedi recognized during the attack, as well as Saar.

Appearances

 * Backlash