Battle of T'olan

"My mother was a captain in the Grand Army of the Republic. She died in the Battle of T'olan, in the Wuun system&hellip;''" "''I know it. That was a terrible battle."

- Trever Flume and Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Battle of T'olan took place early in the Clone Wars, sometime between 22 and 21 BBY, between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems on the planet of T'olan. During the fierce conflict, a captain in the Republic Military, the mother of a boy named Trever Flume, was killed.

Prelude
The Clone Wars began in 22 BBY when a number of worlds allied as the Confederacy of Independent Systems seceded from the dominant galactic government, the Galactic Republic.

A woman left her homeworld of Bellassa to join the Republic Military and fight the Confederacy. As she was leaving, she told her son, Trever Flume, that he could not join her in the fight and promised to return to him safely. She was a captain during the Battle of T'olan.

The battle
Early in the war, perhaps within the first year or 21 BBY, the war came to the planet of T'olan in the Wuun system. The fighting was fierce. Trever Flume's mother died there.

Aftermath
"You're not going without me.''" "It's a two-person ship. There's no room. I'll be back&mdash;" "''No! Don't say that. Just... don't. I can help."

- Trever Flume and Ferus Olin

The Clone Wars concluded with the rise of the Galactic Empire, the Republic's successor, in 19 BBY. On Bellassa, an Imperial bombing killed Trever Flume's father and brother, leaving him orphaned. Trever Flume spiraled into an angry, confused depression from which he emerged as a member of the Bellassan black market, haunted by the deaths of each family member. Because of what his mother had said before she left, and his father and brother saying much the same thing before their deaths, he became deeply nervous when someone he cared about promised to return from danger without allowing him to come.

Behind the scenes
The Battle of T'olan was briefly mentioned in the young reader novel The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission by author Jude Watson. The death of Flume's mother was referenced at various points in the series and in his The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia entry.

Although Trever Flume says that his mother fought in the Grand Army of the Republic, The Essential Guide to Warfare says that that specific force consisted purely of clone troopers. It was a subsidiary of the Republic Military, which had other non-clone forces for her to have been a part of, such as the Planetary Security Forces or the Judicials.

A later book in the series, The Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo, incorrectly stated that Trever Flume's mother died fighting the Galactic Empire, which did not exist at the time of her death. After that, in The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web, Trever Flume remembered his mother dying on their home planet, Bellassa, rather than T'olan. These erroneous references to her death lumped her together with her husband and other son, whom Imperials did kill on Bellassa according to The Desperate Mission, but A Tangled Web also explicitly mentioned those two dying together independently from her.

"Ghosts of the Sith", a short story tied to the series, says "Imperials had killed [Flume's] entire family." The context did not specify if this was Trever's family before or after his mother's death. Given the inconsistencies present in the rest of the series, it's possible he was also referring to her.

Appearances
The Last of the Jedi: Underworld
 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission
 * (Possibly)
 * The Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo
 * The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web
 * The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon
 * The Last of the Jedi: Reckoning