Battle of the Rishi moon/Legends

The Battle of Rishi moon took place in 22 BBY on the moon of Rishi, during the Clone Wars.

Prelude
Around 22 BBY, during the Clone Wars&mdash;the conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems&mdash;the Republic maintained listening posts in the Outer Rim to seek out any Separatist activity. Seeking to end the production of Republic clone troopers, Confederate General Grievous planned to capture a crucial listening post located near the Wild Space planet of Kamino. Once captured, the cyborg general would invade Kamino with Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress, and a fleet of Munificent-class star frigates. The moon of Rishi was the site of a listening post, that acted as a "safeguard," and played a key role in the protection of the surrounding area of space around Rishi and Kamino.

Confederate assult
During the war, due to the high casualties suffered by the Grand Army of the Republic, new clone troopers had to be assigned to stations around the galaxy without undergoing the customary clone intensive training. A number of these rookie clones were assigned to the Rishi moon listening post, under the command of clone trooper CT-19-7409, nicknamed "O'Niner." Several of the clones found life on the moon to be particularly boring and uninteresting with the lack of a Confederate presence in the system. However, unknown to them, Confederate General Grievous had planned to retake the Republic listening post. Onboard Droch-class boarding ship, elite BX-series battle droids prepared to land on the surface of the Rishi moon and start their invasion of the base. Mistaking the incoming pods for meteors, the clone troopers inside the Rishi moon listening post raised the shields in case of meteor damage. After landing, the droid commandos emerged from the pods and stealthily made their way to the base, killing CT-327, a clone trooper deck officer keeping watch outside the base. When the clones inside lost contact with CT-327, Sergeant O'Niner sent Nub and Droidbait to search for him. However, before exiting the listening post, the two clones spotted the droids entering the listening post. O'Niner then left the command center of the base, and ordered CT-26-6958, nicknamed "Hevy," to sound the alarm to alert the Republic fleet; however, the rookie clone trooper said it was jammed. The intense blaster fire was too much for O'Niner, and soon the rookie's lead trooper fell into enemy fire and was killed.

After witnessing O'Niner's death, troopers Hevy, CT-26-1409, CT-27-5555&mdash;nicknamed "Echo", and "Fives" respectively&mdash;along with the trooper named "Cutup," fled from the base through a ventilation shaft, planning to return to retake the base and warn the Republic fleet of the threat. The commando droids, however, entered the empty command center. The leader of the Separatist force contacted Grievous via hologram, and informed him of their success. The cyborg general ordered the droids to leave the "all-clear" signal on, which, if turned off, would alert a nearby Republic fleet. This kept the Republic fleet oblivious to the attack and unaware of the incoming Separatist fleet making its way toward Kamino.

Inspection
However, the listening post on Rishi was due for an inspection to examine the listening post and to ensure that all was working correctly. The droids, fearing that they might be discovered and the alarm sounded, tried to dissuade the Republic from sending an inspection team, but they were unsuccessful. Clone Commander CC-2224 and Captain CC-7567, nicknamed "Cody" and "Rex" respectively, were sent to inspect the base, despite the protests of the droids.

Upon arrival on the Rishi moon listening post, the clone troopers were surprised to find no sign of the deck officer or any other clone troopers. When they attempted to contact the clone troopers within the base, the droid commandos, disguised as clones, pretended there was a communications malfunction. Upon reaching the doors of the base, a droid commando dressed as a clone tried again to dissuade the inspection team from entering. Rex, however, realizing that what stood before them wasn’t actually a clone, shot the droid, and removing it’s helmet showed that it wasn’t actually a clone.

The droid commandos, however, had taken up positions on the landing pad, and after Rex destroyed the droid commando at the door of the base, the hidden droids ambushed the two clones and triggered a crossfire. To stop the two clones from escaping the base and warning the Republic, the droids used thermal detonators to destroy the starship in which the two clones had traveled to the moon. Jumping from the platform and tying themselves to it to ensure they didn’t fall to their deaths, the clones hid from the commandos, who presumed they’d been killed in the explosion.

Retaking the base
Meanwhile, Hevy, Echo, Cutup and Fives had emerged from the ventilation shaft onto the surface of the Rishi moon. On the moon's surface, the four clones came under attack from a Rishi eel, which killed Cutup before the other three clones were able to defeat it. Rex and Cody, who had traveled from the landing pad down to the moon's surface, found the remaining clones. Fearing them to be droids at first, they order them to remove their helmets. Having proven that they were clones, the three surviving troopers teamed up with Rex and Cody. Rex, however, began to refer the rookie clone troopers as "shinies," a derogatory term referring to the troopers' spotless armor that had not yet seen action in battle.

Under the command of Cody, the five clones agreed to attempt to retake the base from the droids. Using a droid’s head and claiming to have a faulty vocabulator, Rex disguised himself as a droid to get the main doors opened. Tthe clones quickly destroyed the three droids inside the main doors and stormed the base, defeating the remaining droids and retaking command of the listening post. Grievous, receiving no word from the droids in the base any longer, dispatched a team of B1 battle droid reinforcements to investigate the disappearance of the droids in the listening post. The clones, attempting to sound the alarm, found the droids had hard wired the all-clear message into the listening post.

Destroying the base
When the Confederate reinforcements arrived, the clones decided to destroy the base so that the all-clear message would cut off and alert the Republic to the Confederate threat. They decided to use the thermal detonators coupled with the highly explosive tibanna gas to destroy the base. Despite attacking the droid reinforcements at first, the clones set up the explosives so that they could be detonated with a remote, and then retreated to the ventilation shaft through which they'd originally escaped. As the clones fled, Hevy realized that the remote wasn’t working, and decided to go back and manually detonate the explosives.

When the remaining clones noticed Hevy’s absence, they began attempting to contact him via comlink. Hevy, however, refused to heed the commands from his superior officers to flee and join them, telling them that the remote wasn’t working and that he knew what he had to do. As he reentered the base, he came under heavy fire from multiple droids and was shot, but not killed. Whilst the clones ran back to the base in an attempt to rescue Hevy, the droids deliberated on whether to take Hevy prisoner or whether to kill him. While they were preoccupied, Hevy manually set off the explosives, destroying the base, oblitering the droids and himself within it, and cutting off the all-clear signal.

Aftermath
As the all-clear signal was cut off from the listening post, the nearby Republic fleet was alerted to the danger. The fleet&mdash;under the command of Admiral Wullf Yularen and Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker&mdash;cut off the incoming Confederate ships. Grievous, realizing his ships were outgunned, ordered a full scale retreat before the Republic could cause major damage to the fleet.

Shortly after the battle, a number of Low Altitude Assault Transport were sent down from the Republic fleet to search for survivors of the explosion. On the moon’s surface, the ships found the surviving clones and returned them to the fleet, where they received medals for their bravery. Rex then appointed the survivors to the 501st Legion, and Cutup and Hevy were also honored by the Republic.

Behind the scenes
The Battle of Rishi moon first appeared in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series episode Rookies, the fifth episode of the series, which aired on Cartoon Network on October 24, 2008. The Clone Wars Director Dave Filoni used the battle of Rishi moon to show that, although commando droids were more useful than the simpler B1 battle droids, a large force of B1s were still a threat.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Grievous Attacks!

Notes and references
Scharmützel vom Rishi-Mond Batalla de la Luna Rishi Slaget om Rishis måne