Mission to Skytop Station/Legends

The Mission to Skytop Station was a dual mission to destroy the Separatist listening post in the Ruusan system and rescue R2-D2 from General Grievous's clutches.

Prelude
While battling above Bothawui, Anakin Skywalker's starfighter was destroyed. In the explosion, R2-D2 was lost, only to be found again by the Trandoshan scavenger Gha Nachkt. Nachkt then sold the droid to General Grievous and delivered him to the general.

The Mission
"They sent a child to destroy my station? The Republic must be running out of Jedi!"

- General Grevious upon encountering Ahsoka Tano.

While searching for the secret listening post, Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano received a signal from R2-D2. They managed to trace it back to Skytop Station, the listening post they'd been searching for, located in the atmosphere of one of the moons of Ruusan.

On Skytop Station, Gha Nachkt had been tasked with searching through Artoo's memory banks. He eventually found what he was after - Republic military secrets. He wanted a bonus from Grievous but was murdered by the cyborg in return.

After infiltrating the station, the two Jedi split up. Skywalker went to locate Artoo while Ahsoka, Rex and the clones continued on to destroy the station. While on the move, R3-S6 contacted Grievous and was told to sabotage any attempts to destroy the station until he could intervene. Grievous then ordered four MagnaGuards to transport Artoo to his ship and guard the astromech until he arrived.



Ahsoka and the clones then reached a door that was ray-shielded. Ahsoka instructed R3-S6 to disable the shield, but the droid only stalled until battle droids could arrive. Ahsoka and the clones were outnumbered, but used EMP grenades to disable the battle droids. Grievous arrived and engaged the young Padawan, quickly knocking her unconscious. He then quickly killed or stunned all the clone troopers. As the droid general was about to strike a killing blow to Rex, Ahsoka came around and blocked the attack. She then ran off drawing Grievous after her, allowing Rex and Denal to set charges on the repulsorlift generator for the station.

Skywalker, meanwhile, located Artoo and destroyed the MagnaGuards carrying him. The two then proceeded back to the rendezvous point and ordered the rest of the surviving team members to regroup at the hangar bay. Ahsoka was delayed, being still engaged in a duel with Grievous. While battling the General, she discovered that R3-S6 was in fact a Separatist spy, but was unable to warn her master. Skywalker reached the hangar slightly ahead of Rex and his squadmate and ordered the pilot to land Twilight in the station's hangar. After touching down, R3-S6 sealed the hangar and activated several Vulture and B2 super battle droids. Skywalker ordered Rex to set off the charges he had placed, starting the chain reaction that would destroy the station.



Ahsoka, meanwhile, was able to get away from Grievous and reach the hangar bay where she helped destroy the Vulture droids. While attempting to open the hangar doors, Artoo was attacked by R3-S6 and the two droids began their duel. R3-S6 rammed Artoo several times and Artoo stunned the traitorous droid with his electroprod. R3-S6 began to tilt backwards towards the edge of the walkway but shot his magnetic grapple at Artoo in an attempt to hold himself up. Artoo used his jets to ignite the floor and sawed through the cable, causing his adversary to plummet to its doom.

Grievous managed to reach his personal starfighter and escape the doomed battlesphere. With the hangar open, the remaining clones and the two Jedi escaped aboard Skywalker's freighter. Anakin returned to the station in his Delta-7B fighter to retrieve Artoo who used his jets to fly to the empty droid socket on the fighter. The two then rendezvoused with Twilight and returned to their fleet.