First Skirmish on Carlac

"Kill them! Kill them all!"

- Pre Vizsla directing the Death Watch

The First Skirmish on Carlac occurred around 21 BBY between R2-D2, Lux Bonteri, Ahsoka Tano and Pre Vizsla's Death Watch warriors. The skirmish started when the Death Watch warriors, under Vizsla's command started to torch the Ming Po town. Tano was captured during her attempt to halt the slaughter, but eventually escaped with R2-D2 and Bonteri.

Prelude
After their failure to capture Mandalore and subsequent abandonement by Count Dooku, the Death Watch had set up a new camp on Carlac. They subjugated the populace of a nearby Ming Po town and kidnapped the women as servants.

Meanwhile, on Mandalore, during the Confederate–Republic peace conference Lux Bonteri accused Count Dooku of murdering his mother, Mina Bonteri and was brought before a hologram of Count Dooku. Ahsoka Tano, accompanying the Republic delegates, managed to rescue Bonteri from the battle droids and they escaped the planet aboard a Republic ship. Not wishing to ally himself with the Republic, Bonteri stunned Tano unconscious and piloted the ship to Carlac in order to provide the Death Watch with Dooku's location. Tano, Bonteri and R2-D2 accompanied the Death Watch back to their camp, Tano's lightsabers hidden in his chassis.

Chief Pieter of the local village demanded that the women be returned, and that the Death Watch leave their planet. Ignoring his requests, Pre Vizsla killed his grand-daughter, Tryla, and ordered the Death Watch to destroy and torch the village.

The skirmish
"Stop! The Jedi is mine!"

- Pre Vizsla before dueling Ahsoka Tano

Tano, though devoid of her lightsabers, attempted to protect the Ming Po villagers from the Death Watch. She impaled one member of the Death Watch with a pole and briefly fought Pre Vizsla before being immobilized with cables by the Death Watch warriors.

Vizsla brought both Lux Bonteri and Tano back to the Death Watch camp and prepared to execute Tano, despite Bonteri's protests. However, R2-D2 intervened, distracted the warriors, and passed Tano's lightsabers to her. She freed herself from the cables and engaged in a duel with Vizsla, armed with his darksaber. The rest of the Death Watch warriors were engaged by Bonteri, R2-D2 and the repaired droids previously used by the Death Watch as targets. Tano managed to slash Vizsla's jetpack, forcing him to drop it to the ground where it promptly exploded. This allowed Tano, Bonteri and R2-D2 enough of a distraction to hijack an airspeeder and flee back to the Phoenix.

Vizsla ordered Bo-Katan to pursue the speeder with two other warriors. Using their jetpacks, they caught up with the speeder, firing at it. Ahsoka and R2-D2 subdued two of the warriors before Bo-Katan landed on the speeder. Tano and Bo-Katan engaged in a brief fight before Tano managed to push Bo-Katan off the speeder with the Force.

Aftermath
Tano, Bonteri and R2-D2 managed to escape the planet, leaving the Death Watch on Carlac. Bonteri subsequently decided that while he was no longer allied with the Seperatists, he could not join the republic. He jettisoned away in the escape pod leaving Tano and R2-D2 on the ship.

Behind the scenes
This skirmish first appeared in "A Friend in Need" But was later mentioned in "A War on Two Fronts."

At the end of "A Friend in Need" Lux Bonteri, Ahsoka Tano, and R2-D2 manage to escape but leave the Death Watch on the planet, presumably able to still destroy the village. However, the encyclopedia article for Tryla states that she "did not live long enough to see her town liberated," implying that the village was at some point liberated. It is unclear how this occured.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy