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 around 22 BBY, between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems on the Mid Rim 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, the fighting came to the Mid Rim planet of T'olan in the Wuun system. The battle was bloody, and Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi was aware of its reputation. 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&hellip; 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. By 18 BBY, the Empire had subjugated the planet of Bellassa and killed Trever Flume's father and brother in a bombing. Orphaned by this, 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 people he cared about promised to return from danger without allowing him to come.

Behind the scenes
The Battle of T'olan was mentioned briefly in the young reader novel The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission (2005) by author Jude Watson.

In The Desperate Mission, Trever Flume said that his mother fought in the Grand Army of the Republic, but there are several reasons this could not be the case First, The Essential Guide to Warfare (2012) stated that only clone troopers served in the Grand Army's infantry. These clones were all men and nigh exclusively sourced from the bounty hunter Jango Fett. Jedi Generals were considered part of the Grand Army and were not clones, but they significantly outranked the captains, who were were clones. Nonetheless, there were non-clone branches of the Military fighting for the Republic, such as the Planetary Security Forces or the Judicials.

Another The Last of the Jedi book, Death on Naboo (2006), said that the Galactic Empire had killed Trever Flume's mother while she was fighting against them, but the Galactic Empire had not yet been founded when she died. Trever also remembered his mother dying on Bellassa, rather than T'olan, in The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web (2006). These books conflated her with her partner and other son, whom The Desperate Mission established as having died at Imperial hands on Bellassa, but A Tangled Web also explicitly mentioned the deaths of those two as  independent of hers.

Appearances

 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission
 * The Last of the Jedi: Underworld
 * 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