Jedi assault team

Following Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi's capture by the Separatist Council's droid forces, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine was given emergency powers by the Galactic Senate to create a Grand Army to defend the Galactic Republic. While Grand Master Yoda traveled to Kamino to gather the army, Master Mace Windu gathered a 212-strong task force of Jedi.

As the assault team infiltrated the Petranaki Arena on Geonosis, a small group of Padawans and their masters led by Master Klefan Opus infiltrated the outer edges of the stands, covertly eliminating Geonosian guards and sonic cannons. During the initial struggle inside one of the arena towers, Padawan Fvorn was killed in an ambush by Geonosians and Padawan Iskat Akaris distinguished herself saving his friend Zeeth, cutting down a dozen of the enemy. As the fighting between the rest of the assault force and the Separatist Army began, the group stayed hidden in the stands rather than joining their comrades. As they retreated back to their shuttle, Master Sember Vey was shot and killed.

Where many of the Jedi traveled to the planet's surface aboard shuttles, Jedi Master Adi Gallia piloted her Delta-7B Aethersprite interceptor and remained in Geonosis space, where she was instructed to command the Republic's new naval forces once they arrived.

When Kenobi, his Padawan Anakin Skywalker, Senator Padmé Amidala and their reek were surrounded by droidekas, Windu and the assault team revealed themselves to Dooku, his Separatist allies and the Geonosian crowd. As Windu held Dooku, Jango Fett and the Separatist Council at lightsaber, the other Jedi revealed themselves and jumped into the arena. As the Geonosians fled, battle droids arrived and fought the Jedi. Windu was forced into the arena by several B2-series super battle droids and Fett's flamethrower.

One of the Geonosian warriors in the arena was cut down by Sarrissa Jeng. However, the battle droid legion outnumbered the Jedi, so many were cut down by the droids' blaster fire. Master Coleman Trebor attempted to kill Dooku, but was shot and killed by Fett. Fett joined the battle and fought Windu, but was ultimately decapitated by the Jedi master. Master Kit Fisto was simultaneously confronted by C-3PO, whose head had been attached to a B1-series battle droid's body. Fisto was able to disable 3PO's body with a Force push, and R2-D2 reattached 3PO's head to his rightful body.

Many of the surviving Jedi were surrounded by the battle droids. When Dooku offered the Jedi the chance to surrender, Windu refused to allow himself and the other Jedi to be used as bartering tools.

As Dooku ordered the battle droids to finish the Jedi off, the survivors who got surrounded by battle droids were rescued by a regiment of the newly formed Grand Army aboard gunships under Yoda. Despite the high casualties, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Amidala were saved from execution.

While large-scale warfare broke out across the surface, Gallia was joined by fellow Council member Saesee Tiin in the space battle. The Confederate forces were forced into retreat, and as the Separatists attempted to flee Geonosis onboard Trade Federation core ships, Gallia commanded the Republic fleet in an operation aimed at intercepting the maximum number of Separatist ships entering the upper atmosphere. Together with Tiin, Gallia engaged in aerial battle to accomplish her mission, but the confused ground battle allowed most of the core ships to escape the surface, and the failure to establish a proper orbital blockade denied her the chance to prevent a full Separatist retreat.

The Jedi were unable to stop Dooku from making his escape despite the battle being won by the Republic, which managed to hold Geonosis for a year. Within days of the battle, a funeral officiated by Windu was held at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Six of the almost two hundred recovered bodies were utilized symbolically during the ceremony. Only twenty-nine Jedi survived the battle in the arena. The surviving members of the assault team became Generals in the Grand Army of the Republic until Order 66 all but destroyed the Jedi Order.

The Jedi assault team first appeared in the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, the second installment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

The 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations established that the assault team was composed of 200 Jedi. However, the 2018 reference book Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition stated that the assault team was composed of 212 Jedi. The 2023 novel Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade established that hundreds of Jedi were present in the arena, while only 29 Jedi survived the battle. The novel also established that Iskat Akaris heard rumors in the Jedi Temple halls about the death of "nearly two hundred Jedi at Geonosis," and later, Akaris thinks "over two hundred Jedi were dead."

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