abstract
| - In 25 BBY, four members of the Jedi Order embarked on a mission to the planet of Mawan, to put down an insurgency of lawless criminals and to establish a provisional government committee. Conditions there had reached an impasse: the planet had suffered a disastrous civil war a decade earlier, which the natives referred to as the Great Purge, and the Galactic Senate could no longer ignore this Core world. Its degeneracy was producing ripples that negatively affected the greater galaxy. The once-beautiful world had been utterly decimated by its internal conflict: its government and capital-city infrastructure had vanished, its citizenry had become a jobless and homeless underground mass, its space lanes went unmonitored, while famine and the influx of criminal elements had now made it an "open" and lawless planet. The Senatorial transport carried Jedi Master Yaddle, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker to Mawan. Grand Master Yoda would travel there later in his Republic cruiser. Master Yaddle, who spent most of the journey to the planet in meditation, was to serve as the warrior-diplomat Mawan so desperately needed to convince the criminal factions that it was in their best interest to vacate the planet immediately. In the Jedi effort to restore peace to the planet, the crime lord Striker, who by mission's end was revealed to be Granta Omega, was able to capture Skywalker (once again). But this time, Omega had no qualms about killing the meddlesome Padawan, or his Jedi Masters, along with all of Mawan, by unleashing a bioweapon. While Anakin was prepared to deal with the bomb himself, Yaddle assured him that he must instead pursue his special destiny as the Chosen One. Yaddle thus protected Skywalker by intercepting the bioweapon herself and using the Force to defuse it, but she sacrificed her own life in the process. Despite this, the mission was a success for the Jedi, even though Omega fled. But in his escape, this elusive nemesis of the Jedi Order finally revealed to Kenobi his true identity: he was the son of Xanatos and grandson of Crion. While Kenobi was utterly astonished by this news, he realized that it all made sense now: Omega had obviously inherited not only his father's fortune from Offworld Mining Corporation, but also his father's intense hatred of the Jedi.
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