At the very start of the Jedi Civil War, the Third Battalion was placed under the command of the recently-deceased Captain Laera Reyolé, who had trained for a year with the Jedi Order, and assigned to the Centurion-class battlecruiser Stalwart Defender, the flagship of Rear Admiral Kedlis Hetton's task force. As Darth Revan and Darth Malak's Sith forces advanced on the inner worlds of the Republic, Captain Reyolé, a skilled leader and veteran tactician who had been decorated numerous times during the Mandalorian conflict, formed a plan whose intent was to blunt the offensive by attacking the flanks of the Sith plane of advance. Her plan, and the skill of the Marines under her command, were tested and ultimately vindicated in the resulting battle at Iridonia. The victory there ultimately le