Hey Scout,
Well, here I am. I just helped kick the Separatists off a planet called Christophsis in Savareen sector, and I have a new Jedi Master called...wait for it...SKYWALKER! Yeah, that one! Turns out he’s only four or five years older than me. Might be cute if he didn’t have that weight-of-the-galaxy thing on him all the time. (I know, Jedi Code and all. A girl still notices!)
Anyway! The battle started without me, so this first bit is just what I heard from the clones. The Separatists invaded Christophsis to cut off our forces in the Outer Rim, and to prepare for a strike at Kamino and Rothana, which would be pretty much a huge disaster. They put a droid army down on the surface, so General Kenobi sent in Skywalker and three Jedi cruisers—but when they got there, they found one of the big Separatist fleets in orbit, lots of battleships under a Seppie called Admiral Trench.
Skyguy (that’s what I call him—I think he kinda likes it) decided to attack the blockade anyway, which didn’t really work, so General Kenobi wasn’t all that happy when he showed up with the flagship to find the other Jedi cruisers all beat up. Thankfully, he brought along a new ship that could sneak through the blockade (the clones wouldn’t tell me more than that), and Skyguy insisted on flying it down with supplies for the refugees. Then, halfway down, he decided to divert into the blockade and attack Trench’s cruiser . . . which was a bit crazy, but also sort of the right thing to do.
So, Skyguy’s broken the blockade, but there’s still this droid army in Crystal City, commanded by a big alien with a weird accent. I think his name was Loathsom, and apparently he had his own tank regiment there as well. So Kenobi deploys the clone troopers to kick them out while Yularen stays topside with the Jedi cruisers to keep the rest of the Separatist fleet off their backs. But the clones keep getting ambushed when they try to set up a forward base, and someone manages to set off a bomb inside the main base that takes out all the AT-TEs. So we just lost our way of watching what the bad guys are doing, and our main ability to fight back. Not good!
Pretty quickly, General Kenobi realizes that this means the droids are about to attack, so he gets the clones to set up a defensive perimeter, just in time to stop a big attack by the battle droid army, which turns out to be way bigger than we thought—lots of infantry, tank regiments, and these huge tri-droids. I saw the wreckage later.
Anyway, I got there just after the artillery bit. It felt different, being in the middle of a battlefield. Kenobi and Skyguy and the clone commanders are all really military, and professional—and tall—but I think they like me. And you have no idea what it’s like to see a front-line fleet in orbit, all the big ships up close in the starry blackness. Really cool.
Of course, as soon as I get down and introduce myself to Skyguy, the droid cruisers come back and kick our fleet out of orbit. So we’ve got droids overhead, and droids a few blocks away, and just my shuttle for transport for the entire assault force . . . and to make matters worse, Loathsom has set up a deflector shield over his position that blocks our guns, and he’s sending all kinds of droid tanks back to squish us, under the cover of the shield dome so our guns can’t stop them.
So Skyguy decides we have to take down the shield—and we means him and me. So, my first day on the job, and I’m sneaking into a Separatist base under the shield perimeter . . . and then these sentinel droids show up and start shooting, so Skyguy holds them off while I try and blow the shield generator. Yeah, I’ve been on Christophsis about an hour, and I have to pull a wall down on some droids to save my master’s behind. He wasn’t exactly grateful, but I think he just doesn’t like it when he feels like he has to rely on other people.
While I’m off doing this crazy stuff, General Kenobi had been negotiating our surrender with General Loathsom, which I think was just to buy us time. Once the shield goes down (and did I mention that was me!) we can start shooting droid tanks again. And just when we’ve won, Master Yoda shows up with a big fleet from Coruscant. So maybe I didn’t need to spend my lunch break dodging blasterfire. Still, I hope Skyguy noticed my moves, and the whole saving-his-life thing.
Anyway, that was Christophsis—terrifying and exciting and exhausting. Now Skyguy and me and a bunch of clones are off on a secret mission, which of course means I can’t tell you anything else, sorry. I’ll write again soon, because I miss the Temple, and I miss you. At least I do when I get time to breathe!
Your Friend,
Ahsoka
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