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Battle of Phindar Spaceport

When Asajj Ventress recieved information that Master Yoda was arriving at the Phindar Spaceport, she brought a group of 18 confederate assassin droids to kill him. Solis and Fidelis had distracted the two Padawans, Whie and Scout, so that the Masters Maks Leem and Jai Maruk were left alone with Yoda, still disguised as an R2 unit.

An SPCB unit attempted to take the two droids into custody, but Solice stole the neural-net eraser from Major Quecks, causing the rest of the officers to scatter.

When the 18 droids broke into the spaceport, the bystanders froze in terror. The only sound was the metal detectors going off. Then all chaos broke loose. First, the droids set up hard-sound guns and captured Yoda's R2 unit in a tractor beam. Then they started battling the Jedi with flechette launchers. Four droids surrounded Ventress as bodyguards, four went to secure the area where Whie and Scout were located, six attacked the two Jedi Masters, two operated the tractor beam, and two threw threw two sonic grenades at the R2 casing. Ventress made her way to the R2 casing, and carefully carved it open with her lightsaber to find that Yoda was gone. He had carved an escape hole to the parking area below.

Meanwhile, Scout and Whie agreed to approach the battle from different angles and meet up. Scout ran for the stairs but encountered four assassin droids. She looked to find Whie being held back from the battle by Fidelis, and she retreated up the stairs only to be hit by a blaster bolt. Whie finally managed to pry himself from Fidelis' grip using the Force and lept toward Scouts location.

Meanwhile, Yoda met the other "Yoda", Palleus Chuff, in the hanger below the fighting to learn that Chuff had set Ventress' ship, the Last Call, to self destruct by engaging the hyperdrive in ten minutes.

Back on top, Whie disarmed one droid while Scout threw it over the banister. Leem and Maruk managed to destroy the six droids attacking them, but with great cost. Both were bleeding from dozens of wounds from the flechette weapons, and Leem's saber hand was mutilated. As they finished off the droids, Ventress clapped at the performance.

Meanwhile, Yoda and Chuff cut the magnetic restraints on the ship while dealing with the four droids. They escaped into the turbolift as the ship tore a hole through the hull, sucking the droids and everything else in the hanger into space.

Meanwhile, Whie destroyed two more droids, but the last one caught Scout by the throat and was choking her. It ordered Whie to lower his weapon or it would terminate Scout's life. He followed orders noticing that Fidelis had come into the scene. Fidelis, having been upset that the droids had attempted to harm Whie, destroyed the assassin droid with its bare hands, plunging them into its circuitry. Whie was perplexed at this.

Meanwhile, Jai Maruk was duelling with Asajj Ventress while the helpless Maks Leem was staring on. The duel came to close to Leem, and Ventress slashed her stomach. Right then, the hull was breached from the Last Call and Leem put the last of her strength into closing the gap in the floor with the Force. She also felt Maruk at the border between the dark and light side. She wished he would choose to die as a Jedi, and he did. Seconds later Asajj cut him down.

Meanwhile, Scout and Whie were racing to help Maruk when this happened. Instantly, thoughts raced through Scout's mind about how she failed her master because she wasn't good enough. Then Ventress went over to Leem and thrust a lightsaber into her chest saying, "Eighteen." Whie attacked, but Ventress Force pushed him aside saying that they weren't worth killing. She then tried to convince Whie to join the dark side, but he refused. She then broke a hole in the hull forcing Whie to seal it while she ran off in search of a getaway ship. Maruk managed to call Scout to him, and he reasured her that it wasn't her fault before he died.

Stewart, Sean. Star Wars: Yoda: Dark Rendevous. (2004). DelRey Books.