Originally an Acclamator class star cruiser, the Candaserri was one of the few remodeled into a Venator-class. The Candaserri was assigned to Alpha-77 (Fordo) to use in the 212th Legion's navy. It was recovered sitting in a junk yard, scheduled to be scrapped by the Empire. Operation Chaff Niner recovered the ship. Then a joint project by Kuat Drive Yards (Republic Remnant) and Eledino Engineering Company remade the ship into a Venator.
History[]
Battle of Raxus Prime[]
The Candaserri served as a transport, ferrying troops and walkers down to the planet. It took minor hits, not engaging the CIS. It was responsible to evacuating Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker when the battle was over. A young Boba Fett was evacuated also, under Master Glyn-Beti and Padawan Ulu Ulix.
Other Clone Wars[]
The Candaserri participated in numerous engagements, but at one point was boarded and the entire crew was slaughtered, but the ship was mysteriously left alone, besides multiple burn marks. It was patched up and reassigned to the 212th Legion under Alpha-77 (Fordo).
Dinovia[]
Traveling through hyperspace to Coruscant, the 212th Fleet stumbled onto a Republic homing beacon. They dropped out of hyperspace and rescued an old transport. Sharin Dool, a Dinovian, was aboard. Sharin explained about Dinovia and was hired by the Republic as a Bounty Hunter. A task force was sent to Dinovia to recruit the Dinovians into the Republic. The operation was successful. The Candaserri accompanied the Tusker as a transport.
Battle of Coruscant[]
Dorn Koon was arrested and incarcerated on Coruscant after suspicious actions concerning the death of a clone lieutenant. Nephill was on Triple Zero to petition the senate about the sale of EEI cruisers to the war effort. The attack caught both unawares. Koon escaped prison in the confusion and Nephill led the 212th Legion during the battle, mostly in space. Koon was pardoned for his actions because of his bravery during the Battle of Coruscant. During the battle, Koon and Nephill were captured and tortured by General Grievous, and Koon cracked under torture. They were on the Invisible Hand heading to prison when they escaped. The Candaserri worked with the Impavid on its boarding mission, providing fire support and additional troops.
Battle of Utapau[]
The main body of the 212th Legion was sent with the 212th Attack Battalion, part of the main legion except they were specially trained, was sent to Utapau. During the battle, Nephill fought General Grievous, but was thrown off the edge of a hanger bay along with Umwaw. They were fine, and were picked up by Dorn Koon in a gunship. Nephill, feeling a major disturbance in the near future, left Utapau along with his troops, and headed to Coruscant. The Candaserri was assigned to be a medical frigate, an insulting job.
Order 66: Operation Knightfall and the Jedi Temple[]
Order 66 was issued after Nephill left hyperspace over Coruscant. Delso and his squad were attacked by traitorous clones and were rescued by Nephill, Blacksun, Xenton (Jet's brother), Salporin, and Fandomar. They killed all other clone traitors and, with only 20,000 men out of 50,000, headed to the Jedi Temple to protect it. By the time they arrived, the temple was being hit by scouts of the 501st Legion. Dorn Koon disappeared. The 212th set up evacuations of younglings and padawans, and set up defenses. They evacuated 500 Jedi. The battle killed 5,000 212th men. Dorn Koon revealed himself to be an apprentice of Darth Sidious, Darth Koon. Nephill and Darth Koon fought on a moving AT-TE. Nephill cut off his leg, and Koon cut off Nephill's arm. The battle ended with Nephill fleeing, and the retreat of the 212th. The new Republic Remnant was set up and jumped to hyperspace after deleting files on Dinovia, Alpha Red, and certain Jedi records. They fled to Dinovia and Alpha Red to regroup and plan for the future. The Candaserri provided the main evacuation for the Jedi.
Terminator Crisis[]
During the Clone Wars, a Republic commando team consisting of non clones infiltrated a Techno Union Laboratory on Samaria. Nephill Kilner was one on the team, and remembered a super droid, the NNXR Model 5 Terminator. After going to Samaria with a strike force, he ran into trouble with Darth Koon. He turned to the Dark Side, killing the strike force. Reinforcements called were called in; and Salporin, Fandomar, Alpha-77 (Fordo), Nor Zon, and several Fordo's squad were sent in along with 3 other clone squads. The clones walked into a trap, where the Sith Darth Tectus was waiting along with Darth Malevolence. The clones were killed except for Fordo and his squad, and the Terminators drove them out, only after grabbing power generators and reactivating their factory. They used Quantam Technology, a sophisticated lost science based on genes. They waged war on the Galactic Empire and the RR. An RR fleet, the 12th Fleet, arrived and a peace treaty was negotiated with the Empire for a truce to destroy the Terminators. There was two major battles, Battle of the Crystal Forest, and the Battle of Sath. Sath, the capital, was lost. Civilians, stormtroopers, and clone troopers fought with resistance with little success in other parts of the city. The Sleeper, an Imperial superweapon, arrived with Darth Vader's fleet. Vader pulled out the 9th Fleet out of hyperspace, and held them in tractor beams while the Battle of Samaria turned to a Terminator rout. Epsilon Alpha, the Terminator flagship, was too strong. The 9th Fleet broke free of the tractor beams, and evacuated their troops while fighting the Terminator Fleet. An EEI 770 Delta-class Frigate evacuated some troops, only to be blown out of the sky by the Sleeper. Meanwhile, the Sleeper's engines, using powerful Trilithon Crystals Class A, caused major climate change to Samaria. The quantum weapons used by the Terminators also contributed to Samaria's climate change from desert to rainy. The battle ended with the RR retreating, the Empire's negotiating with the Terminator Confederation. The deal was that the Terminators were left alone and didn't leave Samaria. The Empire would not intrude on their territory, and would tell no one of what happened to Samaria. It was taken off of most navicomputers and maps. The Terminators would later break their treaty. The 212th was initially deployed, and took part in the battle most of the time. They were the few evacuated, but some were left behind. The Candaserri arrived with reinforcements to aid the RR forces.
Sacking of Eria[]
In 14 BBY, the RR suffered a tragedy and embarrassment. A joint pirate raid led by agents of Jorga's Consortium and other pirates and slavers. Inexperienced rookies were manning Eria security stations, and were cut off guard. The planetary shield was raised too late, catching some enemy ships inside the shield. The generators were shot, and armed pirates landed. The rookies managed token resistance, and drove the pirates off when reinforcements arrived, but not after about half of Eria's civilian population was hauled off as slaves. Rachel Kilner was one captured. All battle groups were called back to Eria, and all operations canceled. The Supreme Chancellor had just been elected, but was killed in the confusion. The Chancellor was the Corellian senator, Kysh Kippin. The Republic Remnant Senate was put into a legislative craze, with senators recalling and sending battle groups everywhere. Most of the slaves were lost, although 500,000 civilians were rescued in Operation Code Five. The 212th defended Eria, but not to much effect. They successfully defended Republic Remnant Military Base Alpha, driving back the shock troops. The Candaserri fought and successfully held the pirates off, but was only one vessel, and couldn't delay the inevitable.
The Jelly War[]
They look cute, but they can drown you in their bodies, and absorb blaster fire.
—Commander Delso, giving a crash course to the 212th Legion.
The native Jellies of Eria had a truce with the RR settlers. But when they learned the RR had broken the treaty, by building Research Facility 115, they attacked and stole the Fett genome while it was in transit to the facility for testing. They then killed everyone in the base, only taking hostage key scientists. They then proceeded to attack Narcara City, initiating a war. The battle started with the jellies winning, with the destruction of Narcara's shield generator, and thousands of missiles hitting the city. Then the jellies, hidden in the sewers, blew open the street in front of the EEI building. The jellies and their tanks blew out, killing civilians and bewildered soldiers. The outskirts were hit by artillery, tanks, and infantry. The battle was prolonged, when veterans training rookies counterattacked and held them off while the rest of the military on Eria regrouped. The main battle was the Battle of Narcara City. Luckily, most troopers had been recalled after the Sacking of Eria, but some had been reassigned, like Fordo's to Kamino. The battle, after a week of combat, moved to the central part of the city. Most of the RR's artillery, tanks, and infantry were holed up near the Senate Building and the Jedi Temple. They couldn't send aid, for they would head into a snipestorm. The Candaserri did fly-bys on ground troops and starships.
Order 66[]
During the battle, the Senate was in the process of electing a new Supreme Chancellor. They elected Surk, a Wookiee. Surk's first action as Chancellor was to execute Order 66 and 70, after he claimed several Jedi attacked him while he prepared his acceptance speech.
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Order 66: In the event of Jedi officers acting against the interests of the Republic, and after receiving specific orders verified as coming directly from the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established. | |
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Order 70: In the event of civilians acting against the best wishes of the Republic, any civilians resisting orders will be detained with lethal force, if necessary. This applies to anyone or anything that resists to any direct orders. The civilian military (or home fleets and armies)is also to be disbanded, with lethal force if necessary. |
The activation code words for these orders were: Alpha Delta Base Omega Zero. The order resulted in half of the Jedi Order being annihilated, and force sensitives rounded up and killed. Order 70 resulted in shaken civilian trust in the Republic Remnant, and about 200,000 civilians and soldiers "executed" by clone troops. General Salporin arrived with reinforcement Venator Star Destroyers, and defended the Jedi Temple and Senate. The space battle escalated with the arrival of 8 jelly warships. The Candaserri was sent as Fordo's reinforcements, and joined the loyalists in the Republic Remnant Schism.
Behind the scenes[]
The Candaserri was a continuation of the ship from the "Boba Fett" series, much like the continuation of Alpha-77 (Fordo).
Sources[]
- Candaserri on Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki
Appearances[]
- Operation Delta (First appearance)