The War of Jibber, also called the Jibber Civil War was a small-scale war on the planet Jibber between two factions of native Jibbers. A dictator led the significantly larger faction with the aid of several mercenaries, including a few Mandalorian warriors, and a joint council of Jibber chieftains, with the help of an unnamed Human general led the second faction.
Early campaigns[]
Beginning of the war[]
The war began with the rise of a Jibber dictator in 115 ABY. He was elected by popular vote, but quickly abused his powers and turned the planet into a dictatorship, disbanding the Council of Elders, which was composed of fifteen chieftains of the fifteen tribes of Jibber. The chieftains revolted, first only in voice, but after being violently suppressed, they retreated into the forests of Jibber, bringing a large portion of the population with them. They set up several temporary villages where they could have some shelter from the elements, but quickly became a completely nomadic society.
The dictator kept the major cities of Jibber under his tight control, using his largely extended military and newly hired mercenary officers to keep the civilians under his control. The outlying villages were not as tightly controlled, but generally behaved in accordance to the tyrant's wishes as they did not wish to become "examples" to their contemporaries.
Two months after the first conflict, the Jibbers under the Council of Elders found several ancient temples deep in the forests of Jibber. The temples were the source of long-forgotten religious rituals of a long-dead race that had invaded the planet, of which only a few ancient legends remained in the minds of only the eldest of elders among the Jibbers. The Council decided to make the temples their permanent base of operations as they launched a campaign to free Jibber.
Increasing conflict[]
In 116 ABY the war began to intensify. The scouting parties organized by the mercenaries in the employ of the dictator began scouting the area near the temples, and the Council of Elders did not want the tyrant's forces to find their hiding place for fear that they would be driven out and the temples would be used as an advance base. The defending Jibbers managed to steal a small courier ship and send a messenger to recruit professional mercenaries. Two mercenaries eventually came to the aid of the Council's pleas: a Human general who was far past the prime of life in 115 ABY, and a Human mercenary named Akak Shouja, a young mercenary still in the prime of life and extremely adept in combat. Akak arrived in 117 ABY.
With the arrival of these tacticians, the Council of Elders was able to draw the scouting parties away from the temples and hold their attention elsewhere while a counterattack was planned. The Council was limited in its tactics, as they were required to restrict the number of civilian casualties as much as possible, but a battle plan was finally worked out. In 119 ABY, a stealth attack was led by Akak with eighteen Jibbers, utilizing the natural camouflage of a light-absorbing plant they had found growing close to a strange device near the temples. Akak wore his Ardosian shadow armor.
The intention of the raid was to plant explosives in the main weapon caches in the capital, but the execution was something to be desired. The camouflage only worked for those Jibbers that stayed in the shadows, otherwise they stood out in the broad daylight. Akak lost three quarters of his troops that way. After the initial discovery of the invasion, the tyrant's troops were kept on high alert, which made it that much more difficult for Akak to actually penetrate the weapon caches. He did, however, infiltrate two himself and plant remotely activated explosives inside carefully packaged crates of detonite, and three of his surviving Jibbers managed to infiltrate their targets, also with remotely activated explosives. After clearing the city, Akak and his three surviving commandos activated the explosives and completely destroying five weapon caches. The city was immediately locked down and thoroughly searched, but by the time the perimeter was reached, Akak and his surviving Jibbers were long gone. One of the dictator's mercenaries was killed in this attack.
Continuing Campaigns[]
Battle of Sy'natar[]
Later that year (119 ABY), the first major battle of the war was fought. A large raiding force sent by the Council of Elders encountered a secret training ground of the dictator's elite troops at Sy'natar, a large plateau in the contested territory between the two factions.
The skirmish quickly turned into a full-out assault as Akak recognized the training grounds for what they were. The battle was a one-sided battle to begin with, with superior numbers on the side of the Council. The elite of the dictator's forces put up a good fight, but were ultimately killed and the training ground was destroyed. Two of the eight mercenaries hired by the tyrant were killed in the Battle of Sy'natar, totaling three dead so far.
Akak subsequently hunted down one more of the mercenaries who had escaped the battle, bringing the count up to four dead.
Interesting discovery[]
In 119 ABY, a small scouting party, led by Akak discovered an interesting fact about the planet. It was a graveyard for Jedi Civil War-era ships. From what intelligence could be gathered by the small scouting party, the most likely theory was that several large-scale space battles had been fought above the planet and resulted in nearly thirty crashed capital ships strewn over a large area. After asking the Jibbers about it, he was answered with the news that the ships had been there for as long as history could remember, but no one knew how they worked, so they had been left alone. The massive hulks were unsalvageable, and so when this news was brought to the Council of Elders, nothing was thought of it.
Battle of the Temples[]
The Council of Elders were discovered in 122 ABY by a stealthed scouting party led by one of the two remaining mercenary leaders under the tyrant. After a brief skirmish with a perimeter defense, the scouting party retreated to bring the news back to the tyrant while the Council's faction packed up and moved.
Three days later, the attack came. The full weight of the tyrant's military descended upon the largest of the three temples, in which they found nothing. After a thorough search they moved to the next largest temple, in which they also found nothing. By the third temple, which coincidentally had the smallest entrance and narrowest passageways, the soldiers had let their guard down. It was the bane of a multitude of attackers.
After about two hundred of the attacking party had entered, the temple's natural defenses engaged, activating a concussion/ray shield across the entrance, cutting the men off from reinforcements. The attackers had no place to go but forward, so they did. However, before they reached the second hall their number was halved when two soldiers checked a side room and accidentally activated three ancient war droids. These droids were highly resistant to energy damage, and cut down many men before the soldiers realized that energy weapons were useless and switched to vibroweapons. After the battle, the six droids were destroyed, but had killed almost one hundred unsuspecting soldiers.
After less than an hour, the temple's natural defenses had killed two hundred of the tyrant's soldiers and the Battle for the Temples had been won, without the defenders ever firing a shot or even knowing that they had been successful in repelling the attack.
The end of the war[]
A second interesting discovery[]
In 123 ABY, a scouting party made a second interesting discovery. They came back from their mission with news of more of the downed capital ships, which would not have caught anyone's attention except that the scouts informed them that the ships looked more or less intact. Akak decided to investigate before presenting it to the Council and found that several of the ships were, in fact, salvageable and serviceable. After running through the ship's records, Akak deduced that the ship that he was on, named the Inferno, was damaged in the battle and forced to crash land on the planet. During the landing, a coolant line broke, poisoning the atmosphere and killing the crew. The repair droids were able to fix the line and restore the ship to full working order, but as there were no sentients to run the ship, it had sat dormant for millennia. Akak was even able to warm up the systems and raise the ship fifty feet above the ground.
Akak took advantage of this and sent two scouts to report back to the Council of Elders that he had found the answer to their problems. The Human general returned with the scouts, bringing sixty men with them to observe this "interesting discovery" Akak had made. Once they reached the hulks, the general was unimpressed, saying that there were many such crashed ships in the forests of Jibber. However, when the general took a closer examination, he found that the ships were in working order, and, with the help of Akak and the sixty Jibbers, managed to get the ship off the ground and even into orbit, after extensive training of the crewers. Akak shuttled himself back to the ground while the general took command of the orbiting ship.
When the dictator's sensors picked up the emissions from the launching Hammerhead-class Capital Ship, orders were given by the remaining mercenaries to move the barracks to more entrenched positions. The Hammerhead beat the entrenchment, and the tyrant lost four barracks to orbital bombardment before the troops were able to fortify their positions. However, with the only capital ship in the sector hovering above their heads, the tyrant's faction was suddenly at a loss in the conflict.
Surrender[]
The Council of Elders, after conversing with the general via commlink, decided that the fastest and most bloodless way to end the conflict would be to establish complete and total dominance of the skies. By 124 ABY, the Council had launched a second Hammerhead, which effectively ended the tyrant's hopes of success. A complete and unconditional surrender was signed in the middle of 124 ABY, which ultimately resulted in the dictator's execution and the reinstatement of the democracy that had served the planet before the war.