#militiagung

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The Battle Rages On

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:50:06

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The Natural One

Ric Olie looked down at the note in front of him, and then up at the gungan who'd given it to him.

 "You're sure?" he asked. "This… kriff, I don't know what to say."

 "Yousa don't have to say it," Jar Jar replied. "Mesa knows what mesa is suggestin'."

 He shook his head. "Mesa knows mesa made mistakes. Mesa… generally thinks that mesa did not make the big-nasty mistake in a way that other people did not make, because mesa does not remember anybody bein' worried about Palpatine until himsa became Emperor. Not in that way. But… mesa did it. Not anyone else."

 "Damn," Ric said. "After that, now I think I've thought too little of you, Jar Jar."

 "Yousa have not thought anything mesa has not thought about mesa self," Jar Jar declared. "And mesa… wants to make a difference. A good one, like mesa did in the grand army."

 Ric frowned a little.

 "You know, people are going to think you worked for Palpatine," he said. "He's from here, and I know he fooled everyone, but – that's what people are going to think."

 Jar Jar nodded.

 "That is why mesa made the suggestion that mesa did," he said, firmly. "Yousa has no need to be tellin' me anything. Yousa has no need to give mesa anythin'."

He looked suddenly worried. "Though, it would maybe help mesa a little if yousa got mesa the weapons of a militiagung."

 "We can do that, Jar Jar," Ric said, and realized there was no longer really any question about how he was going to answer the impassioned plea of the gungan opposite him. "And… I don't know what else to say. Thank you? Sorry?"

Jar Jar shrugged.

 "If mesa can help, mesa will be all good with that," he said.

 "How long?" Gregar Typho asked.

 "Distraction could be starting any time now," Ric replied. "It could already have started, but exactly when doesn't matter – we go at the time chop."

 He glanced back at the group of resistance fighters – two dozen commandoes, and a dozen pilots.

 The main hangar of Harte Secur was not far away, and inside lurked fourteen N-1T starfighters – significantly more advanced than the standard N-1, and fully as capable as a modern fighter like the flight-one X-wings.

 Capturing those fighters and getting them to a safe hangar on the far side of the Chomell Sector was the primary objective today. They needed independent strike fighter capability if they were going to be more than a group meeting in underground rooms and occasionally assassinating someone in the street.

 Then his comlink crackled.

 "Heyo, uh… Captain?" Jar Jar's voice said, through the link. "Mesa knows you said a distraction, but mesa… may have made a little bit of a boopjak big mistake."

 "What kind of mistake, Jar Jar?" Ric asked, already having dire thoughts about some kind of absolute, unmitigated disaster.

 Jar Jar Binks had a reputation, and it was a hard one to forget at times like this.

 "Well, mesa was assumin' that yousa wanted the distraction to still be goin' when you did whatever it is yousa is meant to be doin'," Jar Jar replied. "But mesa threw mesa first booma, and it hit one of their-sa two legged walker things, and mesa guesses that theysa did not actually see mesa booma? But the walker was shooten, and the other stormtroopers thought the walker had begun shooten them deliberately, an' they were shooten back, and then mesa had to run away from a flame-shooten trooper for a bit so mesa lost track of what was goin' on, but, uhh… there'sa no distraction any more, because the troopers all shooten each other."

 Ric stared at the comlink.

 "...all of them?" he said. "You mean all the gate guards?"

 "Not just themsa!" Jar Jar replied, clearly trying to get the whole thing explained in one go now he'd started. "Themsa, an' the white armoured guys from the barracks place too, an' all four of theirsa doopeewee landspeeder things, an'… well, mesa will simplify and say mesa doesn't think there'sa anythin' left. Sorry, Captain, mesa screwed up."

 "...I'm… sure we'll handle it," Ric decided. "Thanks, Jar Jar."

Some weeks later, Darth Vader examined a data screen.

It detailed how a single fighter had attempted to attack two Star Destroyers and their escorts on patrol out near Adelphi.

It also detailed how the Star Destroyers had somehow been persuaded to actually crash into one another, resulting in ninety-five percent total casualties, and how nobody had been entirely clear about whether the fighter had escaped or been shot down.

And, as a footnote, it said that the next place the two ships had been planning to visit had been hit by a Rebel attack that had caused significant damage – precisely because the capital ships had been missing.

 "We can take your squadron there at need, Lord Vader," his captain said.

 "No," Vader replied. "I recognize the signs of this. I want nothing to do with it."

He shook his head. "Nothing whatsoever."

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Jar Jar Holds on to the Cannon

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Jar Jar Hangs On

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Retreat! Retreat!

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Jar Jar Swings

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The Gungan Heroes Ascend the Stairs

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Boss of the Gungans

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Dams Denna Wrangles Jar Jar's Kaadu

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Dams Denna was played in a cameo appearance by Dan Madsen, former publisher of Star Wars Insider and then president of the Official Star Wars Fan Club. The reference to Linn'con collecting comes from Dan's real life collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia. He was named in the Decipher CCG Theed expansion set.

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Gungans Dismount

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Captain Tarpals and Jar Jar Approach the Palace

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