Battle of Devil's Crevasse
Concurrent
Battle of Devil's Crevasse
Date
Place
Outcome
Sea Leviathan Shonmai
History[]
Prelude[]
Darth Krayt, theDark Lord of the Sith, had ordered thegenocide of theMon Calamari to punish the species for supportingGalactic Alliance RemnantAdmiralGar Stazi, particularly forGial Gahan's role in the Alliance theft of theImperious-class Star DestroyerImperious. In the following weeks after the initial massacre of theMon Calamari Council, the Mon Calamari were placed in forced-labor camps, where many died of disease and starvation.
Some Mon Calamari managed to escape underneath the planet's oceans. To continue the genocide, theSith Empire used a number of underwater craft to wipe out all the refugees. But the Empire had numerous encounters with the planet's native resistance units: theMon Calamari Rangers. The Rangers, in turn, were joined byImperial KnightTreis Sinde, who acted as a warrior and military advisor for one of the ranger units.
To further the genocide,Darth Wyyrlok suggested to the Sith ScientistVul Isen that he create aLeviathan that could move underwater. With this advice, Isen created aSea Leviathan. After demonstrating its power by unleashing it on one of the work camps, Isen andDarth Azard, the Sith Lord in charge of the genocide, set out with the Leviathan to exterminate the Rangers, heading for a spot where an Imperial unit was defeated by the Rangers earlier.
Battle[]
A Ranger patrol ran into the Leviathan, and only one survived to warn the Rangers. WhileTanquar, the Ranger unit's leader, wanted to immediately confront it, Master Sinde advised against it. The Sith were setting the Leviathan on a group of refugees to try to draw the Rangers out so they could be killed. After briefly arguing about the situation, Sinde came up with a plan to deal with the Leviathan.
When the Leviathan and the transport carrying the Sith arrived at the Rangers' base, the Rangers, as expected, swarmed out to meet them. But to Azard's surprise, the Rangers attacked the transport rather than the Leviathan. Isen thought this was a foolish tactic, since the rangers'Krakana underwater fighters weren't built to destroy their transport. Azard gave the order to fire on the Rangers.
The Leviathan, meanwhile, attacked the refugees and the Rangers escorting them to safety. At that moment, a large swarm ofdevilsquid emerged from anearby crevasse. But instead of attacking the Mon Calamari, the squid swarmed the Leviathan, having beencommanded by Sinde to do so. The Imperial Knight also joined the attack on the Leviathan.
When the Sith noticed the Leviathan was in trouble, Azard ordered for the transport to launch their fighters to deal with the Rangers while the transport attacked the squid. But when they lowered the shielding to do so, one of the Rangers rammed her vessel into the hangar, causing an explosion that destroyed the transport and causing the head of it to sink to the bottom of the ocean. Meanwhile, Sinde was rescued by another Ranger while the Leviathan was pulled into the squids' lair inside the crevasse, where it was most likely eaten.
Aftermath[]
Isen and Azard, having both been inside their transport's head when it was destroyed, survived the explosion. Azard, however, was secured to a chair. Isen took up Azard's lightsaber and used it to free his fellow Sith, much to Azard's surprise.
Sinde later contacted hisEmperor,Roan Fel, and told him that their forces should be prepared to deal with Leviathans in case the Sith unleash more of them.
Behind the scenes[]
The battle was featured in the2009comicLegacy (2006) 33, which was written byJohn Ostrander with art byOmar Francia. It was the second and final issue of theFight Another Day story arc ofStar Wars: Legacy.