The Truth Behind the Republic's NIGHTMARISH Defeat at Jabiim [Map Visualisation]

we will let the Jedi generals know that we will fight to be free we will fight to defend our planet we will send the Jedi home in caskets those were the words spoken by altostratus the leader of the separatist juh be me nationalists three weeks into the battle of juban while rallying his troops for an assault on the Republic's fueled headquarters at shelter base an attack that would reverse the tide of the battle and stratus and his men had made good on that promise the Republic invaded you been with the strike force of tens of thousands of clone troopers led by 29 Jedi most of those clones and 27 of those Jedi never left chip-in and their bodies disappeared quickly into the planet's muddy surface the battle of jibin was one of the Republic's most devastating losses and in this video we'll be analyzing it attention sergeant on deck chibin was a fairly unremarkable a durham world it was one of many backwater planets located on her someone notable hyperspace route south of the Tionne cluster on the borders of what at the start of the Clone Wars was separatist space it had been a member of the Republic for 3,000 years but it didn't get much out of that arrangement the Republic all but ignored the world leaving it at the mercy of plagues and pirates or rather they ignored it until a few months into the Clone Wars it was discovered that the planet was rich in ore the Republic quickly moved to seize control of the or I move that inner rage the GB me nationalists a faction in Japan's Congress led by a man altostratus they executed a coup and killed almost all dissenters in the planets government those loyalists that remained regrouped under all this Gilman who petitioned the Republic for aid as the Republic prepared its response Stratos declared that Japan was to secede from the Republic and join the CIS this opened the Civil War up to both sides and the Republic was determined to reverse the string of defeats that they had been having recently and take back to Bhim they rallied a massive force of tens of thousands of clones for battle led by 29 Jedi and complemented not just with 80 tes and 80 XTS but also new experiments will aid C ATS the Jedi general assigned to lead the mission was one obi-wan kenobe the Republic encountered problems almost immediately upon reaching jibin the planet was almost constantly engulfed by massive rainstorms which made repulsive lives unreliable and atmospheric descent tricky the rainstorms also meant that almost the entirety of Japan was covered in mud which led to constant mechanical problems for the walkers despite these conditions the Republic started off the battle fairly well they met up with the loyalists at a site called shelter base which they turned into their fueled headquarters a few other Republic bastions were established nearby including in the city of toile and a base south of shelter base called cobalt station the Republic strategy on German first was to divide and conquer there were 29 chaton jibon many of whom came leading their own armies seven of those Jedi were part of what was called the Padawan pack a group of masterless apprentices who the council had grouped together in the hope that they could learn from each other aside from the pack and the two other Padawans president Aubry Wynn and Anakin Skywalker there were 20 knights and masters present including distinguished heroes like Kenobi cirrus nor Cunha and leska also present of course was alpha 17 the Jedi were rather confident in their odds of victory at first what with so many of their order present and their new powerful 8080 they began moving Northwest from shelter base attacking position after position and easily routing their enemies each time to Kenobi surprise they encountered no droids or any other sign of separatist hardware only human nationalist soldiers and outdated second-hand light weapons none of it was a match for the walkers and so by the end of the battles third week the Republic had taken 12 different enemy positions which led in a string northwest from shelter base but this was exactly what Stratos intended to happen he had indeed been given all manner of battle droids complete with tanks and spider droids which he was holding in reserve with his best troops at the razor coast his base of operations backed by the numerous commandos an elite force of GB me soldiers that used rocket boots to glide over the mud of the planet's surface he executed a sneak attack on shelter base itself on day 21 of the battle as he intended the attack caught the Republic of God most of his walkers were mired in mud and its troops were unprepared for combat the nimbus commandos destroyed many of the walkers before they could be freed from the mud and the battle turned quickly in Stratasys favor thankfully for the republic alpha had figured out what the Nationalists were doing earlier that day and he Kenobi and Skywalker got back to shelter base just in time to help at about the same time one of the AC ATS was able to free itself and launch a counter-attack dealing significant damage to Stratasys droid forces Stratos ordered a retreat but his nimbus commandos were able to bring the 88 years they've fled kenobi an alpha went in to evacuate the war cup but it exploded as they went inside both were presumed dead and though they weren't the Republic wouldn't learn this until after the battle had been lost the Republic had technically been victorious at shelter base but the victory was furyk they had lost a good many clones including the entire 43rd battalion from which not one man survived they'd lost plenty of walkers too and now that been dealt a blow to the chain of command as well and it only got worse from there the Nationalists pushed back from the Northwest retaking most of the positions they had lost and dealing the Republic defeat after defeat thanks to their droid reinforcements the Republic was caught completely unprepared and it cost them many clones and many Jedi Stratis and his nimbus commandos continued to whittle away at the chain of command and by the 28th day of the bow rule 17 Jedi and over 10,000 clones were dead that day Stratos personally made that number rise to 18 Jedi when he killed general more kun art near the city of Chell which by that point had been the Republic's last foothold in jebin's entire northern hemisphere command fell to general Lesko who was the only non Padawan left on the planet with the apparent death of obi-wan Kenobi in the death of Master Cirrus and he can and Audrey had both joined the Padawan pack by this point which leska tried to keep away from the frontlines as she was unwilling to send any more children to die the frontlines repeatedly found the Padawans regardless though they usually emerged from the clashes more or less unscathed by this point in the battle with this situation for the Republic was dire they only had a handful of positions around shelter based on cobalt station left and their numbers were falling fast but leska had a stroke of luck as she took command the Republic discovered Stratasys base at the razor coast hoping to capture the nationalist leadership she ordered the bulk of the remaining republic force to advance on the coast immediately while she sent the Padawan pack with most of the remainder and a supply run to cobalt station but luck was an side strattice learned of the packs mission and set out with the Nimbus and a large part of his army to intercept them unbeknownst to the Padawan pack and their convoy they were headed right into a minefield where Stratus and his forces launched an attack the Padawans thinking quickly used the force to detonate the entire minefield which caught the Nationalists off guard and allowed them to escape with the convoy south to cobalt station unfortunately they failed to kill Stratus in the process and the vengeful nationalist leader ordered his armies to regroup and march and cobalt station next meanwhile less cos all-out assault on the razor coast was a success though a costly one but it was of little use to the Republic the nationalist leadership had left as less Kahana armies returned south they were caught by separatist reinforcements which retook the razor coast and pinned the Republic forces down during the battle that ensued the rain paused for the first time since the battle had started distracting leska for the few seconds needed for the droids to gun her down her armies were crushed and shelter base foe shortly after the Republic had no choice but to flee jab him as Gilman prepared the Republic forces to evacuate on a Mesa south of cobalt station Stratus rallied his armies to events south toward them knowing that he would be able to wipe them off the map before they could escape this was in part thanks to the break and rain during the pause which lasted for only a few hours reinforcements from the Confederacy had landed among these reinforcements were deadly a series assassin droids sent by counter-coup himself to do with the jeddah that were left but the Republic wasn't finished yet faced with certain death the Padawan pack decided to make a last standard cobalt station rallying the clones left there to hold their position for as long as possible in hopes of buying time for the others to escape amazingly they lasted for a full five days in combat against Stratasys forces the cost was heavy and one by one the Padawans fell but the separatist suffered casualties - the Nimbus were completely wiped out over the course of the battle and as Aubrey win the last of the Padawans present died she took altostratus to the grave with her not all of the Padawans were present at the battle however at the last minute Anakin Skywalker had received a personal message from supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself who ordered the Padawan to oversee the evacuation left with a little choice Anakin cut his way south of the Mesa where he met with captain gilman and waited for the republic evacuation ships to arrive on day 43 of the battle of juban they did the Padawan pack had bought them just enough time but there was a problem two transports had been lost on the chaotic descent through GM's atmosphere and there wasn't enough space for all of the survivors with no right choice to be made and it can a length chose to save his surviving clones and leave the loyalists behind captain Gilman was enraged by this decision saying that Anakin had proved Stratos right and he and his men prepared to storm the transports to escape with and he can ordered Gillman to stand down and inadvertently discovered in the process how to choke a being with the force the loyalists stood down but they swore never to forget or forgive Skywalker in his treachery Anakin and the few surviving clones left ubin behind throwing the loyalists to the mercy of the nationalists and their separatist allies the Battle of Japan was over and it would prove to be one of the Republic's most devastating defeats Shaboom joined the CIS bringing a swath of other planets in the region with it though it should be noted that this and loss of jebin's or ultimately didn't matter as much as the catastrophic losses the Republic had suffered in the battle the losses on juban heard through a public on a galactic scale especially as it came coupled with defeats on a number of other fronts it was assigned to the galaxy and of the Republic was growing weaker and that the Confederacy was rising a steady string of Republic embarrassments and separatist victories continued in the weeks that flowed right up until the Battle of Prey Suitland the GBE loyalist survived their defeat in the battle the shadows for decades to come during the Galactic Civil War the Rebel Alliance tried to win them over only for the name of Skywalker to come back and haunt them so that was the story of the Battle of Japan one of the Republic's worst losses some of you longtime fans and I'm talking a really long time fans may remember this video from our original battles that crippled the Republic series which we did long ago we've come a very long way since then and so we're gonna be revisiting that series so with that said are there any other battles you'd like to see us revisit or perhaps look into for the first time let me know in the comments section below and just before you go guys you know the drill there's a whole bunch of links in the description below waiting for your clicks so if you want to play games with other Star Wars fans or simply chat to them in our dis cords make sure you head to all those links where you can join us on our Gates's gaming network and all the corresponding disk words there as well anyways guys as always thank you so much for watching and I hope to see you in the next video [Music] [Music]

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Length: 13min 31sec (811 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 26 2019