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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Bad Batch (2020) [S7E1]
Embrace others for their differences, for that makes you whole.
"The battle for Anaxes! One of the Republic's largest shipyards is under attack from Admiral
Trench's Separatist forces. Jedi Generals Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker lead
a two-pronged assault on the ground and in the air. But after weeks of heated battle
and mounting losses, the Republic's grip on Anaxes begins to slip away..."
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - A Distant Echo (2020) [S7E2]
The search for truth begins with belief.
"Conspiracy! After repeated setbacks on the planet Anaxes, an elite clone squad is deployed
to investigate the Separatist tactical advantage. This special unit, called the Bad Batch,
infiltrates Admiral Trench's cyber center to steal a strategic algorithm capable of predicting
the Republic's every move. What our heroes found was a live signal from the ARC trooper
known as Echo, a clone long believed to be dead..."
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - On the Wings of Keeradaks (2020) [S7E3]
Survival is one step on the path to living.
"Trapped! On an unsanctioned mission to rescue ARC trooper Echo, General Skywalker,
Captain Rex, and the Bad Batch travel to Skako Minor, headquarters of the Techno Union.
After a harrowing encounter with the natives, our heroes infiltrate the city of Purkoll,
only to find themselves surrounded by Wat Tambor's forces..."
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Unfinished Business (2020) [S7E4]
Trust placed in another is trust earned.
"Reunited! With the help of the Bad Batch, Captain Rex rescues his old friend, ARC Trooper
Echo, from the Techno Union. The Separatists' loss of Echo's strategic algorithm provides
a chance for the Republic to turn the tide in the Battle for Anaxes. However, Echo's
horrifying experience behind enemy lines leaves lingering questions of his true loyalty
and uncertain future..."




CONTINUITY
These four episodes form a single storyline about the Bad Batch. The chronological order of episodes is as given
by Lucasfilm. The two worlds seen in these episodes, Anaxes and Skako Minor, are seen for the first time:

This storyline was created along with its unfinished story reel in 2012-13 and was finished with some changes and released in 2019-20.
Based on Anakin's appearance in 'Deal No Deal' (S7E6), and the number of days in Ahsoka's story after that appearance, this storyline takes place
over a limited number of days concurrent to the last two episodes of the last storyline. Immediately after this storyline, Anakin and Obi-Wan will
travel to Yerbana, and will be there only a day, or two at most, before being contacted by Ahsoka. There cannot be any significant additions of time
between these events, as the intel about Maul and the urgency of Bo-Katan's plans would not allow it. As such, this storyline begins less than one
week before Episode III. This storyline overlaps with the end of the last storyline, as well as the montage and first scene of the next storyline.

- Anaxes is a city-world located in the Azure Sector of the Inner Core, relatively near to Coruscant along the important Perlemian Trade Route. It is often
referred to as a fortress world, and is famed as "the Defender of the Core" for its historical role in the Republic defense structure. It was one of
many worlds in the vicinity of Coruscant heavily colonized and populated during early Human interstellar travel. Along with its sister world Axum,
Anaxes was one of the 'Core Founders', the primary planets which established the first Republic over 25,000 years prior to the Clone Wars.
Despite its large population and worldwide network of cities, Anaxes has preserved a great deal of its native ecosystem, and large areas in
between the cities are left largely undisturbed. The cities of the planet are most heavily concentrated closer to the north and south polar regions.
The planet hosts one of the Republic's largest shipyards, a huge facility which can be seen from space.



Is Anaxes an historically significant city-world in the Core, or a sparsely-populated world in the Outer Rim? After two
decades of legendary and supplementary material building up Anaxes' importance in the Core and Republic history,
disney-era Lucasfilm has decided in 2021 to release a new 'canon reference book' relocating Anaxes to the Outer Rim,
published by Jason Fry, the very person who created Anaxes and helped to develop its history. Since no book or any
other piece of supplementary material is truly canon until it is in a movie or show, this problematic suggestion should
be ignored. Anaxes was well-established as located in the Core at the time this storyline was created in 2012-13, and
its position is a part of the story. It is unclear why they are suddenly so excited about the idea of moving Anaxes'
location. Perhaps they noticed the continuity issue with Episode III that is caused by Anakin being in the Core instead
of the Rim just before Episode III. This is irrelevant, since Anakin was in the sky above Coruscant in the last storyline,
and will visit Skako Minor in this storyline, which is also in the Core. It does not make sense that the Republic would
have any of its largest shipyards in the Outer Rim, for numerous reasons. If Anaxes truly were located in grid square
R-7, why would Anakin travel from the Outer Rim all the way to Coruscant to pick up supplies in the last storyline?
There are Republic bases and logistical support in each region of the galaxy for just that purpose. The most frustrating
aspect of this is that Anaxes' location in the Core helps to solve a couple of continuity issues introduced by the retcons
of Season 7, and this pointless behind the scenes 'change' will probably persist and be parroted in perpetuity.
If this is a different Anaxes in the Rim, several continuity issues in other material are now errors for no reason.


- Anakin and Obi-Wan are coordinating the battle from a Republic fort relatively near to the shipyards, which is located in a remote and well hidden location.
Supplementary material calls this small base 'Fort Anaxes', which makes it sound like it is the only military base on this famous Republic 'fortress world'.
This may indeed be its name, and yet there is little reason to believe this remote fort is ordinarily the primary command center for this entire planet.


Commander Cody is wearing the insignia of a Commander, but not the higher grade insignia he is wearing in Episode III,
which is a rank called 'Marshal Commander' in supplementary material. When will he get promoted? This storyline
place less than a week before Episode III. This insignia first appeared in 'A Necessary Bond' (S5E9), where it was either
an attempt to show he was promoted in grade as Commander between then and Episode III, or a mistake. If this was
a mistake, the one red square should be second in line, rather than first, as seen in Episode III. While it would be nice
to think the creators were being deliberate, he is shown to be wearing it on the day Episode III begins in the next
storyline of this series, so its quite probable they simply reused his template without considering continuity.
Main Article: Ranks and Rank Insignia


- Rex believes the Separatists sudden ability to predict his strategies in battle could only be the result of the enemy having access to Echo's knowledge.
Despite his close friendship with Cody, the two officers have separate units to command on the battlefield in most instances, and wouldn't have as
much intuition about their situational tactics as a trooper like Echo who was in Rex's unit. Although only a Corporal, Echo was a fellow ARC trooper
and was often seen to work closely with Rex on the battlefield. Rex is confident about this because he is certain no other soldier would know his
tactics and way of thinking on the same level as Echo, other than perhaps Cody, or Jesse, or a few others who are still with him.


Rex is looking at an old photo of himself with Cody, Echo, and Fives. They are wearing Phase II ARC Trooper armor,
but Echo was presumed dead and taken prisoner months before the 501st was issued this armor upgrade.



Why does Rex mention Hevy? Surely there is some other soldier he served with that merited mentioning along with
Fives and Echo as friends he lost in combat. Rex met and fought with Hevy for a few hours, three years earlier. Does
Rex only care about troopers who figure prominently in episodes of this series? This is yet another example of one
of the worst aspects of SW continuity. In a galaxy with a population in the hundreds of billions, the only people who
seem to matter or to be worth mentioning are the few hundred we have already seen on screen. Part of what makes
much of the non-Lucasfilm material so terrible is the obsession with canon characters and intertwining their stories,
which is forgivable since it is mostly created by fans who want to link their efforts with canon and care more about
the characters than the universe. Lucasfilm should know better, and while they still do produce material full of people,
places, and events we had never heard of or seen before, they have steadily reduced this in favor of trying to reference
things that fans already know about. Simplifying a complex universe in this way severely detracts from the realism
and intelligence of the story. Perhaps the writers need to take a closer look at the true canon of SW, the original
six Lucas films. The size of a galaxy is astronomical, as are the number of people, places, and events within it.
As such, most references characters make should be about things we've never heard of. Rex didn't even mention
other dead clones from his unit that we have seen on screen, like Tup or Hardcase for example, who he served
with a great deal. There was no reason to mention Hevy, beyond reminding the viewers that Hevy and Echo
graduated in the same unit, meaning this was unnecessary, out of place, and completely unrealistic.


- Experimental Unit 'Clone Force 99', are enhanced clones with desirable mutations. They are named for 99, the defective maintenance clone who
was beloved by the other clones, and was killed during the invasion of Kamino seen in 'ARC Troopers' (S3E2). Their nickname of "The Bad Batch" is
a reference to the term used for irregular clones produced by the regular cloning process, whose mutations are usually undesirable. Despite this
implication, we will learn in the series The Bad Batch that these clones were the intentional result of a Kaminoan project. The squad leader
is Sgt. Hunter, who was optimized for heightened senses. The other members of the unit are Crosshair, who was optimized for eyesight, and is
an incredible sniper, Tech, who was optimized for intelligence, and Wrecker, who was optimized for strength. They have a 100% mission success
rate in the Clone Wars, which is shown to continue in this storyline, and in other material until the end of the war, which lasts another week.
They have worked with Cody in the past, which is likely why he has such a high opinion of them, instead of the apprehension other clones feel
about their unorthodox methods. Hunter isn't sure exactly who they report to, as they are based on Kamino and are contacted for special
missions, rather than assigned to a sector army. The unit is joined by Echo, who is himself now an irregular clone with enhanced abilities.


- Clone Force 99 operates with a modified Omicron-class attack shuttle, called the Havoc Marauder. Since we have never seen an unmodified
attack shuttle in this class, it is uncertain if the modifications are structural as well as technological, however many who see it in this storyline and
elsewhere are puzzled by its appearance, suggesting they probably don't look quite like this one. This class of shuttle is clearly a product of Cygnus
Spaceworks, the makers of the other Republic shuttles with the fold-up wings and class names that are Greek letters.

- Clone Force 99 was recently involved in "putting down an insurrection" on Yalbec Prime. It is unclear if the insurrection was led by a population of
Humans or other interstellar species, or if the Yalbecs were the ones revolting. Based on the description of the insect-like Yalbecs, they don't seem
like they are sentient, or at least not advanced enough to be rising up in support of the Separatists. The only other possible implication would be
that the Republic controlled their world against their will, which would only make sense if it had a colonial population and a strategic importance.
Yalbec queens have a stinger, it is possible all Yalbecs do as well. Further evidence that they may not have been those behind the insurrection
is that Hunter describes their strange confrontation with them as "complications" to their mission, and Tech mentions that their stingers are
considered a delicacy on some worlds. This does not rule out their being a sentient race with a culture, but does make it seem less likely.

- In Bad Batch Plan 82, or 'Shockwave', Wrecker carries a large piece of debris as a shield, which they use to advance into position, and to protect them
while they operate. Tech calculates optimum position to throw an EMP grenade, which is where Hunter throws one, which Crosshair shoots with his
sniper rifle. The result is a localized EMP shockwave which takes out battle droids advancing in tight formation. They have another plan called
'Rockslide', with no plan number given, which is where they find something large that will roll down hill, and use it for cover to advance.

- Admiral Trench was last seen in 'The Unknown' (S6E1) leading Separatist forces in the Battle of Ringo Vinda in the Mid Rim, about nine or ten months
earlier. He is now leading the Anaxes campaign as part of Dooku and Grievous' intensifying and increasingly desperate offensives in the Core. This will
prove to be the last of his long and storied career, which we had previously learned included notable battles from before the Clone Wars.

- The Separatist droid army runs drills, just as an organic army would, but not for the same reasons. In an organic army the purpose is to practice
and drill the procedures into the troops, and to assess their readiness to execute given contingencies. For droids, their execution should be
practically identical in every instance, so the purpose of these drills are purely analytical, and used by the officers to optimize strategies.

- Anakin routinely has Rex cover for him when he calls Padme to talk. This has been going on regularly during at least the Outer Rim Sieges, perhaps longer.
Rex may know some more about the level of their relationship than even Obi-Wan. It is clear from their conversation in 'The Rise of Clovis' (S6E6) that
Obi-Wan is aware that Anakin and Padme are in love, and now makes it clear to Anakin that he is aware he makes routine calls to his beloved Padme.
It is likely he is troubled by how invested Anakin is in his relationship with Padme, but is probably most irked by Anakin's disrespectful deception about it.


Padme doesn't look seven to eight months pregnant with one baby, let alone two, although her appearance isn't
entirely inconsistent with her appearance in Episode III, which takes place only a week later. While she does look
a bit pregnant, she does not appear at all to be about to give birth to twins. It was likely thought that if it were too
obvious, then Anakin would have noticed, but it doesn't really change the biology of the matter. It would have
made more sense if Padme had been wearing something intended to disguise her condition.


- Skako Minor is planet in the Skako Sector, within the Alderaan Sector of the Inner Core, located in a starsystem relatively near to Skako, possibly in
the same system. It has turbulent atmosphere which is composed of a breathable mixture of gases which include oxygen, but is not similar to
Coruscant. It has a rocky surface which shows signs of rainfall, possibly some liquid other than water. It also features a unique ecosystem
including fungal forests and native animals. It is also the homeworld of the Poletecs, who are not technologically sophisticated. The planet has
been long colonized by Skakoans, who maintain their capital for the planet in the city of Purkoll, which is also the headquarters of the Techno
Union and their primary facility. Like Cato Neimoidia and Scipio, which are headquarters of galactic trade guilds near to the homeworld of
the species which dominates their organization, Skako Minor is a planet that is significantly more important in the galaxy than it otherwise
would be because of the Techno Union's chair. This also allows the Union, just like the Trade Federation and Banking Clan, to keep a degree
of separation between their organization's interests and those of their heavily populated homeworlds, whose interests are usually similar,
but not always. Techno Union 'ownership' of the planet allows them to conduct their amoral experimentation under the protection of
sovereignty and corporate neutrality. The fact that it is sometimes just referred to Skako suggests it may be in the Skako starsystem.


- The Poletecs are an interesting humanoid species native to Skako Minor, who are culturally advanced but not technologically advanced. They seem
to live in harmony with their native ecosystem, and able to befriend and ride the keeradaks, which are large flying dragon-like reptiles. Their culture
reveres the keeradaks, so Republic sources claim that they worship the reptiles, which is probably something of a misunderstanding. The Techno
Union, and likely many others among the interstellar races, consider them to be 'primitive', and as such, seem to pay little attention to them.

- Wat Tambor was the former legally-recognized leader of the Techno Union, and is now their representative on the Separatist Council. He was taken
prisoner by the Republic two and a half years earlier in 'Liberty on Ryloth' (S1E21). He was seen to still be in Republic custody about ten months
earlier in 'The Jedi Who Knew Too Much' (S5E18), when he appeared on a security monitor in the detention area of Republic Military Headquarters.
Sometime after that episode, he escaped or was freed, although the circumstances are not explained even in supplementary material. Although he
survives his encounter with Anakin here, he will be killed by Vader less than a week later on Mustafar.

- Corporal Echo, CT-1409, was presumed killed in action at the Citadel on Lola Sayu in 'Counterattack' (S3E19), just short of two years earlier. He was
in fact severely wounded, and was taken prisoner by the Separatists. He was then made available to Wat Tambor for his project to hijack the brain
of an experienced clone to use his knowledge against the Republic. This highly illegal experiment has apparently profited the Union a great deal.


When Anakin, the Bad Batch, Rex, and Echo attempt to escape by walking along a pipe, they are flanked on both
sides by battle droids. Why don't the battle droids shoot at them? At first, it seems like maybe they are trying to
take them alive, as getting Echo back does seem to be Tambor's priority. One of them does fire a volley at Anakin,
which he reflects back at the droids, and then they stop firing. There is no Jedi to reflect the fire on the other end,
but the droids just keep walking at them. When they escape on keeradaks, these flight-capable droids follow and
then begin shooting at them. What exactly are these droids' orders, and why are their actions so inconsistent?


- Mace refers to the B1 and B2 battle droids as Type 1 battle droids. He tells a section of droids that he has "dismantled or destroyed over 100,000"
of them since the beginning of the Clone Wars. As the war is in its last week, the droids he dismantles with Obi-Wan and the clones in the ensuing
battle at the assembly plant, and those he destroys in the upcoming Battle of Coruscant, will be the end of his impressive tally.


- Trench has planted a bomb at the Anaxes shipyards, and while it is massive, it is stated that it could devastate most of the planet. This would be far to
powerful for a single explosive of this size, and would be a canon disrupting continuity error, if not for the unspoken presence of large hyperfuel
storage facilities at the shipyards. If a massive bomb is used to detonate a quantity of hyperfuel this immense, the explosion would be of an incredible
volume, and certainly render the planet uninhabitable, and possibly fragment the world. According to supplementary material from Rebels,
at some point after the Clone Wars, Anaxes was blown to pieces by a massive cataclysm, which resulted when this same fuel depot was somehow
ignited. If this did indeed happen, it is unclear if this was an intentional detonation secretly ordered by Sidious, or if it was truly a horrific accident.
Nothing in canon indicates that Anaxes was destroyed, and no where in Rebels 'Out of Darkness' and 'Gathering Forces' is the asteroid field
shown stated to be Anaxes. This should be ignored along with disney-Lucasfilm's decision to 'move' Anaxes to the Outer Rim, discussed above.
If the asteroid field in Rebels is the remains of a planet called Anaxes, it must be an additional Anaxes in the Outer Rim. There are many
examples on Earth of cities around the world or even in the same country which have the same name, so there could be more than one.

- Trench's bomb is protected by a spherical ray-shield with the same appearance and properties as the flat ray-shields used to seal doors.
Main Article: Shields, Deflectors, and Ray Shields

- This storyline and the beginning of the next storyline in this series were intended by disney-era Lucasfilm to replace the continuity of Clone Wars
'Chapter 22' through '25', rather than to work with it the way this series did under Lucas, and despite Dave Filoni's statements in 2008 that "the new
version won't supersede the events and continuity" of Clone Wars. While the material in those canon chapters has been sidelined, these
episodes did attempt an homage to those events, as the exact same themes are explored. In both storylines, Anakin is sidetracked from the war to
another world, where the native inhabitants are helpless in the face of the Techno Union, which is conducting amoral experiments for the Separatists
on the planet. Anakin must use his abilities to help them overcome an evil and technologically superior foe, and exemplifies the Jedi way by siding with
innocent people and nature against malevolent actors who use unnatural means. In both storylines, Anakin is shown to have grown in power and
prowess on the battlefield, and to have become a wiser and more noble Jedi. He is also shown to have grown in his dark and self-centered path, most
clearly demonstrated when he wounds and terrorizes Trench to gain the disarming code. He has become self-aware regarding the power his emotions
give him, and his desire to achieve victory by going as far as necessary, telling Trench that he "doesn't have such weaknesses" when Trench suggests
a Jedi won't murder an unarmed prisoner. When the Admiral tries to attack him, Anakin kills him, which does not strictly violate the Jedi code, as it was
in self-defense and legitimate combat, however does not show the restraint and desire to preserve life that Jedi are supposed to have. This is less than
a week before his fall to the dark side, accelerated by his killing of the unarmed Dooku, and it is clear that his quest for victory is one of the primary
factors. His desire to destroy those instigating the murder and chaos, his desire to help others and those he cares about, and his desire to bring about
a galaxy more to his liking, are leading him to leave the limitations of the Jedi Order behind, and to ignore their most fundamental teachings.


- Anakin and Obi-Wan have only been on Anaxes for a few days, and following their swift and decisive victory over Trench will return to the Outer Rim
where they will be deployed to Yerbana to take part in a pivotal battle in the siege of that planet. Mace will return Coruscant, where he will be seen in
the next storyline, and in Episode III, having fought in his last battle in field in the Clone Wars.

ANALYSIS
The Battle of Anaxes was the culmination of years of Separatist advances towards the Inner Core, finally assaulting one of the most ancient Republic
strongholds, only a week before a move against Coruscant itself. The purpose of this assault is obvious, and tactically sound, as controlling or destroying
one of the Republic's largest shipyards and a world which is a significant asset in the defense of Coruscant would deal a major blow to the Republic and
perhaps help to forestall their final offensives in the Outer Rim. A mission of this size and importance is entrusted to Admiral Trench, who is has a strong
record in the Clone Wars, and is on an impressive run of recent victories. The Jedi dispatch Mace, Anakin, and Obi-Wan, due to the importance of this
planet and the shipyards. The Separatists appear to have landed ground forces weeks prior to this point in order to engage the Republic defenses, only
to arrive days later with in even larger invasion force directed at the capture of the shipyards. They also seem to have established at least partial control
of the space above Anaxes, although Republic Navy assets are certainly somewhere in the system. Republic fighter squadrons are seen to be engaging
the Separatist fleet, and giving contest to control of the airspace on the planet. The droid army succeeds in capturing the main production facility at
the shipyards, which threatens to severely hurt the Republic strategically. As Mace points out, the Republic reserve fleet, responsible for defense in
the Inner Core, will become vulnerable if its tactics must be modified to preserve ships, as this shipyard in the Core is their primary source of new ships.

The Republic's ground forces are taking unusually high losses in the Battle of Anaxes. The Separatists have erected a Cyber Center, which relays battlefield
data to the command ship in orbit. Trench is employing a tactical analysis using "the algorithm", which connects the battlefield data to the Techno Union
facility on Skako Minor. The Separatists are using Echo, a former soldier of the 501st, to anticipate Rex's strategies, a weakness that can only be used
against Anakin and his forces, but one which allows them to have enough useful data on all Republic strategy to outmaneuver them in other fronts of
the battle. As a result, Anakin leads an unsanctioned mission to Skako Minor, to locate the source of these transmissions. As the Techno Union headquarters,
their status as a neutral system makes this move illegal under Republic law. The Techno Union is of course once again conspiring with known Separatist
leader Wat Tambor, and actively aiding the Separatist war effort, so their actions here are equally in violation of their corporate neutrality.

The Techno Union has long played a prominent role in the galaxy as a conglomerate of high-tech civilizations, collectives, and corporations which develops
and promotes the use of some of the most advanced technology in the galaxy. The gains which the Union stood to achieve from the war were manifold, in
that a victory for either side would likely increase their power, and that the war itself would bring them immense profits. The Union's disregard for nature
and the negative effects of technology probably have a lot to do with the priorities and beliefs of the Skakoans, who are a technology obsessed culture who
need to use technology to travel and interact with the interstellar community. Their colonization and ownership of Skako Minor, a world similar enough to
their homeworld, despite the fact that it already belongs to the sentient Poletecs, is a prefect example of the disdain the Skakoans feel for 'primitive' and
non-technological societies. Despite their importance as a forefront for research, the Techno Union itself is a lumbering dinosaur, and a relic of the height
of the Republic, which has become an impediment to positive reform of the Republic, or to the ambitions of those forging the Empire. Sidious maneuvered
the organization into the Separatist Alliance in order to justify its dissolution, however the many setbacks the Republic have dealt the organization during
the war have also effected the Unions finances, and it is unlikely the organization would have survived the Clone Wars no matter the outcome. Considering
the extensive evidence of collusion between the part of their organization that is 'neutral' and 'loyal' to the Republic, it is likely the Republic would have
revoked their trade license. Wat Tambor will have to flee Skako Minor following the Republic infiltration, as he is wanted and has been now located.
He will join the rest of the Separatist Council shortly on Utapau, before being moved by Grievous to Mustafar in Episode III.

Although the battle has only lasted weeks, and only escalated days earlier, there are more than a dozen active battle fronts on the planet. The Separatists
have concentrated their initial thrusts against the north and south sub-polar regions, where the largest concentrations of ringed megacities can be found,
necessitating the Republic to spread out its armies to defend the civilian populace. The Separatist reinforcements which blazed into the Core days earlier,
setting off alarm on Coruscant, have not only reinforced the large armies assaulting the cities, but have also landed at massive force near the shipyards,
located in an equatorial location surrounded by a large undeveloped region. The Republic is not only losing at the shipyards, it is suffering setbacks at
nearly all of the original front lines, threatening a possible Separatist takeover of the entire planet. Trench is commanding the battle from his flagship
in orbit, protected by a Separatist armada, allowing him to coordinate all the fronts simultaneously. His major advantage, the predictive algorithm,
is compromised, but the Techno Union doesn't inform Trench for liability purposes, as the financial fallout of losing the project would have apparently
been quite significant. Like any of the trade guilds, their selfish motivations make the Techno Union an unreliable central component to a state, which
would be a serious flaw in the Separatist plans, if it weren't for the fact that the Separatist Alliance was designed only to fight in the war, not to survive
it. The Republic launches an assault to retake the assembly planet, aided by a plan to use the algorithm against Trench, who has come to trust in his
technology too much, rather than his own strategic knowledge. The Republic not only succeeds in retaking the shipyards, but the loss of the strategic
advantage the Separatists were using to take the planet so quickly allows the Republic to turn the tide in the other fronts as well.

Trench's plan after losing the shipyards is to detonate his bomb and the massive store of hyperfuel stored there, which will devastate Anaxes. He will then
deploy his reserves to reinforce the remaining fronts, and destroy the depleted Republic forces in the surviving regions of the planet. Anakin and his allies
infiltrate his command ship, allowing them to not only disarm the bomb, but to destroy the Separatist flagship and leadership. After the loss of the Admiral
and the command ship, and without the fail safe bomb to spoil a Republic victory, the Separatist offensive collapses. Separatists ships likely recalled what
troops they could before withdrawing to a fallback position, or being sent to reinforce some other ongoing battle. The successful defense of Anaxes
ensures the planet will survive into the beginning of the Imperial era, and its shipyards will survive to help produce new ships for the early Imperial Navy.


FURTHER ANALYSIS
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