Outmatched and their numbers decimated, the Republic forces are forced to retreat to a set of caves near the city. Soon, the Quarren return, but with a horrible secret weapon: Hydroid Medusaes, gigantic jellyfish cyborgs with electrified tentacles, which prove resistant to the Mon Cala's heand weapons. In the aftermath of the Republic attack, the Separatists and the Quarren are forced to temporarily retreat the besieged capital and regroup, allowing the Republic and Mon Cala forces time to plan a new strategy. After several assaults on the tube containing Lee-Char and Ahsoka by Tamson, the intervention of clone SCUBA troopers prevents Tamson from reaching the helpless prince. During the struggle, Tamson himself launches fierce assaults on the Prince, who's being guarded by Ahsoka, attempting to kill him and dispatching aqua droids into the city's tube system when Lee-Char seeks its protection, all of whom Ahsoka manages to destroy. Fortunately, the Republic reinforcements arrive and the tide is turned, albeit with heavy losses. Anakin and PadmГЁ fight side by side with the Mon Cala, but with the Separatists' reinforcements of aqua droids, the battle already seems lost. Unfortunately, the Quarren have long since prepared for war, even before the failure of negotiations, and they attack without forewarning, taking the Mon Cala by surprise. The Quarren leave the Mon Cala council hall, even though the Quarren chieftain Nossor Ri expresses genuine respect for the dead king to Lee-Char before he leaves.ДЇearing that a civil war between the two races is imminent, the Jedi Council dispatches a company of clone troopers equipped for underwater combat under the command of Kit Fisto and Ahsoka Tano, while Lee-Char and his military commander Captain Ackbar try to rally their people. Riff Tamson, the ambassador of the Separatists, heats up the argument even further, while PadmГ© Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, sent by the Republic to mediate between the parties, are helpless to intervene. Now the Jedi must protect Mon Cala's new leader, the young Prince Lee-Char, from the attack.ДЄfter the assassination of King Kolina of Dac, the fragile peace between the Mon Cala and the Quarren begins to collapse, centering on the argument that the king's son, Prince Lee-Char is (as he himself feels) too young and inexperienced to maintain the tenuous co-existence between the two races. To stop a civil war, the Republic sends PadmГ© Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, but unbeknownst to them, the Quarren are already being backed by the Separatists. When the king of Mon Cala is assassinated, talks break down between the Mon Calamari people and the Quarren, co-inhabitants of the aquatic world.

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