Battle of Coruscant

By the third year of the war both sides were exhausted, and the Confederacy decided to strike at the most heavily defended place of all: the capital of the Republic. A fleet under the command of General Grievous broke into the system and engaged in battle directly above the city-planet; wreckage from ships fell onto the upper levels. The main objective was not conquest but the abduction of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was taken aboard the flagship Invisible Hand. The task of recovering the chancellor was given to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, recalled from the front. They fought their way aboard, where they confronted Count Dooku; Kenobi was incapacitated, and Skywalker defeated and killed the Sith at Palpatine's urging. Grievous managed to leave the doomed ship and escape, abandoning his fleet. Skywalker landed the crippled flagship, which had lost half its hull, at the capital's spaceport. The Republic declared victory, but the war did not end: Grievous went into hiding on Utapau, and Palpatine used the attack as an argument for further expanding his powers and the assignments carried out beyond the Senate's control.

• Anakin SkywalkerCharacter
• Confederacy of Independent SystemsFaction
• Galactic RepublicFaction
• Obi-Wan KenobiCharacter
• Sheev PalpatineCharacter

• Coruscant

• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the SithFilmСобытие показано в этом произведении.

• Battle of Geonosis22 BBYContributed to this eventThe war that had begun led to the attack on the capital.
• Outer Rim Sieges19 BBYContributed to this eventProtracted fighting on the periphery scattered the Jedi across the fronts and left the capital nearly undefended.

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• Siege of Mandalore19 BBYHappens in parallelThe siege took place at the same time as the Separatist attack on the capital, because of which Kenobi and Skywalker were recalled from Mandalore.

• Attack on Coruscant3996 BBYAn alternate version of this eventExplanation hidden: it reveals the plot of the related event.
• Death of Count Dooku19 BBYPart of this eventExplanation hidden: it reveals the plot of the related event.