ME: Having watched Weapons Factory, years later I (like others) have come to the conclusion that it was an Idiot Plot. Seriously, why would Luminara risk two Padawans, one of them basically being her surrogate daughter, and all those clone troops when she could just bombard the factory from orbit? "Capture Poggle" weren't Luminara's orders to the two, after all, so there's not even that to justify sending Barriss and Ahsoka behind enemy lines on a dangerous mission.
"Hey, Snips!" Anakin yelled.
The Togruta Padawan rolled her eyes. "What is it, Skyguy?" Ahsoka replied.
"Change of plans," he said. "I realize how stupid of an idea trying to take the factory would be. I mean, we don't need it intact and the shields are down, plus it's not like the Supreme Chancellor ordered us to take prisoners or whatever."
She nodded. "Yeah," Ahsoka admitted, "it does seem kinda stupid to risk all our guys by charging at the factory entrance. So what's the new plan?"
He smiled. "We're gonna win battles the way battles ought to be fought-by bombing the crap out of them."
Minutes later, Jedi Master Luminara Unduli and Padawan Barriss Offee approached. "Good day, Skywalker," said the Mirialan woman. "I have a plan in order to neutralize the factory."
"And I got a better one," Anakin said before tapping his comlink. "Admiral Yularen, do the thing."
The Admiral, though Anakin couldn't see it, frowned. "What thing, General Skywalker?"
"Start slagging the factory from orbit," he replied. "Oh, come on! That was an easy one!"
Yularen relayed his orders to the crew of his flagship, the Venator-class Star Destroyer GRS Resolute. Eight DBY-827 dual heavy turbolaser turrets, having been trained by their gunners on the factory earlier, opened fire.
Meanwhile Archduke Poggle the Lesser and his tactical droid, TX-21, were talking. "My lord," TX-21 said, "I told you it would be a wise investment to have a separate shield generator to protect the factory in the event the main one was disabled or destroyed. Thankfully I have taken the liberty of wiring the bridge with explosives, allowing us to destroy it as a last-."
TX-21 never finished talking, for blue particle bolts slammed into the factory. The end result was a smoldering wreck.
"Well..." Rex observed via electrobinoculars, "that was easy. I guess we owe the Navy several drinks, sir."
"That we do, Rex," Anakin said. "That we do."
Barriss sighed. "I memorized two-hundred junctions, only for it to prove pointless," she said.
"Hey, cheer up," Ahsoka said. "This way no one died but Poggle and his minions."
"Come to think of it," said Luminara, "in hindsight, you two should've been ordered to capture him rather than destroy the factory."
"And now we all live happily ever after!" Anakin said. "Well, except for the Geonosians. But hey, it's not like we blew up an orphanage or hospital. So I feel absolutely zero guilt for ordering the bombardment."
ME: A/N: Hey, I actually have an understanding of tactics. Sue me.
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