Galen walked through the halls of the recently captured base. The clone troopers were all over, searching for any hiding separatists. Galen grinned, while spinning his double bladed lightsaber. He loved the battles. He knew he wasn't supposed to embrace violence but it was so easy.

Galen saw his master ahead she was overlooking the next checkpoint with a squad of clones. Galen decided to test his stealth capabilities. He used to force to make his steps silent and walked towards them. As he got closer he saw the clone commander receive a holo call. Galen was now close enough to hear it, "Execute Order 66" the holo said. Strange, Galen had never heard of an order 66. He was about to ask the commander what that meant, but the clones grabbed their rifles and fired at his master. She dropped dead as he let out a scream. The startled clones turned around and fired. Out of reflex Galen turned on his saber the green blades igniting. He fell into saber Form III, twirling and blocking shots. Galen realized that he needed to fight back or he would die. Galen switched to Form V, and started blocking the blaster shots back at the clones. Three fell down quickly, Galen launched into the air, with a force jump. He slashed on his way down cutting one of the clones in half, he spun around in the same movement and decapitated another clone. Now the only one left was the commander. Galen rushed him and cut him down as easily as the others.

He finally shut of his saber, and went to his master. He checked hoping she was somehow alive. He felt like crying when he saw how much damage they had done to her. Not even a jedi knight could survive that. He heard the sounds of battle and looked back to the Republic camp. The clones were attacking the local militia when just moments ago they had all been on the same side.

Galen didn't know what was happening but he was going to find out. He turned his saber back on and ran to the fight. He saw a group of clones attacking a militia officer named Tralim. She had been a valuable asset in the victories that had happened on the planet. It also appeared as though she were trying to organize the militia against the clones. Galen leapt into battle beside her, swinging his saber in all directions. Within moments he had killed twelve clones and the rest retreated.

"Jedi. Thank Heavens you arrived when you did." Tralim said. From the looks of her she was tiring. Her gray hair was matted to her head with sweat, and she was breathing heavily. "What is happening here? Why are the clones attacking?" Galen asked the seasoned commander. "Not sure. The clones just started attacking Jedi and militia alike. I think they received orders just before they all went crazy, but I can't think of any reason they would attack us."

Galen couldn't either. He looked at the battle raging on. "We don't have the ability to win this. Can you order your ships to fly in for a pick up? We need to get out of here as fast as we can." Galen told her. "Of course master Jedi. But we will need to make it to the pick up zone, a couple clicks that way." She said pointing to the zone. "Good. See if you can't issue a full retreat for the militia. We are going to need to move quickly." Tralim gave the orders and got her troops ready to move forward. "Alright master Jedi, we are right behind you."

Galen led the troops across the now raging battlefield, killing clones as he went. Other militia started to follow them. Soon he had gathered a decent amount of troops. He was grateful, because there was an entire battalion between him and the pick up zone. He ordered a squad of troops to obtain Republic tanks. He sent out heavy militia with rockets to flank the clones they were rushing towards. The two forces clashed. Galen jumped into the thick of the clones and spun his double bladed saber into a swirling, green, killing machine. All around him clone bodies started to pile up until he had a wall of them on all four sides. Gathering the force Galen threw a powerful force push that launched the bodies into other clones. He could see panic beginning to spread throughout the clone ranks. He doubled his efforts and hacked through one clone after another. His advance encouraged the militia troops to push forward. They were reinforced with several tanks and the rocket militia begin to blow up the sides of the clone formation. Finally the clones broke and started to scatter in fear. Galen lead the charge straight through the clone troops. He saw ahead a militia corvette on it's way.

He got to the zone with Tralim. The clones had regathered themselves and had separated the militia force in half. "What do we do Jedi? The men are trapped on the other side." Tralim asked. Galen looked at them and then at the incoming corvette. He made his decision. "Get the remaining troops on board the others will buy us the time we need to escape." Tralim looked at him, for a moment Galen was concerned she wouldn't do it. She finally nodded her head and gave the orders.

Galen and the remaining militia got on board. Galen and Tralim rushed to the command deck. There they met Captain Usha. He greeted them with a curt nod, before returning his attention to the ships under his command. "Tell them we are ready, it is time to leave this planet." He ordered his officers. Galen stood next to him watching the scene unfold before him. They reached space with several other ships. However most of them were being torn apart by the Republic cruisers stationed in orbit.

"We need to get out of here!" Galen shouted to Usha. "Working on it! Lutenit get us moving to the coordinates I gave you." They started firing back at the republic fleet as other militia ships fired and exploded around them Soon they launched into hyperspace, barely escaping the Republic forces.

They dropped out of hyperspace, and Galen went to Usha and Tralim. "The Chancellor has branded the Jedi as traitors and is hunting them down all across the galaxy as far as I can tell." Usha was saying to Tralim. "Along with any possible supporters such as local militias. I heard Kashyyyk was hit pretty bad. Poor Wookies." Galen felt like he had just been punched in the stomach. The Jedi labeled as traitors? That didn't make any sense. "We need to get to Coruscant. The Jedi there will know what to do." Tralim stated. "No good heard they sacked it already. Whatever is happening it is happening fast." Galen looked thoughtful for a moment. If the temple was gone there was likely no ordered Jedi left. That left the retaliation to him. "We need to get someplace safe. After that we can work on reaching out to other Jedi." He told the others.

At that moment several militia ships dropped out of hyperspace joining the small band. "I had ordered all militia to meet up here, master Jedi. It isn't much but at least we have the makings of a fleet, where do you want to go?" Usha asked the young Jedi. Galen thought for a few moments. "The outer rim. We need to get into uncontrolled space, and find out more about what is happening."

The ships moved again, launching into hyperspace.