ACT 2 [NAR URTHHA]
Nar Urthha is an icy planet that is inhospitable to animal or plant life, and so was ignored by the Republic colonist-explorers who discovered it. However, the Hutts have turned this worthless and easily-ignored planet into the core hub of their criminal empire. They have constructed enormous dome cities that enclose a habitable atmosphere, being hot and sticky because the air filtration systems are ancient and decrepit and unable to fully excise the heat, perspiration and breath-moisture of countless millions of beings crammed into these tightly-packed slum-cities. The stifling heat and moisture has actually encouraged rampant plant growth, and vines and moss and other flora coat the buildings and invade any and all cracks and crannies that can be found in the filthy, polluted and crumbling metropolis domes.

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The group return to Mos Eisley and Anakin and Zara takes Obi-Wan’s team to Nar Urthha in the Skywalker. Unbeknownst to them, the clone warrior that Obi-Wan encountered has attached a beacon to the Skywalker based on intel from Corporate Sector agents that the plan for negotiations with Jabba the Hutt fell through. He’s following a hunch that is really the Force guiding his actions, and so the remnants of the clone warrior’s team follow the Skywalker to Nar Urthha.
The Skywalker is forced to land outside the main domecity, in the frigid cold, and the heroes briefly struggle with setting down the ship in a blizzard and crossing to the airlock-gate. They are amazed when they cross through the gate to find the hot, humid and verdant city within, although Anakin and Zara just laugh it off and take them to the Hutts. Though the trip to Nar Urthha goes smoothly, the same cannot be said for negotiations with the Hutts. They have no interest in working with the government whose laws they ignore so freely.
Inspired by Obi-Wan’s stories about Anakin’s skill as a great Jedi Knight and wanting to help him with what she believes he is destined to be doing, Zara convinces the Hutt cartel to take a wager on the starfighter race, putting up the Skywalker and her own status as a freelance smuggler against Anakin’s freedom from his indentured role as enforcer.
The starfighter race is an energetic, perilous affair where several of the participants are killed. Anakin’s skills as a pilot get to shine during this sequence, However, at the culmination of it all the race is interrupted by the appearance of a clone attack force, and so the starfighter race becomes a starfighter battle. Unfortunately, due to being a racer all the weapons are stripped from Anakin’s ship and so it becomes a deadly chase sequence.
On-board the clone landing craft, the armored clone warrior is coordinating his forces in preparation for the attack. Anakin makes it back safely as the clones begin an attack against the Hutt citadel and the civilian buildings around it, seeking to eliminate the Hutts in order to prevent any negotiations with the Republic from being completed.
The clones breach the city’s dome and attempt to capture the capital citadel with landing ships that rush in through the gaping hole in the dome, even as icy winds and blizzards sweep in and begin to ravage the surrounds. Obi-Wan, his Rangers and Zara engage in a firefight with the clone troopers.
Anakin, who has landed outside the dome, confronts the armored clone leader at the base of the clone ship in the blustering snow, with almost nil visibility. When Anakin draws his lightsaber the warrior identifies him as a Jedi and introduces himself as DARTH VADER, and a quick skirmish duel begins. While Anakin is more skilled than the clone it is the clone’s reckless and uncontrolled use of the Force that allows him to escape after accidentally bringing down a substantial part of the city dome, crushing many buildings within when several foundation-struts are snapped.
After the assault on the Hutt citadel by the clone forces is repelled by Obi-Wan’s forces the cartel come to an agreement with Obi-Wan to allow the Republic unfettered use of the Hutt hyperspace routes in exchange for payment and a blind eye being turned to the cartel’s business transactions. Ironically, the clone attack has only strengthened Hutt-Republic relations.
Obi-Wan realises that the new access to the hyperspace routes grants the Republic an unparalleled chance to strike at the heart of the enemy forces, and is able to coordinate a military attack on GRANICUS, a gas-giant with an experimental clone facility on it, being operated by one of the instigators of this Great Clone War. He intends to capture the facility to deny the Corporate Sector Authority one of their clone sources and to probe the various databanks for details on the experiments, clone models and other vital details of the Authority stratagem.
Anakin is shaken by how the clone soldiers were completely unconcerned with collateral damage to innocent civilians. He is worried that expansion of the brushfire battle-lines may drag Hutt-connected planets like Tatooine and all on it into the war, and becomes convinced that he must accompany Obi-Wan on his new mission.