Note that this attack mirrors real world attempts to decapitate the enemy during warfare.
The nightmare gets worse: the Supreme Chancellor is missing. That this was a lightning raid on the Senate itself. That the Separatists weren’t trying to take We held them off!īut then new reports trickle in - only rumors at first - that the attack Within minutes of their arrival, their (small number of) capital ships were under heavy attack and the assault troops they'd landed were escaping back into space: The aim here was to capture the Chancellor whatever the cost in lives and equipment to the Separatists. As the film's official novelisation says, this wasn't an invasion force, it was a ' lightning raid' deep into Republic territory.