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- "You think you can use that mind-trick banthaflop on me? I spent months in a Rimsoo on Drongar, Small Eyes. I watched Barriss Offee use the same thing, practically every day, to calm down patients and—"
- ―Den Dhur, to Jax Pavan
Republic Mobile Surgical Units—RMSUs (pronounced "Rimsoos") for short—were small field hospitals used extensively during the Clone Wars to patch up injured clone troopers and other personnel. They were staffed by a full contingent of surgeons, nurses, and medical droids, and could be set up close to battlefields and taken down for relocation with less than an hour's notice. Aside from the general medical facilities, staff offices and housing, Rimsoos also housed a cantina, which served as a place for soldiers, surgeons, nurses, media, and the like to unwind and socialize.[2] On the planet Drongar during the Clone Wars, there were a total of fifteen of these units.[3]
In the aftermath of the Declaration of a New Order, the RMSUs were renamed Imperial Mobile Surgical Units, or "Imsoos".[4]
Capabilities[]
In theory, the RMSUs had the facilities and equipment to fix even the most catastrophic wounds, containing such equipment as antisepsis fields, bacta tanks, and even cloning tanks in which organs could be grown to replace damaged ones. In practice, however, they were often critically undermanned and under equipped, with resupply infrequent and inadequate.[2][5]
Units[]
- Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 1[2]
- Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 3[3]
- Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 5[2]
- Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 6[3]
- Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 7[2]
- Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 9[3]
- Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 12[2]
- Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 14[3]
Appearances[]
- Republic Commando: True Colors (Mentioned only)
- MedStar I: Battle Surgeons (First appearance)
- MedStar I: Battle Surgeons abridged audiobook
"MedStar: Intermezzo" — Star Wars Insider 83 (also reprinted in Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club)- MedStar II: Jedi Healer
- MedStar II: Jedi Healer abridged audiobook
- Labyrinth of Evil
- Labyrinth of Evil abridged audiobook
- Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight (Mentioned only)
- Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows (Mentioned only)
- Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force (Indirect mention only)
- Death Star (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- The New Essential Guide to Droids
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Clone Wars Campaign Guide
- The Essential Reader's Companion
Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut, Part 7 — The Grand Army of the Republic on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 MedStar I: Battle Surgeons
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 MedStar II: Jedi Healer
- ↑ Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut, Part 11: Serving the Empire on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut, Part 7 — The Grand Army of the Republic on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)