Previous Skirmish in the Cavamina Minor cantina Battle of Cavamina Minor Conflict Clone Wars Date 21 BBY Place Cavamina Minor asteroid field Outcome Draw Attuma Duum's operation destroyed Combatants Attuma Duum's mercenaries Galactic Republic Jedi Order Confederacy of Independent Systems Commanders Attuma Duum Sabat High Jedi General Ki-Adi-Mundi Jedi General Aayla Secura Shon-Ju Unidentified Republic Navy officer A Skakoan Strength Bombers 600,000 space mines ARC-170s CR25 troop carriers Vagabond Venator-class destroyers At least 2 Munificent-class frigates At least 2 Lucrehulk-class battleships Droid starfighters Casualties Mines expended Sabat One bomber stolen Asteroid station destroyed ARC-170s starfighters CR25 carriers Vagabond Droid starfighters [Source]

This battle near the moon Cavamina Minor took place in the year 21 BBY against the backdrop of the Clone Wars.

Contents 1 Prelude 2 The ambush 3 Aftermath 4 Behind the scenes 5 Appearances

PreludeEdit

The Jedi Master Aayla Secura was assigned to arrest the mercenary Attuma Duum. Her mission failed, and she fled Duum's men, arriving into the hands of the former Jedi Shon-Ju and his students. Secura and Shon-Ju agreed to join forces to stop Duum. Duum, for his part, was playing both sides of the Clone Wars against each other, and planted false evidence to draw a Republic Navy and Confederate Navy fleet to his system.

The ambushEdit

Duum seeded the space around the moon of Cavamina Minor with six hundred thousand space mines, and the Republic Venator Star Destroyers, ARC-170 starfighters, and CR25 troop carriers reverted from hyperspace right into the mine field. The Separatist fleet s Munificent-class star frigates, battleships, and droid starfighters also experienced the same problem. Seeing an opposing fleet instead of the merchant convoy Duum had promised them, both fleet commanders ordered their crews to open fire on the other.

Secura and Shon-Ju infiltrated Attuma Duum's headquarters and managed to disable the deflector shields protecting the station from the asteroid field. As the station died, Shon-Ju betrayed Secura, inadvertently allowing Duum to escape. The Republic fleet withdrew after taking heavy casualties, including the cruiser Vagabond.

AftermathEdit

Secura and the Republic fleet returned to Coruscant; she later met with Grand Master Yoda. Shon-Ju received prosthetic hands, replacing those he lost to Secura. Duum survived the battle.

Behind the scenesEdit

This battle appears in the 2010 graphic novella Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 5: Deadly Hands of Shon-Ju. The Separatist Skakoan commander appears to be Wat Tambor but is not identified.

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 5: Deadly Hands of Shon-Ju (First appearance)