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Battle of Dantooine (Clone Wars)

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Concurrent

Battle of Brentaal IV

Battle of Dantooine

Conflict

Clone Wars

Date

21.66, 4 months after the Battle of Geonosis

Place

Dantooine

Outcome

Pyrrhic Republic victory

Combatants
Galactic Republic	Confederacy of Independent Systems
Commanders
High General Mace Windu 187th commander	Unidentified battle droid commanders †
Strength
Mace Windu Clone troopers 187th Legion LAAT/i gunships PLX-1 portable missile launcher	1 Providence-class carrier/destroyer^[1] C-9979 landing craft^[1] B1 battle droids B2 super battle droids DSD1 dwarf spider droids Rocket-launchers Seismic tank
Casualties
Many clone troopers Many gunships	All B1 battle droids All B2 super battle droids Many dwarf spider droids The Seismic tank

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"Master Windu still fights on Dantooine."

―Palpatine^[src]

The Battle of Dantooine was a battle which took place during the Clone Wars four months after the Battle of Geonosis. Fought on the grassy plains of that world, it pitted a small unit of the Grand Army of the Republic against a massive number of battle droids.

1 Background
2 The battle
- 2.1 Attack on the failed Jedi students
3 Appearances
4 Sources
5 Notes and references
- 5.1 In other languages

BackgroundEdit

Attempting to strike back at the Republic incursion on Muunilinst, the Confederacy of Independent Systems used Dantooine as a staging point to launch an attack against the assault ship blockade around the Intergalactic Banking Clan headquarters. However, Jedi Master Mace Windu learned of the Confederate presence on Dantooine, and left with a force of clone troopers to halt the progress of the Separatists.

Count Dooku was also hoping to uncover Rakatan artifacts on the planet.^[2]

The battleEdit

"Ah, yes, I understand that congratulations are in order, General Windu. You have been most successful to date with your facet of the war. Your work on Dantooine was exceptional, I hear."

―Lanius Qel-Bertuk^[src]

The battle erupted on Dantooine as clones and B2 super battle droids clashed in a vast, open plain. Clones used PLX-1 portable missile launcher to destroy scores of droids, whereas the droids used their own missile launchers to shoot down many gunships and overwhelming numbers to cause many casualties in the clone ranks. However, with Master Windu at their side, the clones slowly gained the upper hand, despite being outnumbered nearly four to one by Confederate super battle droids. However, the battle was suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of a large siege weapon—the seismic tank.

This tank used its seismic driver—used for mining operations in peaceful days—to cut a swath through the clone trooper ranks, either crushing them outright or sending soldiers flying from the shockwave, along with taking out a contingent of their own forces. In the confusion, Windu lost his lightsaber, and was forced to fight a number of droids unarmed. The ability with the Force that he showed in that battle has since become legendary: During the fight, he eluded and obliterated droids by multiple Force moves as the Force push, Force speed and the Force wave, a technique so powerful it incapacitated droids within a 50-meter radius, and in one particular fight, Windu disassembled a super battle droid and used its pieces to destroy the other remaining droids.

Retrieving his lightsaber amid another seismic shockwave, Windu flew towards the seismic tank. Windu cut his way in, disabled the seismic driver, destroyed the tank's droid crew by pushing the crew out the window, and knocked out the controls. Flying clear, Windu watched on as the seismic tank smashed into the ground and exploded. After he landed, a small boy gave him a bottle of water. The battle was won.

Attack on the failed Jedi studentsEdit

A taskforce of droids was dispatched during the battle to attack a farm that was run by failed Jedi students. With the help of their Force powers and their banthas, the former Jedi were able to defeat their attackers, despite their lack of weapons. Afterward, they fled the planet in their airship and decided to fly it to Coruscant.^[1]