The Super tank was an experimental tank created by Baktoid Armor Workshop. Commissioned by the Confederacy of Independent Systems, during the Clone Wars around 22 BBY, the super tank was used during the Second Battle of Geonosis. Additional tanks were deployed to the planet Oznek.

Contents 1 Characteristics 2 History 3 Appearances 4 Sources 5 Notes and references 6 Exrternal links 6.1 In other languages

CharacteristicsEdit

The super tank was an experimental tank created by Baktoid Armor Workshop. It looked very much like the MTT which was also made by Baktoid. It was about half the size of the MTT and had its twin blaster cannons located on the same spot as the MTT. The repulsortank also had one turret-mounted twin blaster located on the outside in the middle of the craft on either side. Concealed under a retractable section of its armor plating were the vehicle's main weapons: a set of twin warhead launchers capable of easily obliterating an AT-TE walker.^[1] It was equipped with ray shielded armor and could easily deflect shots from an AT-TE walker and an AV-7 Antivehicle Cannon. The tank had the logo of the CIS painted on both sides.^[1]

HistoryEdit

This tank was first used in the Second Battle of Geonosis by the Separatists. TX-21 advised Archduke Poggle the Lesser to use the tanks against the advancing Republic army. Poggle agreed and 20 tanks were deployed onto the battle field. The Republic's AV-7 Cannons opened fire on the the advancing Tanks, but even after many direct hits, the tanks kept advancing, and then launched a barrage of Mortar rounds, destroying the cannons, and the AT-TE reinforcements.

The tanks were only destroyed when the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Luminara Unduli placed explosives underneath the bridge the tanks were crossing and detonated them.

Another super tank was used inside of the factory as well. Facing it were the Jedi Padawans Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee. Offee managed to get inside the tank by using her lightsaber to cut a hole next to the exposed warhead launcher, and destroying the two droids driving the tank. Tano and Offee were able use the tank's weaponry to destroy the factory from the inside and were saved from the ensuing explosion by the tank's heavy armor.^[1]

At another point in the war, at least three super tanks were deployed on the planet Oznek, which had claimed neutrality but was the site of a Republic clone trooper mission.^[4]

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Landing at Point Rain" (First appearance, in "Newsreel" only)
• Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures – "Geonosis Saga"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Weapons Factory" (First identified as Super tank)
• LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Non-canonical appearance)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Legacy of Terror" (Appears in flashback(s))
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Enemy Within
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Jedi Who Knew Too Much" (Indirect mention only)

SourcesEdit

•  The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Weapons Factory on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Incredible Vehicles

Notes and referencesEdit

Exrternal linksEdit

• Super Tank on CWA Wiki

Major vehicles of the Confederacy of Independent Systems
Repulsorcraft Armored Assault Tank - Ground Armored Tank - Heavy Missile Platform Multi-Troop Transport - Platoon Attack Craft - Single Trooper Aerial Platform Heavy Artillery Gun - Multi-Utility Transport - Mechanized Assault Flyer - Droid transport carrier - Super tank - Umbaran hover tank Walkers OG-9 homing spider droid - Octuptarra combat tri-droid - Octuptarra magna tri-droid - Tsmeu-6 personal wheel bike - DSD1 dwarf spider droid Wheeled/tracked NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcer - IG-227 Hailfire-class droid tank - Tsmeu-6 personal wheel bike
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