Wee Dunn

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Wee Dunn was a male Rodian living with his mother, Mahtee Dunn, in Rodia's Kay-Tap square during the Clone Wars. The young Rodian was discovered to be Force-sensitive during his early infancy, but was not to be taken into the Jedi Order until a slightly older age. Dunn's identity was entered into a database of Force-sensitive infants stored within the Kyber memory crystal, which was used to locate future generations of Jedi Knights. This crystal was eventually stolen by Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane at the behest of Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith.

Planning to use the Force-sensitive infants to create an army of dark side warriors, Sidious directed Bane to abduct two children from the crystal's list and deliver them to Mustafar, where they would become the Dark Lord's test subjects. Dunn was Bane's second target, and the bounty hunter traveled to Kay-Tap square in the guise of a Jedi Knight in order to fool his mother into willingly handing over the infant. Bane succeeded and took Wee Dunn to Mustafar, where the young Rodian was prepared for brain-washing surgery. Before the operation could take place, Dunn was rescued by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano. After the ordeal, Dunn was taken into the Jedi Order.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Targeted 1.2 Test subject 2 Powers and abilities 3 Behind the scenes 4 Appearances 5 Sources 6 Notes and references 7 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Targeted

Wee Dunn was a male Rodian born on Rodia^[1] around the beginning of the Clone Wars.^[2] Wee lived with his mother, Mahtee Dunn, in Kay-Tap square, one of Rodia's tropical domed cities. Early in his life, the young Rodian was discovered to be Force-sensitive, information that eventually came to the attention of the Jedi Order. As a result, the Dunns were visited by Jedi Master Bolla Ropal, who informed Mahtee that although Wee would be taken into the Order, his induction would not occur for some time, as the junior Dunn was still in his early infancy. Despite this, Wee Dunn's name was added to the Kyber memory crystal, a memory device that held the identities of all known Force-sensitive children in the galaxy.^[1]

During the Clone Wars, Confederacy of Independent Systems leader and Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious put in motion a plan to create an army of dark side warriors that would act as his personal assassins and spies. In order to obtain his initial group of warriors, Sidious hired the notorious Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane to steal the Kyber crystal from the Jedi Order and provide him with the information on it.^[1] Bane complied, killing Master Ropal and stripping him of the Kyber crystal.^[5] Sidious then directed Bane to kidnap several of the children on the crystal's memory to serve as test subjects for a surgical slave conditioning operation that would make the children into little more than extensions of his will. Knowing the children listed on the crystal's memory would be in danger, the Jedi High Council decided to look into the Force in hopes that they would be able to sense the children Bane would target. During the council's meditations, Grand Master Yoda discovered that Wee Dunn would be one of the children that would be taken and so dispatched Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi to Rodia.^[1]

On Rodia, Wee and Mahtee Dunn were visited by Cad Bane, who was masquerading as a Jedi Knight that had come to take Wee into the Order. Mahtee was reluctant to surrender her child to Bane, citing her earlier visit from Master Ropal and his claim that Wee would remain with her for quite some time before being taken to the Jedi Temple. When she refused to surrender Wee, Bane used a hypnogazer to force her to give him the child. As Bane left the Dunn house with Wee, Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived and confronted Mahtee. Following the sound of Wee's cries, Kenobi found Bane fleeing to his ship, the Xanadu Blood, with the young Dunn in tow. Although Kenobi gave chase, the bounty hunter escaped Rodia with Wee.^[1]

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Wee Dunn was taken by Bane to the volcanic Outer Rim world of Mustafar, where Darth Sidious held a base that was built into a mountainside high above a lava flow.^[1] Dunn was kept within the facility's nursery along with Zinn Toa, a Nautolan infant that had also been kidnapped by Bane.^[6] The two were watched over by a pair of nanny droids in the service of Darth Sidious, who visited the children via hologram. While Sidious "comforted" a crying Dunn, he was informed by one of his nanny droids,^[1] RO-Z67,^[6] that infants such as Dunn and Toa were unlikely to survive the slave conditioning operation. Sidious, who cared little for the safety of the children, decided to go forward with the surgery, claiming that he would lose nothing if Dunn or Toa were killed.^[1]

Fortunately for the children, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano had captured Bane while he attempted to kidnap yet another child on Naboo. While inspecting the Xanadu Blood in an attempt to find a clue to Dunn's whereabouts, Tano discovered that the ship had collected a lot of volcanic ash on its hull. This, as well as Skywalker's search of the ship's fuel logs, led the two to investigate Mustafar. As the two approached the planet, Sidious and RO-Z67 were preparing Dunn for his surgery. However, upon learning that their location had been compromised, the holographic Sith Lord ordered that the children be taken to his secondary facility and that the one they now occupied be destroyed. As Sidious ended his transmission, RO-Z67 grabbed Dunn and turned off the base's gravity supports. Neither of the nanny droids could escape with the children before Skywalker and Tano arrived however, and so they hid in the darkened nursery in the hope that the Jedi wouldn't find them.^[1]

When the Jedi arrived, the droids attacked them, brandishing the children as shields. As Skywalker tried to grab Dunn, the station began to tear itself apart as it fell into the lava flow below. RO-Z67 was hit by falling debris and slid towards an opening in the floor; however, Skywalker was able to use the Force to pull Dunn to him. Both he and Tano, who had managed to rescue Toa, fled the station and escaped Mustafar in their ship, the Twilight.^[1] Wee was not returned to Mahtee however, as the Jedi decided that the children had lived through a traumatic ordeal and they could not be certain of the effect it had on them. It was instead decided that Dunn was to be raised in the Temple on Coruscant.^[3]

[edit] Powers and abilities

As an untrained Force-sensitive, Wee Dunn was able to manipulate the Force to a limited extent. In his home in Kay-Tap Square, Dunn was able to levitate a ball; however, this did not come without difficulties, as he dropped it repeatedly. Despite his young age, Darth Sidious sensed that Dunn had great potential in the Force and would some day make a powerful pawn.^[1] Although his plan for Wee Dunn failed, Sidious eventually saw his vision become reality.^[7]

[edit] Behind the scenes

Wee Dunn was first introduced in the third episode of the second season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, titled "Children of the Force". While the episode itself does not reveal Dunn's fate, both the "Children of the Force" episode commentary and the "Drawing Jedi Younglings" article on Starwars.com indicate that the Rodian was taken into the Jedi Order in the episode's aftermath.

[edit] Appearances

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Children of the Force" (First appearance)

[edit] Sources

•  The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Children of the Force on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

•  Drawing Jedi Younglings on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Dunn, Wee in the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia