Battle of Teth/Legends

The Battle of Teth took place on Teth during the Clone Wars. The battle was part of one of Ahsoka Tano's first missions with her master.

Prelude


Working with Ziro the Hutt, the Separatists kidnapped Rotta, son of Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Jabba sent bounty hunters out to find his son, as well as request the Republic's help. But the Jedi Order could only spare Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. Obi-Wan went to Jabba, promising to save Rotta in exchange for passage through Hutt space. But when he left, Count Dooku then entered the palace, convincing Jabba that the Jedi were the kidnappers.

The bounty hunters and Republic scouts tracked Rotta to a Bo'marr Monastery on Teth. The former were captured and decapitated, their heads sent back to Jabba.

The battle
"This is where the fun begins." "Race you to the top." "I'll give you a head start." "Your mistake."

- Ahsoka and Anakin Skywalker



For much of the battle, the clone troopers and walkers used special grappling technology to go up almost completely vertical cliffs, to reach a citadel at the top. The droid forces at the very top had a major advantage as just a few shots from a DSD1 dwarf spider droid could send an AT-TE plummeting backwards to the ground. But with the skills of the two Jedi, the battle became easier and in the midst of the fighting, Skywalker stole a STAP, using it to great effect. Unfortunately, Skywalker lost a large number of men before reaching the top of the cliff.

Later when Republic forces reached the top, they faced even greater competition than before from more droids until finally the Republic pulled through and captured the B'omarr Monastery. As Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano went into the castle, they found a silver droid named 4A-7. The Droid told them that the Separtist kept their prisoners in the lower levels. Little did they know, the droid was a spy droid working for Asajj Ventress. Captain Rex and his men held their guard at the door. But outside, Asajj and her droid battalions were waiting. When her droids failed to open the door, she literally sliced through it with her lightsaber. Due to overwhelming numbers of enemy forces, Torrent Company was defeated and captured.



The two Jedi found Rotta and made their way to the back landing pad and called for a backup medical crew to help Rotta. As the gunship arrived, a Vulture Droid destroyed the ship. As Asajj tried cutting through the door to the palace, the Jedi then jumped onto a can-cell, a large flying insect, and flew to another mesa. There they captured the freighter Twilight and attempted to rendezvous with the Spirit of the Republic. However, a squadron of Vulture Droids destroyed the hangar, forcing them to go directly to Tatooine in the freighter.



Meanwhile, Rex and the five remaining members of Torrent Company were making a defiant last stand against Ventress' droid armies. They managed to hold out until Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived on the Spirit of the Republic with the 212th Attack Battalion. While the 212th cleared away the remaining the droid forces, Kenobi pursued Ventress inside the monastery. There, the two dueled before he managed to defeat the Dark Jedi and she was forced to make a quick escape.

Behind the scenes
In the junior novelization and The Visual Guide, Skywalker duels Asajj Ventress on the back of a Jungle rancor before making his escape. This scene does not appear in the adult novelization or the film. And in a DK Young Readers book, another scene where Rotta almost vomits on Anakin is not in the film (presumably because of its appeal).

Another scene that does not appear in the film is the destruction of the evac gunship, and the duel against the vulture droid. Strangely, clips of the two are shown in the trailers for the film.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (novel)
 * Battle at Teth

Notes and references
Schlacht von Teth Batalla de Teth