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|name=Attack at Datar
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|date=[[1 BBY/Legends|1 BBY]]<ref name="tinker">{{Hyperspace|url=hyperspace/source/praji/20090205.html|text=Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji|int=Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji}}</ref>
|place=[[Datar/Legends|Datar]]<ref name="ahf" />
|result=*Alliance defeat<ref name="ahf" />
*Imperial failure to obtain prisoners<ref name="ahf" />
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|side2=[[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Alliance to Restore the Republic]]<ref name="ahf" />
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|commanders1=*[[Vice Admiral/Legends|Vice Admiral]] [[Slenn]] &dagger;<ref name="ahf" />
*[[Nahdonnis Praji]]
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|forces1=*1 [[Imperial-class Star Destroyer/Legends|''Imperial''-class Star Destroyer]]<ref name="sfto">''[[Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire]]'' pictured the ''Vengeance'' as an ''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer.</ref>
**[[Vengeance (Imperial-class, Jerec)|''Vengeance'']]<ref name="ahf" />
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|casual1=Slenn (executed by Darth Vader)
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{{Quote|The incident on Datar was unfortunate, sir. The Rebels fought us to the last man.|The captain of ''Vengeance'', to Darth Vader|<ref name="A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale">{{Shortstory|story=A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale|book=Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina}}</ref>}}
The '''attack at Datar''' occurred in [[1 BBY/Legends|1 BBY]], during the [[Galactic Civil War/Legends|Galactic Civil War]]. While the [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Rebel]] forces were completely wiped out, the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire's]] forces failure to capture any prisoners meant the battle was also a failure from the Imperial perspective.

==Prelude==
In [[1 BBY/Legends|1 BBY]], [[Vice Admiral/Legends|Vice Admiral]] [[Slenn]] was part of an [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Imperial]] task force assigned to hunt down [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Rebel]] bases. The Empire's objectives were to expose the Rebel's supply network, obtain prisoners for interrogation, and discover where they had been shipping weapons.<ref name="ahf" />

==The battle==
When Slenn's forces led from the [[Star Destroyer/Legends|Star Destroyer]] [[Vengeance (Imperial-class, Jerec)|''Vengeance'']] attacked a Rebel outpost on the [[Inner Rim]]<ref name="atlas">''[[The Essential Atlas]]'', p. 4</ref> [[Planet/Legends|planet]] of [[Datar/Legends|Datar]], the Rebels had advance warning of the attack. Without the element of surprise, the Imperials were unable to quickly move in and take prisoners. Instead, the Rebels fought to the last man.<ref name="ahf" />

==Aftermath==
Slenn was executed by [[Anakin Skywalker/Legends|Darth Vader]] afterward for incompetence. The Imperial forces headed to [[Nar Shaddaa/Legends|Nar Shaddaa]] under Vader's command. In the [[Battle of Nar Shaddaa (Galactic Civil War)|attack on Nar Shaddaa's Rebels]], the Imperial forces attempted to correct Slenn's mistake by disguising their [[Gamma-class assault shuttle/Legends|''Gamma''-class assault shuttles]] as civilian [[Light freighter/Legends|light freighters]].<ref name="ahf" />

==Behind the scenes==
The battle of Datar was first mentioned in [[Tom Veitch|Tom]] and [[Martha Veitch]]'s [[1995]] ''[[A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale]]'',<ref name="ahf" /> released by [[Bantam Spectra]] in the ''[[Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina]]'' short story anthology.<ref name="mec">''[[Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina]]''</ref>

==Appearances==
*{{Shortstory|story=A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale|book=Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina}} {{1stm}}
*[[A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale (webstrip)|''A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale'' webstrip]] {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*{{Hyperspace|url=hyperspace/source/praji/20090205.html|text=Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji|int=Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji}} {{1stID}}
*{{CSWECite|I||Datar}}
*''[[The Essential Atlas]]''

==Notes and references==
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