Attack on Hanna City

An attack was staged in Hanna City, in Chandrila, by the Confederacy of Independent Systems in the early stages of the Clone Wars. The Separatists caught planetary defenses off guard, and jammed all transmissions as Chandrila attempted to send urgent calls to Coruscant. Dreadnoughts positioned themselves over the capital city, and commenced the bombardment. The Chandrilan forces, practically nonexistent, had been unable to launch a counter-attack, but the deflector shield over the city was able to keep its inhabitants from harm's way.

Officials, including Senator Mon Mothma, sought refuge in a bunker. The people of the city after a while left their homes and emerged into streets and plazas, shouting defiantly and cheering at the sky as the bombs fell, treating the detonations and the electric iridescence of the shields as a pyrotechnic display. The officials in the bunker also joined the celebrations in the streets.

After seven hours and seventeen minutes, the Separatists ceased the attack and left Chandrila. In 19 BBY, when recounting this incident to Baron Shkan-Shkan Yew, Mothma revealed she never learned the purpose of the aggression, and speculated that it may have been intended as a show of force to incite fear.

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