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Wild bantha chase

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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

Wild bantha chase or wild bantha hunt was a slang phrase used in the galaxy, which referred to an ultimately pointless activity which distracted someone from a desired objective. The idiom referred to the bantha, a pack animal from Tatooine.

When Obi-Wan Kenobi was sent to Utapau to search for General Grievous at the end of the Clone Wars, he described the hunt to Anakin Skywalker as possibly being "just a wild bantha chase" when Skywalker expressed his opinion that Kenobi would need his help on the mission.

Text and facts from the “Wild bantha chase/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

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6 works, in story order
  1. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
  2. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith novelization
  3. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith junior novelization
  4. Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith 2 (first appearance)
  5. The Last Jedi
  6. Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine

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