C - 9979 landing craft / Legends The C - 9979 landing craft , also known as the Trade Federation landing ship or the Separatist landing craft , was a large - sized landing craft built by Haor Chall Engineering for the Trade Federation ' s military forces , and later for the Confederacy of Independent Systems . When the Trade Federation began planning to create its military forces , Haor Chall Engineering produced a design for a landing craft that would carry troops and ground vehicles from warships down to planets . Characteristics . The C - 9979 configuration was chosen due to its close resemblance to the commercial barges used by the Federation ' s merchant fleet . The ship had four wings with a wingspan of 370 meters . These wings were removable so that they could be stored away easily aboard the massive battleships . They were bound by powerful tensor fields to the fuselage when the craft was assembled for use . Even the strongest metal alloys were unable to bear the immense cargo weight inside the wings , thus making tensor fields essential for the craft . A series of maintenance and repair stores were located along the front of these wings and service the assault force components , particularly battle droids needing servicing after battles . Forward tensor fields connected the wing mounts firmly to the fuselage and wing - mounted tensor fields prevented the span of the wings from collapsing under pressure . These wings were used to carry vehicles racked in garage channels for maximum loading capacity . Each carried 11 MTTs that carried troops on the frontlines , 28 PAC for deploying troops reasonably behind the frontlines , and 114 AATs for vehicular support . When deployed , these vehicles were guided along repulsor tracks to a staging platform . Since the maneuvering equipment on - board was not precise enough to negotiate the cramped confines of the garage zones without causing damage , they required the assistance of the repulsor tracks . At a staging area , the vehicles were rotated into position and grabbed by transport clamps , which brought them aft and lead them down the deployment ramp in the landing craft ' s foot . C - 9979 landing craft could also function as carriers , holding Scarab droid starfighters or bombers . One carrier , which worked with Vana Sage in the Eos system , was equipped with a hyperdrive . Because of its heavy cargo , the landing craft had a huge antigravity lifting capacity . The landing craft was manned and operated by B1 battle droids . Landing craft were stored in the hangars of warships where they were assembled , serviced , and repaired . When ready for deployment , they were loaded with ground vehicles . Landing craft were always stored in an unloaded condition to prevent structural stress and so that their vehicles could be serviced and repaired . History . During the Invasion of Naboo , the Trade Federation deployed large numbers of C - 9979 landing craft to transport troops and equipment to the major cities of Naboo . Jedi Knights Qui - Gon Jinn and Obi - Wan Kenobi were able to sneak down to the planet on a C - 9979s . The craft was deployed in a pattern of groups of three , to cut off cities from one another . Two carriers guarded Nod Kartha , but were destroyed when the Lok Revenants attacked the Trihexalon factory . During the Clone Wars , when the Trade Federation pledged its forces to the Confederacy of Independent Systems , they were used to transport troops , and equipment from orbiting " Lucrehulk " - class battleships , or other large Separatist ships , down to countless battlefields such as Rhen Var and Thule . Three of the landing crafts were clamped and transported to the bottom of " Recusant " - class light destroyers . They were later used during Confederate campaigns on Teth and Rugosa . One was also seen on Maridun , when Lok Durd tested a new Separatist weapon . This variant of the ship was equipped with a mobile command center , a base that could be taken apart and be rebuilt , which fitted into the landing craft . This does decrease the craft ' s cargo capacity enormously . Later in the war , during the massacre on Dathomir , General Grievous , under orders from Count Dooku , ordered a Separatist landing craft to be sent down to the planet packing a huge army . When landed , the landing craft deployed battle droids and AATs . The droid army easily eliminated the small band of Nightsisters . During the Battle of Coruscant , large numbers of C - 9979 landing ships participated in the raid on the capital world of the Republic that saw the kidnapping of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine . There , they unloaded hundreds of millions of battle droids . Some were destroyed by Yoda using the Force . These ships were also deployed on Kashyyyk by invasion force during the Battle of Kashyyyk . There , they were seemingly initially camouflaged with netting . The only known variant of this landing ship was the C - 9969 landing craft . Behind the scenes . C - 9979 landing craft made their first appearance in the . Early design concepts for the landing ship included dirigible - like transports that ejected carried craft from cocoon - like sockets . Doug Chiang ' s final designs were based on a dragonfly . George Lucas liked the similarities of this design to an old biplane , and approved this direction .