Battle of Galidraan The Battle of Galidraan was a conflict that led to the crippling of the True Mandalorians by the Jedi . First conflict . The Governor of Galidraan had secretly been hiding the Mandalorian Death Watch splinter group on his world . He was also facing an insurrection by some of his colonists , so he hired the True Mandalorians under Jango Fett to eliminate the rebels , which they did . However , under the advice of the Death Watch leader , Tor Vizsla , he also informed the Jedi Council that a group of Mandalorians were murdering " political activists . " Second conflict . A unit of Jedi under Master Dooku were dispatched to Galidraan ; no sooner had the True Mandalorians completed their work for the governor than the Jedi arrived and ordered them to stand down , which Fett refused to do . This resulted in a bloody stand - off . As the battle commenced the Mandalorians switched to projectile weapons . Myles – Fett ' s aide - de - camp – decided to provide Fett with air support using his jetpack but a Jedi used Force Jump to reach him and cut him in half . This pushed Fett over the edge and resulted in him killing five Jedi with his bare hands . At the same time , Komari Vosa aggressively cut down scores of Mandalorians . Fett then confronted the Jedi who killed Myles . After Fett had thrown himself at the unknown Jedi they had a brief fight , which ended in the Jedi ' s death . Jango was then captured by Dooku and the remaining Jedi . Aftermath . The casualties on both sides were heavy , with Jango being one of the only two survivors out of at least three hundred Mandalorians . The Jedi handed Jango over to the Governor of Galidraan , and the other Mandalorian was sold into slavery . Dooku would later reflect that " It was a misguided mission from the start and not the first of the Council ' s poor decisions " and was one of the main reasons he chose to leave the Jedi Order . About ten years before the Battle of Geonosis , a Mandalorian named Silas was captured by Count Dooku and tortured when he refused to provide information regarding Jango Fett . Eventually , he broke under the torment . After listening to his story , Dooku ordered Silas ' death . In later years , the Battle of Galidraan would become used as a euphemism for a militaristic debacle , and in the aftermath of the Yinchorri Uprising it was used as an example by Finis Valorum of why the Jedi could not serve as the Republic ' s army . Behind the scenes . The battle was originally placed at 34 BBY in " Open Seasons " . Later , " The New Essential Chronology " placed it at 40 BBY , " The Cestus Deception " gave it an implied placement of around 43 BBY , and " " , " The Official Star Wars Fact File " and the " " placed it at 44 BBY while the " " placed it at 44 BBY and also made reference to " two years before the Battle of Naboo " , which would mean 34 BBY . Two different dates ( 44 BBY and 41 BBY ) were also given for the battle in the " Star Wars Annual 2008 " . In addition , the databank article on Antidar Williams , written by a fan for a What ' s The Story ? contest , places the battle several years after the 44 BBY Stark Hyperspace War . The Essential Atlas again places it at 44 BBY . " Galaxy at War " dates the end of the war ( and therefore this battle ) to 34 BBY , the first resource to corroborate the original dating . This article uses the 44 BBY date because a plurality of recent sources use it . " The New Essential Guide to Characters " states that the Jedi outnumbered the Mandalorians and that Jango Fett was not captured after the fight . Both statements are contradicted by other sources on the battle . While the True Mandalorian Silas offers to tell Dooku about this battle under torture , there ' s no evidence he was actually there , and circumstantial evidence , ( such as a later statement by Dooku that every Mandalorian but Jango died there ) that he was not .