Attack on Cartao

|prev=Fall of Lianna
*Battle of Sarka
*Mission to the Chaykin Cluster
*Skirmish at Dinlo
|conc=Battle of Sembla
|next=Battle of Taris
|name=Attack on Cartao
|image=
|conflict=War of the RingHero of Cartao
|date=January 22-24, 1982The Essential Reader's Companion
|place=Cartao
|result=Galactic Republic victory
|side1=Galactic Republic
|side2=Confederacy of Independent Systems
|commanders1=*General Fyefee Tiis
*Commander Bratt
*Commander Roshton
*Lieutenant Laytron
*Jedi Knight Jafer Torles
*Kinman Doriana
|commanders2=*Commander Tok Ashel
*Master Creator Dif Gehad
|forces1=*1 Light Cruiser
**Whipsaw
*1 Jedi Knight
*Clone troopers
*LAAT/is
|forces2=*Cartao Expeditionary Army
**1 Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship
**C-9979 landing craft
**B1-Series battle droids
**B2 super battle droids
**D-60 assault droids
**STAPs
**Droidekas
**Armored Assault Tanks
**IG-227 Hailfire-class droid tanks
**Multi-Troop Transports
|casual1=Medium
|casual2=Heavy}}
The attack on Cartao occurred during the early stages of the War of the Ring over the use of a secondary cloning facility owned by Spaarti Creations. Coming across a planet called Cartao, Palpatine "discovered" Spaarti cloning cylinders, and sent a force led by Kinman Doriana there. It was a victory for the Galactic Republic.
==The battle==
During the battle, General Fyefee Tiis used his ship, the Whipsaw, to disable the Separatist Droid Control Ship orbiting Cartao, thus giving the Republic's ground forces advance time before the Separatist Droid Army could be activated. Kinman Doriana managed to ram remotely-controlled Republic assault transport into the Spaarti facility, destroying the majority of it—and pinning the civilian loss of life on the Jedi Order. The planet of Cartao was left ravaged by the battle. Several thousand of the cloning cylinders survived, because they were stored in a warehouse away from the main complex. Palpatine had Doriana take the surviving cylinders to Wayland.
==Appearances==
*The Cestus Deception 
*Hero of Cartao 
*Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel 
==Sources==
*The New Essential Chronology
*The Essential Reader's Companion
==Notes and references==
Category:War of the Rings battles