During the Clone Wars, pro-separatist Duke Solha built a cortosis mine following the orders of the Separatist movement's Head of State, Count Dooku orders, the mine was built to extract cortosis from the planet Mokivj, the mine was located near a river and the Mokivj droid factory, where the cortosis was refined and used to manufacture cortosis B2 super battle droids. During the attack on the factory, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala and Senior Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo or Thrawn destroyed the mine and a section of the factory in an effort to cancel any possibilities of the Separatists constructing more cortosis battle droids or Clone armor. The destruction of the factory and the mine rendered Mokivj barren, and activated volcanic activity that destroyed the grasslands and best croplands of the planet.
History
When Count Dooku of the Confederacy of Independent Systems received a tip from a mysterious species that cortosis could resist lightsabers, and was located on Mokivj, Dooku dispatched Duke Solha as well as his brother and sister. They took over the planet and established a mine on the planet, and soon, a droid factory.[1]
Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Senior Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo and Senator Padmé Amidala raided the droid factory. During the raid, the humans and Chiss discovered that the Separatists were manufacturing a cortosis-armored model of B2-series super battle droids on the planet, using cortosis sourced to the nearby cortosis mine. Padmé and Anakin resolved to prevent the Separatists from continuing to manufacture such fortified droids. Thrawn procured a deflector shield generator, which he termed a "Republic energy shield," for the Ascendancy.[1]
The mission concluded with a catastrophe. In an effort to collapse the Separatists' cortosis mine on Mokivj, Anakin Skywalker accidentally sent lava, ash, and smoke into the planet's best cropland and water. Skywalker did not account for the cortosis in the mine redirecting the heat of the explosions. As a result, the explosive force did more than merely collapse the mine's tunnels. It was sent down the planet's crust, triggering volcanic activity and leading to widespread devastation, deforestation, and desertification on Mokivj.[1]
Later, the cortosis mine was mentioned in a Clone Intelligence report describing the C-B3 cortosis battle droid, which was included in the survival compendium "Neyo's Almanac of Clankers."[2]
Behind the scenes
The cortosis mine first appeared in the 2018 novel Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn.[1]
Appearances
- Thrawn: Alliances (and audiobook) (First appearance)
