Dagu

This article is about the celestial body. You may be looking for the individual Dagu Flask.

"[Shaak Ti's] actions on Geonosis, Centares, and Dagu were cited by Palpatine in a list of notable accomplishments by the Togruta Jedi Master."

―HoloNet News Core Edition report^[3]

Dagu was a terrestrial celestial body^[3] located in the Dagu system, a part of the Instrop sector^[1] in the Slice portion of^[2] the Outer Rim Territories.^[1] During the Clone Wars,^[4] nine months after^[5] the conflict's opening Battle of Geonosis,^[6] it was the site of a revolt^[5] and a battle^[4] between the forces of the Galactic Republic^[3] and the Confederacy of Independent Systems.^[4] On the date 14:3:22, the HoloNet News Core Edition reported on a public ceremony held at the Jedi Temple on^[3] the Core Worlds planet^[6] Coruscant, in which the Republic's Supreme Chancellor Palpatine commended the Togruta Jedi Master Shaak Ti for her valor in, among other actions,^[3] protecting the populace of Dagu from the forces of the Confederacy.^[4]

Behind the scenes

"The swamp planet Dagu, a remote place where the Confederacy has chosen to build a military base using prisoners of war, seethes with discontent."

―A StarWars.com preview article for the then-upcoming novel Escape from Dagu^[7]

Dagu as depicted in the cover art for the canceled novel Escape from Dagu — Dagu as depicted in the cover art for the canceled novel *Escape from Dagu*

Dagu was first mentioned in "Republic HoloNet News Core Edition 14:3:22," an article written by Pablo Hidalgo as an in-universe news report that was included in the sixty-sixth issue of the Star Wars Insider magazine^[3] on February 14, 2003.^[8] Dagu was set to appear in the novel Escape from Dagu, which would have been written by William C. Dietz and published in March 2004 as part of the Clone Wars multimedia project. A July 18, 2003 article on StarWars.com previewing the novel presented Dave Seeley's cover for the book,^[7] which depicted Dagu.^[9] Ultimately, however, the release of the novel was canceled.^[10] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Dagu system, and thereby Dagu itself, in grid square S-16.^[6]

Escape from Dagu would have established Dagu as a remote swamp planet^[7] that had both open water and growths of trees on its surface^[9] and was the homeworld of the sentient Rybet species. The Confederacy of Independent Systems would have been constructing a military base on the planet using the labor of enslaved Rybets and Galactic Republic clone trooper prisoners of war, all of whom would be aiming to liberate themselves. Around the time when—unbeknown to the Confederacy's^[7] Human^[7]^[9] Dark Jedi Artel Darc—Shaak Ti was among the prisoners on Dagu, the Confederacy would have learned of the presence in the prisoners' midst of a courier possessing information critically dangerous to the Republic's existence. Darc would have been dispatched to Dagu to retrieve the courier,^[7] and ultimately Ti would have led a prisoner revolt^[10] against a force of the Confederacy's B1-series battle droids at a construction site, in the process engaging in a lightsaber duel against Darc.^[9]